For me it was the tap dance move used live in Billie Jean and in the Smooth Criminal music video. If you know what I'm talking about. Can you do it?

 

At first it was so difficult to get the "toe heel toe back" "toe heel toe back". But with practice I got it. It's a really powerful move. But nowhere near as fast as MJ. Adding some interesting hand movements it's an awesome move. What do you think?

 

And what are the most difficult MJ moves for you?

i think i know what ur talking about...that move is hard...i still havent figured out how to do it...but the hardest one for me to do....is the simplest move he does...when he hops on one foot and kicks his leg up...he does it alot when he performs MITM and WBSS...i dont hop or kick my leg back the right way....

I'm not sure what you're talking about jojo...where exactly in SC is the step?

 

adubble--I think I know the one you're eluding to...is the one where he's kind of "skipping" on one leg? I can't do that either. I fall and bust my butt.

 

I can moonwalk...but slowly. and it doesn't look cool... and I can toe stand well.

 

The hard ones for me are

-spin [always fall]

-sidewalk [legs get tangled/confused...fall]

-basically anything else he does.

 

Okay, so I'm not much of a dancer.

You should visit www.tess-impersonates-mj.com

 

There is a dance lesson there. The girl can do it. It's a video titled "tapping" I think. Something like that. I found it when I went searching for MJ dance lessons to find this move. I couldn't do it at all when I tried. Now I can do it. Just not very fast.

 

There are other dance lessons there showing the sidewalk and James Brown move, and even some full performances like Dangerous.

ooh, haha, there are a couple hard moves. audubble: i cant do that one either!!! LMAO, i just make a total fool of myself when i try...oh well

and jojo...haha, havent even attempted that one...yikes!

 

i can do the different moonwalks...those are fun, LOL, can do most of the kicks, most of the "pops" and such...

Well, I've also done martial arts since I was 5. So I have pretty good control over my body. But like anything, it just takes practice. Hopefully I can speed the tapping up cuz it's funny doing it so slow.

wow! thats really great! yeah, it really does take practice...i tap, and at first u learn the combos pretty slow, ya know...and u have to slowly speed up, same will all dance

yea...i'm 17...i've been doing the moonwalk and side-walk, spinning, gliding..or like my mom says "trying to be mike", since i was like 2..seriously

yea...i'm 17...i've been doing the moonwalk and side-walk, spinning, gliding..or like my mom says "trying to be mike", since i was like 2..seriously  

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haha nice...i wish i was a fan for longer man...i hadnt even heard of mikey until 3 years ago. i was living under a rock, in case you hadnt guessed, LOL. i was hooked about a year later

WoW, you live in Cali USA and you didn't know about MJ until 3 years ago?? You really did live under a rock! What were you doing in the 80's and 90's?

 

Have any of you seen the dance move MJ does that is kinda like that James Brown foot thing. But this one he has one foot in front of the other on the ball or heel of either foot and then wiggles them really fast?? It looks so cool but I haven't understood how he does it yet. He did this in some live performances of Wanna Be Startin' Somethin' and some other songs I think. Really cool.

I didn't really know who Michael was until about 3 years ago either...when YRMW came out... I had heard of him but I didn't know any music. Been addicted ever since.

 

Yeah, jojo, I know the one you're talking about! [can't do that one either, LOL] It's really quite mesmerizing, like I can't really figure out what's going on with his feet and stuff but it looks really awesome!!

 

I'm gonna have to check out that site you posted, and brush up on my dancing!

I didn't really know who Michael was until about 3 years ago either...when YRMW came out... I had heard of him but I didn't know any music. Been addicted ever since.

 

Yeah, jojo, I know the one you're talking about! [can't do that one either, LOL] It's really quite mesmerizing, like I can't really figure out what's going on with his feet and stuff but it looks really awesome!!

 

I'm gonna have to check out that site you posted, and brush up on my dancing!

