We just need to highlight this comment from one of our viewers:
"@TheTimHall" said:
"Ballet Dancer Breaking In A New Car:
- Rips out the seats.
- Jumps up and down on the hood.
- Drives the car down some steps.
- Drives it for 1 day.
- Buy a new car..."
Yep.
That pretty much summarizes pointe shoes hacks - but thank goodness it's a shoe and not a car!
This is Josephine's favorite series to react to. It features all the cool little - but sometimes brutal - ways that ballerinas will customize their pointe shoes.
Every person's feet are different, and even between their left and right, there's differences. So on top of the hand made shoes, there's even more handiwork that goes into it to make the shoes as functional as possible.
So yes, pointe shoe hacks are basically surgery. Which clip was your favorite?
Hi Josephine, I have learnt a lot about fitting pointe shoes from watching some of your videos. It has especially helped me get a better fit by knowing what feedback to give my fitter. I have rather difficult very low crown/arch highly compressible feet. I’m in Australia, so most of my fellow dancers are in Bloch, but they don’t make any shoes good shoes for me. I finally found a great shoe for me (Energetiks Athena/RP Almaz) a few pairs ago, but I have twice struck a pair that weren’t quite the width they are supposed to be (I’m w3, but one pair more was more like width 3.5 and another 2.5). I watched the video of a pro (Misa?) sorting her shoes in your shop and it looked like she rejected about half as ‘not so good’. I’m curious to know what percentage of handmade pointe shoes have significant variations, and whether I have been unlucky, or is this typical (2/6 pairs non standard).