"T" for "Tuff"

The step is in the form of a "T" in this one.
It looks like this:

       X X X

         X
         X
         X

There needs to be enough room in between the steps for chase, etc.

• Patty cake move 3x on front step. (Step up on top of step right and left (2) step out on top of step right and left (2) squat down, slapping hands on thighs at the same time, jump legs up and together-clapping hands,(4) tap down and alternate with the other leg).
• Straddle back step, pressing hands forward in a "stop" position jump back 4x to the back of the vertical step. (4)

• Diagonal right (4)
• Chase left*** in between step, and over the top facing left (8)
• Chase left facing the back wall, over the top (8)
• Grapevine facing the right wall, parallel to the vertical step, turning forward.

Repeat this sequence but diagonal left this time.

• Turn around the "T". This is a turnstep, with only one step in between, beginning at the back left corner, turn on the vertical step, 1 step in between, turn with the left foot leading on the front step, 1 step in between, turn with the right foot leading on the other side of the vertical step.*** (10)
• 4 Jacks or 1 normal jack and 2 fly jacks (6)

Repeat this going back the other direction, I complete this move there and back 2x.

You are now facing the front at the back left corner of the vertical step.

• Over the top of the step, moving forward 3x, arms punching down, raising knee for intensity if wished clap 2x fast after exit. (12) You will be at the front right corner behind the horizontal step.
• A-step (4)
• Pop around the corner facing the right wall in front of step (4)
• Ski jump up (jump both legs at the same time using arms as well) exit the step on the other side (4)
• Pendulum over the vertical step exit on 7/8 (8)
• Abduct around the corner (I call this a "fly around the corner") (4)

Repeat over the top of the step moving left first this time and go through this whole routine again from the opposite direction.

This last section I usually teach as the warm-up because it is a little tricky and it's the last move, which tends to come harder after a long workout.

• On the vertical step. Step up with right foot, tap heel forward and back exit the step and jack one time. (In the warm-up I march inside foot) (8)
• Step up again and tap the instep with the hand and back behind with leg adducting, exit and march or jack. (8)
• Over the top one time. (4)
• L-step off the back of the step (4)
• V-step around the step once, then again but planting the feet this time, jump up on the step with the foot that led the V-step, kicking the other foot out at the same time, switch feet and kick out the opposite foot, exit towards right (10)
• Scissors with arms alternating above head.*** (6)

Repeat this section from the opposite corner.

After this is completed, to begin from the start do 3 over the tops moving forward and walk up behind the horizontal step.

*** Chase is a triple step beginning with the inside foot in any given direction. This move is syncopated for a short time, which can be challenging, but it evens out at the grapevine.

*** "Turn around the T" can be made simpler by cueing the 3rd and 6th counts as the ones on the floor, saying them with emphasis works for me.

*** Another name for "scissors" can be "skis", but sometimes my students get confused with the "ski jump" cued earlier.

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