I saw a video over at The Feral Irishman, that I won’t post here, but you can go there and look at it. It’s not really safe for work.
If you don’t want to watch it, I can tell you what it is, advanced twerking.
Personally, I’m not into twerking. It’s not sexy, it’s vulgar.
However, when I saw that video, I was reminded of Dune. Yes, really. Not the movie (which I love BTW) but the book (which is also excellent).
In the book the Bene Gesserit practice a form of combat called the Weirding Way. It is an advanced form of martial arts.
To make a long book short, FTL travel, heavier than air flight, and shields are all possible because of technology called the Holtzman Effect. Shields prevent an object that is moving too fast from penetrating and shooting a shield with a laser will cause a nuclear explosion.
A knife or a dart will penetrate a personal shield since the shield velocity for a person has to be at least high enough to allow respiration to occur otherwise a person will suffocate inside their shield.
That makes firearms and direct energy weapons sort of pointless in war, so in the year 10,191 combat goes back to being mele warfare.
This was not done in the movie because the director didn’t want a “kung fu movie on sand.” The move is great on its own, but it’s not the book.
The Weirding Way was a method of total body control that allowed a fighter to move fast and in otherwise impossible ways to strike and kill.
The original Bene Gesserit training was called prana-bindu. It is described this way: “This allows her to bend the last joint in her little toe while remaining otherwise motionless, bend and contort her body in ways that most would consider impossible, or put a remarkable amount of force behind a physical blow.”
It is that part “ allows her to bend the last joint in her little toe while remaining otherwise motionless” that advanced twerking reminds me of.
There is a lot of skill in being able to perform a precisely timed and highly controlled ass shake without moving the rest of your body.
It is the Bene Gesserit way of ass shaking.
Long live the fighters dancers!