When will I dance in pointe shoes - many ballet students wonder. Doing ballet in toes shoes is an prolongation of all the ballet you have already done. If you are wondering how good your feet are for training in toe shoes, check your demi-pointe range, which means, when you are on your top demi-pointe with knees straight, and posture correct, are you up high enough to be on the platform of a pointe shoe? The following will help you check this, and offer help if it seems you cannot get a good range of motion in the right joints, for being able to rise up enough in a ballet pointe shoe.
Whether you are very young, or an adult ballet beginner, here is how you check your demi-pointe position and settle whether you need to get your ankles or toe joints more flexible, or if you have enough flexibility to dance in pointe shoes.
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Sitting on a chair, legs parallel, press your feet up to demi-pointe.
Keep all toe joints relaxed.
Make sure your ankle joints are in a level line below your knees - no sickling or curving ward, or outward.
Once your movement stops, lean forward a little, gently, and press over a little, if you can. Still keep the toe joints relaxed.
Here is what you need to observe. Do you get at least a ninety degree angle in the big toe joint?
Is the front of your ankle joint a level line or a curve beyond straight? Or do you not have enough flexibility to get a level line?
If you do not, then you would not be able to get up onto a pointe shoe platform, at least, not now anyway.
If you feel stiffness at the big toe joint, there is a way you can get more flexible here. Massaging the whole foot with a golf ball, a Pinkie Ball, or any medium to hard small rubber ball, will help relax tense muscles. Using a ball under the big toe, gently, will also growth movement range in the big toe joint.
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