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48 counts four wall improver. We do have one tag that we do twice. Let's give it a go.
Learn the improver level 48-count four-wall line dance 'Run Away to Galway Bay' with Richard, including detailed footwork and tags.
Key Takeaways
- The dance is structured in 48 counts with four walls and includes a repeated tag.
- Footwork is detailed with step-locks, heel taps, shuffles, turns, and coordinated arm styling.
- Repetition and counting help learners internalize the choreography.
- Orientation to different walls is emphasized for spatial awareness.
- The tag is an important part of the dance and is performed twice.
Summary
- This video teaches the 48-count four-wall improver line dance 'Run Away to Galway Bay'.
- The instructor, Richard, breaks down the dance into manageable sections with detailed footwork explanations.
- The dance includes a tag that is performed twice during the routine.
- Footwork includes step-locks, heel taps, rock-recover steps, shuffles, quarter and half turns, and fancy footwork.
- Richard provides counts both verbally and numerically to help learners follow along.
- The dance is taught facing different walls (9:00 and 3:00 walls) to aid orientation.
- Styling tips such as arm movements and claps are included to enhance performance.
- The lesson includes repetition of sections to reinforce learning.
- The tag is performed at the end of wall two and wall four, with clear instructions on timing and execution.
- The video aims to build confidence for improver dancers to master the full choreography.
Chapters
- 00:00Introduction and Overview
- 00:16Step Lock and Heel Work
- 01:27Rock Recover and Shuffle with Half Turn
- 02:12Repeat and Practice with Counts
- 04:19Fancy Footwork Section
- 05:16Walk Back and Coaster Step
- 07:19Side Hold and Heel Claps
- 10:19Tag Explanation and Practice
- 15:20Full Dance Run Through and Wall Practice
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Weight starts on our left. Right foot leading. Dorothy step. We step the right foot to the right diagonal and count one. Step. We're going to lock the left foot behind. Step the right foot forward for two and lock. Step. Left foot
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leading. Heel and heel. Heel and heel. And step on the right. Step. Just do that again. First four counts. Weight's on the left. Step. Lock and heel and heel. And weight's on the left. 5, 6, 7, 8. Step, lock and heel and
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heel and weight is on your right. We repeat that on the left. Left foot leading. Step, lock and step, lock and right heel and left heel and heel and heel and do that first eight counts. Quarter of the dance.
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Weight's on the left. Step, lock, and five, six, seven, eight. Step, lock, and left. And right, and step, lock, and right and left. And weight is on the left. Right foot leading forward. Rock, recover, shuffle, half turn over your
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right shoulder. Rock, recover, shuffle, half turn. Weight is forward on your right. We're going to left foot leading.
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Rock the left foot to the left side as we make a quarter turn to our right to our left hand wall. Our 9:00 wall.
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Recover on the right. Turn. Rock. Recover. Weight's on the right. Left foot cross shuffle. Cross side cross.
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Just do that turn for me again from the front. Weight's on the left. Rock.
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Recover. Shuffle. Half rock. Quarter turn. Cross. Shuffle. Five, six, seven, eight. Rock. Recover. Shuffle. Half turn. Rock quarter turn with a cross shuffle from the top. First 16 counts.
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Weight's on the left. First 16 counts. Right foot leading. Step lock and five, six, seven, eight. Step lock and heel and heel and step lock and heel and heel and rock.
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Recover right shuffle. Half turn rock. Equal to turn with a cross side cross. Do you want to do that again? One more time.
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Tell you what, we'll do it twice more. Once with the words, once with the numbers. Weight's on the left, right lock. 5, 6, 7, 8 step lock and heel and heel and step. Lock and heel and heel and rock cover shuffle turn rock quarter
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turn with a cross side cross. Do that again with the counts. Weight's on the left. Right lock. Five, six, seven, one, two and three and four and five six and seven and eight and 1, 2, 3 and four 5, 6, 7
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and 8. Happy is I'm going to teach you the next eight counts to the front. So we first of all do it on our left hand wall, our 9:00 wall, but I'm going to teach you to the front. So you've just done your rock
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quarter turn cross shuffle. Right foot leading. We have fancy footwork. Point right toe to the right side. Bring it in. Point the left toe to the left side. Bring it in. We go point and point and two heel and right then left. Heel and
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heel and just do that for me. Weight's on the left, right foot pointing. We go point and point and heel and heel and weight is on the left. We're going to touch the right toe in place. We're going to step on it. We're going to
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touch the left heel forward and we're going to step on it. We go toe and heel and right foot. Heel and toe. Heel and toe. Weight's on the right foot. Just doing those last four counts. Weight's on the left, right toe, left heel. Five,
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six, seven, eight. Toe and heel and heel and toe. Doing that set of eight counts.
