It's a work in progress

For the past week, I have been looking up ways to improve dancing techniques. The resources I have found have been very helpful, from saying that Pilates and Yoga are good ways to increase mobility, flexibility, and overall body strength, to explaining how leg strength, and endurance are a big part in ability. Activities like swimming, or biking, or kick boxing, or ballet are good for targeting the specific muscles used in Irish Dancing. Ballet specifically since it is the most disciplined and has the most similarities between the two when compared with posture, precision, and gracefulness. Swimming, biking, or kick boxing are good for Irish Dancing because of the muscles these sports target, mainly the core, back, butt, and thigh muscles. These are just a few of the things I have learned in the past week.
Practice is key in anything and this is especially true when talking about getting better at Irish Dancing, but it is also a double-edged sword. You need to work on things correctly so you don't do them wrong in your step and if you just aren't getting anywhere with a specific step, after an hour, or even thirty minutes, take a break from it and move on to a different trouble area and go back to it a different day or ask your teacher for help. Believe it or not the person you go to lessons is trying to help you. Don't take the nagging, scolding, or criticism personally. It's meant to help not hurt. Last but not least, what I learned this past week is to never give up, keep trying if you really want it because at the end of the day, you're only as good as you let yourself be. The goal isn't about being better than everyone else, even though that's a plus. The goal is to be better than you were the days before.