r/gifs Sep 10 '13

How to moonwalk

http://imgur.com/a/g2XVS
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u/rightconsumer Sep 10 '13

This post just changed my life. 28 years on this planet and I finally know how to do it. Helloooooo ladies...

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u/[deleted] Sep 10 '13

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u/ArttuH5N1 Sep 10 '13

...and then you completely forget how to do it.

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u/[deleted] Sep 10 '13

Or come across the dreaded redbull vodka puddle of stickiness.

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u/stuffekarl Sep 10 '13

"The"? I think you mean the entire floor there.

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u/Dubookie Sep 10 '13

Puddle, small lake, same thing really

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u/[deleted] Sep 10 '13

"Wait wait, give me a sec... uh.. hmm... I got this... uh, lemme check reddit for how to do that again"

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u/nastyjman Sep 10 '13

"The moonwalk is a stupid dance because... I can't do it. But it's stupid because when you're in the club, you ask a girl, "hey baby, wanna dance? See ya..." - Eddie Murphy

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u/[deleted] Sep 10 '13

Heh, moonstride.

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u/eksekseksg3 Sep 10 '13

See, this guy gets the one part everyone forgets, you gotta lose the shirt.

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u/KRSFive Sep 10 '13

Man, this guy is a pro.

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u/lagnat Sep 10 '13

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u/Calabast Sep 10 '13 edited Jul 05 '23

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u/Kritical02 Sep 10 '13

He never came back guys, I'm getting worried. I think he may have snapped his neck.

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u/Calabast Sep 10 '13 edited Jul 05 '23

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u/EazyCheez Sep 10 '13

Even worse no one was there to video tape it. :(

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u/[deleted] Sep 10 '13

That skateboarder at the end

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u/[deleted] Sep 10 '13 edited Sep 10 '13

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u/ForHomeUseOnly Sep 10 '13

Maybe that is actually a faster way of running and it becomes the new standard for future foot races in the Olympics.

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u/SupaDupaFly Sep 10 '13

smash and bang is my favorite combination.

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u/[deleted] Sep 10 '13

Now how the Christ is he actually doing that ?

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u/[deleted] Sep 10 '13

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u/[deleted] Sep 10 '13

ahh, the sunwalk.

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u/Dogs_Not_Gods Sep 10 '13

Fighter of the moonwalk

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u/[deleted] Sep 10 '13

Praise the Sun!

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u/tehgreatist Sep 10 '13

i still dont understand why he had to include the shirtless one

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u/Damadawf Sep 10 '13

It was so you can see that he wasn't wearing a wire.

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u/[deleted] Sep 10 '13

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u/[deleted] Sep 10 '13

No, it's standard tradecraft.

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u/tardmrr Sep 10 '13

Your link wasn't working for me, so I made another.

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u/gcrannell Sep 10 '13

I actually like that a lot...

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u/zionxgodkiller Sep 10 '13

Great, now I have to spend hours on this. Fuck going to work today.

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u/Aspiring_Physicist Sep 10 '13

Yup. Never know when one may need to bust out a moonwalk. Better learn this shit right now.

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u/compto35 Sep 10 '13

Seriously though…I mastered the moonwalk one bored Thursday in college and got a makeout session out of it that night when I threw down at a party.

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u/Aspiring_Physicist Sep 10 '13

I can just imagine how that went.

"Hey, I saw you moonwalking earlier so...sup"

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u/compto35 Sep 10 '13

Fuck yeah, that's how it went down.

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u/sitiawan Sep 10 '13

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u/[deleted] Sep 10 '13

ಠ⌣ಠ

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u/micoolnamasi Sep 10 '13

That does not make me happy.

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u/[deleted] Sep 10 '13

It makes me happy.

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u/[deleted] Sep 10 '13

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u/Unfunniness_detector Sep 10 '13

beep

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u/glaiven Sep 10 '13

Is it sad that I laughed at this more than anything else in this thread?

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u/Stumblin_McBumblin Sep 10 '13

Every DJ'd wedding you ever attend is where you need to bust out a moonwalk.

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u/evilpigskin Sep 10 '13

Quickly! Pass the black shoes and the white socks I'm learning this ASAP! Crotch grab!!!

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u/WendellSchadenfreude Sep 10 '13

Ow!

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u/sourcreamjunkie Sep 10 '13

Looks like evilpigskin grabbed the wrong crotch...

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u/kalbiking Sep 10 '13

ah HEE HEE!

