How To Put Ballet Shoes On

Okay, so now, I'm going to show you how to tie the ribbons on your point shoes. These are a pair very old of point shoes that I wore a very long time ago. So now then, the main thing is that you put your shoe on.

You slide your shoe on guiding your middle toe down to the center of the shoe. So you want to make sure that it's not lop-sided on your foot firstly, and then I usually have an elastic there. Then the next thing is that you need to be kneeling down like I am now and you need to be flexing this little bone here.

I hope you can all see. Let me just relax the bone a moment. Now then, can you see how it's lifted up there? This is how I tie my shoes on.

I know that some people have other ways of doing things, but I wrap it round like that once, and then 'round to there, and then I do the inside one, and I put it underneath and then I wrap it around on top of the other ribbon, and then I tie my knot being careful that the knot isn't on top of my tendon or anything. It's got to be in the gap here where there are no bones or tendons, no knobbly bits, and then you just tuck it under so that it's invisible, like that. And there's your point shoe.

So let's have a look at that again. Firstly, you do need to have this bone stuck up otherwise you can end up strangling yourself with your very tight ribbons. So you wrap it around one time, and then wrap it 'round to there.

Then you pick up the other ribbon, on top, and then underneath the other, and then over the top. Tie your knot, just an ordinary knot, making sure that the knot's nowhere near your tendon, and then tuck it in neatly, and then hopefully your ribbons won't ever come undone on stage or anything like that. .