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Good evening to you all we're coming to you live from the Cowboy Boogie Company in Anaheim, California
We're doing a tape tonight that will feature four dances
And if you at home would please make some room in front of your television set grab a partner if you have one
We'll be ready to get started in a second
I might say that if you would push the reset button put your memory button on
You can rewind this tape and be able to start it from the beginning each one of these dances is about 15 minutes in length
We'll be doing a tush push
Electric slide cotton I Joe. I'm sorry. We're not doing that tonight. We're doing a 10 step for you and
a shuffle if we have time anyhow if you would just grab your partner make some room
We'll be getting started on it if you all the dancers live would please join me
We're gonna start off on a 40 step dance known as a tush push
And it is broken down into four and eight steps at a time all right
We're gonna be starting off with a right foot forward and
Everybody put your right foot forward with a heel on the ground
This is a one count the two is feet back together and three and four is a kick kick with the right foot
So yeah kick kick all right
Just that far from the beginning ready
Go
One two kick kick now
I saw some of you already kind of doing this
It is actually going to be a kick with your foot out there
And the song will be a little bit faster than what we're gonna be going at so get your knees happening
All right here. We go one two ready go you have a one two kick kick good now with your right foot forward
We're going to the five count which is gonna hop to the left foot
So you're gonna hop over put the left foot out front and that's five six is back together
Seven and eight is a kick kick with the left foot all right. Let's just try it from the beginning
Ready go a one two three four five six seven eight good
Not too bad so far how many new tonight I?
Always have to do this the beginning classes because we do want the people at home to know that this isn't going to be
All expert or intermediate level dances we have beginners in here, and we know most of you at home
We're going to beginners
Maybe some of you already have this down
But it is very very important that you just stick with it this dance has 40 steps
And it will be done in different directions. It's just repetition so it's a matter of memorizing
It is all it is all right here. We go the first eight again
Ready go one two three four five six seven eight good left foot's out front now
What we're gonna do is hop back and forth on three counts that goes one two three all right
The fourth count is going to be a clap right there, so here. We go left foot's out front
All right ready go you hop hop hop clap good now
You're gonna lean forward on your right foot and with your right hip up toward me. You're gonna go bump bump
It's a hip check now back on your left foot and bump back with the left hip okay start from the game
Ready go one two three four five six seven eight one two three
Clap five six seven eight good the next thing is where the dance comes from the name of the dance is a tush push
We're gonna take it and roll your hips here. You're gonna go one two three four
Where's all the smiles on that one? Okay? Good?
You do that again you lean for ready go one two three four and you have a first cha-cha step here
That's gonna go five and six without moving your feet. You're gonna go a right left right, okay?
so we have a five and six seven is a left foot forward and
Eight is back on your right foot seven and eight okay from the beginning
Ready go one two three four five six seven eight
One two three clap right hip left hip around and around cha-cha here cha-cha
Cha-cha forward back good. You may have trouble so far
Debbie don't raise your hand on me. Okay good here. We go again one time through it one two ready go one two three
Four five six seven eight one two three clap right hip left hip around
And around cha-cha here cha-cha cha forward back good
Okay, our weights on the right foot what we're gonna. Do is take a cha-cha-cha in place left right left
Go cha-cha-cha right foot back
Okay back to forward your left foot
Cha-cha-cha in place again right left right left foot forward and at this point
You're gonna go to both toes and pivot all the way around
Facing back the other way and step back forward on your right foot okay, that will be the end of an eight count right there
Let's all turn around see if we can get that far put your right foot out front
We'll start with the hip checks okay, right right hip forward here. We go ready go say bump bump bump bump
One two three four five and six seven eight cha-cha-cha
One good cha-cha-cha turn right good weights on the right foot right there
Some of you ready to go already huh okay from here face this direction now
You're gonna have a left right left in place
And I got to tell y'all it'll help if you bend your knees a little bit on this cha-cha step you have like what they
Call Cuban hip motion or Latin hip motion bend your knees a little bit kind of relaxed and take that cha-cha-cha in place
So your hips go to the side to side all right so weights on the right foot feet together now
We're gonna go left right left ready. Go you have a left right left step forward with your right foot
