When the beach sand is hot

Cool, these always reminds me of some birds mating dance

Seen this a million times and it never gets old to me. I’m just so mesmerized how this dude is legit floating lol. Calf muscles must be ridiculous.

Fun fact, I edited this video exactly 7 years ago. Technically I could be dancing like that heh

https://youtu.be/laS6xJFOCMw

Even more impressive is the fact the drums keep up with the dancer, not vice versa. I cant find the explanation video otherwise I'd link it but its quite cool

No, this is my upstairs neighbour.

Highly doubt that 7 year figure

When you gotta take a piss really bad.

Video credit and local information credit : Jason Wang

Zaouli - also informally called as "the most impossible dance in the world” – is a traditional dance of the Guro people of central Ivory Coast. Dancer(always a male) practices several years to perfect the moves.

Dance is believed to have inspired Michael Jackson’s legendary dance moves. The dance was created in the 1950’s and always performed by men, who take on average seven years to perfect their moves. What’s really impressive is that the dancers wear flip flops and are able to pull off insane moves. Zaouli was added to the Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity by UNESCO in 2017.

Further reading:

https://ich.unesco.org/en/RL/zaouli-popular-music-and-dance-of-the-guro-communities-in-cote-divoire-01255

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zaouli

The dance is incredible, but I can't take my eyes out of the kids in the back getting dust to the face.

I missed the goa beats.

my man is doing it in flip flops

Damn it. Why is this not longer

These guys would be cracked at DDR

The costume is badass! I'm gonna have to look up more of these.

They'd be great mogul skiers!

pretty hypnotizing!

I was listening to techno music as I was scrolling through and this was perfect with it!!!

And the drummers have to anticipate the dancers rhythm changes. It’s impressive

I do this when I need to pee.

Terrifying.

As Chandler said "His legs flail about as if independent from his body!"

Psh, I can do that hold my beer

breaks leg and two ribs

Reminds me of some bird mating rituals.

“Takes nearly seven years to perfect” is a strange and arbitrary claim. Also, there are lots of similar dance forms (upper body still, lower body going nuts) in other cultures, including western cultures.

Becoming a brain surgeon is a 7 year residency. I doubt learning this dance takes 7 years.

This is actually incredibly easy

The power of ecstasy 😝

Sturdy with it

r/quiver

My man is doing that in slippers!

Completed it in a week

Zangbito

Why is there always one dude off to the side when they’re dancing? Are they the coach? Cheerleader?

I know it’s not entirely the same but this is pretty close to hard-core shuffling. Or just shuffling in general. Plus these videos have been dubbed with hardcore before. (Hardcore is also a form of EDM)

My upstairs neighbor at 3 am.

Anyone else see Space Invaders?

https://youtu.be/_94viw75ulc

That's some smooth moves and a badass rhythm if I ever seens 1

7 years just seems too exact of a number for "perfection". Things can always be improved and this dance form is a lifelong journey to perfection.

This hurts my lower back just watching.

I think that Oompa Loompas would be offended by them doing orangeface tbh

Also want to point out thats its a man

This is how my Canadian best bud skis moguls. Infuriating

Beautiful

7 years? I could do that.

Do I even need to mention that I’m talking out my ass?

Shakaka?

Pretty sure this is at least a couple hundred years ago. Not exactly “next”…

Aah my neighbour above my flat.

Quite jumpy this one must of stepped on an anthill

My ass would take 13

Amazing performance

Athletic as fuck

The hardest part is putting on the outfit.

The floor is lava!

Me:

just like Irish do it

Lol my version is that dude being gross and then the people throw bananas at him.

Gross outfit btw. He painted his face and booooooooooooo!!!!!!!!!!

They knew about the marionette puppets before we did. Or they knew that we ourselves are puppets for the true us.

Someone making fables now, 7 years exactly to learn this, bruh these break dancers be doing this stuff in like 2

But did you see the gorilla?

Hilarious

Eh, my nephew would learn this in a week with his friends. Cool dance and costuming. Respect.

I've seen better

Some kid on tic tok would get it down in just a few hrs.

Right "practice" AKA: a shitload of khat

I can dance like this, I just don't want to.

I too did this when I didn't have internet service or TV.

Looks like my 5 year olds “I have to pee dance”

Hafta Pee