Welcome back to 20 moves in 20 days. Today we are going to do one of my absolute favorite tap steps ever. It's called the Shirley Temple. And it's also an eight count riff. So I said yesterday that the eight count riff travels side to side it does. Again, this step is also known as the Shirley Temple.

It's so much fun, I just adore it. I think it's one of those steps. It's going to take a little bit of patience to learn. It took me a while to get the hang of the sequence of it. But as soon as I got it, I just fell in love with it. And I think everyone that I've ever taught has as well it's just it's a wonderful step.

And I have to say it's another one that's really great if you're just standing in line somewhere like the grocery store. And you need something to do this is a really fun one to practice kind of in place. So it is eight counts eight sounds. And one interesting component of it is that it's gonna start with a, what would be a flap, except it's just the lap because it's in place, right? And that counts for your first two sounds first two counts, although, in reality, the slap or the flap is one hole, but in this case is going to count for two sounds or two counts. Okay, so I'm going to show it to you first facing away so you can see what it looks like.

And then I'll break it down, but I want you to kind of get a feel for what it is first. So all right. I'm going to break it down for you though I know that's a lot of material all at once. And I'm going to teach this whole thing that way because it's gonna be kind of hard to transpose. If you're watching and you can't quite see which one I'm using. So I'm gonna start with my right leg, my right leg is going to do as the lap brush, step, right?

From there, I am going to do opposite heel, that's just a heel drop. Same heel, drop, bank, left, heel, drop rate, co dig left, heel drop, right. So if you'll notice, I'll do that a bazillion more times. But if you notice, what happens is that after the slap, right, the first two being one, kind of component, one step, and then everything alternates. It goes right, left, right, left, right, left, right, left, right. So I'll just show you that again.

Really slowly we have SCO lap right. Now I'm going to switch to my left. I already did my right thing. So I'm going to go left for the heel, right for the heel, spank left, heel, toe, heel. Okay, from there I am set up or ready to go left. So from here I'm using my left leg.

I go for lap, left, and I'm going to do heel, drop, right, heel, drop left, spank, heel, toe, heel. So I'm going to do fall lap heel, heel, spank, heel, toe, heel, fall lap. heel, heel, spank, heel, toe, heel. Heel, spank, heel, toe, heel. For Laughs heel, heel, fake, heel, toe, heel. Okay, we're gonna do that about 50 billion more times because it's gonna take some time to really sink in.

Like I said, This one took me a long time to get but as soon as I got it, I just fell in love with it, I think you will too. But give yourself some grace as you learn it because the sequence for some people is super easy to catch on. But a lot of times, it's just gonna take a little bit of time to kind of get the hang of it. Don't stress about that. You'll just practice, practice, practice, you'll get it no time. Okay.

So we're going to do right, left, right, left again. So we have follow up, except it's really as the lap to be quite frank. So we have, so lap heel, heel spank, heel, toe, heel. So lap heel, heel spank, heel, toe, heel. 123456 781-234-5678 lap, select heel, heel spank heel, toe, heel. Yes.

So again, I'm going to go left, right, left, right, left, right, left 1-234-567-8123 4567812 345-678-1234 567-812-3456 781-234-5678 so lap he'll he spank heel, toe, heel, heel, heel, heel, toe, heel. Now if you noticed, I'm shifting my weight at times that are going to help me be the most successful as far as balancing. So I want to just talk you through a little bit of how I do it and how it makes sense to me to kind of move my body so that it's not, I never feel like I'm having to balance for very long, you know, one side or the other. So, to start off with my way, it's going to be on my left foot, because my right needs to be free to do that first two laps, so I do so lap here. But then at this point, I'm going to need to start transferring my weight over to my right side so that my left can actually lift my left heel can lift here, and I do my other drop here.

And by that point, I have completely shifted to my right side. Now I'm going to spank left, I'm going to do a heel drill. operate toe and then another heel drop, right? So there are, I would probably do it both ways, it really doesn't matter. But there's a moment right here where you could put pick your toe back up, but you don't have to. So don't worry if that helps you to kind of maintain your balance a little bit at that point, just leave it right where it is.

Either way is completely fine. Okay. And then, so we talked about shifting my weight to the right, I'm here. I just finished to the right side. When I go to the left. I'm going to start with my left I'm going to do so lap from here.

I have to start shifting my weight to the left. I do spank right, crank laughs My weight has shifted. Feel, I'm sorry, spank heel, toe and heel. Okay, so as long as you kind of let your body almost like naturally ebb and flow the way it would want to, then you'll be good to go. Yes. So kind of think if I'm going to the right, my weights gonna end up on my right side if I go to the left.

Yeah, my weights gonna end up on my left side. And again, just practices over and over and over. And you will get it and I will be so excited for you because it's so much fun. All right. Thank you. See you tomorrow.