Caszper Canidate teaching Michael the backslide
por Ranjan: Michael Jackson
The story of Caszper Canidate showing Michael the backslide before anyone knew the Moonwalk is genuinely timeless. They had a move called the escalator where you slide in place and drift backward. Michael was sitting on stage when the partner did it, then jumped down to grab Caszper's foot asking if there were wheels on the sole. There weren't any, but he immediately named it the backslide.
Transcrição (en)
We're doing some dance routines for him, showing him all kinds of stuff. And then we had created this move called the escalator. Okay. And it's kind of like the slide in place, and then you kind of drift back like you're on an escalator. And then my partner had did, Kuli had did that move, and Michael's sitting on the side of the stage. Oh, yeah, that's cool. That's cool. Yeah. And I get up. I say, oh, you can do this. And I hit the slide, and he jumps off the stage. That's it! That's it! Wow. And he runs and grabs the bottom of my foot and picks it up and said, are there wheels? Are there wheels? Yeah, he thought there were wheels on the bottom. What kind of soles are these? What kind of soles? And it's like, no, no, no wheels. No. And he's like, wow, that's the move. That's the move. It's called the backslide. It's called the backslide.