You're gonna turn all the way around on both toes now back up here facing me
Step forward on your left foot now as you step down on your right foot
I want you to turn around face over toward the stage here
You're gonna go a right left right and clap and believe it or not. That's the end of the 40 already
Okay, let's start from the hip checks forward again
right foot's forward
Okay, we have
Hip check right side ready go yet bump bump bump bump good around and around
Cha cha cha forward back cha cha cha back forward turn to the right
Cha cha cha turn left and a right left right foam good from this point
We're gonna do that exact same thing face in this direction
We have the 40 counts here with the cha-cha and then we'll end up making another turn
Okay, let's turn back around from the very beginning
All right ready go you have a right together right right left together left left right left right
Clap forward hip back hip to push push push good around good cha-cha-cha
Forward back cha-cha-cha back forward cha-cha-cha turn right
Cha-cha-cha good turn left and a right left right foam one two
Yeah, some of you weren't quite ready there, huh? Okay this time when we get into anybody having trouble with anything
I hope you folks at home are all making it
Okay, but this time when we get to this point is you want to remember don't stop
We're gonna go right into it again from over here
So we'll just start off from the very beginning
Maybe just a touch faster most of the tush push music is a little faster and some of us slow
But there's a lot of rock and roll songs. They use it on there's a lot of country songs
There's a lot of choice that you can you can do a tush push, too
All right here. We go one two ready go one two three four five six seven eight
One two three clap right hip left hip around and around
Cha-cha-cha forward back cha-cha-cha back forward turn to the right
Turn to the left and a right left right again one two three good five six seven eight
One two three clap five six seven eight around and around
Cha-cha-cha forward back cha-cha-cha back forward turn to the right
Turn to the left and a right left right come one two three four five six seven eight
one two three clap
six seven eight round
Round cha-cha-cha forward back cha-cha-cha back forward turn it to the right
Turn to the left
right left right
One two three, four five six seven eight one two three five six seven eight
One two three four, five and six seven eight
One and two three four five and six seven eight one and two three four five six seven
Good, good, good.
Anybody have trouble?
I think we're ready to try some music.
I would like to tell the people, especially watching at home, one big advantage that you
have over us is that you can rewind this tape and it is repetitive so you can go and go
and go over and over and over again.
And you're going to do that at home, huh, though?
Okay.
So you can do this and you repeat it.
We're going to try it one time through the music and it does not change depending on
the pace, but one nice thing about it is it's over and over and over and it is just a repetition
dance.
Most people don't get it the first time through, but usually in the second or third time they
have it pretty well wired.
Okay, Paul?
Good luck, everybody.
Yeah, here we go.
Okay.
One, two, ready, go.
One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight.
One, two, three, four, five, six, turn right.
One and two, three, four, five, six.
Good.
One, two, three, four.
One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight.
One, two, three, four.
One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight.
One, two, three, four.
Turn left, now turn right, left, right.
One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight.
In we go.
Jay.
Turn left.
Right, left, right.
One, two, three, four,
five, six, seven,
go.
Chop, chop, chop. Good.
Turn right.
And left, right,
left, right. Boom.
One, two, three, five,
six, seven, eight.
One, two, three,
six, seven, eight.
One, two, three, four, five,
six, seven, eight.
One and two. Good. Turn right.
And left.
Everybody have it
over there. See a smile if you've got it.
Somebody looks like they're in trouble.
Down, then around. Here we go. Chop, chop, chop.
Forward, back.
Good. Turn right.
Left, right, left, right.
Boom. One, two, three,
four, five, six, seven,
eight.
Turn right.
One, two, three, four, five,
six, seven, eight.
One, two, three. Good.
Around and around.
I hope the camera
caught that, Debbie.
Two, three, four, left.
One, two, three,
four, five, six, seven,
eight.
Hold me tight, hold me tight.
Hold me in your arms till morning light.
To take away your fear, honey, hold me, hold me near.
Oh, poor love, save, darling, hold me tight.
To take away your fear, honey, hold me, hold me near.
Oh, poor love, save, darling, hold me tight.
Hey, give yourselves a hand.
Applause.
Alright, we'd like to welcome you back for part two of our instructional tape today.
This is the second line dance that we're doing, and it is a very, very simple line dance to learn.
It's called the Electric Slide.
And both the ones we just finished and the Electric Slide, the Tush Push and the Electric Slide, are just kind of taken over worldwide right now.
If you would reset your counter, you can push your memory button.
