Over The Tops in Tap Dancing

Video Transcript

"Hi I'm Emily Larew, and we're going to take a look at over the tops. In our previous clip we have learned front together, back together, brush, heel toe, which is a preparation for over the tops. So let's put that together and then figure out how do those over the tops. So we're going to start, our preparation goes, front together, back together, brush, heel, toe. Again, front together, back together, brush, heel, toe. Now a lot of my students find this really tricky, okay. But going over the top, all you're going to do, let me turn to the front for you, is you're going to jump your left foot, through and over your right foot. So what I want you to do is when you do toe, you're going to pick up your foot. But for right now let's just try it with the toe, we're cheating, so remember when we stop cheating you can't do this any more, okay. So toe on the floor, you're going to jump over your right foot, okay, and land in front of it. So your right leg was in the front, now my left leg is in front. Okay, so let's try it, we're going to start with our toe, I want you to pick it up, you're just going to jump, don't cheat it, because what you're going to want to do is go, like this, and that was not over the top, that was across the side. So with our right foot over I want you to jump over the top, good. So let's try front together, back together, brush, heel, toe, over the top. Five, six, seven, eight, front together, back together, brush, heel, toe, over the top, woo hoo, let's try it one more time. Six, seven, that's where you want to be careful of, because if you don't jump high enough, you're going to trip over your feet, and that would be a catastrophe. So make sure you jump high enough. Six, seven, and front together, back together, brush, heel, toe, over the top. And that is a good landing. So, you had a bad one and a good example, so make sure you really do bend your knees, jump over that foot, don't let it get caught. Good."