“Now this is a story all about how, my life got flipped, turned upside down…”

Well, no.  Not exactly!  That is actually the first line of the theme song by Will Smith to the hit 90s TV show, “The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air”.  Rather, this post is a story about me re-discovering a wicked funny dance by a character from that show, Carlton Banks.

Sometimes when I am out and about, people will ask me to show off my dancing skills, or lack thereof (I know they are just looking to laugh at me which I am perfectly OK with!).  Once in a while when I am asked this, I’ll try to pull out some of Carlton’s moves.  I mean, look at the video below, it’s awesome!

So one day last week I was “chillin out maxin, relaxin all cool” but really having a somewhat boring afternoon just doing some work on the computer, when all of a sudden I saw a Twitter update from Stephanie Quilao, who runs the Back in Skinny Jeans blog, which said this,”2 minute cardio quickie: Dance “The Carlton” It’s Not Unusual” along with a link this post.

“HA”, I exclaimed!!!

What did I do?  That’s right, I clicked on the link!  I then watched and proceeded to… ehhem… I mean, attempted to do “The Carlton” along with the video!  Yes, it definitely gave me an enormous energy boost for what had been a dull day up to that point.  Thanks Stephanie!!!

It also gave me the inspiration to do this Nomad Challenge Dance Week.  I’d already been planning on blogging about the WhereTheHellIsMatt videos for a while now, and once I saw “The Carlton” I realized that there are a couple other videos I would also like to share, so why not make it a week-long event!

Who says Twitter is a waste of time?! :)

Without further adieu, I give you part two of Dance Week, The Carlton!

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