And once again, if you want to rewind your tape, you can back this up to the beginning and go over it a few times.
It should only take about ten minutes.
To start off, we're going to all be moving to our right, so make sure you have room in your living room or wherever.
It is also one of those dances that turns around to all four corners.
We'll be facing all four directions.
Alright, the answer is to start, we're going to take our step to the right, and we'll do this real slow.
You take a step and slide your feet together, shift your weight, another one, slide your feet together, and another one.
After that three count, those three steps right there, we'll have a little clap that we're going to be going in.
That was a slow motion clap for you all. That was good.
Now we're going to do the same thing to the left.
You go left together, left together, left together, clap.
Then we start backwards with three steps with your right foot.
You're going to go right, left, right, clap, and the next move is a forward step,
and then you're going to dip down with your shoulders a little bit and put your feet together.
That was the one. Step back a little bit.
Now as we step forward on the second part of this, you're going to do what we call a brush.
And a brush means that your feet are going to move through this space, but they're not going to stop.
So as you come through and you make the brush, you're going to turn around 90 degrees to your left,
and we will start immediately again right to there.
Okay, so here we go. Through the brush you make a turn, right together, right together, right together, clap,
left together, left, left, clap. Now back, right, left, right, clap, forward, dip, back, again.
Make the brush and the turn, right, right, right, clap, left, left, left, clap.
Good. Back, back, back, clap, forward, dip, and here's the brush.
Here's a clap there if you want. Right together, right together, right together, clap.
Left, left, left, clap, right, left, right, clap, forward, dip, back.
Make the brush, right, right, right. Good.
Okay, let's line back up. We did that in what we call real slow-mo.
And the electric slide is done to a electric push a lot of rock and roll songs and also a lot of country songs.
And they range from a medium up to a fast. So what we're going to do is we're going to pick up the tempo a little bit,
and it'll make it a little easier on you, I think.
Okay, here we go. It's just like a little saddle, saddle together there.
Okay, here we go. One, two, ready, go. Right, right, right, boom. Left, left, left, right, left, right, clap,
right together, make the turn. Turn to the right, right, right, right, left, left, left, clap, right, left, right, good.
Forward, dip, make the brush, and right together, right together, right, boom. Left, left, left, boom. Right, left, right, two.
Good. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight. One, two, three, good. Six, seven, and turn. Make the turn.
One, two, three, good. Now then, before we go any farther, before we put the music on,
I'd like to show you all, if you're in a top 40 bar or something, you can do this to funky, top 40 type music, even some rap music.
It's been around a while. If you did this same thing, instead of taking this together part,
but just took a right, left, right, clap. Okay? Let's all try this. If we can get this together, we'll put a turn in here.
Here we go. You ready? Go. You're right, left, right, left, right, left, now back, right, left.
This is all the same part. On the brush, we just move to the right, right, left, right, boom. Left, right, left, good.
Now back, good. Forward dip, make the turn, take the brush, right, right, right, boom. Good.
Make it back, forward dip, good. Make a turn, right, left, right, left, right, left, left, right.
One more time. Good. We're back where we started. Good.
Now then, if we want to put a turn in there, when we make this move to the right, what we're going to do is you're going to actually turn back.
We're going to take a right, turn back around, and right, so you're pirouetting on your feet as you're coming around.
So I'll do this real slow together. Here we take a right foot over. Now you're going to turn backwards, left foot, shoulder width. Good.
Now on the left, make another turn around on your toe, and then clap. Same thing back this way.
Now you have a left, right, left, clap, back, back, back, boom. Right, left.
Now make the turn. Go right, left, right, boom. Left, left. Ah, we lost a few on that, huh? Good. Good.
Okay, let's all face it forward again. The hard part is when you come through the brush.
Watch me finish off. We're in this back part. So I come forward on the brush.
When you make this turn, you're already, as you make the brush through here, you're already turning the way you want to go.
Okay? When you come back, you want to take your shoulders back. Remember that.
On the right, as we're coming through the brush, right here, I want to turn what we call left.
Left shoulder will go back, so this will come right on around right here.
All right, let's face forward one time. Put your left foot up. We'll go on the brush part.
I hope everybody at home is with me on this. There's no way to test you, you know.
Okay, so we're going to go forward, dip, forward, back. Here's the brush.
Now turn, turn, turn, turn, clap, turn, turn, turn, back, back, back, good.
