How to Do a Hop & Jump in Tap Dancing

Video Transcript

"What I like to talk about now is to 2 steps known as hop and jump now when people hear the words hop and jump they think of things like hop scotch or jump rope and all they associate that with is just bouncing up and down. When the tap instructor tells you either hop or jump they mean 2 totally different things, let me show you. A hop does not change weight from one foot to the other it's what it sounds like a hop on one foot that's all it is. When you hear hop you just hop, just like that, now when an instructor says jump that's like a hop but instead of landing on the foot that you originally took off on your going to land on the opposite foot. That's jumping from one foot to another this is jump this is hop, this is jump this is hop, now if you want to if you want to combine a couple of things that we learned so far you can combine both a shuffle and a hop and it looks like this. For example, if you we're to start off with your right foot you would shuffle with that right foot and hop, shuffle, hop you can give that a try if your ready to try it."