How to Do a Shuffle Toe Combination in Tap Dance

A shuffle toe combination is composed of two basic steps: the shuffle and the toe tap. Use this shuffle toe combination in any tap routine. Incorporate it into more complex steps or perfect your basic technique by working on the combination until you perform it at lightning speed.

Difficulty: Moderately Easy

Instructions

1. Stand with your feet hip-width apart and with your toes pointed forward.

2. Shuffle your right leg. Flex your knee up in front of your body, lower your leg and strike the ball of your foot in a forward motion. You then flex your knee again and strike your foot in a backward motion. Your foot should look like a pendulum.

3. Point the toe of your right leg and strike the ground with the toe once. This is a toe tap.

4. Repeat Steps 1 through 3.

5. Perform 2 toe taps with your right leg. The combination goes: shuffle, toe, shuffle, toe, toe.

6. Dig with your right leg. Lift your leg, and then lower it down on your heel. Click your heel on the floor while pressing forward with your body.

7. Brush forward with your right leg and end on a toe tap. For the forward brush, sweep the ball of your foot across the floor in a forward motion.

8. Step down once with your left leg.

Tips & Warnings

• Learn these steps slowly. Put them together and speed them up to fit the music.
• Perform the shuffle toe combination with either leg.

Resources

• Get definitions and descriptions of tap moves.

[sugarfoot]

on 11/9/2007 This combination doesn't make sense to me. After step 6, it is almost impossible. Going from a dig into a forward brush with the same foot is very difficult -certainly not practicle. A toe tap from a forward brush? Also, a brush ends in the air. If you do a forward brush on your right leg, even if it is followed by a toe touch or toe back, the only place to step is on your right leg.