![]() Yagnick agreed: “Normal people, even with the shoe, probably can’t do it. You need a very good core of strength, and that strength was in Michael Jackson and his Achilles tendon.” “Very inventive idea of him,” Tripathi said with a laugh, “because even with that shoe, I am not able to do 45 degrees. Patented on October 26, 1993, the shoes “have a specially designed heel slot which can be detachably engaged” with a “hitch” (such as a nail) projected through the stage surface “by simply sliding the shoe wearer’s foot forward, thereby engaging with the hitch member,” according to the US Patent Office description. So he and his team invented a special shoe that would anchor him to the floor during the tilt. Though Jackson was in marvelous shape, even he couldn’t do the maneuver without help. ![]() “Most trained dancers with strong core strength will reach a maximum of 25 or 30 degrees of forward bending while performing this action.” “This allows for a very limited degree of forward bending from the ankle joints, while keeping a stiff straight posture – unless you are Michael Jackson,” they explain in the study. Instead, the strain is put on the calf and Achilles tendon, which aren’t really built for that role. But when the focus of bending is switched to the ankles, those erector muscles aren’t the major support. When the human body bends forward with the back straight, the doctors explain, the erector spinae muscles that run parallel to our vertebrae “act like cables” and support the body as the center of gravity shifts. ![]() On the left, how the body is supposed to bend on the right, how Michael Jackson did it Journal of Neurosurgery
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