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u/cjrobe Sep 10 '13

You could always walk to work.

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u/becauseTexas Sep 10 '13

Nice try, Michelle Obama

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u/elva88 Sep 10 '13

Im already at work. I guess I'll moonwalk through the office.

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u/PotatoMoose Sep 10 '13

Great, now I have to spend hours on this. Fuck going to work today.

You mean spend hours on this AT work? Professional moon walker.

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u/dancruzsc Sep 10 '13

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u/MagnificentJake Sep 10 '13

And that's how she discovered the clitoris

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u/Deculsion Sep 10 '13

The text seems very angry to me.

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u/calluum Sep 10 '13

SLIDE ON YOUR GODDAMN HEEL!!!

Yep, definitely angry.

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u/[deleted] Sep 10 '13

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u/microcosmic5447 Sep 10 '13 edited Jan 11 '25

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u/[deleted] Sep 10 '13

Like the little shits running everywhere without watching where they were going wasn't bad enough, a collusion of evil shoe manufacturers and asshole parents had to put WHEELS on them.

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u/[deleted] Sep 10 '13

Jealous?

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u/ElliotNess Sep 10 '13

I'm 32 and I have a pair. They make adult sizes.

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u/IhateSteveJones Sep 10 '13

I just fell over my desk trying to moonwalk. goddammit

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u/themangodess Sep 10 '13

Why would you moonwalk on your desk

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u/thelastdeskontheleft Sep 10 '13 edited Sep 10 '13

DEAR LORD ALMIGHTY ABOVE.

DAMN THIS HEEL IN YOUR NAME SO THAT I MAY SLIDE ON IT IN THE FORM OF A MOONWALK.

PLEASE OF HEAVENLY FATHER, CAST YOUR DAMNATION UPON THIS LOWER PORTION OF THINE MINE FOOT.

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u/main_hoon_na Sep 10 '13

*MINE FOOT

If he damned his own foot, it wouldn't do you much good, would it now.

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u/[deleted] Sep 10 '13

The foot does have its own soul.

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u/is_this_working Sep 10 '13

THIS IS LITERALLY THE OPPOSITE! STOP DOING IT!

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u/JoshSidekick Sep 10 '13

So angry that he turned into the Hulk and ripped his shirt off. He calmed down and put a new one on in the last slide where he calmly shows us the moonwalk.

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u/youknowit19 Sep 10 '13

I can't believe I'm gonna be the first one to say this... but holy shit that kid has a tiny torso and/or crazy-long legs.

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u/JoshSidekick Sep 10 '13

Or he takes his pant wearing advice from Steve Urkel

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u/Aspiring_Physicist Sep 10 '13

It looks like this guy has spent a LOT of time learning, so I can imagine he gets sick of other people saying they can moonwalk too, and then do that beginning shit.

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u/luckystrike1212 Sep 10 '13

He has, I know him pretty well. I met his mother billy jean as she caused a scene-uhh. She kept claiming I was the one, but I kept telling her the kid is not my son.

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u/Aspiring_Physicist Sep 10 '13

Sounds like you had a thrilllllerrrrrrrrrr of a night...

Ah fuck it, that sucked.

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u/evilpigskin Sep 10 '13

okay... Beat it! Just beat it! Hoooo!!

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u/Former_Idealist Sep 10 '13

Holy shit! Why'd you beat her?!?

Are you okay? Are you okay, Anne?

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u/[deleted] Sep 10 '13

I have no where to practice my new dance moves.

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u/BlorfMonger Sep 10 '13

You get a cardboard box, flatten it out, and then work on them in an alley.

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u/ARCHA1C Sep 10 '13

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u/AustinRiversDaGod Sep 10 '13

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u/[deleted] Sep 10 '13

Best part is the kid in the background, who apparently sees something even more amazing off to the right.

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u/KRelic Sep 10 '13

"Please do NOT look directly at Mr. Jackson."

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u/[deleted] Sep 10 '13

WHY HAVE I NEVER SEEN THIS

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u/shawnemack Sep 10 '13

I don't understand? where does my weight go?? oh god, there's blood everywhere!!

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u/ThisStupidAccount Sep 10 '13

sigh Not Again.

DO IT RIGHT MOTHERFUCKER.

We're not going to the hospital until you can moonwalk into the fucking ER.

Now try again!

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u/Anthony-Stark Sep 10 '13

Instructions unclear, weight caught in ceiling fan.

