Hi, my name is Lindsay Dineen and welcome to 20 moves in 20 days. This is your first day and we are going to start with a warmup so that you are completely ready to go. Alright, so the very first thing to happen is you're going to circle your ankles, I'm going to face the way so you can follow along. So, we'll start with circling our ankles, like so. And then you're going to go the other way as well. And then switch feet and then go the other way as well.

Awesome, now we're going to do is a very basic tap step. It's just called a toe drop. And then we'll do heel drops as well. When I do a toe drop, I'm going to lift up the front part of my foot, just my toes, and then I'm going to put them right back down. So I lift up and drop down, up, down, up, down. Yeah, so we're gonna start off by doing those a little bit slowly and then we'll speed them up.

So we go 12345678 then a little bit faster. One and two, and three and 45678 and then you'll go the very fastest you can. Okay, okay, now we switch to heel drops. Same concept, I'm going to lift up my heel and then put it right back down. Up. Down, up, down, up, down, and face away again.

We're going to start off slowly and then we'll speed up gradually. So we go 12345678 then faster. One and two and three and four and 5678. Now fastest. I always find that the best to dos are a lot easier than the fast toe drops. Okay, we've warmed up our ankles a little bit, what I want you to do next is just shake out your ankles.

So I'm literally just gonna shake out my foot all around, the looser your ankles the way easier it is to tap. So really hard to make the correct sounds. If you're just squeezing your muscles and trying to control everything. It's actually better if you have a little bit more of a loosey goosey approach to it. Okay, so now we're going to do a couple taps just right around ourselves. So the first thing I'm going to do is toe tap.

So the front, I'm going to go 12345678. Yeah, I'm going to do the same thing to this side. Now, one of the important things about tap is that I'm isolating my ankle movement, I'm trying not to lift my entire leg when I tap, I'm just lifting my toes up and down, flexing and pointing my feet essentially. So I'm going to do to the side as well. And then to the back, I'm going to stay turned out, but I would actually aim towards that back diagonal, so it's not going to be right behind me, and it's not going to be parallel, it's actually going to be turned out and on that back diagonal. Now when I go to the back, I'm thinking about using my inner edge of my tap shoe here, as opposed to using the whole tablet I would do to the front and to the side.

This is just going to be to the back, okay? And then I'm just going to use that inside edge. Alright, so we're going to do it Front, side and back on the right side and then on the left, okay? So we go 1234567, side 2345678 back to 345678. Good, other side. Ready?

1-234-567-8234 5678 Back to 34678. Good. Now you'll notice when I went to the back, I bent my knee on my supporting leg that is going to allow me to make those sounds a lot easier. In fact, I guess With a lot of tap, the more you use your play and bend your knees, the easier A lot of things are. The other thing to know right off the top is that the faster you want to go, the closer you're going to have to keep everything to you. So if I'm doing really big stuff away from me, it's going to be harder to go fast.

But the more I can keep it kind of underneath myself, the easier it's going to be. And we'll talk about that as we go along. But one thing to think about with tap is, you kind of imagine that you have a little box on the floor, this is your private tap box, right. So most of the time, all of the steps regardless of whether I'm traveling them or not, are going to occur within my little tap box. Now my top box can travel but it still stays mostly contained. So it's a little bit bigger than my feet on the floor, but not by much.

Okay, so that is your basic warm up to start. I'm going to add just One more little thing and then we will move on to learning some new steps. So one final thing to do in your warm up is going to be your toe heels and your heel toes. So I'm going to pick up my entire foot. I'm going to put my toe down first, and then I'm going to put my heel down, just like that. Then I'm going to do to the other side, pick up my whole foot, toe, heel, toe, heel, toe, heel.

Okay, so I'm going to do that eight times, facing this way. Here we go. To the right, we have toe, heel, toe, heel. 35678. Good. And when you're feeling like you can go faster, go ahead and do that.

So we would go 12345678 excellent. Now I'm going to Reverse what I just did and start with my heels. Ready. So I'm going to go, heel, toe, heel, toe, heel, toe, heel, toe, and note that I'm picking up my entire foot every single time and then putting my heel down first and then my toe. Okay, so we're going to do it eight times slow, and then eight times a little faster. So we have heel, toe, heel, toe, 34567 and eight, and then faster.

12345678 Excellent. Good job. You finished your tap. Warm up. Wonderful.