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[> What region are you in, because that makes a huge difference. I know that some ER and MW region schools have their dancers stay at a level for a year (but usually not beginners). In WR it is a rule that they cannot compete once they have won B1, BII -- Anonymous, 18:35:25 05/28/05 Sat [1]

There are always a large number of dancers stuck in Novice but moving up after winning B1, BII just opens up the field for newer dancers to feel sucessful.

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[> ok well im in the SR, and here is how it works for my school: if a beginner places well enough to move into advanced beginner, then he/she does so. however if he/she doesnt place well enough to move up within a year, he/she automatically moves up to advanced beginner. -- Anonymous, 22:18:33 06/28/05 Tue [1]

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[> Depends on the region. In the WR, a dancer who takes 1st, 2nd, or 3rd in a Beginner 1 dance will move up to Adv. Beginner for that dance only. -- Anonymous, 19:02:14 07/29/05 Fri [1]

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[> NONE -- Anonymous, 13:36:17 08/22/05 Mon [1]

It depends on your teacher and if they think you are ready to move up!!!

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[> RE:moving up -- Anonymous, 21:31:41 10/03/05 Mon [1]

Most of the time a biggner dancer stays at that level for a year then moves up to ada. biggner. Then if you win 1,2 or 3 you move up to novice.

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[> i think you're going to need to buy 2 different kinds of shoes - everyone else does. -- Anonymous, 22:16:43 06/28/05 Tue [1]

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[> [> None -- Anonymous, 13:33:52 08/22/05 Mon [1]

Everyone buys two pairs of shoes!!!!!!!!

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[> Maybe you could wear joggers for soft shoe and buy hardshoes for hardshoe -- Anonymous, 09:41:24 08/20/05 Sat [1]

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[> my mom made mine, i know that helped you though. -- Anonymous, 22:24:44 06/28/05 Tue [1]

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[> [> I actually got mine off of ebay, but I'd recommend Kelso's. -- Anonymous, 19:00:38 07/29/05 Fri [1]

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[> scream at her face. she can't get mad if you get mad, right? -- Anonymous, 22:32:13 06/28/05 Tue [1]

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[> I would definitely try to talk to your teacher. I can't imagine why an Oireachtas team would include a new student vs. a more experienced one! -- Anonymous, 18:59:34 07/29/05 Fri [1]

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[> your link doesnt work -- Anonymous, 22:30:55 06/28/05 Tue [1]

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[> no such dress number exists. the highest number is 1075 - duh. -- Anonymous, 22:29:22 06/28/05 Tue [1]

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[> your link doesnt work. it says: Sorry, but the page or the file that you're looking for is not here. -- Anonymous, 22:26:49 06/28/05 Tue [1]

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[> To do this on one board is bad enough...to repeat it is nothing short of advertisement of your lack of intelligence and maturity. NT -- Anonymous, 14:17:01 03/22/04 Mon [1]

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[> [> i agree, you are immature and disgusting -- Anonymous, 22:16:46 07/03/04 Sat [1]

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[> How rude..I think this comment needs to be taken off of the board! -- Anonymous, 13:30:00 07/14/04 Wed [1]

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[> [> PLEASE give the person a break! -- Anonymous, 08:47:46 08/16/04 Mon [1]

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[> the following words are not found in the english dictionary: da, amazin, luk, wat, u, hu, gud, wud, mostlike, 2. i think you need to go back to second grade and learn how to spell. -- Anonymous, 22:15:10 06/28/05 Tue [1]

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[> GET FAYS! -- Anonymous, 23:13:21 12/11/04 Sat [1]

I've had 2 pairs of fays and they are the only shoes I have ever been comletely satisfyed with. They break in easily, but still provide support. I would reccomend ordering them through Ballinvilla: http://irishshoes.safeshopper.com/index.htm?930
here is the website

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[> I've never used Pacelli's but I love my Rutherfords with I believe, the sand glass tips and heels. -- Anonymous, 13:02:47 01/27/05 Thu [1]

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[> I have Fays & like them, but Pacellis are cheaper. How do Pacellis fit and do they run small or large or are they precisely to the size? -- Anonymous, 11:14:01 02/09/05 Wed [1]

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[> Lack of official rules. -- Anonymous, 19:53:32 07/15/02 Mon [1]

Problem is their are NO rules. Once an adjudicator gets their letters they become tenured. Forever and ever.

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[> Influence...I had a judge in my own region, so we see her a lot, she doesn't like me personally because I always beat her daughter. more.. -- Anonymous, 07:37:44 07/24/02 Wed [1]

When at a feis, she told the judge next to her something about me, that judge picked me next to last as well as the original one. The following week, when the other judge was without this woman she picked me first, in a much tougher competition. It really stinks when some judges have no ethics.

