Scientists Explain How Michael Jackson Pulled Off Smooth Criminal Tilt
Michael Jackson’s gravity-defying Smooth Criminal dance move was down to core strength and an illusion, scientists have found.
The late singer was famous for being able to tilt 45 degrees, seemingly without anything to hold him up.
However, a team of neurosurgeons has cracked the mystery behind the seemingly impossible feat.
The three surgeons revealed in the Journal of Neurosurgery: Spine that Jackson designed a special shoe with a triangular slot in the heel which hooked onto a metallic peg that came up from the stage floor at the right moment.
This allowed him to lean forward at a seemingly impossible angle without collapsing.
But they noted that Jackson did have very good core strength.
“Several MJ fans, including the authors, have tried to copy this move and failed, often injuring themselves in their endeavours,” they wrote.
Long-time Jackson fan Nishant Yagnick, from the Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research in Chandigarh, India, led the research.
The scientists explained that most trained dancers can achieve no more than 25 to 30 degrees of forward tilt.
Strain is shifted from the erector spine muscles which support the spinal column to the Achilles tendon.
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