We were police we were young 8:From left hand left leg to right hand right leg.

We were police we were young. 8: From left hand left leg to right hand right leg: Marching.

When you curse someone didn’t give any help but reversely giving you some troubles, you would say: “Don’t get in the way on my business.” In Chinese “Please don’t left hand left leg.”

Do you know why scolding someone “Please don’t left had left leg…”rather than others.

In 1980’s, the junior police students were starting from the basic step with unarmed in the parade of Police Training School. To two months later, they will be assigned a rifle with bayonet which hadn’t been fired shots; at this stage, the police students will need to learn a series of steps of rifle drills.

“You must be walking steady usually, before to start running on the road.”

This principle is very appropriate using on the march.

All of the instructors for marching training are male, and the students need to learn the stand attention position as the first step in PTS, but almost all the teenage of Hong Kong have had a back bending problem, this problem must need to solve in PTS. Actually, because of the back had already bended, so that couldn’t to fix that immediately, it always to reveal the old problem in not aware case.

The good instructor will have always alerted students must be the chest up. (So many instructors like to teach the marching course of the female class.)

The bad instructor would be gave you a punch on you back without any warning.

If the students being trained in winter, they will be wearing the long-sleeved sweater, it doesn’t matter even if have a little back bending.

But in summer, the male students are not wearing the T-shirt, if so appeared “back bending” in marching, it doesn’t look good.  Even more can not “back bending” if the shoulder is holding a rifle . So that, the general instructor will be spent more time to correct the basic stand attention position of students, always reminded students to feel the center line of the body, posture must be straight as they felt their center line of the body.

The instructor demanded the students must have the sense of rhythm. It must be stiffed, and doesn’t look good if the marching without any sense of rhythm.

Initially, the whole squad can call out the steps of marching and accepted by the instructor, so, if you heard the whole squad call out the steps of marching passing from your side, this squad must the new one.

From stand attention position to start marching, the steps are starting form left leg, therefore, the whole new squad will always call out “left… left…left, right, left”. Left leg step forward and right hand straighten at balanced to the shoulder, fingers up and seized the fist; left hand put behind at 45 degrees

When the steps were wrong, someone wanted to correct the steps but influenced by another one as the students of the squad didn’t match to each others, it would be happened the left hand and left leg moved forward at the same time.

This is the “left hand left leg”.

You can try to walk with the left hand left leg at the same time at home, that you will know how ugly you have done, and you have never seen it before.

It was the disaster as the “left hand left leg” happened in the playground that must be attracted all kinds of “Yan Chi Ching” from the all directions.

Consequently, the instructors will be prevented their junior students entered into the playground, let them to practice at the small playground for several weeks, and then will leading them marching into the “Holy land” to feel the echo effect of the PTS until to make sure the students have strong enough facing the pressure.

當你去罵人做事幫不了忙，反倒過來妨礙其他人的時候，會罵他：「不要左手左腳！」

知不知道為何會罵：「不要左手左腳呢？」

一九八零年代，在警察訓練學校的步操，初級學警是先從基本的徒手步操開始。到了兩個月之後，便會分配到一支不能發射但配有刺刀的步槍；到了這個階段的學警便要學習一系的步槍操練步法。

“未學跑步之前，平時行路一定要平穩。”

這個道理應用在步操上十分恰當！

學堂負責教導學員步操的全都是男性教官。學警第一個要學習的動作，就是立正。香港青少年，大多數都有曲背的問題，這個問題來到學堂便要糾正。因為習慣了曲背，所以並不是要改正便可以改正，通常都會在不自覺的情況下出現老毛病。好的教官，會經常大聲提醒學員要“挺胸收腹”。(故此，有很多教官都想教導女學警步操！)

不好的教官，便會在毫無提示的情況下在你背部給你一記老拳！如果在冬季日子受訓，身上穿上了長袖毛衣，就算真的有少許曲背，問題也不大。但是在夏天，男學警都是不穿上衣，若然步操的時候曲背，就不好看！
如果是肩托著步槍，就更不可以曲背！所以，一般教官都會花很多時間去糾正學員的基本站立姿勢，經常會提醒學員要感覺到自己身上的「中線」，當感覺到身上的「中線」，姿勢必定畢直。
              教官在學員接受步操之前，都會要求學員要有節拍感覺，沒有節拍感覺的步操絕對是“生硬”的！不會好看！最初，教官會容許整個步操行列一同在口中叫出步法，所以當你聽到一整個步操行列的人都同時叫出步法口號的時候，這一個行列必定是新丁！
              從立正到起動，步法是由“左”開始，所以新丁都會一直叫著“LEFT”……“LEFT”……“LEFT”“RIGHT”“LEFT”，左腳踏前便右手伸直提起到肩頭平衡，手指頭向上合實拳頭，左手擺後45度。
    當步法錯了，行列中的學員互相不配合，有人想糾正自己的步法但又被其他人影響，便會出現在左腳踏前的時候同時伸出了左手，這就是“左手左腳”，你可以試試以“左手左腳”在家中走幾步，看看會有多麼難看！
    在大操場上出現“左手左腳”,絕對是大災難！必定會招徠從四方八面送來的“三字經”！

    所以，教官通常都會避免讓初班學警進入大操場，要新丁在小操場的某個角落苦練數週，認為有把握的時候，才會帶領新丁操入大操場，讓學員感受大操場的回音氣勢！