How To Make A Portable Tap Dance Floor

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How to make a portable tap dance floor.

Make precise measurements of the space you have determined. The most basic home practice floor is simply a piece of plywood. Method 1 of 2. Perhaps you have a passion for tap dancing but like most people don t live in a dance hall or have access to the proper floor.

Now another decade a husband and two kids later i am dancing again. My son is a budding gregory hines or savion glover and we want to foster his artistic pursuits. The actual assembly only took a few hours. Complete written instructions are below in the comment section there are a few of these kind of vide.

Fortunately instead of having to go out of your way to find a place to tap dance you can make your own portable tap floor. Enhancements can include attaching material to the top of the board for durability or a better tapping surface and attaching cushioning material to the bottom of the board to make tap dancing easier on your bones and joints. There aren t any splinters or grooves in the floor that will cause injury. For a more permanent cushioned floor you ll need to use multiple layers of flooring included some type of impact absorbing subflooring.

Determine the size of your dance floor. I only paid 15 for my floor. Since the laminate flooring fits together perfectly this is also a good floor for other types of dance. Love that you took the initiative to make your own dance floor.

I came up with. Tap was always my favorite. For use in a carpeted room build a dance floor that can fold up for easy movement and storage. With a little ingenuity you can transform basic materials from a hardware store into a portable dance floor in less than an afternoon s time.

Instructions for making your own home size tap dancing floor. Purchase sheets of 3 4 inch thick medium density fiberboard commonly called mdf from a home. However we also wanted to have nice scratch free wood floors in our ho. How to build your own lightweight tap dance floor.

Building a dance floor for a carpeted room. It s musical artistic great exercise and awesome. This is my first ever and very own tutorial on how to make your own tap dance floor. Individual tap dance floor and exercise platform made from reused flooring.

Single tap dancers who are simply looking for a temporary place to practice steps at home may only need three square feet while people who are planning a dance party will need an area as large as their space will accommodate.