Talk:Marching

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This article was the subject of a Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment, between 18 January 2022 and 10 May 2022. Further details are available on the course page. Student editor(s): SICrawford (article contribs). Can anyone add details about the pace and duration of most marches? I was just reading about marches in the French foreign legion that go up to 160 kilometers. I was wondering how that compares to, for example, the US military.

12.205.149.45 06:22, 1 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Marching Girl Sport

Are there any articles on the sport? And how did the sport "grow up"?

"In New Zealand and Australia a competitive sport involving teams of marching girls grew up and became established in the 1930s."

Technique?

I couldn't care less about the military aspects... I just came here in the hopes of finding some information on actual technique, i.e. what sets a march apart from a normal walk. Oddly gait (human) has more info on this than this article. Shinobu 06:47, 22 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Technique? What technique?

Threre is no special technique for military marching, as march is not a special walking style, but a disciplined movement of organised troops (columns) to a specific destination (a zone or a front line). Not only foot soldiers can march, but any land units, therefore a column of tanks moving in an organised fashion is marching. Marching drill focuses on such aspects as route, way-points, rest points, pace, column spacing, rather than the technique itself.

Let us not confuse marching with parading.

89.101.182.88 19:42, 10 August 2007 (UTC) Dominik[reply]

Pace Misuse

I think there's a good deal of confusion here around the words "pace", "beat", and "step". The section marked "Military Paces" is referring tempo, what I see in other sources as "cadence". I see a standard "pace" length as 30", so that must refer to a single step, which is easily confused with the ancient Roman "pace" unit, which was 2 steps = 5 feet = 60".

I tried to clean it up, but I really wish someone with military knowledge could get the terminology right. See also "Aztec Warfare" by Ross Hassig, discussing U.S. military march speeds on p. 66 (visible on Google Book Search).

69.86.201.104 (talk) 23:45, 5 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

History

According to Legends, lies, and Cherished Myths of World History (citing a 1974 article in Cultures), marching first was used by armies among the Prussians.Can any-one Kdammers (talk) 17:34, 24 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I also came here looking for info on the history of marching. I have heard it started in early modern times when troops started to use long pikes and had to keep from poking each other. We often hear of the Ancient Roman armies marching, but maybe that was just regular walking. PopSci (talk) 16:30, 23 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

I think the article seriously lacks context and I agree that a brief history of marching would suffice. However, "marching" is a bit vague and it would be difficult to pinpoint a relevant history because it is subject to which context the marching is being done i.e. branches of military, country, is it a verb signifying an attack (marching on the enemy)? or a noun signifying an event in itself (a symbolic march to commemorate xyz)? — Preceding unsigned comment added by SICrawford (talk • contribs) 16:36, 21 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

NPOV violation

The Falkland war and the tradition of marching in northern Ireland should probably not be the only concrete examples of marching. To only mention these, may over exaggerate the importance of these examples in the grand scheme of marching and violate the NPOV instruction to indicate the relative prominence of opposing views.

I propose that these examples be deleted all together and replaced with a general history outlining the origins of marching and how it came to be a thing today.

Sections Needed

I think the article has some good information, but because the topic is so broad it lacks direction. I plan to split the article into sections and move the small amount of information that is applicable to each section into them. The sections will be incomplete, but I hope that this leaves room for other editors and experts to add what they know. For now, the sections will be...

History

Military

The role of marching

Paces

Technique

Parades