Forward, dip, make the turn again. Brush, turn, turn, turn, clap, turn, turn, turn, clap, right, left, right.
Good. Now then, let's hang on, turn back around.
The nice part is that we're all falling apart together.
Okay, when you make the turn, when you make this brush, remember what we're going is we're alternating feet.
Okay, you're just alternating right, left, right, left. So as I make the brush, I'm going right, left, right, clap, left, right, left, clap.
Then we're coming back. So some of you were kind of delaying and you were hesitating there,
and that puts a whole new emphasis on the dance. It puts a whole new dance on the floor.
And it's a different tape. We're going to do that next month.
Okay, so here we go. We'll start off forward the whole thing.
Just on the second part, we're doing the funky part with the turns. Okay, ready? Go.
Right, left, right, clap, left, right, left, clap, back, back, back, forward, dip.
Now here come the turns. Okay, right, left, right, clap, left, right, left, clap, back, back, back, good, forward, dip.
Another one. Okay, right, left, right, boom, left, right, left, back, back, back, forward, dip. Good.
Another. Right, left, right, boom, left, right, left, good, back, back, back, forward, dip.
How many are lost so far? Good. That's all right. Let's lift your hands up if you're lost so far.
We do want the people to know that everybody here is not an advanced student.
Okay, that's all right. Some of you got it good.
Where the breakdown happens, where you're having a trouble is out of the brush.
Some of you are starting to turn. All right. Some of you are starting this turn.
Let me do it forward here so you can all see what's happening.
As you come through on this brush, you're not stepping down. You're already turning on that left foot.
So as I'm coming forward, I'm going back, forward, dip. Now watch what my right foot does. Boom, right, left, right.
You have to step down on that and it has to delay through the brush and then step down, not right as your feet come together.
Okay, that's the mistake that I saw most of you do with turning too early.
Okay, let's all go this way. If we started turning right now, you step out to the right.
Now look where your feet are. They're shoulder width apart and that's where you make the turn.
Now make the other one. Okay, good. Now you see what happens. Yeah, the clap right there.
What happens is that's where you have to step on after that brush to make the turn.
Okay, let's go back, line it up again. Now let's assume that we're all already into the brush part.
Step back with your right foot. Okay, we're going to go, watch me for a second.
You're going to go forward, dip, back, forward, brush, then step down and that's where the turn is.
Okay, here we go. Just on the dip. Ready, go. Forward, dip, back together.
Make the brush right, left, right, boom. Left, right, left, boom. Back, back, back, forward, dip.
Make the brush, then the turn. Brush through, step, turn, turn, clap. Left, right, left, back, back, back, forward, dip.
Good. Another one. Make the brush, turn, turn, turn, boom. Right, left, back, back, back, and forward, dip.
Good. Alright, let's have you all face up here. We're going to do this with the music.
Can you remember the first part now? The first part, remember, is right together, right together, right.
When we say turn in the second half of the song, if you want to do a turn, what you do is you break down right there and go from this to this.
You can't do the turn going like this. There's no way. So you're going to have to break it down into that funk version, okay?
Here we go. We'll go with the music, end it out. I can't wait to see this one.
Alright, here we go. One, two, ready, go. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven.
Right together, right, right, boom, left, left, left, back, back, back, good, forward, dip. Make the turn.
Here we go again. Make the brush, right, right, left, left, left, left, left, left.
Right, right, right, boom.
Alright, if you know the turn, here we go.
Another one, right, left, right, boom.
Alright, we're going back to the regular slide now.
I saw that, Pat.
Alright, turn it.
Good.
Electric slide, give yourselves a hand, please.
Alright, before you all at home, you can rewind, practice it till you have it. We'll be back with you very shortly with a 10-step polka.
Alright, we'd like to welcome you back to part three of our dance tape.
And before I get started, we'd like to introduce my other half. Would you please put your hands together for Ann?
My better half, I might say. As in the other tapes, we're going to start this off in this direction, but the 10-step polka is actually divided into two different dances that are thrown together.
One is a polka movement and one is a 10-step that's done like a line dance, sort of.
So we'll start you off forward and then we'll get you working around and dancing counterclockwise in a circle with your partner.
And for those of you at home, you need to kind of clear a space a little bit.
And once again, you can reset your memory button so you can back this up to that point in case you want to work on it.
