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Below are a few “how to do the steps” videos.
- ~~~~ RELATED PLAYLISTS:
- Ballroom Dance Basics’ Line Dance Basic Steps PLAYLIST – includes all the videos on this page, plus more.
- ~~~~ RELATED REFERENCE PAGES:
- Ballroom Basics’ Line Dance Resources page
- Country Dancing Tonight’s “53 Line Dancing Steps You Need to Know!” page (includes some videos)
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| 1. Dancing With Patti 2. Gail Eaton 3. Cef Decaney 4. Vickie Jackson 5. Kirby 7345 6. Dag Alexander Wien |
Most Commonly Used Steps:
- The most commonly used steps are probably the Vine, Rock step, Shuffle step . . . . . and then the Jazz Box, and Kick Ball Change. (These 5 steps are shown in the 1st video by Dancing With Patti).
1. Dancing With Patti
Contents: (added by James Ingram)
0:27 1 Shuffle (Count 1&2)
2:52 2 Vine (Count 1 2 3 4)
4:43 3 Kick Ball Change (Count 1&2)
6:05 4 Jazz Box (Count 1 2 3 4)
7:30 5 Rock Recover (Count 1 2)
Contents: (added by commenter “teebeevb”)
Toe Strut 0:00
Weave 1:13
Locking 2:40
Coaster 4:15
Contents: (added by commenter “Sid Knee”)
0:48 Quarter Turn
2:25 Half Turn
3:24 Shuffle Review
3:32 Vine Review
3:41 Kick Ball Change Review
3:54 Jazz Box Review
4:04 Rock Recover Review
4:13 Toe Strut Review
4:24 Weave Review
4:40 Locking Step Review
5:06 Coaster Step Review
5:18 Quarter Turn Review
5:25 Half Turn Review
5:31 Outro
2. Gail Eaton
Contents: (added by commenter “Tim R”)
1:51 Walk 3 Kick Walk 3 Hitch Walk 3 Heel
3:44 Grapevines
5:40 Side Together Side Touch/Brush
6:45 Side Touch (Step Forward/Back Touch)
8:02 K Step K Step W/ Turn
10:02 V Step
11:01 Charleston Kick
11:45 Toe Strut
13:01 Rocking Chair
14:18 Jazz Box
16:21 Monterey Turn
18:26 1/4 Turn
20:13 Half Turn
21:13 Triple Step
22:05 Shuffle Steps
24:45 Side Shuffles
26:35 Coaster Step
27:51 Mambo Step
29:48 Side Rock Behind Side Rock
32:01 1/4 Turn Crossing Shuffle
3. Cef Decaney
Contents: (added by James Ingram)
0:25 1 Vine (Count 1 2 3 4)
1:06 2 Shuffle (Count 1&2)
2:05 3 Coaster (Count 1&2)
2:50 4 Sailor (Count 1&2)
3:23 5 Lock Step (Count 1 2 3, usually)
3:50 6 Touch (explanation)
4:23 7 Kick Ball Change (Count 1&2)
5:00 8 Swivel Turn (aka Pivot Turn) (Count 1 2)
4. Vickie Jackson
These steps are listed on her resources page at https://nebula.wsimg.com/665854c0339a67f4265000c44f0909af?AccessKeyId=F6ADE90ECB3E1171807D&disposition=0&alloworigin=1
Contents: (added by James Ingram)
1:24 1 Box (Rumba Box)
2:37 2 Jazz Box
3:12 3 Cha Cha Step
4:04 4 Charleston
4:22 5 Charleston w/Sweep Step
4:46 6 Chase Step (pivot turn w/a step)
5:27 7 Chasse (Side Shuffle)
5:46 8 Fwd-Back Shuffle
6:32 9 Coaster
7:12 10 Cross & Unwind
7:52 11 Cross Shuffle
8:34 12 Lock Step
9:20 13 Dorothy & Wizard
10:10 — Grapevine (Vine) explain
10:46 14 Grapevine (Vine)
11:24 15 Extended Vine (Weave)
11:54 16 Heel Jack
12:36 17 Heel Strut & Toe Strut
12:54 18 Heel Switches & Toe Switches
13:31 19 Jazz Box w/Turn
14:08 20 Kick Ball Change & Kick Ball Cross
Contents: (added by James Ingram)
1:06 1 Knee Pop
1:32 2 Lindy
2:01 3 Mambo Step
2:30 4 Monterey Turn 1/2 & 1/4
3:42 5 Night Club Basic
4:18 6 Pivot Turn
5:26 7 Rocking Chair
5:50 8 Sailor Step
6:48 9 Scissors Step
7:14 10 Syncopated Step
8:02 11 Toe Fans
8:20 12 Triple Step
9:04 13 Twinkle Step
9:42 14 Waltz Basic Step
10:34 15 Weave
5. Kirby 7345
Contents: (added by James Ingram)
0:24 1 Vine
1:20 2 Vine with 1/4 Turn
1:58 3 Rolling Vine
2:20 4 Shuffle
3:00 5 Jazz Box
3:27 6 Turning Jazz Box
4:02 7 Toe-Heel Jazz Box
4:22 8 Turning Toe-Heel Jazz Box
4:42 9 Toe Struts
5:14 10 Heel-Toe Struts, aka Heel Slaps
5:38 11 Rock Recover
6:28 12 Rocking Chair
6:48 13 Coaster Step
7:20 14 Kick Ball Change
7:44 15 Weave
8:11 16 Monterey Turn
6. Dag Alexander Wien
Contents: (by Dag Alexander Wien)
0:00 – Intro
0:09 – Shuffle
0:26 – Shuffle to the side
0:37 – Shuffle w/ counting
0:49 – Shuffle forward and back
1:30 – Cross-shuffle
2:08 – Step-lock-step (forward & back)
3:44 – Chassé (right & left)
5:08 – Sum up
Playlist of dance steps for ‘Dag Alexander Wien’