Do you have to wear specialized dancing shoes for tap dancing?

Tap dancing requires specialized dancing shoes. Tap dance is mainly wearing special dancing shoes with iron palms, using flexible dance steps on the wooden floor to strike a variety of rhythms, general shoes have no way to achieve the effect of the dance, so you want to tap dance, the first thing you need to buy professional dancing shoes.

The earliest dancing shoes were integral wooden soles and heels, which were later divided into front and back parts, and then later iron palms appeared. Some people also intentionally loosened the screws on the iron palms to make more sound.

Professional Irish tap shoes, the bottom of the "iron" is made of fiberglass, from the cross-section, the fiberglass part of the U-shaped, about 3-4 centimeters thick, and the ordinary tap shoes are very different. Because of the fiberglass on the side of the shoe, the foot can strike the ground at various angles when the body dances, making a pleasant sound.

The U-shaped fiberglass heel will have a "hollow" in the middle, and the professional performers will put microphones in the U-shaped space, so that the audience can hear the rhythm of the different footsteps more clearly, as if the heel of the shoe in your ears.

Beginners can choose these ordinary patent leather tap shoes, with styles such as loop, lace-up, patent leather and pigskin.

When you choose dancing shoes, you should pay attention to the material of the shoes. The use of special technology to manufacture the best cowhide shoes, it is moderately soft and hard, glossy and good elasticity, toughness, there are various indicators to prove that this material is very suitable for tap dance purposes, anti-fatigue degree is far better than artificial leather, and more comfortable to wear.