First things first, we need you all facing forward. So we'll have you up here and I'm assuming everybody's got room to do this now.
We're going to break this down into two different sections, actually three sections.
And the first one, just the first four counts, we'll start off with a left heel on the ground.
And the secret is to bend your right knee. We want you to have a flexed knee so that this heel is sitting on the ground comfortably.
Alright, two, you're going to put your feet back together and change weight. Weight will be on the left foot.
Three is a right toe at the left heel and four is feet together.
And you're not going to change weight just yet because of the practice we're going to go through.
We're going to have you just repeat those four steps over and over until we get those wired.
Alright, so we have one on the floor, two feet together, three a right toe at the left heel and four feet together.
Change weight for a second. Here we go again. One, two, three, four.
Alright, let's do about five of those and we'll pick up the pace a little bit. Five in a row. Ready? Go.
One, two, three, four. One, two, three, four. One, two, three. One, two, three. Good. One more.
One, two, three, four. How many did we catch on that? Good.
Five, six, seven, and eight is all going to be done with your right foot. Alright, we ended up on four feet together.
Well, five is going to be a right heel out front on the ground so now your left knee is bent.
Six is up at the right knee. And when we say up at the knee we mean the heel. The heel up to the knee, not the calf.
You don't want to bring this up across like this. Okay, so you bring your heel right back up there.
Seven will be back out front on the floor. Good. And eight will be back together.
And you're now going to change weight back to the right foot. Alright, here we go.
Five, right heel out front. Six, seven, and eight. Alright, let's try that again. Ready? Go.
Five, six, seven, and eight. Alright, five of those. Ready? Begin.
Five, six, seven, eight. Five, six, seven, eight. Five, six, seven, eight. Five, six, seven, one more.
Five, six, seven, and eight. Very good. Okay, we'll try the first eight now from the beginning.
And some people teach and a lot of dancers do it that on four they'll click their foot to kind of mark their spot, so to speak.
So if they get lost they'll kind of know what that is. So if you want to stomp a little bit on four it's okay.
Alright, here we go. The first eight counts. Ready? Go. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, and eight. Good.
Now nine is back where we started. Nine is like a left heel on the floor and ten is up at the right knee. Left heel, right knee.
Nine and ten. Alright, now a little clue for you as we go through all ten of these. One, two, nine, and ten is done with a left foot.
One, two, nine, ten. Three through eight is all the right foot. So once we get started here you'll kind of fall into place.
There are three through eight all the right foot. Okay, ready? We'll take it slow. All ten. Ready? Go. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten.
Good. Let's try five of those. Ready? Go. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine. Again.
One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine. Again. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, again.
One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, one more. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, and ten.
Good. Anybody having trouble with it? No one would raise their hand even if they were right now, huh?
Okay, what we're going to do now is I'm going to do five more of those, but we're going to pick up the pace.
Ten-step music can be all the way from kind of what we were just doing up to OBS by Charlie Daniels.
I mean, really, really fast. All right? So let's get it up.
The secret is to bend your knees and you can fly through this. All right?
Here we go. Ready? go! One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine.
Faster—one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine.
Faster—one, two, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine.
Faster—one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine.
One more—one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine.
Ten. Good. Good, good.
Now I want to show some… I saw a few heads bobbing around here.
When we get in this dance position—Annie and I usually got through this—
If you keep your knees locked, watch what happens to the top of our head.
If you keep your knees locked, this is going to bounce a lot up here.
It's going to take a lot of shock. It would look something like this.
We're going to go one, two, three.
You can see kind of what's happening up here because of the lock.
If you bend your knees, you can fly through this.
You can come up and do a really fast 10-10.
We go one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten.
Got you on that one, huh? Good.
All right, so the whole secret to that, depending on the pace of the song, the speed, is the knees.
So the more you can dance with a flexed knee, the better off you're going to be.
If you have knee problems, it may be a little difficult to do that.
Okay, let's assume that we've come through a 10 count right here.
We've finished on 10, and you have a left heel up at the right knee.
From here, what we do is we have now the polka part of this.
And if you've done a polka step, a pony step, a swing step, it's a triple.
And it's real fast, like we'll start off on a left-together left.
We're going forward on a small oblique angle.
You go left-together left, then we go right-together right, left-together left, and a right-together right.
Okay, good. Let's all back it up again here.
