Welcome back to 20 minutes and 20 days Today we are going to work on something entirely different. It is pronounced lap even though is spelled like flap. I don't know why it's just a long standing tap tradition. And the only thing I could think of is their two syllables. So if you pronounce it for lap and two sounds that you're making with your tap shoes, so maybe there's something to that long time ago. Anyway, we're gonna work on pull ups today.

So, there are two sounds that you're gonna make. We're gonna start by going forward. You can also do these backwards, we'll learn those two. Essentially, all I'm doing is a brush forward with my toe. And then step two Again, that step is just your toe coming down. So it's just two sounds with your toes.

It goes well up. Yeah. brush, step, brush step. Yeah. Now I'm going to give you a quick vocabulary lesson just so you know. If you do full laps in place and you don't travel them, you are actually doing a soul lap.

So again, spelled flap, but who knows some something along the way, we have a split lap. So you have n one and two, and that would actually be at the lab. A for lab is going to travel you and that's what we're going to work on today. But you can practice for laps in place. And those when you do that are called slaps. Okay.

All right. So, essentially a flap again to thousands you're going to alternate your feet every time that you do the And so, you're gonna do brushed up brushed up brush, step, brush step, you're gonna try as hard as you can to stay off of your heels the entire time. So when we're practicing them as much as possible, if you can be on a high, relevant high ball on the balls of your feet, that will be a deal, but you can build up to that as well. So don't worry if you can't do that immediately. Again, essentially, the point is to avoid any extra heel sounds that you wouldn't want. Okay?

So I'm gonna just go a little bit traveling towards you, and then I will travel it going towards the wall, and you'll see a side version too. So you'll just get a few different angles and you can kind of follow along. So it's going to go up on my tiptoes, I'm going to do a lap, lap, lap, lap, lap, lap. lap. Yeah. Okay, good.

So now I'm gonna actually start here and travel this way. Same concept going forwards I go 12345678 Okay, and now I want to show you a couple sideways views. You can see that as well if I were to actually travel this I usually would travel this lengthwise, so I go lap and again, heading back this way. Good. Those are your flaps. These are really fun to practice, especially if you have like a long hallway or something like that.

Or in the grocery store. Those grocery store aisles are ideal to practice full out. So if you're feeling sad Extra dancey in the next couple coming days and you just need to you need to practice your flaps. I'm just saying grocery store aisles are really good for that. Okay, moving on, we have our backwards flaps. So what you can do forwards and tops, you can always go backwards reverse and the extra sound, it gets very exciting.

All right, so going backwards, I'm going to do a backward brush to my toe and then a backward step. So I go, backward brush, step, backward brush, step, back, step, back step. So what I'm doing as I'm picking up my toes every single time, so again, assuming a nice high relevancy, I'm going to pick up my toes, which means I'm flexing my foot here. And then I want to flap my foot gently, but you know, backwards and then tap with that foot. So I go back, step, back, step back step. Yeah.

So every single time I have to Think about the brush going backwards. And behind me as opposed to some of the variations. I see some times where it almost is like a forward brush and then a step back. You want to always think about the whole time when you're doing backward slaps. Every single component of that flap travels you backwards. It would be the same thing.

If I were doing an in place and we're doing flaps, it would still be Yeah, okay. So I'm gonna start by facing you and going that way, and then I'll reverse it, and then we'll go across the floor as well. So we have facts. That step back, step, back, step, back, step, back, step back. Good. Now facing this way, heading towards you.

Now I go back, step back step. Okay, ciao. Side to side, we have and then again, heading back. Good. So it'll be really important to practice these a lot where you are just going again, like I said, grocery store aisles are a long hallway or something like that is going to be a deal. Pretty good.

These sounds really crisp and clear. They are really important. Some variations that I hear that aren't correct and that you want to avoid are. There's a couple things one of the most common is the scraping sound, where it goes it ends up sounding like this right Right or forwards, right, and it just scrapes along the floor. So the problem with that is a you're not making the correct sound, but also be what happens is you're not picking up your toes. So if I'm trying to do everything and not really travel, and not really move my feet a whole lot, it's gonna end up scraping, it's going to do this.

Right. But if I think about picking up my toes every time whether it's forwards or backwards, and I very deliberately pick up my toes thing here. Then I will make the correct sounds. Okay, so that might take a little bit of practice, but really the key component of it is picking up those toes. And so also when you do these, you want to think about short staccato sounds. really crisp, clean flaps are going to be another one of those essential building blocks for lots of other steps down the road.

So shovels in Philips hills are your key components. And then once you have those you can kind of build out and branch out from there. Good job.