Tapless In Vegas - Return To Horizontal #5
This is a
Step pattern from
www.turnstep.com.
(pattern 4713)
The step is horizontal, 32 count, self-reversing, 100% tapless.
Intermediate to advanced skills. North, South, East, and West
remain constant regardless of your orientation to the step.
Add these blocks to the three I submitted in
Return to Horizontal #4 and you'll have my current routine.
Enjoy, and email me with your ideas! Thanks again to Kathy Z
Grant for being so generous with her outstanding choreography!
Block Four
Home position, facing North, center.
- 3 Beat basics* (8)
- Repeater freeze* (8)
- Sidewinder* (4)
- Flip* (4)
- Knee lunge / one lunge* (8)
3 Beat Basics:
Up-up-down-up-up-down-up-up. You finish on top, ready for
the repeater.
- (1) Right foot up
- (2) Left foot up
- (3) Right foot down
- (4) Left foot up
- (5) Right foot up
- (6) Left foot down
- (7) Right foot up
- (8) Left foot up
Repeater Freeze:
A repeater where you hold the repeating foot down on the floor
for counts 3-4-5. Really freeze it, NO bouncing, balance!
Sidewinder:
An over-the-top with no tap. 4 counts.
- (1) Right foot to west corner.
- (2) Hop on right foot as left leg lifts behind.
- (3) Left foot down on North side of step.
- (4) Right foot down next to left foot.
Flip:
A reverse knee hop over-the-top. 4 counts.
- (1) Left foot to west corner (you're facing west on the
north side of step).
- (2) Hop on left foot while lifting right knee and shifting
to face north.
- (3) Right foot down at home.
- (4) Left foot down at home.
Knee lunge / one lunge:
Step-knee-lunge-up / lunge(other side)-up-down-down.
- (1) Right foot to west corner.
- (2) Left knee lifts.
- (3) Left foot touches down on home side.
- (4) Left foot up at west corner (next to right foot).
- (5) Right foot touches down on north side.
- (6) Right foot up to step (next to left foot).
- (7) Left foot down at home.
- (8) Right foot down at home, as you head for the east
corner. If your class just can't get this offer them a
repeater 3 and you'll be fine.
Block Five
- Pony up-pony down / step kick* (8)
- Pop & mambo* (8)
- Basic over* (4)
- Kick ball change repeater reverse (8)
- Hopscotch* (4)
Pony up-pony down, kick:
I begin this with a tap-up, tap-down, step kick, down-down. Then
offer the option of the ponys (1-2-3 up, 1-2-3 down). Be cautious
with the pony down, land softly absorbing the impact. This is an
8 count move that gives you a lead change.
Pop & Mambo:
Step hop on one corner, then mambo the floor at the other corner.
Keep facing the same direction as the mambo (not a mambo cha cha).
This is tricky! The next move happens on the same lead as the mambo.
- (1) Right foot to west corner.
- (2) Left foot to west corner as you hop on both feet.
(That's the "Pop").
- (3) Left foot down at home.
- (4) Right foot down at home.
- (5) Left foot mambo the floor at east corner.
- (6) Right foot steps back on floor.
- (7) Left foot steps back on floor.
- (8) Right foot steps again in same place as (6).
Keep facing EAST!
Basic over:
- (1) Left foot to east corner as you begin a clockwise
turn of the body.
- (2) Right foot up next to Left foot. You should be
facing south.
- (3) Left foot down on north side of step. You're facing
southwest.
- (4) Right foot down next to left foot. You're facing
west on the north side of the step.
Kick ball change repeater reverse around the corner:
That's what it is. You're facing west on the north side of the
step. You're on a left lead. You do a kick-ballchange repeater
moving backwards around the northeast corner. You finish on the
home side near the center.
Hopscotch:
A basic replacement. 4 counts.
- (1) Right foot to center of step.
- (2) Hop wide on both feet.
- (3) Right foot down at home.
- (4) Left foot down at home.
I remind them "the first foot up is the first foot down".
Block Six
- L jog* (10)
- Repeater 2 (6)
- Knee straddle / push & shuffle* (8)
- Reverse skate* / down & jack (8)
L jog:
I begin this as 2 pushes on each corner and a 2 'Peter in the
center. Once established, I "jog" the 2 pushes, lifting knees
and widening the moves off the ends.
- (1) Right foot to west corner, left knee lifts.
- (2) Left foot down off west end, right knee lifts.
- (3) Right foot to west corner again, left knee lifts.
- (4) Left foot down at home.
- (5) Right foot down at home (as you head for the
east corner).
- (6) Left foot to east corner, right knee lifts.
- (7) Right foot to floor off east end, left knee lifts.
- (8) Left foot to east corner again, right knee lifts.
- (9) Right foot down at home.
- (10) Left foot down at home next to right foot.
Follow this with a repeater 2 to round out the 16 counts.
Knee straddle / push & shuffle:
- (1) Left foot to east corner.
- (2) Right knee lifts.
- (3) Right foot straddles down on home side of step.
- (4) Left foot straddles down on north side of step.
- (5) Right foot pushes the step as left foot lits slightly.
- (6) Left foot rocks back down to floor.
- (7-and-8) Shuffle on the FLOOR (north side of step)
right-left-right. You finish on the north side of the
step facing southwest.
Reverse skate / down & jack:
- (1) Left foot to west corner as you shift to face north.
- (2) Hop on left foot as you lift right leg laterally.
- (3) Right foot to east corner.
- (4) Hop on right foot as you lift left leg laterally.
- (5-6) Down-down left-right at home.
- (7-8) Jack on floor at home.
I start this move without the reverse element. That is I just
do the skate 2 down and jack facing forward, establish the move
and explain that when we get to it in real-time we'll be
entering from the north side and just need to look forward and
watch where we're going. Haven't had any casualties (yet). I
teach the knee straddle / push shuffle in the warmup so it's an
easy thing to drop in late in the routine when brains are
weakening.
Let me know how these things are working for you and if
I can clarify anything.
Added by
Janis Pipon
at 1:10 PM on Tuesday, May 4, 1999 EDT.
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From: Las Vegas, Nevada (USA)