Things You'll Need:
- Tap shoes
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Step 1
Do four flaps, which are brushes to the front on the ball of the foot followed by stepping down on the ball of your foot.
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Step 2
Alternate your feet as you are doing the flaps: flap right, flap left, flap right, flap left. Move to the front (travel) as you are executing the flaps. Remember to dance on the balls of your feet, particularly when you are doing flaps.
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Step 3
Stamp down on your right foot after completing the four flaps. A stamp does bear weight, unlike a stomp, which doesn't. Your have just put your weight on your right foot, which frees up your left foot.
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Step 4
Reverse the Danny Daniels Traveling Step and start the combination on your left foot: Do four flaps, alternating feet, left, right, left, right, and then stamp your left foot, putting your weight on it.
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Step 5
Know that a flap is one of the earliest steps in tap dancing and is sometimes considered a brush step forward, a tap spring or a slap. Dance historians note that the flap was created when the sole of the dancer's shoe was only partly sewn on, which allowed the sole to slap the ground, creating the slapping or flapping sound.
