Have you seen the challenge and do you think that you can do it?
Monday, April 6, 2020
Challenge
Hi, welcome back to my blog. Today I will be telling you a bit more about my pointe shoes and about what I have been doing in the last couple of days. As you may know I have just broken in my pointe shoes and some of you may have been wondering how and why I have to break in my pointe shoes. When you get pointe shoes they are very hard and you can barely walk in them. What you have to do tho is put them on and then walk for as long as you can without the heels slipping off. When they do slip off you sit down and go through the long process of putting them on again, then you start to walk. Once you can walk comfortably without the heels slipping off, then you start to pony trot in them. When the heels slip off you sit down and put them on again. This can take over a week. After that you should be able to go up on to pointe and demi pointe ( your tippy toes ) without the heel slipping off. In pointe shoes you have a very small space to balance on, so it takes a lot of effort to stay on pointe. Your feet have to be very strong and they have to stay very strong. Some ways of getting stronger in your feet are to do one legged rises. They are when you stand on one leg with your other foot at your ankle holding on to a barre or something like it, and rise up slowly onto your highest demi pointe and go down slowly keeping your weight on the ball of your foot and always trying to pull up and be taller. Normally you do 35 of these but to start off, do as many as you can. I always count the amount of hours I spend in my pointe shoes so I know that I am not pushing my feet to hard. The last few days I have spent trying to get stronger and fitter since I now have ballet classes and although they are online and the teacher can only see one of us at a time, it will still be as hard as it is in the normal studio. Because one of my friends is a cheerleader she is always working on handstands and cartwheels and how to be more flexible, so me and her often give each other exercises because often our goals align. Yesterday she sent me through a challenge that had gone viral and a video of her doing it, so I tried. It took me almost 1000 tries to get it right but I did.
Have you seen the challenge and do you think that you can do it?
Have you seen the challenge and do you think that you can do it?
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Hi Isabella, that's really interesting, I've always wondered how you go about getting used to those pointe shoes. Does it hurt going up on your tippy toes in them? My daughter is only in Grade 2 in ballet so nowhere near your level. I've seen this challenge online but I haven't tried it!
ReplyDeleteHi Isabella, thanks for all the really interesting information about breaking your pointe shoes in - I had no idea! I am really impressed at how focused you are!
ReplyDeleteNo I hadn't seen that challenge before but good on you - once again showing perseverance and finally getting there.
What challenge will you set for your friend?