Straight kick: knock the ground with the toes and then lift (only lift the ankle joint).

Kick forward: Kick the ground forward with the belly of your toes, and then lift (only lift the ankle joint).

Kick backward: Kick the ground backward with the belly of your toes, and then lift it up (only lift the ankle joint).

Heel kick: bend your knees, tap the ground with your heel and then lift it up quickly. There are three ways:

1. Stand on one foot.

2. Stand on your toes or action feet.

3. A quick poke.

Heel blow: Just like the heel kick, except that the heel is lowered when completed, and the tone is heavier.

Toe kick: bend your knees, tap the ground with your toes and then lift them up quickly.

Toe beat: Like toe tap, except it ends with the toes down and the tone is heavier.

Balltap: Hit the ground with your toes and then lift it up quickly. There are three ways:

(1) Stand on one foot.

(2) Stand on your heels or action feet.

(3) A quick poke.

Toe beat: Like the toe kick, but when completed the toe is lowered and the tone is heavier.

Forward brush (forwardbrush): A larger movement than forward kicking, swinging from the hips and knees.

Back brush: A larger movement than a backward kick, swinging from the hips and knees.

Stamp: step down with the whole foot, with the center of gravity on the supporting foot or the action foot.

Hop: stand on one foot and land on the toes of the same foot after jumping.

Bounce: Stand on one foot, jump up and land lightly on the toes of the other foot.

Fall: Stand on one foot, jump and then land heavily on the toe of the other foot or the whole foot.

Jump: Put your feet together and bend your knees. After jumping, your feet will be together and land on the ground. You can face in any direction.

Re-stomp: Stand on the toes of one foot, push the foot forward and strike the ground hard with the heel.

Scuff: Stomp forward with a flat foot, then leave the ground and bend the supporting leg at the knee.

Shuffle: A forward and backward kick, counting beats & 1 or less.

Kick and bounce: A front kick followed by a bounce. You can move forward or stay in place. The movements should be light.

Slap: A forward kick followed by a stomp, with the focus on the action foot or supporting foot.

Recovery step: Stand with your feet slightly apart, lift the toes of one foot upward, and then tap the belly of the toes on the ground to lift the heel.

Recovery step bounce: The recovery step is followed by a bounce. Because the recovery step requires both feet to touch the ground, it cannot be repeated.

Recovery step and one-legged hop: The recovery step is followed by a single-legged hop and cannot be repeated.

Recover step and change step: stand on one foot, bend the knee, lift the toe of that foot upward, tap the ground with the belly of the toe backward, lift the heel, and touch the ground with the other foot.

The recovery step of one foot: It is the same as the recovery step, but with the same toe on the ground, it must not go backwards.

Wing preparation: Stand with your feet together and slide outward, move your right foot to the side, and wipe the ground with the outer edge of your foot. When finished, leave the ground and kick the ground with your right toes inward toward your left foot. When finishing, use your right foot and make a toe-belly beat next to your left foot.

Wing 3 beats: (Both feet) Put your feet together and bend your knees, wipe the ground with the outer edge of your feet, quickly move your feet outwards, when the feet are off the ground, kick the ground inward with the two toes to Both toes touch the ground.

Wing 3 beats: (One foot) Stand with your feet together, bend your knees, rub the outer edge of one foot on the ground, quickly move the foot outward, when the foot is off the ground, kick inward with the belly of the toe Kick the ground and land on the balls of your toes.

Wing 3: (Change step) Like the wing 3 on one foot but land on the other toe.

Wing 4 beat: (One foot with toe kick) Make a wing 3 beat with your right foot, and do a toe kick with your left foot behind the right foot.

Wing 4: (Pendulum) Make a wing 3 with your right foot, brush step forward with your left foot, wing

3 with your right foot, brush step behind with your left foot.

Wing 5 beats: with heel strike and heel toe kick, right foot wing 3 beat, right heel strike, behind the right foot, left toe kick.

Wing 5 beats: (one foot drag step) Right foot wing 3 beats and left foot drag.

Extended information:

1. Suitable people

Tap dance is a dance suitable for people of all ages, from children of a few years old to six or seven years old A ten-year-old man can put on a pair of dancing shoes to show passion, movement and happiness. This is why tap dancing has exploded in popularity.

Tap dance can strengthen the brain, heart, fitness and fitness. Brain training means that when people dance tap dance, they need to use their big and small brains to control their limbs, especially the rhythm of various parts of the feet, which can exercise people's thinking and coordination skills, and enhance memory.

For heart health, tap dance requires not only watching but also listening, so it can not only promote blood circulation throughout the body, but also make people feel happy. The third fitness, jumping and tapping, can move from the toes to the knee joints, which is very beneficial to the joint flexibility exercise. Fourth, bodybuilding and tap dancing can achieve the purpose of losing weight.

2. Features

Tap dance mainly involves wearing special dance shoes with iron palms and using flexible dance steps to create various rhythms on the wooden floor. It has an eclectic form and is a very free form of dance. Many dancers throughout history have continued to enrich the form of tap dance. There is a very vivid saying: Nomapsonthetaps, which means that tap dance has no restrictions like a map.

3. Music

and dance are inseparable parts of Irish national culture. Their music and dance are mainly performed during celebrations. The soundtrack for tap dancing is usually composed of many instruments, including violins, accordions, flutes, tambourines, etc. A relatively rare instrument is the Irish Uillean pipe.

It is a relatively complex wind instrument, different from the common Scottish Highlands pipes. The Scottish bagpipe will have a trembling sound when played, but the Irish Julian flute does not have this problem and sounds more melodious and moving, which is very suitable for Irish melody. The Irish flute was a major traditional culture for two hundred years, but the British ban reduced their numbers.

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