tbh im pretty insecure about my feet bcs i have quite low arches but really all you gotta do is try a variety of pointe shoes and find the ones that suit ur feet best ! also you can improve i promise my arches used to be VERY bad and i use to sickle a lot but now i honestly feel kinda indifferent to them bcs i stretched them everyday. everyones feet are different but i reccomend u try Merlet diva pointe shoes they made my feet look v archy
I danced when I was young but it wasn’t for me then. Fast forward and one of my only regrets in life is leaving before getting on pointe and your videos have inspired me to go into dance as an adult just for the love of it and maybe one day get to pointe like I have always wanted
I started ballet when I was 18 and made it to point. So did my classmates. It's definitely possible. Just keep working hard during class and work on your feet at home when you have some time and you'll be on pointes sooner than you think.
Josephine, you are SOOO RIGHT about following as many passions as you have because you don't know where life will take you [& what all you will do with your life.] I danced as a child until the teacher told me & my parents I was too fat to go en pointe (actually it was because I was born with club feet that weren't completely repaired & adult podiatrist said even if I had the 2nd surgery I had needed as an infant, my ankles would never been strong enough regardless of my weight) I then pursued music, actually did a few professional performances, & began auditioning to symphonies. I then realized it wasn't what I truly wanted to do with my life. BUT both dance & music are still reflected in my life. I've been told several times that I move very gracefully by college classmates & coworkers which floored me & I know comes from the years of dance as a young child. Also my legs are shockingly strong even though I'm now disabled because of a rare spine disease & 2 rare neurological disorders. This has made it possible to walk again after 3 years of being bedridden & multiple rounds of physical therapy. EVERYTHING YOU LEARN IS WORTH LEARNING & WILL IMPROVE YOUR LIFE IN SOME WAY SO DON'T GIVE UP JUST BECAUSE YOU CAN'T BECOME A PRO. ONLY SAY SEE YOU LATER TO IT SO YOU CAN CONCENTRATE ON A STRONGER PASSION IN YOUR LIFE BUT REVISIT PAST PASSIONS AS THEY ARE PART OF WHAT MADE YOU WHO YOU ARE!! [Sorry, I'm not screaming; I just wanted to emphasize this... ;) ]
Waay off topic but I thought you would like to know: you helped me get my tall boots ( for riding Dressage horses) comfortable. I’ve bee watching you fit toe shoes for a year now, occasionally you have a dancer wear to toe cap ( a rubbery sleeve for their big toe). My right Dressage boot hasn’t been fitting quite right, pressing on the inside corner of my great toe. Dressage boots can cost over $ 1000.00 especially if you have odd shaped feet, ankles and calves. I ordered a toe cap and I was perfectly comfortable again. Thank you.
I’m a freshman at an arts school, and it’s so nice to be able to do academics and dance! It’s really nice to have the opportunity to go to an arts school!
That statement at the end is really powerful. I’m not a dancer I’m more of a mixed media artist but, that statement is true for passions and different mediums, elements follow you and you never truly know what your unique interests and skill sets will bring you
Watching you and your videos and Kathryn Morgan's videos has really encouraged me to start ballet again because I love it so much. You guys and your videos really help with my motivation, and I just wanted to thank you for everything you do for us dancers! 💙
Anybody else want a follow-up video of Rachel being super awesome with our lack of access youth?! I wish you (Rachel) could have been my dance teacher! YOU GO, QUEEN!!
This was really cool bc we got to see bigger snapshot of the dancer's journey before this appointment, and her journey afterwards, that also connected to her foreseeable future. I would watch a reality show like this ! Im envisioning netflix or TLC...and it would be cool if ESPN started airing programs like this. But anyway, I think it would be a great show AND a new take on mainstream ballet media.
I graduated from High School last year, and this year I'm sitting my Diploma in Jazz Dance, and I'm still training in ballet and contemporary! Because ballet isn't the only style I train in, I have to wait until 2023 (I'll be 20 years old), to get my first pair of pointe shoes, which is a very late age to go en pointe, I'm aware. I plan on teaching dance and opening a studio as my career, and if I get en pointe, that'll be a huge accomplishment for me; but it isn't a necessity. No matter what, I'll still be getting my qualifications to teach dance in the future.
