TAP Shoes: 

Everyone has specific shoes needs best to try them on first:

 Try Dance Theatre shop: * Mountain View & San Mateo

https://www.dancetheatreshop.com

Try Dance de Jour * Menlo Park 1927 Menalto Ave, Menlo Park, CA 94025

 

Here are the TAP shoes Mandy wears most: https://millerandbentapshoes.com/

 

 

 TAP BOARDS

•   THIS ONE IS SMALLER but GOOD quality tap board AND VERY  easy to carry and store

. https://www.fasfoot.com     

 

• This is the roll up chair mat I use in class  from Homedepot. https://www.homedepot.com/p/Anji-Mountain-Standard-5-mm-Natural-Light-Brown-42-in-x-48-in-Bamboo-Roll-Up-Office-Chair-Mat-without-Lip-AMB24034/202071127#overlay

 

•  OFFICE DEPOT same thing

https://www.officedepot.com/a/products/1289169/Realspace-Bamboo-Chair-Mat-42-x/?utm_source=google&utm_medium

•  FANCY TAP Board : ). https://sprungfloors.com...the fancy one (o'mara)  really nice and will last  best sound

 

     This is the video https://youtu.be/eUlLRud6cYg  that I trusted the most, since it looked like someone who is primarily a builder instead of a dancer (I saw some extremely unorthodox building techniques). I did a full 3 coats of the Minwax polycrylic (plus a little more), and the finish feels a bit grippy while I'm dancing on it. It just makes it a little harder to get all my sounds. I'll keep you posted on how/whether that changes as the finish continues to cure, the air dries out and I keep dancing on the floor. If it doesn't improve, maybe an actual finish for floors would be better, but I don't believe those products are sold only by the gallon and not by the quart.