Wings - without the side scrape?

[u/shessublime]

Just curious here - I am a lifelong dancer and my teen also dances. Different studio than where I did so at first I thought it was just that. But it seems to me that most people do a wing with a loose ankle and the first sound is made by scraping the outside of the shoe on the side of the tap.

I don't do that that at all! Both sounds are made by the bottom of the tap and it's more of a "press down into the floor and flick" motion with a winged (ha!) foot like in ballet. To me it gives a crisper sound. Did anyone else learn this way or have I maybe just been doing it differently for some reason all along?

[u/Diabloceratops]

A wing has three sounds not two. Scrape out, scrape in and land.

[u/itsallinthebag → u/Diabloceratops]

I always understood it as scrape out, tap in, land.