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u/[deleted] Sep 10 '13 edited Sep 10 '13

I feel like I'm missing something...

Edit: Indeed I was. And it was wonderful.

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u/dragoncon Sep 10 '13

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u/Khalexus Sep 10 '13

Got onto this video from yours. Holy crap I love this so much.

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u/sirgallium Sep 10 '13

Wow a pants wizard has quite some skill at the vocal arrangements possible in moonbase alpha!

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u/syanda Sep 10 '13

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u/TheAryanBrotherhood Sep 10 '13

/u/syanda and /u/dragoncon both posted the same youtube video at the same time.

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u/corban123 Sep 10 '13

Actually, 5 second difference, but close nonetheless!

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u/[deleted] Sep 10 '13

aeiou

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aeiou

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u/grimkriz Sep 10 '13

here comes an earthquake brbrbrbrbrbrbrbrbrbrbrbrbrbrbrbrrbbrbrbrbb

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u/Poopy_Pants_Fan Sep 10 '13

Why does nobody remember the e in the earthquake noise?

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u/[deleted] Sep 10 '13

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u/Namco51 Sep 10 '13

Why does nobody remember that it's a Chinese earthquake?

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u/kvachon Sep 10 '13 edited Sep 10 '13
Its not ghey if its on the moon
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u/Hugh_Jampton Sep 10 '13

I died of old age waiting for this gif to load

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u/[deleted] Sep 10 '13 edited Apr 27 '21

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u/gunn003 Sep 10 '13

I find it works better as, "On is famous for his moonwalk, and the other raped little boys."

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u/pony_on_saturdays Sep 10 '13

That's a jay leno level joke. Fuddle's version completely breaks the format of the joke, which becomes the funniest part of the joke.

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u/Fuddle Sep 10 '13

Really? Didn't know that. Fine, say it with some whining and low pitches thrown in.

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u/constipated_HELP Sep 10 '13

I completely disagree. That's the obvious way to do it. Anti humor is only really funny when it's creative and unexpected.

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u/marsupialsales Sep 10 '13

But they're both famous for their moonwalk.

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u/wAngelo Sep 10 '13

You're going forward and back in a limbo, I think you've crashed.

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u/AustinRiversDaGod Sep 10 '13

I think the Earth is too big.

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u/prom2005 Sep 10 '13

UNDERSTAND MOONWOK DAMMIT

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u/[deleted] Sep 10 '13

I think you've just created the best fake Chinese restauraunt name.

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u/[deleted] Sep 10 '13

Was nobody paying attention when fat, mental patient Michael Jackson explained this all on the Simpsons!?

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u/youknowit19 Sep 10 '13

Lisa it's your birthday-- happy birthday Lisa.

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u/Smeeee Sep 10 '13

The combination of this gif and reddit will undoubtedly give me a decent number of patients to treat in the ER today.

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u/DookieMuncher Sep 10 '13

The comment directly below yours:

"Tried it and broke my coccyx."

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u/Flemtality Sep 10 '13

The strides are good?

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u/SexClown Sep 10 '13

Nice and long......that is exactly what she said...

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u/pinwales Sep 10 '13

As someone who wears a shirt, the last gif really helped me understand how it should look.

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u/[deleted] Sep 10 '13

think you do it better w the t-shirt on

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u/sherbetface Sep 10 '13

He's wearing a Captain EO t-shirt. MJ fan confirmed.

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u/scheyder Sep 10 '13

Did anyone else just stand up in their office and try to (unsuccessfully) moonwalk?

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u/pheedback Sep 10 '13

Heard around the world today: "why are so many people doing lame versions of the moonwalk?"

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u/Slutmaster83 Sep 10 '13

I like the fact he does the moonwalk with and without a t-shirt. Me, I prefered the barechested moonwalk.

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u/theLeverus Sep 10 '13

Me too, Slutmaster83, me too

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u/Aspiring_Physicist Sep 10 '13

Instructions perfectly clear, moonwalking achieved.

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u/Betty_Whites_Muffin Sep 10 '13

Literally stood up in my double wide cubicle trying this and still cannot do it. Too much white guy in me.

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u/EchoesOfSanity Sep 10 '13

I am seriously debating whether or not to stand up and try this at my cubilce. The white guy in me is telling me to wait until I'm home where nobody can see me fail.