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Mesmerizing is the best word for it. And yeah, that website is good for understanding exactly what he does with some of the crazy ones. That's where I learned the James Brown foot thing and the sidewalk as well as the tapping most recently. I just did some of them and got it the first time after watching the video. Then it just flows from there and becomes more natural. So cool.

Every move that's a bit more complicated is hard for me. I have such a hard time following how someone does them... Slow mind..

He has so many moves that just blow my mind when I see them. Almost everytime I see him dance I'm like, "how the freakin world did he just do that??? LOL! It would take me forever to try and explain each one of them but, ya know what I mean. I especially love the sidewalk, and especially when he does it with jerky movements, blah hard to explain. I can moonwalk though. Have been moonwalking since I first saw it on Motown 25 when I was nine years old.

@ jojo...yes, i was certainly living under a rock...

 

what was i doing in the 80's? well, i most likely wasnt born yet...not until the late 80's, LOL! and besides that, i really dont know...

 

ooooh, i loooooooooooove the james brown move...its so cool, wish i could do it, LOL

Well, hey.. check out that site I posted again. www.tess-impersonates-mj.com

 

The girl has a short video clip teaching slowly how to do it. I think as she said in the video, it's mostly the knees then the feet follow. I couldn't do it until I watched her doing it slowly and explaining. Now I can do it so easily. Check it out!

haha! yeah i have! LOL, i've downloaded most of her vids, just havent watched them all yet

i dont think really the sliding or robotic moves are the hard ones, but more like the real dance moves, that just play with the rthyms and the beats. a lot of the kicking moves from the bad tour are tough to do the right way.

I can't dance so every step he does I can't LOL GO ME!

LOL watching the tess videos makes me laugh, She gets the concepts, but she can't dance

You know, I kinda thought the same thing. I watched her teaching vids so I could learn it. But watching her performances is funny. Like her Billie Jean performances. So funny. But all I needed was for someone to slow down the movement and explain it. But for someone who is charging money to private dance lessons, I wasn't too impressed.

Well, hey.. check out that site I posted again. www.tess-impersonates-mj.com

 

The girl has a short video clip teaching slowly how to do it. I think as she said in the video, it's mostly the knees then the feet follow. I couldn't do it until I watched her doing it slowly and explaining. Now I can do it so easily. Check it out!

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Yeah, that's a good site to learn from I have alot of the clips downloaded too :p

true true shes got the concept but cant dance same here

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Hey does anyone have any clips of you dancing, I'd like to see some others dance?

 

I have one here, I recorded this like 2 yrs ago, when i was 16, I think I'm gonna email Tess and apply to be a back up dancer for her, Just to see what see says

one of my clips Here

 

Note: The spin at the end was actually edited by my friend on yahoo, he liked the way I spin so he edited like MJ does in his videos like SC, and Scream to do a looong spin, I spun like 3 times, but he made it like 9 LMAO!, At the end there is a lil tap bit, but the door prohibited me from doing it longer, all of that was improvised.. im a big fan of the BAD era and just doing watever move came to his mind

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Yeah, that was an outrageous spin there, Dionte! But couldn't see the feet. Like MJ when watching James Brown dance. Show the feet, show the feet!

 

I will put a video of myself online. But I haven't made the video yet. You have to wait 'till October. I will do a Billie Jean performance on stage for Chinese Moon Festival. It fits, Moon Festival, Moonwalk! Yeah. I would have done it for the Spring Festival, Chinese New Year, but I did a Martial Arts demonstration for everyone that time.

 

Anyway, I took the audio of Billie Jean Live in Kuala Lumpur and extended the ending beats an extra minute or so. Cuz I HATE it when it is such a short ending. The more dancing the better! I will put it online when it happens and after I get the video of it.

 

One thing I'm still trying to learn is that super crazy foot wiggle thing MJ does in live performances of Wanna Be Startin' Somethin' and some J5 songs.

 

 

 

P.S. Michael and Janet as King and Queen of Pop sounds nice separately, but....