sickling?

[cececinderella]

i just switched studios, to a russian one. really good. and i'm having so much trouble!! i've been not taught so well for the past 3 years, i have holes in my leanring everywhere. but the director put me in the intermediate-adv. class! and in the beginning she said "i had potential" but now i'm not sure if she thinks that.. i'm so lagging behind, i'm afraid i'm doing everything wrong you know? when she tells me to do something, i can't do it right 3 or 4 times after that, and my combinations/memory sucks, and i haven't learned some of the turns. i'm really scared to talk to her about some stuff too! i don't think she thinks i try really hard. i should stop doubting myself though.

 

anyways she says i am sickling, but i am just pointing straight and with the weight on my big toe. the girls my class have been trying to show me to point my foot like "mermaid fins" but i'm having way too much trouble. i have to relax my foot and then i can do the fin thing. but then the trouble is pointing, what muslces do i use? can you help!! i'm sickling with everything arabesques and all.

Edited July 26, 2003 by cececinderella

[cececinderella]

oh yah i have 180 degree turn out, so i just need help with my toes and my feet. not my turn out. my teacher kept telling me to "use it!!" but how?

thanks!

Edited July 26, 2003 by cececinderella

[Mel Johnson]

A straight-pointed foot demonstrates a straight line that extends from the knee to the tip of the big toe, even if you are bow-legged, in other words, the shin doesn't have to be part of the line, but the knee and the toe are on it. Anything that diverges from this line is sickling, whether in or out. Do not relax the point of the foot, but feel a little more pull on the outside of the foot (toward the little toe) to repair a sickle in.

 

Without seeing, I can't tell what "use it" means.