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[> [> Same Judge -- Anonymous, 08:57:34 08/03/02 Sat [1]

She did it again, 1st, 2nd and 9th.

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[> [> [> stop complaining..no one cares if u got a 1 2 and 9th good luck at future feis' though !!!!! -- Anonymous, 16:49:52 12/01/04 Wed [1]

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[> [> Did you ever think you may have danced better the following week? -- Anonymous, 11:25:06 09/06/02 Fri [1]

Did you ever think you may have danced better the following week?

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[> [> I Had A BLAH BLAH BLAH -- Anonymous, 09:55:36 12/13/02 Fri [1]

BBBBBSSSSS

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[> Well...that's silly. OF COURSE they can talk & give feedback. That's what tc's & Adj do.Right before exams in Ballet, we'll get an Adj in to look the girls over.Why would it be any diff in ID? -- Anonymous, 04:11:47 08/08/02 Thu [1]

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[> ADCRG/TCRG -- Anonymous, 12:42:44 08/25/02 Sun [1]

Interresting post: but the whole system is flawed and out of control not just Oireachtas but at feisanna to how you become certifed...As someone on the outside looking in the politics of ID reach from the top to the bottom. It sucks and won't be changed anytime soon, If they ever pass me on the exam the region I'm in better watch out I'm not a push over...and will have no problem being the black sheep,
BTW a person can have there TCRG removed and banned from the organizion... It was done to a lady in Toronto late 1980's early 1990's. So to some they play along to get along.

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[> [> banned -- Anonymous, 10:01:57 12/13/02 Fri [1]

Yep, and she knew how to dance, and knew how to teach, in fact she even had turned out toes!!!!Imagine that! She also had a jealous, bitter mother who couldn't let years of bitterness go, even after her daughter had proven herself to be a great champion. Imagine how the bitter mothers that never had TRUE champions feel!

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[> [> [> Mothers & Fathers -- Anonymous, 23:52:30 01/23/03 Thu [1]

Why are the Mothers & Fathers always to blame, when they have so little input in the way the class's are run? At our school we never even got into the class room, and heard so many awful things that happened after the class? Yet the Mothers and Fathers are the ones who run the kids to dance class, supply the costumes, support the organization etc.... I'm all for a great Teacher that does so much, but it's time to give support to the dancer's that are so dedicated and talented and the parents that make it all possible, lets get down to basic's if it was not for the Irish Dance Family, the school's would not Survive!

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[> [> [> [> I really don't understand why teachers give parents such a hard time. For the last two years at our State Competition in Australia an AIDI member referred to parents as 'a necessary evil' - she actually thought she could joke like that to parents faces! -- Anonymous, 07:53:12 04/29/03 Tue [1]

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[> [> [> [> [> this was the wa president no less, this year however she was too busy apoligising for the presentation mess up to insult the parents. could have been hazardous. So all just smiled and got over it. -- Anonymous, 04:27:53 08/24/03 Sun [1]

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[> [> [> [> [> A necessary evil is what our AD calls us as well! -- Anonymous, 01:32:58 09/27/03 Sat [1]

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[> [> [> [> evil parents -- Anonymous, 11:04:25 09/23/04 Thu [1]

Well in my experience some, not all, deserve this title!!!
Some parents (we all know someone) take it all way to seriously. I for one say, it's not the places at comps we remember, but the memories and friends along the way.

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[> All ADCRG's start off as TCRG's and many are still teachers and they all know each other for years from their own competition days, how could they suddenly not talk to each other? -- Anonymous, 00:11:01 12/11/02 Wed [1]

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[> adcrgs -- Anonymous, 10:07:35 12/13/02 Fri [1]

They're all friends...of course they talk to each other. Get a grip!!

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[> ADCRG -- Anonymous, 10:56:26 01/10/03 Fri [1]

MOST Adcrg's do a good job. however some tcrg's will talk to adcrg when their dancers are either about to compete or are sending the marks to be posted. This is unfair especially if you notice this and dancers are being treated unfairly. Something has to be done but what? Perhaps allowing no one to approach the ADCRG during the feis, and having the ADCRG hand in all the marks tpersonally to be posted but then we would neverget home from the feis.

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[> TCRG talking to ADCRG- Observer -- Anonymous, 11:48:36 03/07/03 Fri [1]

Unfortunately this happens alot. ADCRG's should not be approached during the feis and their should be enough of them wearing a name tag with ADCRG to go in the marks, rotaing the adcrg's so that there are extra ones around to hado this. It is unfair particualary when you see one school 's tcrg's talking to adcrg's then that schools dancers placing not just 3rd's or 4th but 1st. this is onyl muy opinion

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[> [> there oviously friends..get over it .. stop causing trouble with this -- Anonymous, 17:02:36 12/01/04 Wed [1]

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[> it's not fixing, it's pre-selecting! -- Anonymous, 20:41:50 08/02/03 Sat [1]

Most adjudicators are fair but there have been some rogue judges that pre-choose their 1st place winners prior to the competition. Unfortunately, they are the ones we remember most. I was at a feis in June where a child placed in all of her dances although she was off time in three of them. She always does well with this judge (who likes thin legs) and we simply concede to her. This particular judge is known to be "off" herself but she doesn't seem to be going anywhere soon. My daughter just smiles with the knowledge that she will not be attending Princeton on an ID scholarship but will have learned a valuable lesson in the Olympic figure skating-type judging of ID. C'est la vie!

