Main Game: Stepmania, DDR
Play Style: Single
Foot Level: 5
Years Playing: ?
Additional Info: I've never really played that much, but this year I joined the DDR club at my school (though I didn't play much DDR there) and now I've become the new president of said club (I was the only one to volunteer).  I've been practicing most days this summer, and hopefully I'll have my skills up to a more respectable level by the end of summer.

Main Game: Hacked ITG PS2 game (includes ITG1-3 songs)
Play Style: Single
Foot Level: Single: 7-9 (I did manage to pass Queen of Light Expert though which is the easiest 10 on ITG)
Years Playing: Hard to say.. I originally bought DDR: Konamix back when that came out, and after playing it I only managed to get to basic. I sort of stopped playing one day because the rest of my family laughed at me for playing it ​... A few years later I rediscovered DDR by buying Supernova, and the rest of my family actually started playing and enjoying the game. I then bought DDR Max 2 and Extreme 2 - both great games. My whole family went into a dancing craze. Then of course Supernova 2 - both the US and Japanese releases. Recently I discovered ITG - unfortunately I had to download it from the internet and swap magic it because I couldn't get a hold of an actual copy. I really enjoyed it so much - a lot more than DDR whose step artists seem to be lazy and uninspired nowadays. Anyway, I also found a download to a hacked ITG with all ITG songs on them and that's the main game I play now. I'm still saddened at Roxor's legal loss of the franchise... oh what could have been...
Additional Info: I seem to be stuck in the 8-9 foot range. I don't know if it's my stamina that's killing me, or the immense amount of arrows that are thrown at you at the same time. I'm a strictly 1x player... I loathe speed modifiers. I think I'm in the minority though because everyone else always plays 1.5x or above. What can I say? I learned playing on 1x and I've always done it. I still can't believe that are some expert players around who say they can't read at that speed. For me, once you get to 2x and above it's a completely different game - target practice instead of arrow pattern recognition. I read arrows as groups of patterns like music and that's how I play.

I've never cared for PAing or FAing - I play solely to have fun. 7, 8, and some 9s are fun for me. I don't know if I have the motivation to go higher as those stepcharts just seem brutal to me. Maybe someday I'll get there, but for now I'm content playing mainly 8s.

More additional info - I built a homemade metal DDR pad last summer with my brother-in-law. I'm hoping to build another one this summer so that I can finally try out doubles on metal pads instead of soft mats.

Even more additional info - I've never played DDR or ITG in an arcade. There is an ITG2 machine in a movie theatre nearby that I've been itching to try though.

As to the bar debate, I've never used it. I can see how it would make it easier on your stamina as you shift your weight up and back to your arms, and if it allows you to pass songs you wouldn't have been able without it, the go ahead and use it. I've managed without using a chair behind me all this time as a makeshift bar, so I'm going to try to keep improving without having to resort to using it.

Also, I'm really glad that there are 4 of us here! I know Bart used to play DDR in the past... I wonder if he still plays or not.