How to do Single Pull Backs in Tap Dancing

Video Transcript

"Hi, this is Sarah McLellan in New York City we at June Parody's Dance Studio. On behalf of Expert Village I'm going to teach you today some basic and beginning tap moves. Come on in! For our last thing today in basic and beginner tap, I'm going to teach you a single pull back. As you get a little bit more advanced, you learn how to do double pull backs and they have more beats in them. But this one starts on 2 feet on the balls of your feet. You are going to slap up and pull back as we say and pull back onto the balls of your feet while making a sound. You are going to start on a pull back. Stand on the balls of our feet, leaving a little bit of space in between and what we are going to do is jump back and we are going to make our feet slap the ground and land our balls again. So we are making 2 sounds 1,2. Ready! Let's try that again. On the balls of your feet, slap those toes so you kind of lifting them in angle slapping them back and you are landing on your toes. So let's try that again. Ready and go. You want to make sure you are up on the balls of your feet, your heels are raised and your knees are bent and you are going to do that pull back. Now are you ready? So you are kind of kicking both of those feet out, you would stand on that spot with both feet at the same time and your land solid on both feet. Let's try it one more time and. This is Sarah McLellan in New York City we are at June Parody's Studio and on behalf of Expert Village thanks for watching. "