This video was very helpful too. I am also kind of struggling with choosing between Dance and Academics, and this video was sooooooooo helpful, I can’t thank y’all enough 💖
Josephine please do a fitting with a Muslim dancer because there’s a huge movement of adult or even kid Muslim dancers and I am Muslim myself so I can relate to the pain that they have to endure when they wear something called a hijab
I got my first pair of pointe shoes in October 2018 and had pointe shoes that did nothing for my feet and they took ages to break in now I have bloch European balance which look way better and I can get over on them now
Josephine please consider about how the dancers are feeling in the shoe because what she is feeling is the most important part because it’s what she’s representing to the ballet culture so she’s got to feel great and effervescent when doing it because we got to feel young on the inside even if you don’t see ourselves and the community doesn’t see us young on the outside
I literally know nothing about ballet, but it's fascinating. I can't help but wonder Why would someone go out of their way to make a square shoe work? Tapered shoes are, in my opinion, prettier anyways.
I'm going to start calling my feet faux wide. They're like boneless chicken when it comes to compression on pointe. I'm not sure if I'd ever want to wear a square box again in the future. Maybe it's cause my feet are big, so my platform is bigger in general, but I can't say I notice much of a boost with balancing. I think I balance better when my foot feels really secure and I can root into the ground without thinking about if I am sinking or if it hurts. Still very much a beginner on pointe, so maybe my feeling will change.
When she said that a lot of people have to choose between academics and dance I felt that cause that’s me :( I regretted it so much, and when I decided to go back I injured my leg 😞
It's so sad that the dance world is still like this. We live healthy, long lives now. We have more insight into the science behind ballet, and can better mitigate injuries and increase performance. There is no reason to make people feel like their best years are behind them at 22 or that a 15 year old needs to drop out of school to train full time. I think experience can only add to artistry. Greater maturity and emotional development I think is also key to ending the abusive behavior that happens within companies as well...and the less generous side of me believes that is why the powers that be are so keen at getting children to commit to this path at the exclusion of their own personal development and support systems outside of the industry.
I totally agree. It's so sad that at the professional level, it's largely impossible for dancer athletes to respect their body's needs like rest when they something is over tired, and the result is accumulating so many injuries so quickly that they can't continue long. So many dancers who didn't go professional, or didn't stay professional very long are still able to enjoy dancing well late in life.
Sometimes even a lot of dancers are mocked for that when they’re just trying to pursue their faith and trying to pursue their religion in a calm and quiet way and when there is a huge clash between Catholic dancers and Muslim dancers I don’t feel that those dancers that don’t wear the same types of clothing that Muslims wear they are just nagging on them to not be Muslim anymore it’s really annoying for me because they’re trying to pursue dance as hard as they can and they’re trying to pursue Islam as hard as they can and trying to balance both things some people don’t understand that which is really sad 😓
I a, so glad I am done homeschooled and I just turned 13 and I was like should I not dance and then I other people and like yes ofc I can dance I have all ways had soeming in me to dance but there was never any school and I was littel so I was like ?? But now I am going to dance and we can’t get hold on them cus on ice and when all that ice and snow gone my mom going call them and I can’t wait
Uhmm I hate feet so for me to say this is amazing but this girl has incredible feet, esp. toes compared to all the ballerinas I’ve ever seen. Like wow.. no damage
ok so germany's next top model put their candidates in pointe shoes and actually made them go on pointe, and it's the worst thing i've ever seen, pleaaaase react to it
Dance and homeschool? That sounds like what the elite gymnasts do. It's a sad choice to make. But some schools are more flexible, and some students are as well. It just depends on the situation.
Every school should be able to teach core academic skills while still allowing the students to have their own projects, be it dancing or environment engineering. Most countries can teach the core curriculum with only a part time schedule (in my country, we either study in the morning or in the afternoon and full time schools are just for the kids whose parents have to work and don't have anyone to take care of them). I am not against full time school, but I'm against it being packed with really heavy subject that won't really develop any skills or be important for the child's future and still demand a lot of homework apart from the 8 hour-long school day (I am an adult who works for 8 hours a day and I refuse to do any work out of my contract hours and I don't understand why this would be different to children) when instead they could shrink the curriculum and make some times for students to work on their own projects. They would probably even learn more about other subjects as well. I learned a lot more about physics in the ballet studio than in school and that's because I was using relatable knowledge to build new ones. I hope this broken system changes faster because we've been teaching and learning inefficiently for too long now.
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I feel so represented by the lower arches. I always feel so self-conscious about my feet but this really helped
Honestly, same :)
me too!
