Years ago, Dan Campbell made a mistake. The result was one of the most popular hip hop dance forms in the world today.
The Mocking that created Locking
One fateful day, somewhere around 1970, Don Campbell was performing the Funky Chicken (some say it was the Robot Shuffle) in front of an audience when he suddenly realized that he couldn’t remember his next move. He had reached a particularly intricate point in the dance when he realized that he had forgotten his next step. He furrowed his brow and scratched his head, but his brain would have none of it – it simply gave him the middle finger and refused to co-operate. He then did what most of used to do when a hot girl approached us in high school – he froze. And then a lady from the audience did what that hot girl probably did to you – she laughed. And then Campbell did something inspired by something that most of us never have - a flash of genius. Annoyed by his own failure, he simply showed her the finger – not the middle finger of course – he just pointed at her and that in turn caused everyone to look in her direction, giving them the impression that the pointing was actually a dance move.