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Fancy footwork. Weight's on the left. Point and point and heel and heel. Five, six, seven, eight. Point and point and heel and heel and toe and heel and heel and toe.
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Do that again. Weight's on the left. Right foot pointing. Five, six, seven, eight. Point and point and heel and heel and toe and heel and heel and toe.
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Finish this section. Left foot leading two walks back. Left coaster back. Back left coaster step. We're going to walk half turn over our left shoulder. Right, left, right, left, right, left, right, left. Come back to me. Do all all of
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that 16 counts. Weight's on the left. Point and point and heel. Five, six, seven, eight.
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Point and point and heel and heel and toe and heel and heel and toe. Walk back. Back left coaster step walk right left right left course the first time we do that we do it to our 9:00 wall our left left hand
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wall do that again just those set of 16 counts then we'll put it all together on the left point and point five, six, seven, eight point and point and heel and heel and toe and heel and heel and toe walk back
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left coaster step walk right, left, right left. Whole thing up to there. Two-thirds of the dance.
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Weight's on the left. Right foot leading. Step, lock, and five, six, seven, eight. Step, lock and heel and heel and step. Lock and heel and heel and rock. Cover shuffle.
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Half turn rock. Quarter turn with a cross. Shuffle. Point and point and heel and heel and toe and heel and heel and toe. Walk back left. Coaster step. Walk right, left, right, left. How are we doing?
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Did you want to do that again? Go on then. One more time, then we're going to finish it. Weight's on the left, right lock. Five, six, seven, eight. Step, lock, and heel. And heel and step. Lock and heel and heel and rock cover right
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shuffle full half rock quarter turn with a cross shuffle full point right and left and heel and heel and toe and heel and heel and toe walk left right left coaster step walk right left right left 16 counts is eight counts that we repeat
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right then left again I'm going to teach you from the front because I just think it's going to be easier. So, the first time we do this, we'll be facing our 3:00 wall. If you've done the dance Electric Reel, it's the same set
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of footwork. Weight's on the left. We're going to step the right foot to the right side. We're going to hold. As we do so, styling. If you want to point both your arms to the left, you can.
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Side hold. You can look to the left as well. One, two. We're going to bring the left foot in, step to the side. Bring the left foot in, step to the side. And side. And side. Three heels, left and
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right and left. Heel and heel and heel. Two claps. Clap clap. Do that again.
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Weight's on the left. Side hold and side and side. Five, six, seven, eight. Side hold and side and side. Heel and heel and heel. Clap clap. We repeat that. Left foot leaning exactly the same. Going back to the
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left. We go side hold and side and side right heel heel and heel and heel clap clap end of dance. Do those last 16 counts. Weight's on the left side hold.
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Five, six, seven, eight. Side hold and side and side. Left and right and left. Two claps. Side hold and side and side. Heel and heel and heel. Clap clap. Weight's on the left. Ready to start again. Step lock.
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And so first time we do that again. First time we do that, we do it over on our right hand wall. Our 3:00 wall. Just do it one more time for me. Weight's on the left side. Hold. Five, six, seven, eight. Side
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hold. And side. And side. Heel and heel and heel clap. Clap. Side hold and side and side. Heel and heel and heel. Clap clap. Weight is on your left. Whole thing from the front. Weight's on the left.
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Step. Lock and five, six, seven, eight. Step lock and heel and heel and step. Lock and heel and heel and rock. Recover right shuffle. Half turn rock. Quarter turn.
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Cross shuffle full point right and left and heel and heel and toe and heel and heel and toe. Walk back left, right, coaster step, walk right, left, right, left, side hold and side and side heel and heel and heel clap clap side hold
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and side and side heel and heel and heel clap clap. How did we do? Are you with me?
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Let's do wall one again with the count. Same footwork. Nothing's changed. Weight's on the left, right, step, lock, and five, six, seven, eight 1, 2 and 3 and 4 and 5, 6 and 7 and 8 and 1, 2, 3
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and 4, 5, 6, 7 and 8 point. 1 and 2 and 3 and 4 and 5 and 6 and 7 and 8. One 2 3 and 4 walk 5, 6, 7, 8 One hold two and three and four five and six and seven
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clap clap one hold two and three and four five and six and seven clap clap.
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Did that help? I hope so. Let's do wall two. Keeping it slow. Weight's on the left, right foot leading.
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Five, six, seven, eight. Step, lock, and heel. And heel, and step, lock and heel, and heel. And rock, recover, shuffle, half turn, rock, quarter turn with a cross, shuffle, full.