Memento Mori, fellow dancer 😂
tbh im pretty insecure about my feet bcs i have quite low arches but really all you gotta do is try a variety of pointe shoes and find the ones that suit ur feet best ! also you can improve i promise my arches used to be VERY bad and i use to sickle a lot but now i honestly feel kinda indifferent to them bcs i stretched them everyday. everyones feet are different but i reccomend u try Merlet diva pointe shoes they made my feet look v archy
@@_.dorotea I have them, and they really help !!
Hats off to Rachel for bringing ballet to all types of students. I also love how Josephine is such a proud dance mama to everyone she fits!
Lol when she said, “I came to the point where...” they spelled point as pointe.
They have mastered autocorrect!
Saw that too 😂😂
Lol
Omg her feet are literally the best advert to come to The Pointe Shop from day 1! I didn’t see a single blister!
I am so excited to get my first pair of point shoes in a few months
I got mine in Januray 2021 I was so excited
@@dangysis6241 same! I hope your doing good!
Congratulations! 🎉 😃 🩰
@@paytonanncasey OMG, have fun with them, i have herd that they will have mild pain in the begining but get better
Congrats! I got mine yesterday!!!
I danced when I was young but it wasn’t for me then. Fast forward and one of my only regrets in life is leaving before getting on pointe and your videos have inspired me to go into dance as an adult just for the love of it and maybe one day get to pointe like I have always wanted
I started ballet when I was 18 and made it to point. So did my classmates. It's definitely possible. Just keep working hard during class and work on your feet at home when you have some time and you'll be on pointes sooner than you think.
Josephine, you are SOOO RIGHT about following as many passions as you have because you don't know where life will take you [& what all you will do with your life.] I danced as a child until the teacher told me & my parents I was too fat to go en pointe (actually it was because I was born with club feet that weren't completely repaired & adult podiatrist said even if I had the 2nd surgery I had needed as an infant, my ankles would never been strong enough regardless of my weight)
I then pursued music, actually did a few professional performances, & began auditioning to symphonies. I then realized it wasn't what I truly wanted to do with my life. BUT both dance & music are still reflected in my life.
I've been told several times that I move very gracefully by college classmates & coworkers which floored me & I know comes from the years of dance as a young child. Also my legs are shockingly strong even though I'm now disabled because of a rare spine disease & 2 rare neurological disorders. This has made it possible to walk again after 3 years of being bedridden & multiple rounds of physical therapy.
EVERYTHING YOU LEARN IS WORTH LEARNING & WILL IMPROVE YOUR LIFE IN SOME WAY SO DON'T GIVE UP JUST BECAUSE YOU CAN'T BECOME A PRO. ONLY SAY SEE YOU LATER TO IT SO YOU CAN CONCENTRATE ON A STRONGER PASSION IN YOUR LIFE BUT REVISIT PAST PASSIONS AS THEY ARE PART OF WHAT MADE YOU WHO YOU ARE!! [Sorry, I'm not screaming; I just wanted to emphasize this... ;) ]
Rachel's feet look GREAT!!! And better, they probably FEEL GREAT!!!
It just PAYS to have your feet properly fitted!!!
Great job Pointe Shop...🤩🤩🤩!!!
Waay off topic but I thought you would like to know: you helped me get my tall boots ( for riding Dressage horses) comfortable. I’ve bee watching you fit toe shoes for a year now, occasionally you have a dancer wear to toe cap ( a rubbery sleeve for their big toe). My right Dressage boot hasn’t been fitting quite right, pressing on the inside corner of my great toe. Dressage boots can cost over $ 1000.00 especially if you have odd shaped feet, ankles and calves. I ordered a toe cap and I was perfectly comfortable again. Thank you.
I did wear the toe cap, not just order it.
the fact that you had to clarify tho-
I’m a freshman at an arts school, and it’s so nice to be able to do academics and dance! It’s really nice to have the opportunity to go to an arts school!
That statement at the end is really powerful. I’m not a dancer I’m more of a mixed media artist but, that statement is true for passions and different mediums, elements follow you and you never truly know what your unique interests and skill sets will bring you
Watching you and your videos and Kathryn Morgan's videos has really encouraged me to start ballet again because I love it so much. You guys and your videos really help with my motivation, and I just wanted to thank you for everything you do for us dancers! 💙
That's so beautiful that she teaches the young girls, I pray nothing but great success in her life! 🤗💖🌹
Anybody else want a follow-up video of Rachel being super awesome with our lack of access youth?! I wish you (Rachel) could have been my dance teacher! YOU GO, QUEEN!!
