Forward Walk, Picture two:

1) Is the body vertically aligned from the standing knee up?

2) Where is the center of mass in relation to the standing foot?

3) Is the body leaning? If so, how?

4) Is the body balanced? If so, how?

Anonymous. At the full extent of the stride the weight is divided for a moment between the heel of the front foot and the toe of the back foot. It is exactly the same on a walk forward. The body is verticle throught out.
I wouldn't think that picture two can be taken on its own. It is moving. A fraction of a second later it will be in position three.
I can't see that the body is not verticle from the beginning to the end.
Picture two. The chin is over the standing knee
To find out where the centre mass is I hold a ruler from the centre of the neck down to the knee. The weight is well and truly over the knee. The back foot is pushing and will soon reach position three. Where I would be balanced but moving.
IN TWO THE BODY IS BALANCED OVER THE RIGHT KNEE. In three it is balanced between the two legs.
If we brought CBM into this, on two my left shoulder would be about level with the the right foot. So were does that put the centre of the body weight.

"Picture two. The chin is over the standing knee"

And so more or less is the hip - in other words, the body is vertically aligned without lean.

"To find out where the centre mass is I hold a ruler from the centre of the neck down to the knee. The weight is well and truly over the knee."

Yes, but it is not over the standing foot, hence it is NOT BALANCED.

"IN TWO THE BODY IS BALANCED OVER THE RIGHT KNEE."

The right knee is not on the floor - it is, along with the body, well forward of the only foot providing support. There fore the body is NOT BALANCED in this picture.

Anonymous.If you can't bend your knees and be balanced then don't do any weight lifting, squats in particular. Or maybe you should try a few.

"Anonymous.If you can't bend your knees and be balanced then don't do any weight lifting, squats in particular. Or maybe you should try a few."

Don, quit trying to avoid the issue!

Of course I can bend my knee and keep my body over my foot and in balance, by also bending my hip.

But that is not what picture two of the forward walk shows.

Picture two shows a body over a bent knee, and NOT OVER THE STANDING FOOT.

Picture two shows a body which is OFF BALANCE?

Get it yet?

Anonymous. First we don't bend our hip. When we dance we are moving most of the time. Picture two the weight was over the rear foot and is moving off it. From there the back foot is going to straighten after the front foot has reached its maximim and is also straight. This is a position which many don't know should be there, and never reach. And yet we do it when we walk but not as big or spaced out. To further complicate things we also have CBM. So where would the majority of the weight be with CBM. I would say coming off the standing foot. Or has it already left and is on the last moving foot. Or does it really matter as long as your teacher is satisfied as well as the adjudicators.