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[> Re: Why the need for ADCRG's? -- Anonymous, 22:37:40 07/12/02 Fri [1]

It appears to me that without guidelines and with the current alliances, TCRG's should be allowed to judge. It would certainly take the power away from the dishonest system we have in place now. I think though, that it is a clear conflict of interest to have a school and be an adjudicator also. I would like to see a system with guidelines and ADCRG's who are just that and have no school to trade favors with. Also, I would like to see an overseer appointed who would monitor these ADCRG's for any obvious discrepencies.

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[> [> adcrg -- Anonymous, 09:49:04 12/13/02 Fri [1]

A.D.C.R.G.'S withuot schools do not keep up with styles, trends and movements in current I.D.Good students keep good teacher /A.D.'s up to speed.

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[> Re: Why the need for ADCRG's? Aussie mum -- Anonymous, 02:59:56 07/14/02 Sun [1]

I think it would be a very good idea to introduce some very definite guidelines for judges to follow. At present it is all very subjective with the allowance for personal taste/perfrence towards eg a particular style of dance etc.
Whatever is done, it should be for Irish Dance worldwide, not just altered in one country and not in others.

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[> I think the whole process needs overhauling. -- Anonymous, 13:52:50 07/15/02 Mon [1]

Not only do we need standards and guidelines for the ADCRG's to follow, we need an outside independent tabulator also. I know of a Mid-West TCRG., who always has the results before anyone else, even before the third round is danced. At the major competitions like the Oireachtas, Nationals and World's we have teachers collecting results and transferring them to the tabulations room. Are any changes being made? Who is entering? Without anyone to oversee this process, it leaves a huge avenue for the less than honest to operate.

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[> [> Where's Big Brother when you need him? -- Anonymous, 16:25:41 07/15/02 Mon [1]

Geez, I never thought of that but you are right on. I have seen this at my own Oireachtas. How is this paragon from the Mid-West able to get the results? Aren't there other TCRG's there that would like to know also? I always assumed that someone was making sure everything was on the up and up. They certainly make it easy for the cheaters, don't they. You know though after having read alot of the message boards lately, it seems that some believe the rules are meant for others and not themselves. What good are the rules if no one is making sure they are followed?

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[> [> [> adcrg's -- Anonymous, 09:52:15 12/13/02 Fri [1]

Knowing results doesnt change results. Your statement about knowing befor the competition is finished is an outright lie. You are not the type of person Irish Dance needs.

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[> [> [> cheaters -- Anonymous, 10:13:45 12/13/02 Fri [1]

The cheaters in I.D. have their work done befor they ever get to the feis. But they're slowly being weeded out.

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[> [> I am a teacher and I am insulted by your insinuation, what do you think we do, change the results on the way to the tabulation room!!! -- Anonymous, 00:14:02 12/11/02 Wed [1]

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[> [> [> YEP -- Anonymous, 20:28:33 03/20/03 Thu [1]

Yes - they do I personelly witnessed this.

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[> tcrg's adjudicating -- Anonymous, 10:10:42 12/13/02 Fri [1]

Why don't all T.C.R.G.'s have great dancers? Because most of them don't know what to look for!!! If you can't spot it week after week in your own class, how can you see it on stage in about 90 sec.??

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[> The alleged paper could have been anything - most likely a schedule for him for the day as to what competitions to judge, when they start and what room. Try not to be so suspicious of people you don't know -- Anonymous, 11:28:36 09/06/02 Fri [1]

The alleged paper could have been anything - most likely a schedule for him for the day as to what competitions to judge, when they start and what room. Try not to be so suspicious of people you don't know

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[> so the west coast knows him now -- Anonymous, 14:57:26 10/10/02 Thu [1]

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[> "only a dancer" !! -- Anonymous, 01:27:59 07/13/02 Sat [1]

She didn't state her age! I am 37 and 'only' a dancer. Whoever the moderator of that board is, was doing a great job, it is unfortunate that some people have nothing better to do with their time than to cause trouble and to spoil a good thing or everyone else.

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[> [> She said she's 16, from the UK has other sites& posts her name on other mbs but Mod on the D mb -- Anonymous, 17:52:22 07/13/02 Sat [1]

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