Now let's assume we're on the 10 step.
We've just finished out the 10, comes up off of the 10 here, and we go, ready, go.
Left-together left, right-together right, left-together left, right-together right.
One, we start again right there.
One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, forward.
Left foot, right foot, left foot, and a right foot.
Good. Let's back it up, try it again here.
All right, now this one final time, too, we're going to do about three of these.
All right, here we go. Ready, go.
One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, forward.
Left foot, right foot, left foot, and a right foot.
One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, go.
Left foot, right foot, left foot, and a right foot.
One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, go.
Left foot, right foot, left foot, and a right foot.
Good good good very good.
Now what we do is when we do a 10 step, we're going to do it in a circle,
counter-clockwise circle.
all grab your partners make a circle around the outside of the floor we'll
all be facing counterclockwise direction one single file line if you
can all the way around.
Okay good now that we all have you in a circle and we hope you at home are
dancing around your coffee table or whatever we're going to show you how to
get into what we call a sweetheart dance position and it would start off as the
guys would stand behind the ladies ladies lift your hand straight up into the air
like a stick up guys want you to grab both of her hands from the outside good
now we move her out to the right out to the outside of you and put the hand up
on her right shoulder the left hands in front you have a sweetheart dance
position we have a couple people here that have an extra lady you can dance
this dance four or five abreast can I borrow a lady can I borrow somebody
close by why don't I get the sisters happen in here all right good what would
happen is if you have a dance position you had a lady on each side this is like
a double sweetheart and if you'll notice I'll turn around so you can see where
their hands are behind me they just both walk over right above the belt line and
if you dance in this you dance side by side you do a double sweetheart just
like this so if you have more than one partner thank you Barbara if you have
more than one partner that was the way you'd run it okay so we're all in a
sweetheart dance position we'll try it one time without the music then we'll
put on a few bars for you okay here we go 1 2 ready go 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
forward left foot right foot left foot and a right foot 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 go
left right left and a right 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 and go left right left and a right
Good, I think we're ready for some music. Paul, you got us fired up?
I know we're ready.
Hi Paul. Big hand for our DJ tonight, Mr. Paul Pappas.
Now, how did we get into that position again?
Here we go.
Left and a right.
One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, go.
Left, right, left. All right, Paul.
Good. I think I had him watching. Good. Y'all did real good.
For those people at home, we're going to start showing some moves, some turns right now,
but if you haven't got that part wired, absolutely wired,
please keep trying on that before you go on.
It is so important to have the basics down,
and the basics on the ten step are this entire ten step with the polka step.
So make sure you have that before we go on.
Okay, first thing we're going to do is we're going to just call it around the world.
It's a series of four turns. Grab your partners.
And by the way, at home, if you've got this down, we want you to go right on with us,
and you can always repeat the tape.
All right, first thing is an outside turn.
Ladies, you're going to turn to the outside, and it starts off by the men lifting their left hand,
the inside hand, guys, the other left. There you go.
Now, with the right hand, pull that off her shoulder and around all the way back in front of her
so that she makes a turn, and you're locked right in at her belt line.
This is a skater's promenade dance position.
Men are on the inside, ladies are on the outside. All right?
Now, where that happens is on the skip steps.
Okay, let's put her back to her sweetheart for a second.
On the skip steps, after the ten count, you're going to start it on the third one.
So you would go left foot, right foot, lift the hand and turn, and then one, two, three, four.
Okay? Let's put her back to her sweetheart. Everybody's in there.
Let's try this one turn.
Ten count first, then the skip steps, outside turn to a skater's promenade.
All right, ready? Go.
One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, forward, left foot, lift the hand, make the turn,
left foot, and a right foot. One, two, three, four. Good, good. Hold it.
Now, the important part is, in case you might have missed that,
it's very important for the ladies while you're in one place.
Ladies, you're coming out on the outside here, and you've got to make sure
that you keep this polka step dancing while you're making the turn.
Don't just go walk, walk, walk, walk. You'll be off beat.
So it's real important that you dance out through that.
Okay, now that's the first turn. Let's put her back out there, skater's promenade.
The second part of Around the World, guys, you have right here.
You're going to lift the left hand up, and also on the skip steps,
you're going to accelerate and move right on up in front of her to what we call a man's shadow.
Left hand will go up, you move in the front, and she is directly behind you.
