Slow-motion video of Lindy Hop dancing

What could possibly be sexier and dreamier than those slo-mo videos of female tennis stars, Boinged earlier today? Why, this Discovery Network slo-mo video of professional dancers Nick Williams and Carla Heiney, doin' the Lindy Hop. Speed gives them the momentum they need to execute dance moves like the spin. Slowth gives us the ability we need to—well, to drool over how physically impossible it all seems. For audio accompaniment, may I suggest some Sigur Rós, or a Justin Bieber Xanax Remix?

Discovery Channel Video: Time Warp: Lindy Spin

[via Submitterator, thanks chuko]

• [ChickenDelicious]

  Holy crap, I went to high school with that guy!

  • [Marcelo]

    Yeah? I went to college with him! He’s a good guy.

• [tomorrowboy]

  Lindy hop is really fun. And you don’t start doing throws and stuff for ages (I’ve still never done one). It’s worth finding out if there are dances with a beginners lesson at the begining in your area so you can try it out.

• [sapere_aude]

  As someone who’s a huge fan of swing, but who can’t dance a step to save his life, I really enjoyed this.

  But, once again, to reiterate an earlier complaint from another thread, you’ve got too many “red herring” links in this post. When I clicked on what seemed like the right link, instead of going to a video of swing dancers, I got a Wikipedia article about the Lindy Hop. Isn’t there a better way of labeling the links so it’s obvious at a glance which link leads where?

• [skeletoncityrepeater]

  What about a slo-mo clip of Rodney Dangerfield doing a Triple Lindy?

• [irksome]

  You kids with your gyrating hips and your saxophones; you call that music?

  It’s just noise!

• [stegodon]

  are there any slow-motion videos of the Shake Weight commercial available?

• [jtiii]

  I personally thought this was fantastic. When that girl’s face lit up at the end, I couldn’t help grinning with her…

• [Trotsky]

  I wanna see slow motion of really old Chinese ladies playing mahjong.

  What?

• [ubarch]

  All this needs to be the beginning of a David Lynch movie is some ominous music in the background.

• [Boondocker]

  Don’t watch the cheek piercing video on the same page. Not because it’s gross (depends on your squick-o-meter’s sensitivity), but because it’s kind of boring.

• [Anonymous]

  I love these super slow motion videos from Japan
  http://www.japansugoi.com/wordpress/the-world-of-super-slow-motion-camera/

• [Anonymous]

  Yeah, I’m totally checkin’ out the Heiney. I mean, uh, Carla Heiney. LOL. Appropriate name for the win!

• [lux_aurumque]

  Re: Audio Accompaniment
  I just watched it with Massive Attack’s “Paradise Circus” playing…I can highly recommend.

• [Moriarty]

  A low gravity Lindy Hop would look almost the same.

• [Anonymous]

  I sure hope that Justin Bieber comment was a joke. :)