You Won't Believe These Dancers' Mind-Blowing Balances

Last week, two male dancers on two different continents made Facebook fans do a serious double take. Warning: When you watch these dancers’ incredible feats of balance and strength, you may want to hold onto your jaw—it’s going to drop.

If you’ve ever been on a Boso Balance Trainer (or any other balance board) in a physical therapy session or at the gym, you know that just standing on the thing can be pretty darn challenging. (Do a simple YouTube search, and you can see that even the fittest people struggle a bit—fast-forward to 2:15 in this video for exhibit A.)

But you all know that ballet dancers are crazy—crazy-strong, crazy-focused and crazy-AMAZING. Take English National Ballet’s Barry Drummond, for example. This is his Bosu Balance workout:

So there’s that. But then, inspired by Drummond, Cedar Lake Contemporary Ballet’s Jon Bond decided to try it out:

I just can’t even.