30 Irish Dancer Problems
1: when people refer Irish dancing as “clogging” or “tap dancing”
2:when people say Irish dancing isn’t a sport
3: when your Tc says “one more time” at least 50 more times before they mean it
4: the struggle of dancing or blocking on a tile or any other slippery type flooring
5: the struggle of performing outside in the rain or in over 100 degree weather
6: waiting 900 years for recalls to be announced, just to wait another decade for awards
7: two words: oireachtas season, nationals season, worlds season, any season
8: the looks you get when you Irish dance to normal music, or any music that isn’t Irish
9: always saying “sorry I have dance” whenever people try to make plans with you
10: dancing first
11: dancing alone
12: dancing last
13: doing a treble jig full, or any full for that matter, especially in heavies
14: when your Tcs go from really chill to really scary in 2.0 seconds
15: when you are at a feis and you line up for your comp just for the judges to go on lunch break so you wait 4 score and 7 years for the judges to come back
16: breaking in new heavies
17: after a really intense workout or full you get jello legs
18: that annoying competitor that tries to push you off stage or cuts you off
19: when the musician plays the wrong music or ends too early or too late
20: when 2 water bottles aren’t enough for class so you die of thirst
21: when non Irish dancers ask you to teach them something, so you try to teach them the jig and even that is too hard -.-
22: the exhaustion of competing whether its a feis or a major
23: the pain of a full wig
24: when your spray tan goes wrong and you look like an oompa loompa or a carrot
25: the gross feeling of putting sock glue on / off
26: the frustration when people who danced after you, get their results before you when you’ve waited 40 years and they’ve waited like 5 minutes
27: when your friends think Irish dance is easy but when they try to do it they look like a drunk leprechaun
28: the pain of missing a click and hitting your ankle instead
29: the struggle of stepping on or tripping over your own feet
30: when you accidentally break your own buckles