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CHRISTOPHER HOWELL: Hi, my name is Christopher Howell with Expert Village and today, we're
going to talk about military cadences. Now, I'm going to show you again. This time I'm
going to show you from the other side. So, this time you'll be seeing my right foot touch
the ground but I'll be still be calling it on the left. Ready? Left right on left. Left,
right. Right, left. And those are more short steps. Now, sometimes they will call out for
longer steps. They'll say, "Okay. Now, reach your steps." or "Stretch your steps out."
And when they do that, they're just telling you basically take bigger steps 'cause others
slow the cadence down or they might even speed it up. But usually if they're going to speed
it up, it's going to be short steps, nothing too big. And then with the short steps will
call like halftime, they'll say "Halftime speed." And so, you do shorter steps. You
go left right on left, right on left, right. Right, left. And they usually do this halftime
speed is when they're trying to straighten out the formation. You're not really going
anywhere but you're just trying to clean it up, you want get everyone side by side, front
to back, straight and parallel and you just have your perfect little rectangle going.