Obama's Familiar Boxer's Jog

TOKYO - NOVEMBER 13: U.S. President Barack Obama arrives at Tokyo International Airport on November 13, 2009 in Tokyo, Japan. Obama is in Japan for two days prior to attending the 17th APEC Economic Leaders' Meeting in Singapore.

Notice how Obama holds his hands, like a boxer- loose fists, moving them back and forth.



This is how Obama commonly enters into a spotlight situation and conveys a certain presence.

It most often occurs when he has to go up or down stairs to get on stage. Now I feel a little bit , ridiculous commenting on this, but it is different than the way most of us take stairs... we often have our hands out so we could steady ourselves with a railing.

What does this all mean... it conveys a certain amount of athleticism, and I can imagine him as a youngster who would overly use the hand rail and at a certain time, when he was much older and more confident he developed this movement style.

Now I still feel a bit ridiculous mentioning this, because it is not newsworthy, but now that we have established a baseline on the President, if we see him deviate from the baseline it could be newsworthy.◦

Obama's Familiar Boxer's Jog