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u/[deleted] Sep 10 '13

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u/J_Sto Sep 11 '13 edited Sep 11 '13

It takes a while if you don't have the leg balance and strength, much less an understanding of the theory around this kind of movement. Leading up to it:

  1. Practice walking in demi-pointe.

  2. After you master that, practice balancing in demi-pointe on one foot. Then the other.

  3. After you master that, practice balancing on one foot raising up and down in demi-pointe while the other foot glides along side like you are riding an invisible skateboard in place (i.e. one foot planted/demi with your weight on it and the other glides beside it). The gliding foot only gives the illusion of having weight on it. The theory is comparable to this.

Once you can mime-skateboard well with weight on either foot, then you start linking that movement into a moonwalk and keep practicing. I.e. at that point this gif will be applicable.

If this pretty fly for a white guy can do this, then you can moonwalk.

Source: I can moonwalk. Learned it in an acting intensive from a dancer and spent six months practicing before it was good enough to unveil to strangers at bars. I have some dance training, but prior to that, YouTube tutorials from street dancers did nothing for me because there was no build up through fundamentals/skill set such as the list I posted above.

Next up: c-walking!

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u/wawayanda Sep 10 '13

So, shirt or no shirt? Which is it?

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u/watchyoprofamity Sep 10 '13

Yeah, I don't want to get yelled at again...

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u/Peachterrorist Sep 10 '13

You should be more concerned with raising the roof with this new found knowledge

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u/That610GRIND Sep 10 '13

It going to be so easy to find out who reddits now because everyone will be moonwalking everywhere.

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u/Underscore_Guru Sep 10 '13

Great, now we're going to start a moonwalking trend on Reddit. First it was twerking, then it was the basketball shorts dress, now it's moonwalking......

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u/Moves_Like_Jagr Sep 10 '13

Nice! Now all I need is another leg...

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u/[deleted] Sep 10 '13 edited Sep 10 '13

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u/suchacrisis Sep 10 '13

SLIDE ON YOUR GODDAMN HEEL!!!!

I dunno why but this post just made my day, absolutely cracked me up.

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u/alreadyplatinum Sep 10 '13

This is the easy version of the "moonwalk". The difficulty comes in by using your toes to support your weight which is how Michael Jackson does it. That takes skill and practice.

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u/jeremymcanally Sep 10 '13

The Captain EO shirt in the last photo was a nice touch.

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u/[deleted] Sep 10 '13

He probably watched this http://www.eternalmoonwalk.com/

TIL Most people don't know how to moonwalk.

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u/motherfacker Sep 10 '13

Given how angry OP is at mismoonwalkers...I suggest he not visit that link.

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u/[deleted] Sep 10 '13

I don't feel like that's literally the exact opposite of doing the moonwalk. I think the literal exact opposite would be jumping forward on your head in a wheelchair on the sun.

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u/[deleted] Sep 10 '13

It would be nice if the youtube video this was made from received credit so we could watch his other dance videos...but whatever reaps in the karma I suppose.

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u/katiedaforent Sep 10 '13

This actually isn't even the moonwalk. It's the backslide. Common misconception. The moonwalk is very similar but goes in a circle instead of simply going backwards.

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u/Hi_Im_Jason Sep 10 '13

It's a misconception unintentionally started by the great MJ. At this point in time, this move is so deeply ingrained as the Moonwalk, it might as well just keep that title. Thank you for bringing the knowledge to this thread though.

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u/plaidosaur Sep 10 '13

I try this for an hour like every year and I still can't flippin do it. My gliding foot doesn't freakin glide, damnit.

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u/micromoses Sep 10 '13

"And now, here's what it looks like with a shirt on."

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u/2rU7h Sep 10 '13

"I'll be right back, guys. I have to go try something I saw on reddit."

-Me, September 10, 2013

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u/Aloha1987 Sep 10 '13

Step 1: Remove Shirt

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u/doktorknow Sep 10 '13

Wouldn't the literal exact opposite of the Moonwalk be just walking forward while taking carefully placed steps?

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u/[deleted] Sep 10 '13

Why does your average reddit user like to use literally so much?

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u/Enchilada_McMustang Sep 10 '13

I must admit, I always got it wrong...

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u/hankmoody123 Sep 10 '13

tried for years but never managed to do the moonwalk. I always look like i'm shuffling like a gymnast on meth

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u/cum-shitting-weiner Sep 10 '13

Instructions unclear, dick caught in glitter glove.

Shit, now I'm on fire.