Practice Hours

[Shamrocksthename]

I am in between prizewinner and prelim, and I try to practice an hour every day that I don't have dance practice, plus I do ab workouts every day!

[Bridgey pie]

wooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo ooooooooooooooooooooooww you must be fit

[kicks_n_clicks]

Try to practice everyday even if its for 20 min. Try to work in some drills and break down steps to make sure you're doing EVERYTHING right. It's tedious but it will make a great dancer outta you.

[leaping legs Lucy]

I try to practice as often as i can...even when I'm out shopping the tescos isles are gret to leap down doing the real

[dancer003]

I wish I had time to practice everyday, but I'm in university, so I usually try and practice two days a week. One day for softshoe and one day for hardshoe; I do a warm up, stretch, drills (which takes most of my time), breakdown my steps (which also takes up most of my time), and then I run through each of my dances a few times thinking about what I worked on. Then I cool down and stretch again for longer! Usually about 1.5h-2h each of those two days, so about 4h/wk in total.

I had classes two days a week, but I help teach two days a week too (so I guess I'm dancing then too, but not like my normal class!!); I try to get to the gym when I can, but it usually doesn't happen!! lol That's why when I do drills at home, or after I do my cool down or whatever, I do some ab/ankle work if I have time. I'm just getting back into dance after a summer vacation break, so I'm not pushing myself this hard yet, but I'm in novice hoping to move into prizewinner this year, so as I gradually work up to practicing two days a week for 2h each day.....it should be good!

[IrishMusicGirl]

My teacher tells us 1 1/2 hrs of practice per 1 hour of class.....but i am in prelims...you could prob do bout an 45 mins to an hr about every day (that you dont have class)

[charley]

For Practicing it depends on how good yo0u want to be, and what level you are in.
*begginer 1: 30 min
*begginer 2: 1 hour
*novice: 1 hour
*open: 1 hour and 30 min
*and so on

[aligetreel]

My teacher tells us to practice 4 hours a week total. Plus dance classes. I really don't tho. I practice certain bits of my dances for an hour, but I don't try to overdo it.

Here's why.

I have dance from 5 to 6 times a week.

Monday - Regular class 8:15 to 9:30
Tuesday - Show material + regular class 8:15 to 9
Wednesday - 8:15 to 9:30
Thursday - Day off!
Friday - Set class 7:30 to 9
Saturday - sometimes off, sometimes a workshop or a feis
Sunday - 12.5 to 3.5 pm for dance drama, and tradset 5 to 7 pm

Should a still practice... I mean, I think I should and yet, I don't want to overdo it and get hurt...

[worldchampion]

My teacher tells us to just practice as much as possible.. being in prelims i try to practice at least an hour and a half every day that i don't have dance as long as i don't have a ny relative that i would bother doing this. i try to spend the entire time on one of my dances (as of now this will be hardshoe until i can get the new step perfectly for oireachtas) and then the next time i will do the other one!

[clairexxx]

Originally Posted by reelbigmouth

Every day that you aren't having a class, run through all your material. If you do well, only do each dance once, if you make a mistake, do it again
That's what I do!

thats what i do