She is going to be directly behind you. Good. Everybody have it?
Now, it's very important. Okay, you're starting off on the slow part.
Turn her first. Outside turn. Now do it. There you go. There you go.
You've got to make sure you get the first part.
It's very important you're in close range here. We'll turn so the camera can see.
It's very important that you have this. You want to do a 10 step with me?
That we do this together. You can see why. She's behind you. You've got a tight crowd here.
Okay, this is in the shadow position. This will be on the second move.
The third move, guys, you're going to lift your right hand up.
Right hand goes up, and now pull her in front, and the right hand comes over in front of you,
right back down in front of your belt, and we have an inverted skater's promenade.
She's on the inside now. Good. Everybody have it?
Don and Pat have a terrible there. You've got it right there. Good.
That will be the third move. The fourth move is kind of the easiest because we don't lift the hands.
We're going to pull her right over to the outside, then lift the right hand,
pull the left hand between you, and she comes right back to that sweetheart where we started.
So the whole thing, before you all get going, let me move you through it one time,
would be outside promenade on the skip steps. Go ahead.
Left hand up, move to a shadow. Boom. Good.
Right hand up, move her to an inverted promenade. There's no turns there.
And now you're going to pull her over to across the front, and she turns to the outside.
And for those who really want to get fancy, if you have it, if you have this happening,
you can pull her over, pull on that left hand, and she can do a double out there.
I know. That's in the next class.
All right. Here we go. We're in a sweetheart. We should end up right where we started.
Now let's all try to do this, and on the third skip is when you're going to start the moves.
Okay. Ready? Go. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine.
Go. Left foot outside now. Left foot and a right foot.
One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine. Man's shadow.
Lift the hand, move up in front. And a right foot.
One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten. Pull her inside.
Right hand goes up, guys.
One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten.
Back in front to a sweetheart, and we're home. One, two, three.
All right. Now I saw a few of you having troubles there. Not many.
Okay. The important thing to remember here is watch what happens.
I saw several people doing this. They did pretty good when they got to here.
Not too bad when they got to here, but they fell apart next.
They maybe let go and went.
Okay. One thing about these moves is we don't release. There's no need to release.
Watch what happens. We come around, boom, move her back, boom, move her back up,
and move her back and across, and never once let go of her hands.
So you don't have to release. All right. Here we go again.
One, two, ready, good luck. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine.
Forward. Left foot, right foot, outside, left, and a right.
One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight. Man's shadow.
Left foot, right foot, left foot, and a right. Good.
One, two, three, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten. Inverted promenade.
Bring her inside. Right foot. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten.
Bring her back to her sweetheart.
Oh, yeah. Give yourselves a hand. Looking good.
All right. Here we go, Paul. We're ready for some music.
We're going to start off in a regular basic ten step.
When I call around the world, you'll know what to do. You start it off.
I will. One, two, ready, go. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine.
Go. Left, right, left, and a right.
One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine. Go.
Left, right, left, and a right.
One, two, three, four, five, six.
Around the world. Here we go. Outside turn.
Now.
One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight. To a shadow.
One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten. Inverted promenade.
One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten.
And back to a sweetheart.
One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine. No turn.
Straight forward. Right foot. Left foot. And a right foot.
One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine. Go.
Left, right, left, and a right.
One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine. Go. Left.
One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine. Outside turn.
Now. Good.
One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten.
Around the world. We'll continue to a shadow.
One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine. Inverted promenade. Inside.
One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine. Go.
Back out to a sweetheart.
One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight. Outside turn. Around the world. Here we go.
One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten.
Shadow. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight. Inverted.
I want some of you to try a double coming up here. One, two, three, four, five, six. Double outside to a promenade. Here we go, sweetheart.
And one, two, not bad. Four, five, six, seven, eight, nine. Go. Left foot. Right, left, and a right.
One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten. Skater's promenade now.
One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten. Back to a sweetheart.
Ah, gotta throw that in there. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, ten. On around if you have to do that, yeah?
One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine. Go.
One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight. Skater's promenade.
One, two, three, four, five, six. Back to a sweetheart. Lift the hand, pull it back between you.
Give yourselves a hand.
All right, we thank you. That is a ten-step polka, and we're going to be back very, very shortly with a western polka that is also known as a shuffle.
