CAPAdancer Posted September 30, 2006 Report Share Posted September 30, 2006 Are there any exercises that I can do to help me get on pointe sooner? If so, what are they? Thanks! CAPAdancer Quote Link to comment
vrsfanatic Posted September 30, 2006 Report Share Posted September 30, 2006 CAPAdancer all exercises in ballet for females are instrumental in helping students to develop for pointe work. Be patient and work very hard to stretch and straighten your body, legs and feet. Battement tendus and releves are two very good movements to work on particularly well. Quote Link to comment
BlackLaceTutu Posted October 6, 2006 Report Share Posted October 6, 2006 Stretch your feet a lot! Having flexible feet will really help when you get your pointe shoes. Also whenever you're just sitting around pointe and flex your feet over and over. Or walk on high demi pointe around the house. Make sure your placement in class is correct. And work very hard to work through your feet in class. Quote Link to comment
dancinfreak9232 Posted October 8, 2006 Report Share Posted October 8, 2006 My adivce would be what my teacher always teaches the younger girls before they go on pointe, just before you go to bed at night take a regular towel or a thera-band, fold it in half lengthwise, take each end in either hand, and brace the towel with the ball of your foot then do a few flex-pointes with either foot. hope this helped!!! good luck<333 Quote Link to comment
Mel Johnson Posted October 8, 2006 Report Share Posted October 8, 2006 Dancinfreak, I'd like to call your attention to a stickie that's up at the top of this forum. Please note especially ## 2 & 3. It's not that we don't value your participation; we do. But on boards where students give advice, it soon turns into a Chlid's Garden of Weeds. Let the moderators give the advice. Quote Link to comment
CAPAdancer Posted October 9, 2006 Author Report Share Posted October 9, 2006 thank you everybody for all the wonderful advice. Ihope that it will help me move alond. My teacher has told me to work on holding my abs and tucking and holding my butt. I hope that your advice and my teacher's helps! thanks!!! CAPAdancer Quote Link to comment
Administrators Victoria Leigh Posted October 9, 2006 Administrators Report Share Posted October 9, 2006 CAPAdancer, please be very careful of the word "tucking"! That is a definite NO NO!!! One needs to use the muscles in the gluteus maximus, and the tops of the thighs, but tucking will make you sit in your legs! Quote Link to comment
CAPAdancer Posted October 12, 2006 Author Report Share Posted October 12, 2006 thanks for the reply and sorry for the misunderstanding! Quote Link to comment
Administrators Victoria Leigh Posted October 13, 2006 Administrators Report Share Posted October 13, 2006 CAPA, you might also think about not trying to change the font and color of the posts, because it is not working. Quote Link to comment
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