Im really excited I’m getting my point shoes on 7 March I would actually get them on 30 December 2020 but because of corona the date was moved 😕
Love seeing her progress!
So interesting!! Cannot stop watching Pointe shoes videos!🥰💕
Same 💕
sameee idk why but they are so addicting
Ikr
@@veronicathesecond I never knew there was so much about them! 😯
@@melbel718 I thought it was just a slipper ballerinas could stand on. Who knew they only last a couple days, need to be modified, etc etc etc? 😯
I love these videos and how Josephine is so positive and encouraging. She forms such relationships with the people she fits. ❤️
I love all your videos ! For a next one, it would be great to learn about the steps and the training a dancer need to through before going on pointe !
Rachel is so mature and well spoken!!
I cant wait to get my first pointe shoes on saturday!
omg excitingg!!! did you get them??? if so how are they?
This was really cool bc we got to see bigger snapshot of the dancer's journey before this appointment, and her journey afterwards, that also connected to her foreseeable future. I would watch a reality show like this ! Im envisioning netflix or TLC...and it would be cool if ESPN started airing programs like this. But anyway, I think it would be a great show AND a new take on mainstream ballet media.
I’m getting my first pair of pointe shoes this month yayyy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
❤️ box liners. Wish those were around when I was dancing.
Wow I love how inspiring you are
I graduated from High School last year, and this year I'm sitting my Diploma in Jazz Dance, and I'm still training in ballet and contemporary! Because ballet isn't the only style I train in, I have to wait until 2023 (I'll be 20 years old), to get my first pair of pointe shoes, which is a very late age to go en pointe, I'm aware. I plan on teaching dance and opening a studio as my career, and if I get en pointe, that'll be a huge accomplishment for me; but it isn't a necessity. No matter what, I'll still be getting my qualifications to teach dance in the future.
Love this! Amazing 🤗💙
This video was very helpful too. I am also kind of struggling with choosing between Dance and Academics, and this video was sooooooooo helpful, I can’t thank y’all enough 💖
My left foot is also more tapered than my right foot so I have a box liner in the left lol. Also Rachel’s feet look amazing! Great job Josephine!
Loved this video! ❤️❤️
Beautiful message at the end!
Aw Rachel seems so sweet!
I got pointe shoes last week!
Yayy! I’m so excited for you!
good for you
Omg that's great!!!😲
Awesome! I can't wait to get my pointe shoes
I love these videos Josephine! I'm an adult beginner ballet dancer and I'm hoping to get en pointe one day.
Josephine please do a fitting with a Muslim dancer because there’s a huge movement of adult or even kid Muslim dancers and I am Muslim myself so I can relate to the pain that they have to endure when they wear something called a hijab
I got mine in Januray 2021 I was so excited
i will get to go en pointe next year at the soonest
Thay do hurt like the first 3 weeks then like it don’t hurt much
"Forever."
The Pointe Shop
lmfao i died at that end. Love this channel.
I got my first pair of pointe shoes in October 2018 and had pointe shoes that did nothing for my feet and they took ages to break in now I have bloch European balance which look way better and I can get over on them now
Her old vids are like a Commercial and it’s just funny
love pontie shoes
Have you tried the So Danca Elektra pointe shoes? They have interchangeable shanks
Can I take ballet classes once a week for 3 years and then get my first pair of pointe shoes? 🩰
I'm auditioning to go to a musical theatre college 6th form for the same reasons!
i love how whenever someone says point the captions say pointe
Wow her feet are in such great shape! I've never seen such uncalloused dancer's feet!
Can we order from you??????
Josephine please consider about how the dancers are feeling in the shoe because what she is feeling is the most important part because it’s what she’s representing to the ballet culture so she’s got to feel great and effervescent when doing it because we got to feel young on the inside even if you don’t see ourselves and the community doesn’t see us
young on the outside
I want to see you fitting gaynor mindens since most people often find them difficult to fit since there is a lot of options
I would love it if you showed the dancers that you fit actually dancing.
I wish i could get my pointes/ get fitted by her!
I love that, more and more, dancers don't have to choose between dance and their other passions, such as academics. You shouldn't have to.
Im getting my first pair and im a gay ballet dancer hehe
Oooooo
How is your pointe training goin' ?