Louisiana shuffle, and some people call it a three-step. We'll be back with that in just a short few minutes. Thank you all.
All right, we're back for the final part of our tape tonight, and it's a follow-up to what we just finished, the ten-step polka.
This is known as a Louisiana shuffle, a three-step. It's also like a country polka.
So if you would all face forward, please, we're going to be doing this to the same music, and it's the same step that you did to skip steps from that ten-step.
What you're going to do is start off with your left foot. Ladies are on the outside, and guys, all you have to do is just kind of put her on the outside on your right, and just hold on to her.
For those of you at home, we're going around in a circle again, and we're going to start with the left foot forward, everybody.
So here we go. You're going to ready, go. Left together, left. Right together, right. Left together, left. Right together, right. Left together, left. Right together, right. Left together, left. Right together, right. Good.
Now I would like everybody to make a change right here, and we're going to do this kind of a unique way. Turn around right where you are.
Leave the ladies on the outside of the circle. Turn around, grab her other hand. We're going to back everybody up through this polka now.
Okay? Here we go backwards. Left foot forward. I can't do that, huh? Left foot backwards. Sorry.
All right. Ready? Go. Left together, left. Right together, right. Left together, left. Right together, right. Left together, left. Right together, right. Left together, left. Right together, right. Good.
All the men right now move right in front of your partner. Just move around in front of her, and we have what we call a closed dance position.
We've all been through that before. For those of you at home, it's a regular ballroom dance position. Right hand up under the arm. Left hand palm to palm.
Okay? Ladies, you're going to start backwards with your right foot. Men forward with your left. Here we go. Ready? Go.
Left together, left. Right together, right. Left together, left. Right together, right. Left together, left. Right together, right. Left foot and a right. Good.
Hold it there. Everybody looks like you have it real well. On the rise and fall on this song, we want you to now take a dip on the one, three, five, and seven count,
which means all of the odd numbers, you're going to go down, bend your knees a little bit, and stay there. Come back up in between.
There's an and count that goes right before that. So we're going to go like one and two, three and four, five and six, seven and eight.
Okay? So you have it down on the odd numbered counts. We stay down there. Come up right before it on the ands, right after the even number.
All right, everybody. Partners? Ready? Go. One and two, three and four, five and six, seven and eight.
One and two, three and four, five and six, seven and eight. Good.
I'm going to put on some music for this, and I would like to tell you all that if you know from a two step or maybe from any of your dance experiences,
how to go to the promenades, we've had that on the other tape, and how to do any of the exits, how to do any of the right turns or the left turns,
this is basically a polka, and you can do any of those moves that you might have learned from a two step.
So anything that you might have learned off that other tape are usable in this, which is known as a shuffle.
Okay? Paul, I think we're ready. Here we all go.
One, two, ready, go. One and two, three and four, five and six, seven and eight.
One, two, three and four, five and six, seven and eight.
Two, three and four, five and six, seven and eight.
Two, three and four, five and six. If you know some turns, go ahead and go for them.
One and two, three and four, five and six, seven and eight.
One, two, three, four, five, six, eight.
One, two, three, four, five, six, seven and eight.
One, two, three, four, five and six, seven and eight.
Y'all having fun yet out there?
Five and six, seven and eight. One and two, three and four, five and six, seven and eight.
One and two, four, five, six.
Will you all please give yourselves a big hand?
I had Don hanging in the way there, Don.
I want to thank you all for being here tonight and we want to especially thank you for being here.
That concludes this tape and there's four very nice dances on here and we hope that you get some use out of them.
We have some other tapes out that are available. Of course all that will be coming your way and you'll find out where to mail for more.
Thank you all very much. Good night and have a good time. Bye bye.
Hold me tight, hold me tight. Hold me in your arms till the morning light.
To take away all your fears on the only one in the near for love's sake, don't hold me back.
I've been traveling across the desert land. All I want to do is get back home again.
From Cali to Tennessee, you're the only one for me. So why do I want to run now and then?
That darling line on the highway keeps on calling. And try to keep me here with all your might.
You help and pray that someday that I'll never more be strayed. But for now come here, hold me tight.
Hold me tight, hold me tight. Hold me in your arms till the morning light.
To take away all your fears on the only one in the near for love's sake, don't hold me tight.
For the stories that I have to tell the boys. For the people that I met along the way.
Thank you.