How To Do A Ballet Foot Stretch

So now, I am going to show you a ballet foot stretch. Of course, many dancers want to improve their feet and they all got individual ways of doing it and this is a very useful one and we find it very useful any way. Rian is going to sit on the floor and cross her legs and basically just use her own pressure to try and get the foot to warm up into and get more mobility and movement into your foot to get a bigger stretch and of course, don't forget to do both feet like Rian's doing now.

A hot favorite of mine and firstly, you need to be parallel and then you need to crisscross your legs so far and then use the pressure of your back leg on the front leg to get a nice deep stretch here and you want the arch of your foot be stretching, you see, and not just your toes and then up, and then try again and that's it. So, she is using the pressure of her back leg and you can stop if you feel uncomfortable. When you do these stretches, you need to make sure that you don't sickle on your feet and I will show you what I mean now.

So Rian, if you go back to that stretch, one of the dangers can be you end up in a poor position and you are stretching the wrong part of your foot. You need to make sure that your foot is in perfect straight line and you stretch through the middle of your foot so there is no horrible sickle position when you go down. Try one more time, so as she goes down, she bends and just carefully, I am going to push your foot in a horrible position now.

We don't want that nasty position there. You are not effective in a nasty position because most of the weight is beyond on your little toe instead of on your second toe and then stretch. Okay, and of course, you can work more to getting your heel forward and things like that even, and then finally, we need the other foot as well.

Okay and bend and stretch. Much like few of her stretches and if you hold it for a minute, you can usually end up with a nice deep stretch in the foot and that is probably the best thing. Okay, that is how to do a ballet foot stretch. .