This whole segment is dedicated to the SS Walk, which is Sho's version of the MJ Walk. Guess how Sho pulled it off?
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Part 4 Jun: And this was the year where the “SS Walk” was born, you know?
Sho: Ah, the SS Walk? That’s right!
Nino: Ah, hang on! Let’s watch the SS Walk!
Jun: It was here, right?
[The members watch the DVD.]
MC: Erm, what’s the SS Walk?
Sho: What!? You don’t know?
Nino: You mean you didn’t know?
Sho: Do you know about the MJ Walk? The one where he walks on the ceiling.
MC: Yes, I do.
Sho: Don’t you know about the SS Walk? If I had to express it in Japanese, it means, “to travel on foot.”
Nino: You know that thing where people walk on the ground?
Everyone: (bursts out laughing)
Aiba: But his expression looks super cool. He tried to look so suave!
Nino: That’s right! (laughs) Eh, don’t you all know about it?
Sho: I think it’s fundamental Arashi knowledge, don’t you?
Nino: Surprisingly, the SS Walk isn’t that well known.
Aiba: That’s right. There was an incident which gave birth to the SS Walk, you know?
MC: An incident…?
Jun: On the day (we recorded the DVD), we had a number of incidents. The moving stage couldn’t move and stuff…
[The members check the footage again. When “truth” began playing…]
Nino: The legend was born at this point.
Aiba: That’s how it was born, huh?
[Everyone tries to look for the point where the members fly on harnesses during “truth”.]
Everyone: Up they go, up they go!
Jun: Although we went up, Sho-kun came back down. Ah, his flying harness wasn’t moving forward.
Nino: That’s when the legend was born.
Sho: No, it wasn’t here… It happened on the stage right, I think…
Nino: Here it is! Huh? It’s moving.
Aiba: He’s moving!
[We confirmed that the SS Walk never made it to the DVD because the staff filmed the successful performance of “truth”.]
Sho: I see, it didn’t make it into the DVD.
[The members continue watching the footage.]
Ohno: We flew so fast!
Sho: This was… damn scary.
Jun: This was amazing, right? Hahahaha!
Nino: It was crazy.
Sho: In the midst of flying, it would shake really badly when we’re in the wind. See this part? Wasn’t it crazy? I felt slightly sick then.
Aiba: Huh? Sho-chan, didn’t you give up singing at that point?
Nino: I think you probably weren’t singing by then.
Everyone: (bursts out laughing)
[Due to the awful flying, Sakurai desperately hung onto the wires and gave up singing into the mike.]
Aiba: See, you gave up singing! (laughs)
Sho: Hahaha! If I may digress slightly. I couldn’t take it anymore that day, so I gave up. When you watch the footage, there aren’t any close-ups of me, at all.
Everyone: (bursts out laughing)
Jun: I remember Sho-kun talking about it! When he was having a meeting with the staff, he said to them, “During this part in ‘truth’, you don’t need to put in any close-ups of me.”
Everyone: (bursts out laughing)
Nino: That’s right! That did happen. It would become a close-up footage where he was hanging onto the wire for dear life. (laughs) In the most extreme case, even if you gripped onto wires, it wouldn’t make any difference if they were cut…
Sho: Hahaha! That, that is true… But! I still feel insecure!!
[Finally, Sakurai turned around (in his harness) while he was hanging onto the wire, and as a result he turned his back towards the audience during the song.]
Aiba: He was facing the back… Hahahaha!
Ohno: He… he’s facing the back… (laughs until his stomach hurts)
Sho: What’s the big deal with facing the back! The band…! Only the band could see me!
Aiba: Why were you facing the band? (laughs until his sides hurt)
Nino: It’s the best when you get to watch the main monitor as you’re coming down!
Everyone: (bursts out laughing)
Sho: Yeah… On the 2nd day of our Kokuritsu performance, the wire harness stopped working. Everyone else returned to the main stage by flying, but I stopped flying when I reached the center stage (which is different from the main stage). During the outro (ending of the song), I just kept on walking (hence the SS Walk).
Jun: (keeps on laughing) What’s more, he came back just at the right timing. He made it back in time! (laughs)
Sho: Yeah, that’s the SS Walk for you!
Nino: Everyone laughed at that. The 4 of us just kept laughing.
Sho: …right here. That’s the coolest part, right? What happened to me then, seriously!
Everyone: (bursts out laughing)
Ohno: Aah… That was hilarious. (tired from laughing too much)
Nino: Oh yeah, in the MC section before that, we made it so that the SS Walk would happen. We talked about how that part of the performance was horrifying. True enough, Sho-chan ended up not moving.
Ohno: It became a funny moment.
Nino: That’s right.
Aiba: Aah, it’s so hot. (laughs till he started sweating) I didn’t know that Sho-chan was facing backwards.
Everyone: (bursts out laughing)
Aiba: What were you thinking of then?
Sho: Well… well, I wondered why everyone was facing the front.
Nino: Hahaha! That wire harness does move about. (Where he faces) is somewhat random.
Jun: That’s right. At this part of the wire harness, it can turn. If you place your weight at a certain point, you can turn… But I guess he didn’t have the mental strength to do it. (laughs)
Nino: Yeah, Sho-chan couldn’t come back.
Everyone: (bursts out laughing)