If that was to happen, there probably would’nt be many left up there ,but seriously I find it very annoying when you are listening to some players and their music is being drowned out by their foot tapping .
It is especially noticeable when they are on a wooden stage or floor.
I was amazed to hear that even Liam O’Flynn foot taps as I heard on the reunion DVD as he was playing the three reels starting with Jenny’s wedding,especially as he was a Leo Rowsome pupil who discourged foot tapping
So please any new pipers out there try and not get into the habit of foot tapping
RORY
Rory, if that is your feeling you would be well advised to stay away from Cape Breton fiddling. 
djm
Yep agree 
Possible solutions…
a)Tap very gently.After all ye are only trying to keep the beat,and ye don’t need to hear your foot stomping.The movement alone should be enough.
b)Try just tapping your toe within your shoe.
c)Buy shoes that are at least 4 sizes too big for your tapping foot then ye can stomp awa inside the shoe without anyone noticing and the sound will be muffled.
Slan Go foill
Uilliam.
Foot tapping is a natural expression of playing dance music.
However try to avoid STEAM FOOT SYNDROME 
And make sure your foot is in time with the music or people will think:
a. You are crap
b. You have a keenly developed sense of syncopation
C. You are playing some avant gard bollox or Bulgarian time signature hybrid Irish Trad style thang.
d. A mixture of a b and c.
That goes double for me.
I spent years learning to tap my feet from memory rather than from music. I am not going back!
Alan
I would heartily concur with Rory that foot-stomping on a badly designed stage, where the resonance from the stage drowns out the music, is a nuisance. One would expect the musicians to compensate.
But to say that all foot-stomping must be ruled out is too much. Ennis and Clancy stomped. One would have to be dead from the neck down not to be moved to stomp with ITM. Then again, there are always those who would try to choke the joy out of anything … 
djm
What you do is buy oversized shoes and tap your foot inside, like these!
MarkB
…take off the shoes…audience passes out from foot stench, no problem…for recordings, include a ‘foot stink scratch-n-sniff’ card, listener passes out…no problem. 
I want A Pair of these
Proper pipers boots. Willie clancy had a pair just like these but in Silver 
or for our brothers and sisters accross the pond Election Fever shoes
I always wanted a pair of those runners you see kids wearing that have the red light in the heal that turns on every time they step. I thought it’d be a fabulous method to demonstrate visually the beat to people in those “too huge to count” sessions where the beat often times means very little.
PD.
Martin Hayes, that virtuoso fiddler from Feakle says he cannot physically play without tapping
Can’t help but say this reminds me of one of my favorite musicians of all time, Chris Smither (a guitarist, not a piper) who incorporates both feet into his guitar playing and singing. He actually stomps on a piece of plywood that has contact mics attached and it runs through the PA just like his guitar. For each song he has a different syncopation going with his feet and the guitar. Sounds great when he does it.
Jimmy Keane the Chicago accordion player in Bohola also does this… sports a rather fetching pair of clogs when stepping it out too 
Patrick.
Pimp it out!
Yo G! Hook up yo set wid a gold package an’ git it sparked out too! git some ice on dem regs dog! Shit, all dem bitches be freakin’ then, man. Damn.
Jerry O sort of stomps his feet, and it actually sounds like he has a bodhran playing with him it is sometimes that loud. Hey, whatever you have to do to keep the even rhythm
I have been thinking alot about foot tapping lately. Mostly, I really need to do it for my playing. But I have also thought how great it is in the hands of some players. I saw Joe McKenna in Seattle this year…first time in years. Joe is a real board pounder. But you know what? It really works for his playing. He has so much going on with variations in his playing and all, that it just becomes part of the piece. Anchors it. I recall his set of Jenny’s Welcome to Charlie/Paddy Taylor’s. With those reels and his pounding along, it was just like some awesome soundtrack behind some epic scene in a movie: sweep and drama.
The other great tapper IMO is Maire Ni Ghrada (sorry, too lazy for the fadas). She is a great 'rhythmic player". Not the pounder that Joe is, but she does this fantastic thing of going to the offbeat on certain passages in the tune. Gives the piece a nice bit of swing.
And that’s good.
t