Russian President Vladimir Putin has a peculiar "gunman gait" when he walks-a small swing of his right arm may be a habit he developed when he received weapons training in the KGB. As experts in analyzing body posture and movements, these neuroscientists said that Putin's "unique" walking style surprised them. Body posture and movements may be signs of health problems. When Putin walks, his left arm swings normally and his right arm hardly swings. Asymmetric exercise like this is usually a sign of Parkinson's disease. But these neurologists did not find other symptoms of the disease in Putin, such as tremor, rigidity or disharmony.
In fact, they found that Putin, a black belt in judo, a weightlifter and a swimmer, has "excellent athletic ability". He writes quickly and his hand is steady when signing. However, they found another very interesting answer through investigation, and this answer came from the training manual used by KGB, the intelligence department of the former Soviet Union.
This manual, translated into Dutch by them, instructs agents to put their weapons with their right hands close to their chests and walk on one side of their bodies, usually the left side, "slightly forward". This method aims to enable agents to draw their guns as soon as possible when they meet the enemy. Putin served as a KGB agent during the Cold War. In order to find out whether Putin's gait stems from long-term intensive training in this way.