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How Michael Jackson's tilt defied gravity
- sdrothrock 8y agoThe relevant patent: https://patents.google.com/patent/US5255452A/en https://patents.google.com/patent/US5255452A/en
- mark_edward 8y agoThis link is broken?
- js2 8y agoIs this any better? (PDF). http://thejns.org/doi/pdf/10.3171/2018.2.SPINE171443?download=true http://thejns.org/doi/pdf/10.3171/2018.2.SPINE171443?downloa...
- bgdkbtv 8y agoSays "The requested article is not currently available on this site."
- ruytlm 8y agoRelevant CNN article: https://edition.cnn.com/2018/05/22/health/michael-jackson-dance-moves/index.html https://edition.cnn.com/2018/05/22/health/michael-jackson-da...
- CyberDildonics 8y agoThere's a fine line between internet nonsense and science.
- tytytytytytytyt 8y agoYou seem like you would know.
- baal232 8y agosaid the user known as CyberDildonics.
- tedeh 8y agoAnd the patent in action: https://youtu.be/pch3hoUtfJ0?t=45s https://youtu.be/pch3hoUtfJ0?t=45s
- matte_black 8y agoWhy would smooth criminals even lean that way? Was this some kind of trend back in those times taken to the extreme?
- sdrothrock 8y agoI don't think the move is related to the lyrics any more than the moonwalk is related to the lyrics of Billie Jean.
- kaycebasques 8y agoIf a criminal needs to show his smoothness, that move is a damn good one.
- corysama 8y agoHe already had a repertoire of slides, glides and shuffles designed to make it looks like gravity and friction did not apply to him. But, even with the famous Moonwalk, if you looked closely you could see how it worked. The Lean, however, was a straight-up magic trick snuck into a dance routine. It made everyone in the audience go 'WTF' in surprise and delight.
- downandout 8y agoThis move is actually performed nightly in Michael Jackson One at Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas. Here are several performers from that show doing it all at once: https://youtu.be/8Ttk-2W_PCI?t=2m https://youtu.be/8Ttk-2W_PCI?t=2m
- bdcravens 8y agoGreat show; saw it live last November.
- abritinthebay 8y agoThey do it well, but none quick as slickly and crisply as Jackson did (especially the performers on the left side, for some strange reason). One of the guys on the right really nails it though, well done to him.
- jasonkostempski 8y agoFrom your description, it sounds like the move looks better or worse from different angles.
- simlevesque 8y agoNo, it's about the experience that is required to make it look seamless. Some performers have less experience. The front ont on the left side was ok but the two others were messy.
- abritinthebay 8y agoIf you watch the video you'll see what I mean - the left side (and some on the right) just gets into position less smoothly and don't have the rigid straight spine Jackson did for the move.
- Steve44 8y agoYou can also see them spending some time getting into position and locking their boot in, there are dancers in front so the audience will be distracted for much of it. The perils of rewindable video!
- tim333 8y agoI'm not sure I buy the articles hypothesis "that strength was in Michael Jackson and his Achilles tendon" as firstly all the backing dancers did it too and secondly as a skier, leaning forward like that in ski boots is fairly easy - your weight is supported by the front of the boot pushing up on your shin, not by the tendon. I imagine that is what is going on here too - stiff boots.
- bfuller 8y agoMichael Jackson may have popularized the move but it wasn't invented for him. This article is rubbish. Its the boots.
- Ntrails 8y agoI was under the impression he designed and patented the shoes specifically for the video?
- bfuller 8y agoHe learned it from Marcel Marceau.
- gamblor956 8y agoMarcel Marceau may have popularized the moonwalk (moving backwards while appearing to walk forwards) but not the leaning move, which Jackson invented. Jackson is listed on the patent for the shoes necessary to pull off the lean.
- amluto 8y agoAs a skier too, I disagree slightly. It’s relatively easy to do that move in ski boots and skies. Just ski boots won’t cut it. And, indeed, the special boots clip to the floor using a sort of binding.
- xxxdarrenxxx 8y agoWait untill they watch a video of a breakdancer or a "snake girl" ...
- SmellyGeekBoy 8y agoWhat a strange title. It seems like a huge leap from the actual story of "Michael Jackson had special boots and pretty good core strength" to "Michael Jackson challenged our understanding of spine biomechanics"...
- baal232 8y agoPlaying devil's advocate here: Language has a use beyond matter-of-fact descriptions. Sometimes, creative writing techniques are employed in journalism, though rarely in hard news. In other words, the headline is not meant to be taken literally.
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- matt-attack 8y agoApparently it wasn't entirely unique to MJ since his dancing partners next to him all did the same move.
- Dowwie 8y agorelated video of a barrel organ playing "Smooth Criminal": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hQ6aDLpWON8&t=107s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hQ6aDLpWON8&t=107s
- joshschreuder 8y agoThis sent me down a massive rabbit hole of related videos. I particularly liked this one of Rasputin played on a fairground organ: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3AeN-5PXaaQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3AeN-5PXaaQ Which reminds me a lot of old video game music
- KasianFranks 8y agoNot for us who can break. How many 360's did any of you get on a headspin or helicopter?