• eestileib@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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        3 days ago

        He’s showing off the fact that he doesn’t walk anywhere, the heels are for stirrups and the walking calf looks different.

        That’s like in the martial art movies where the old guy says “look at his forearm, I thought Octopus Strike Technique had been lost forever”.

        There are things written in your body that you can’t fake, and I guess in c17 Europe one of those was whether you had ever walked a mile.