Tap Dancing Basics: Slap Heels

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"Hi, I'm Emily Larew, and we are in our tap basics, and we're starting with a slap heel. Okay, so a slap is exactly like a flap, so don't let it fool you, but instead the flap is when you transfer your weight like you're going to go somewhere with the flap, and a slap, you keep your weight in the supporting foot. So it's just flap, you're going to come back to the supporting foot, and you're going to do another slap again, and you would just stay wherever you were going. Okay. So you're not moving anywhere. So, again, a slap heel, we're going to go forward with it. So we have flap, but we're not going anywhere, so it's called a slap, heel. Slap, heel. Slap, heel. Slap, heel. All right, so let's try it front, side, and back, five, six, seven, eight. Slap, heel, three, four, five, six, seven, eight. A little faster. And a one... good. Those are slap heels, not transferring your weight, but staying right there in place."