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and heel and toe. Walk back left, right, left. Coaster step walk right, left, right, left, side hold, and side and side. Heel and heel and heel clap clap.
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Side hold and side and side heel and heel and heel clap clap. Third wall at the back. Weights on the left. Step, lock, and five, six, seven, eight. Step, lock, and heel. and heel and step. Lock and heel and heel and
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rock color shuffle. Half turn, rock, quarter turn with a cross shaft. Four point right and left and heel and heel and toe and heel and heel and toe. Back, back, coaster step, right, left, right, left, side hold, and side and side. Heel
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and heel and heel clap clap. Side hold and side and side. Heel and heel and heel clap clap.
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Last wall. Weights on the left. Step locks. Five, six, seven, eight. Step, lock and heel and heel and step. Lock and heel and heel and rock. Cover shuffle half turn step. Quarter turn with a cross. Shuffle point and point
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and heel and heel and toe and heel and heel and toe. Wall back left, right, left. Coaster step. Walk right, left, right, left, side hold, and side and side. Heel and heel and heel clap clap.
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Side hold and side and side heel and heel and heel clap clap. How we feeling?
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As always, if you're watching in catchup, you can rewind any of that. You can also slow me down using the little settings cog. Before we do four walls, we do need to talk about our tag that we do twice. But good news, you already
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know 75% of it. It's a 16 count tag, but 12 counts is taken from the beginning of the dance.
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So, you already know 12 counts of the tag. End of wall two, hang on, let me get this right.
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End of wall two, you'll be facing the back. And again, at the end of wall four, you'll be facing the front. We do our tag. So, we'll do it at the front.
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We'll do the end of wall four tag for now. We do the first 12 counts of the dance. Step, lock, and heel and heel.
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And step, lock, and heel, and heel, and rock, recover, shuffle, half. First 12 counts. Weights on the left. This is our tag. Seven, eight. Step, lock, and heel.
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and heel and step. Lock and heel and heel and rock, recover, shuffle, half turn. Hold it there to finish the tag.
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Left foot leading step, half turn over your right shoulder. Step, half turn. Three little runs forward, left, right, left. Run, run, run. That is our tag.
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First time we do it is end of wall two at the back. Second time we do it, end of wall four at the front. Just practice it one more time. Just the tag. Weights on the left. Step, lock, and 5 6 7 8.
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Step, lock, and heel. And heel, and step, lock, and heel. And heel, and rock, recover, shuffle, half turn, step, half turn, run, left, right, start again. Step, lock, and heel, and heel.
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And yeah, happens at the end of wall two and again at the end of wall four. So, we're going to do four walls. So, we will do our tag at the end of wall two facing the back.
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And we'll do our tag at the end of wall four facing the front. I've also got to speed you up a little bit. Just just just a bit.
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Here we go. You'll be fine. Nice small steps as always. Weights on the left.
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Right foot leading. Five 6 7 8. Step lock and heel and heel and step lock and heel and heel and rock color. Shuffle half turn. Rock quarter turn with a cross shaft full point and point and heel and heel and toe and heel and heel
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and toe. Walk back left, right, left coaster step. We'll have turn right, left, right, left, side hold and side and side heel and heel and heel. Two claps side hold and side and side heel and heel and heel. Pull two step lock
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and heel and heel and step lock and heel and heel and rock crow color shuffle half turn rock quarter turn with a cross shaft for point and point and heel and heel and toe and heel and heel and toe
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back left right left coaster step right left right left side hold and side and side heel and heel and heel clap clap side hold and side and side heel and heel and heel Here's a tag. Step, lock and heel and heel and step lock and heel
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and heel and rock cover. Shuffle half turn. Step half turn. Run. Do it again.
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Step lock and heel and heel and step lock and heel and heel and rock cover.
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Shuffle half turn. Rock quarter turn with a cross. Shuffle point and point and heel and heel and toe and heel and heel and toe. Back back coaster step.
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Right, left, right, left, side hold, and side and side. Heel and heel and heel.
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Do it again. Side hold and side and side. Heel and heel. Walk forward with our tag. Step, lock, heels, step, lock, heels rock shuffle half rock quarter cross shuffle toes and heels, toe and heel, heel and toe. Walk it back
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coaster. Walk half turn. Side hold and side heels. Side hold and heels. Here's our tag step lock.
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Rock shuffle half step half run. Hold it there. How we doing? Are you with me?
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So, as it's quite quick, as there's quite a lot of fancy footwork and there's a lot of hand counts, we're going to do three dance throughs.
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There'll be a slow dance through, a full speed dance through, both with verbal instructions, and then there'll be the freestyle. Let's give it a go.
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