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Bloch Heritage-Pointe Shoe Review
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Josephine shares her true thoughts on the Bloch Heritage! The Heritage is one of Bloch’s most popular models of pointe shoes, featuring one of their most tapered boxes while still maintaining a medium sized platform that is stable and easy to balance on. The Heritage is made on a slightly curved last but is not quite as curved as other Bloch models, such as the European Balance. This pointe shoe has a full shank that is available in both a regular and strong strengths. The Heritage has sizes ranging from a 2-9 and widths ranging from 0-4 X. This pointe...
Kathryn Morgan's Pointe Shoe Hack!
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It's the collab we've all been waiting for! After years of IG DM's and a worldwide pandemic, Josephine Lee & Kathryn Morgan finally meet! In this video, Kathryn shares some of her pointe shoe hacks, and ballet experiences in general. It's always so interesting to see the little tweaks that professional dancers make to their shoes, and how these tricks get passed on from dancer to dancer. Note that this video was filmed before Josephine got to fit Kathryn, so these are hacks that Kathryn has been using in her shoes for some time. Will she need these tips and...
Pointe Shoe Fitter Reacts to Haley Pham
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Josephine reacts to Haley Pham en pointe! For those of you who don't know who Haley Pham is, she is a YouTuber who has been on the internet since she was very young. Although these days Haley is just casually living as a 20 year old wife, homeowner, and multi millionaire, once upon a time she was just a little competitive dancer who had a good time on YouTube. One thing that Haley never made it to in dance was pointe work, so she decided to fulfill her little pipe dream and get a pointe shoe fitting! Haley then had...
Pointe Shoe Fitting a Transgender Dancer (ft. Lennon Torres)
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"I think living my truth is more important than the fear of not having a dance career" - Lennon Torres This week Josephine fit Lennon Torres, a transgender dancer, for her first pair of pointe shoes! For a first pair, Josephine likes to look for a shoe that will be very stable, while still giving the dancer something soft enough to roll through and build strength with. A couple of things that Josephine noticed with Lennon's feet were that she has a tendency to sickle, she has a nail bed that would likely be sensitive, and that she would likely...
Pointe Shoe Fitter Reacts to Michelle Khare Ballet (yikes!)
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This week Josephine reacts to Michelle Khare's video "I trained like a ballerina for 6 weeks"! First thing, Michelle put on a very poorly fitted pair of pointe shoes.... Though you should never go on pointe after only training for 6 weeks, we were glad to see that Michelle had hold of the barre while going all the way up in her shoes. Michelle also described this as "the most painful experience of her life." (Don't ever give birth Michelle LOL). While pointe work will come with a certain amount of discomfort, it should never be excruciatingly painful! When fitted correctly,...