Watermelon Half-pipe
A truly glorious work of performance art:
As we can see from the second half of the clip, this feat is not easy!
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Categories: Odd / Strange
Japanese moonwalking champions
TV Tokyo’s “Champions” recently held a competition to see which Michael Jackson mega fan could perform the fastest 30-meter moonwalk (English captions have been added to explain what’s going on):
The first contestant is wearing an afro wig with black face paint, probably out of a desire to mimic the appearance of a young Michael Jackson. Kind of odd, considering the fact that he didn’t moonwalk back in the Jackson 5 era…
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Narrow Jumping Challenge
The Haneru no Tobira guys attempt to jump through a progressively narrow space between poles:
Categories: Japanese TV, Odd / Strange
The Ultimate Limbo Challenge
Taka & Toshi make a guest appearance on Haneru no Tobira for an insane limbo battle [if you're wondering why one of the guys has an object hanging from his groin, it's because he is dressed as marimokkori]:
Categories: Japanese TV
Water Bike Challenge II
Back in January, I posted about the water bike challenge on the TBS obstacle course DOORS. Here is the water biking challenge from the latest version of DOORS, which aired in the last week of September:
Part 1
Part 2
Categories: Japanese TV