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Another Obligatory MJ Post – The Smooth Criminal Lean Patent

Posted by: Chris Lesinski | June 26, 2009 at 6:37PM

Interested in pulling off the Smooth Criminal anti-gravity-lean stunt in your own home?

Look no further. Michael Jackson patented the high-tech shoes before his death:

A system for allowing a shoe wearer to lean forwardly beyond his center of gravity by virtue of wearing a specially designed pair of shoes which will engage with a hitch member movably projectable through a stage surface.

The anti-gravity lean patent

[via Google Patents]