Guest Pease-blossom Posted March 18, 2003 Report Share Posted March 18, 2003 I am looking for ways to improve my rotation, and I think the flexibility in my hips and the looseness in the muscles that control turnout needs to increase. Basically, I have enough muscle control to use most of the turnout that I have, but I am trying to increase the actual degrees of rotation. I know there have been several threads on turnout lately, so I will make my question specific: does yoga help to improve turnout? Thanks. Link to comment
Mel Johnson Posted March 18, 2003 Report Share Posted March 18, 2003 Specifically, yes, yoga can help with rotation and turnout, as well as flexibility. But having said that, I'd have to add that it has to be a type of yoga specially designed to be used by dancers. Many sorts of yoga can reinforce foot-sickling and other undesirable traits that don't make a lot of difference to the individual practitioner who is not a ballet dancer, but it sure makes a difference to us! Link to comment
Guest Pease-blossom Posted March 18, 2003 Report Share Posted March 18, 2003 Thanks a lot, Mjr Johnson. Helpful as always! Link to comment
Canadian Dancer Posted September 23, 2005 Report Share Posted September 23, 2005 Hello everyone, This may sound a little odd, but here goes nothing: When I sit in second with my legs straddled open (Russian splits position), my legs automatically rotate outwards in a turned-out fashion. I cannot make my knees and feet face the ceiling in this position (they face behind me). I cannot roll through the center split position because I can't force my turn-out past 180. When I do try to roll through the centre, my hips kind of lock, making it impossible. I know that this is because I don't have much rotation inwards. I was wondering what types of excersises I can do to improve my inwards rotation in my hip sockets so one day I can roll through in the center splits (helps with extensions to the side). Hopefully this makes sense, Amy Link to comment
Administrators Victoria Leigh Posted September 23, 2005 Administrators Report Share Posted September 23, 2005 Amy, I'm sorry, but it really doesn't make any sense to me at all! If you have really good rotation, where is the problem? Being able to do a good à la seconde simply involves having outward rotation, so why do you need inward rotation??? Being able to roll forward in the splits is not exactly a necessary move for ballet! Link to comment
Canadian Dancer Posted September 23, 2005 Report Share Posted September 23, 2005 Ms.Leigh, I'm thinking in terms of injury pervention; my hips are very tight inwards. Amy Link to comment
Mel Johnson Posted September 23, 2005 Report Share Posted September 23, 2005 You're not going to be preventing much in the way of injury from ballet. Classical ballet never asks for inward rotation. Now, skiing.... Link to comment
Canadian Dancer Posted September 23, 2005 Report Share Posted September 23, 2005 Ok makes sense (I guess it was a dumb question anyways). It's just something I've wondered about for years. Amy Link to comment
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