Tom GellieBig Picture Skiing Pty Ltd · Coach/Director

Tele Tom - Australia 2007

3 Oct 2007 · 2 min

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In this playful, sketch‑style video, two characters – Fatlip and Sammy the Salmon – present a short educational segment for children about salmon biology and a simple dance called the “salmon floating upstream.” Fatlip introduces the dance, describing its easy, hip‑hop‑flavoured moves (hands to the side, shaking the body like a salmon swimming upstream) and encourages viewers to try it. Sammy the Salmon then shares key facts: salmon spend part of their lives in freshwater and part in saltwater, they change their “wraps” (skin) after spawning and die shortly thereafter, they locate their home waters using an exceptionally keen sense of smell, and they are guided by ocean currents, tides, and even the moon’s gravitational pull. Fatlip intersperses the lesson with informal, adult‑tinged commentary and recounts how the dance was initially mocked before becoming popular, illustrating how the routine can win over an audience. The video blends educational content with a light‑hearted, street‑style performance aimed at engaging kids while delivering accurate salmon biology.

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Hello boys and girls, my name is Fatlip and this is my friend Sammy the Salmon. What it do? Today we're gonna teach you some fun facts about salmon and a brand new dance. Let me introduce to you a brand new dance. I know you're gonna love it if you give it one chance. It's not complicated, it's not too hard. You don't even have to be a hip-hop star. See, anyone can do it, all you need is style. Listen up, beat gang, I'mma show you how. Put your hands to the side, as silly as it seems, and shake your body like a salmon floating upstream.
All my peeps spend part of their life in freshwater and part of their life in saltwater.
Wow, very interesting. We change wraps a couple of days after spawning, then we die. When I first did the salmon, all the people just laughed. They looked around and stood like I was on crack. I heard somebody say out loud, What the fuck is that? This nigga dancing like a fish while he's doing the snap. But the more I kept doing it, the more they was feeling it. And then I heard some bitches say, yo, that nigga's killing it. By the end of the night, everyone was on my team and the whole club was dancing like a salmon floating upstream.
Most of our friends find their home waters by sense of smell, which is even more keen than that of a dog or a bear. Wow! My family also rely on ocean currents, tides, or gravitational pull of the moon.
The moon? Fish pay attention to the moon? Wow!
Did you know?