#my parents can complain abt me coming home loudly at 11 all they want

[societysonlooker]

Idk who needs to hear this, but one of the quietest ways to walk around is, yes, "on yiur toes", but its not toes first, place the pad of your foot beneath your pinky toe on the ground first, then lower the rest of your foot down on a diagnol from that point. Easy in barefeet. Even quieter in socks, thiugh slippery and you wont be as agile, and very hard to do in heavy, steel toed boots without looking like a fucking idiot. In boots, try walking heel to toe, but by placing the outside pad down first, then rolling down towards the arch. Its much louder than barefoot or socked, but near silent compared to normal booted-footfalls. These techniques minimize the surface area of your foot hitting the ground at any given time, displaces less air, and is gentler, all resulting in fewer vibrations in the ground and the air, minimizing sound.

The other thing you can do is to never come down heavy, so to speak. Take the jolt of your step in your knees and hips, keep your upper body steady, and try to maintain an even pace. This also helps minimize the force of your step on the ground, and therefore reduces sound. Theres some great videos out there explaining how and why tracers (Parkour people) use similar techniques to minimize the force and damage from the frankly insane jumps they make.

That said, I'm not military trained or anything, I'm just a hick who taught themselves how to not scare away animals while hiking, how to avoid security at parks that close after dusk, and how to sneak out to go skate at 2 am without my light sleeping folks finding out.

So, idk. Feel free to use this information however you please. In writing, sneaking out of abusive homes, celebrating pagan sabbats on state land when its closed, scaring your friends, redistributing the worlds wealth, you know, the works. Have fun yall.

Edit: you can also learn to breath quietly. There is a point where you start doing it subconsciously. At which point, your mother thinks you died because youre silently belly breathing while napping for the third time that day and she doesnt see you moving, the toddler of the household has to cling to you to be comforted and feel safe enough to fall asleep, and the dog actually looks less skittish around you for once cause HE can hear you breathing AND!!! you're not being obscenely loud to his impending-blindness-heighted ears, and training him to calm down to just your voice from the other side 0f a door becomes 100x easier. Have fun!!!

#fanfiction #fanfic #writing #stealth #walking quietly #abuse mention #batman #batfam #ngl was reading batfam fics and saw some stuff that was like hmmmmmm maybe not actually plausible #assasin training or not D youre not defying the laws of physics. #but on a serious note #i learned this from an outdoorsman survival guide that compared it to walking like a cat #and its the only reason my home life isnt much worse than it is #my parents can complain abt me coming home loudly at 11 all they want #fact of the matter is theyve never HEARD me come in any later #just know i did cause of security footage #im working on the sound pf pants rubbing together now and how to quiet it #and while its still never gonna be completely silent (without like. beeswaxing your pants)(solid oils slide without noise) #ive come to the conclution that the ROUGHER the fabric. the less noise it makes #silks. chiffon. leggins. jeggins. all polyesters. all nylons. they sound like someones running a fucking industrial loom. #100% cotton jeans? Wool? Cotton hunting pants? worn-soft cared for leather? not silent but damned near it #tactical pants. hunting pants. REAL jeans. leather jacket. cottom sweatshirt. wool cloak. chaps-- to an extent #theyre all so. so much quieter than synthetics and soft things #that said. SOFT cittons are an entirely different beast from rough cottons. and while still quieter than synthetics #theyre still louder than rough cottons #additionally. wearing a full length wool cloak with ample thickness WILL muffle a lot of the noise of your underclothes rubbing #for the trade off of it making noise anytime you perform a large movement or it hits the ground #anyway. have a nice day yall