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EntertainmentHow to Line Dance for Beginners

Hop vs. Jump in Line Dancing

Transcript

“Hi, My name is Robert Royston. I’m a 5-time world champion of country dance, working with artists like Taylor Swift, Kerry Underwood, Brad Paisley.

I really hope that you learn how to line-dance and experience what it’s like to move to America’s music, and that’s country music.

So, some of the other line dance moves that you should understand are things like jump and hop, and of course *unintelligible* talked a little about Chuck, but we’ll revisit that in this little section.

So the first thing is the jump. JUMP.

A jump really just implies leaving one leg and going to the other leg, with a jumping or hopping action, right?

So if I’m gonna jump…JUMP.

So it might be JUMP in the line dance, JUMP

Have you ever seen a jump and a hop?

A hop leaves and lands the same leg.

So if I’m on my right I HOP. Thats up and down the same leg.

If I leave one and go to another, that’s a jump. There’s the difference, right?

Now, I could hop with both feet. Right, that’s a hop. But if I’m changing weight from one foot to the other, then of course, it’s a jump.

So you can have a hop, right? You can have a jump.

Just like in the triple-jump, you can have a hop, a skip and a jump.

So, you can skip as well, and a skip, as i go hop. Right. that’s a hop.

I can skip, right? And I can jump. Right?

Those are all things we would use in line dance terms.

The other thing, of course, we talked about this before, if I lift my leg, and it creates kind of, a hopping action, but I keep my base foot on the ground a little bit more, and give it a drive down to give it a sound… that’s called the chuck.

Which is like a hop, i come up, but I don’t come all the way off the ground, generally travels a little bit, and there intent is to make that kind of stomping sound at the end of it.

So that’s a Chuck, right?

So, better make sure we understand the JUMP… Hop… be it two legs or one leg. We can have a … skip. Right?

Or we can have a … Chuck.

All things you’re gonna use throughout your line-dance career.


Lessons in this Guide

How to Choreograph a Line Dance

How to Do a Basic Turn in Closed Position for Line Dancing

What Is Syncopation in Line Dancing?

How to Do Laces in Country Couples Line Dancing

How to Do a Shuffle Step & Polka Step for Line Dancing

How to Do Triple Steps in Line Dancing

What Does Tag, Restart & Out of Phrase Mean in Line Dancing?

How to Do Hip Movements in Line Dancing

How to Do Rodeo Kicks & Figure 4s for Line Dancing

How to Do Solid Steps, Camel Walks & Slides in Line Dancing

Shorty George, Boogie Walks & Scissor Steps in Line Dancing

How to Line Dance to Cotton Eye Joe

How to Do the CC Shuffle Line Dance

How to Do the “Good Time” Line Dance

How to Do the Sleazy Slide Line Dance

How to Do the Wobble Line Dance

How to Do the Cupid Shuffle Line Dance

How to Do the Cowboy Boogie Line Dance

How to Do the Tush Push Line Dance

How to Do the 2-Step Line Dance

How to Do a Basic Ladies Outside Turn in Line Dancing

How to Line Dance with Robert Royston

What Is Line Dancing?

What Is Basic Pattern Structure in Line Dancing?

How to Find the Beat in Line Dancing

How to Use Step Sheets to Learn Line Dancing

Where Can You Line Dance?

What’s the Line Dancing Lifestyle?

Line Dancing vs. Square Dancing

How to Do Leg Lifts in Line Dancing

How to Do Basic Line Dancing Heel Movements

Hop vs. Jump in Line Dancing

How to Do a Vine Action in Line Dancing

How to Do Ball Change Actions in Line Dancing

How to Do Turns in Line Dancing

How to Do Touch Steps in Line Dancing

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