@@thomas.halama3568 doin good until this day,tho they die pretty fast for me
;) I love pointe shoes
I literally know nothing about ballet, but it's fascinating. I can't help but wonder Why would someone go out of their way to make a square shoe work? Tapered shoes are, in my opinion, prettier anyways.
Lets give her some more likes and subs 💖💖
I'm going to start calling my feet faux wide. They're like boneless chicken when it comes to compression on pointe. I'm not sure if I'd ever want to wear a square box again in the future. Maybe it's cause my feet are big, so my platform is bigger in general, but I can't say I notice much of a boost with balancing. I think I balance better when my foot feels really secure and I can root into the ground without thinking about if I am sinking or if it hurts.
Still very much a beginner on pointe, so maybe my feeling will change.
When she said that a lot of people have to choose between academics and dance I felt that cause that’s me :( I regretted it so much, and when I decided to go back I injured my leg 😞
It's so sad that the dance world is still like this. We live healthy, long lives now. We have more insight into the science behind ballet, and can better mitigate injuries and increase performance. There is no reason to make people feel like their best years are behind them at 22 or that a 15 year old needs to drop out of school to train full time. I think experience can only add to artistry. Greater maturity and emotional development I think is also key to ending the abusive behavior that happens within companies as well...and the less generous side of me believes that is why the powers that be are so keen at getting children to commit to this path at the exclusion of their own personal development and support systems outside of the industry.
I totally agree. It's so sad that at the professional level, it's largely impossible for dancer athletes to respect their body's needs like rest when they something is over tired, and the result is accumulating so many injuries so quickly that they can't continue long. So many dancers who didn't go professional, or didn't stay professional very long are still able to enjoy dancing well late in life.
Hi Josephine I have an idea :) it would be so great if you can put shoe names bottom of your videos :))
Its very interesting
Josephine❤❤❤❤❤❤❤😄
Sometimes even a lot of dancers are mocked for that when they’re just trying to pursue their faith and trying to pursue their religion in a calm and quiet way and when there is a huge clash between Catholic dancers and Muslim dancers I don’t feel that those dancers that don’t wear the same types of clothing that Muslims wear they are just nagging on them to not be Muslim anymore it’s really annoying for me because they’re trying to pursue dance as hard as they can and they’re trying to pursue Islam as hard as they can and trying to balance both things some people don’t understand that which is really sad 😓
U do not need be like that u need love jesus
@@davidrivas3708 how about not telling people what their religion should be lol
Bc JESUS is the only thang that will get u in to heven
I go to an arts high school :D
I a, so glad I am done homeschooled and I just turned 13 and I was like should I not dance and then I other people and like yes ofc I can dance I have all ways had soeming in me to dance but there was never any school and I was littel so I was like ?? But now I am going to dance and we can’t get hold on them cus on ice and when all that ice and snow gone my mom going call them and I can’t wait
❤❤❤👋😁
You're like Olivander from HP but instead of wands it's shoes
Being homeschooled doesn't mean you are giving up on academics or settling for a lower level of academics vs. a public/private school.
Please react to the Germanys Next Topmodel Ballett Shooting! It was soooo awful to watch
Uhmm I hate feet so for me to say this is amazing but this girl has incredible feet, esp. toes compared to all the ballerinas I’ve ever seen. Like wow.. no damage
hi
ok so germany's next top model put their candidates in pointe shoes and actually made them go on pointe, and it's the worst thing i've ever seen, pleaaaase react to it
Dance and homeschool? That sounds like what the elite gymnasts do. It's a sad choice to make. But some schools are more flexible, and some students are as well. It just depends on the situation.
Every school should be able to teach core academic skills while still allowing the students to have their own projects, be it dancing or environment engineering. Most countries can teach the core curriculum with only a part time schedule (in my country, we either study in the morning or in the afternoon and full time schools are just for the kids whose parents have to work and don't have anyone to take care of them). I am not against full time school, but I'm against it being packed with really heavy subject that won't really develop any skills or be important for the child's future and still demand a lot of homework apart from the 8 hour-long school day (I am an adult who works for 8 hours a day and I refuse to do any work out of my contract hours and I don't understand why this would be different to children) when instead they could shrink the curriculum and make some times for students to work on their own projects. They would probably even learn more about other subjects as well. I learned a lot more about physics in the ballet studio than in school and that's because I was using relatable knowledge to build new ones. I hope this broken system changes faster because we've been teaching and learning inefficiently for too long now.
Hopefully she'll develop her arches.😦