Part 2 - How to soften the pointe shoes

After choosing the proper shoe, you need to soften it. That means you need to adapt it to your foot shape and make it more flexible for implementing the steps. It's like a new pair of jeans: as soon as you purchase, it is "hard" and tight, but as you go, it will "giving" to your body.Many people like to make this process only in the hand. NEVER DO THIS! You are wrong, because then the shoe will soften in the wrong places and will not be adequate to the shape of the foot. What you should do:If the shoe is soooo hard, and do not give only to soften the feet, you try a little bit in hand, BUT NOT MUCH FORCE! Let's call the softening in the hands of "pre-softening."Make movements "curve" in the arch of the shoe, as if he wanted to touch the tip of the heel; force also demi-pointe, performing the movement of half-edge with your handsThat done, it's time to soften the truth, the feet! Bar in the first place, do elevate slowly, well past the half-edge until you reach the edge, but be careful not to fall sideways!Balance and body weight and do not forget: stretch your belly and chest and not to weigh on the feet.Another exercise that is good is to balance the weight of the whole body in one edge laterally what?. You're in first position on the bar, makes it a degagé the second and transfers weight to the leg that is in degagé. But do not forget that must be attached to the body, can not sit on the base leg or move the trunk, you only mexerá the lower body.But the best exercise is: half-edge, edge, half-tip, tip ... ;-)I hope you enjoyed the 2nd half. I'll reinforce the warning: the pointe shoe should be soft on the feet to fit the format and to soften them in the correct places. If you find the shoe is very stiff and hard to soften the feet only, do these exercises I teach, but DO NOT FORCE A LOT! You may end up breaking his shoe literally and make her take a different format than your feet.