Old people in Finland sure know how to Tisko Tansi

Who Knew? YouTube is full of excellent Finnish disco dancing instructional videos from the 1970s. Here is one. Poke around a bit and you will find many more from "tisko tanzi" masters Jack and Jez of Zero Patrol, for example: 1, 2, 3, and this user has lots more. (via NOSLO)

[#1 posted by Ryan , January 22, 2008 2:06 PM]

A friend of mine once told me that he was forced to watch this in school for some learning purpose.

There's also the lovely Armi and Dani of Finnish fame. This music video's one of my favourites-- it's just so... Something.

(P.s. fi.: tanssi 'dance')

[#2 posted by wrybread , January 22, 2008 2:29 PM]

I nominate this as possibly the funniest and most amazing thing ever posted on BoingBoing.

[#3 posted by se7a7n7 , January 22, 2008 2:52 PM]

What's funnier?

Seeing grandparents disco dancing.

or

The horrible Disco music their playing?

[#4 posted by Takuan , January 22, 2008 3:03 PM]

at least they are shaking it, unlike some pudgy, internet addicted, pop-swilling layabouts who shall remain nameless. (you know who you are)

[#5 posted by vespabelle , January 22, 2008 3:13 PM]

I keep waiting for the Dschinghis Khan to pop out! oh wait, it is Dschinghis Khan!!

[#6 posted by Wingo , January 22, 2008 4:06 PM]

This is probably one of my most favorite YouTube videos of all time. We used loops of it as part of a video projected behind my band at a show once.

Why I love teh internets, reason #1.

[#7 posted by shecky , January 22, 2008 4:11 PM]

Grandma's got some pretty good moves. And she's stacked, too.

Granpa's pantload step is something else, though. An would it have killed him to find some clean tennis shoes?

[#8 posted by Justin Ried , January 22, 2008 4:47 PM]

Loistava!

[#9 posted by boingboingnyc , January 22, 2008 5:57 PM]

This is great. But, it's old. Check out cheesy WFMU's Euro disco video archive:

http://blog.wfmu.org/freeform/cheesy_eurodisco/index.html

[#10 posted by boingboingnyc , January 22, 2008 5:58 PM]

This is great. But, it's old. Check out WFMU's cheesy Euro disco video archive:

http://blog.wfmu.org/freeform/cheesy_eurodisco/index.html

[#11 posted by ignobilitor , January 22, 2008 8:34 PM]

"Who knew?" Everybody :-)

[#12 posted by thisisjason , January 22, 2008 9:32 PM]

i had started rotoscoping this in flash about a year ago. i had no idea it was finnish. nice!

[#13 posted by porn for creative souls , January 22, 2008 9:43 PM]

Funny video BUT it has been around for ages! Pretty much since you tube started. Now Zero Patrol trying to ride the popularity wave...

Much funnier (and cooler) are the DANCE PARTY USA video series...now that's the real stuff

http://scophy.com/2008/01/18/random-fridays-old-old-dance-party/

[#14 posted by Antinous , January 22, 2008 10:05 PM]

There's something hysterically funny about saying "it has been around for ages" and "it's old" in reference to a video from the 1970s. Well, yeah!

I call for a moratorium on "I've already seen it."

[#15 posted by dmacniven , January 22, 2008 10:12 PM]

DUPE. Posted 4 years and 2 days ago ...

Although is it Czech or Finnish??

http://www.boingboing.net/2004/01/20/linkfu-20-and-the-wi.html

[#16 posted by flipa , January 22, 2008 11:32 PM]

Chiming in to brag: I've danced with this guy. He came to give us a dance class, a bunch of ungrateful 4th-graders in suburban Helsinki in 1990. Lovely old feller.

[#17 posted by Rezorrand , January 23, 2008 12:53 AM]

Nag nag. It's "Disko tanssi". Quite old video though, haven't seen them in ages in television.

[#18 posted by porn for creative souls , January 23, 2008 12:59 AM]

it's one thing to impose a moratorium on saying i've seen that on something that has been circulating online for a few weeks/months...
quite another for a video that has been posted over 3 years ago, had over a million hits and been quite popular, and passing it off as something new that not a lot of people have seen...

no moratorium....let it be.

[#19 posted by lionking , January 23, 2008 2:11 AM]

Been there, tried that, and I ain't going back. That guy was my dance teacher when I was 15. Scary stuff ...

[#20 posted by lyttleton , January 23, 2008 3:47 AM]

Not only has this video been around forever, it's been used for all kinds of random purposes. For example (pretty funny, but might help to be a fan of the music):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KQTAjpo4QJg