It's the boxing advancing step - the rear heel is already raised so you push off the rear foot and stab the lead foot forward
you do the opposite in retreat while parrying or holding the pad
in the ring you can cover the space from the centre to the ropes in 2 steps
we will do some more of the footwork exercises next year as nobody green and below has done them
as always think outside the Tesseract - look at how a runner starts from the block to get that burst to overcome the inertia
and look again at Newton's first law