How to do the Heel Toe / Happy Feet (Dance Moves Tutorial)

Today I'm going to teach you slightly more advanced movement. It will be a variation of happy feet or heel toe. I'll teach you different ones and at the end of this video I'll show you how you can combine all of them. Just a warning, pretty advanced move so might require a lot of practicing. Remember that if you don't want to learn on your own, if you'd like to follow a proven system and you'd like to learn with my one-on-one help, I'll tell you how you can work The most popular version of the heel toe starts like this. You're going to start with the toes slightly in, knees stay bent the entire time and then you're just going to bring the toes open, the heels go in. So in order to do that you want to keep the weight on one side, it's on this leg, and then I shift it, come back to the middle and do the same thing the other way. You have to remember the position of the feet. Always toes in first, toes out, back to toes in, toes out, see? So you have to just work with the toes here. If you want, this is the easiest version to balance with, the feet can be pretty much flat on the floor. You're just shifting them on the floor, sliding them a little bit. If you get that you might try to actually lift the heel and toe, that's what the move is about. What you want to do guys is you want to pretend that with the heel you're going to hit the toes so they can go out, okay? So this is how you can remember which toe, which heel is moving. Whenever the toes go up on one side, that means the heel has to be lifted on the other side, on the other leg, okay? Or foot. So look at this again, we have out, come back to the middle, always the pigeon-toed position, and then reverse it. So now notice that I'm going to be kicking my right heel to left toes, which means left toes have to go off the floor, up. And that's how you know to keep the right heel up. Always the opposite. So when you're learning this move, do this a few times. First on one side, make sure you have the balance, make sure you engage the core. Knees stay bent the entire time. I'm going to also show you how you can practice this sitting down. This is probably a little bit easier to do. First practice on one side, then practice the other. And once you can do both without thinking, only then we're going to be connecting them. So let's do it once to the right, you have boom, come back to the middle, and once to the left. And then repeat. Middle, out, middle, out. Do this a few times, it's easier. If you do it quicker, make sure you're not lifting the toes and heel off the floor a lot, just a little bit is perfectly fine. And mind you guys, the reason we bring the toes in after every time we turn them out is so that we have momentum, because it's easier to bring the knees out and the toes out once they are already in, than if you were to do it from the straight position. There's no momentum, you always would have to put in more effort into turning the toes out. So if you have the toes in, it just flows better. Once you get the basic version, let me make it even more challenging for you. We're going to start the same way. So pigeon toe, we're going to start to the side, this is my right, so I'm going to do it once, bring the toes in, and then I'm going to be standing on my right heel with the toes going to the back. Watch that again. We have out, in, put the weight on the right heel, cross, come back. Again, a little bit quicker. One, two, three, four. Let's try it the other way. So now we're going to have the left toes lifted, we turn them out once, go back, pigeon toe, and then cross the right foot behind the left foot. Out, in, cross, come back. Again, out, in, cross, come back. And then, the hardest part is to combine both directions. So let's try from the top. We have out, in, to the right, come back. Out, in, to the left. Again, out, in, right, come back. Out, in, left, a little bit quicker. One, and two, three, and four, five, and six, seven, and eight. Hope you like this tutorial, guys, and remember that if you struggle with dancing in social settings, you'd like to get the permanent skills and the confidence to be able to dance in front of other people. Remember that I can help. My online dance program, Confidence Through Dance, has already helped thousands of adults, men and women, to go from avoiding the dance floor to dancing comfortably and thriving on the dance floor when it comes to dancing in the club, at parties, or at weddings. So if you're interested, you'll find more information below this video. I'll post the link there so you can apply for our free consultation.