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Dancer Breaks Foot En Pointe

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Dancer Breaks Foot En Pointe

This is a dancer's worst nightmare. And confirmation of an age old superstition that dancing en pointe will break feet. Pointe shoes are meant to be a tool to help you dance en pointe. However, the wrong fit can prove harmful. Injuries and outdated fitting methods are the reason why we exist. To keep dancers safe and dancing for longer. Josephine discusses the rehab pointe shoe she picked for a dancer who broke several metatarsals, part of her lower leg, and has achilles issues.  Rehab pointe shoes are not often a dancer's 'forever shoe,' but for the time being, it...

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Why Professional Ballet Dancers Destroy Brand New Pointe Shoes

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Why Professional Ballet Dancers Destroy Brand New Pointe Shoes

Cheese grater and pointe shoes? What? This week, Josephine reacted to Maria Khoreva's pointe shoe preparation. And yes, it includes a cheese grater. Khoreva is first soloist of the Mariinsky Ballet in Russia. Even if you didn't know her name, if you love ballet, there's a high chance that you've at least seen her picture. Josephine was pretty surprised to see that Maria is in a Bloch stock shoe. Often times, professionals will have custom shoes based on stock shoe models. But even with some changes made at the factory level, pro dancers often still manually adjust and make changes...

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Pointe Shoe Fitting for Longer Lasting Shoes ft. Samantha Striplin

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Pointe Shoe Fitting for Longer Lasting Shoes ft. Samantha Striplin

This week - a pointe shoe fitting video! Yay! Your comments asking for more fitting videos are seen. Originally, we had to step away from this format back in 2020 during the pandemic. There were a few attempts with masks and captions, but scheduling got tricky. But when one door closes (at least temporarily), another opens! And thus, reaction videos were born. More specifically Tik Tok reaction videos were born. However, this whole time, pointe shoe fittings are happening constantly. They just weren't captured on camera. But for this video, we connected with 2022 Junior Model, Samantha Striplin! She has...

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Pointe Shoe Fitter Reacts to Ballet TIk Tok 14

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Pointe Shoe Fitter Reacts to Ballet TIk Tok 14

Santa Jo is here! To bring you what you really want...another Tik Tok reaction video! In honor of part 14 of this crazy internet series, a 14 minute video! Join Josephine for another episode of emotional twists and turns as we delve into the ballet internet rabbit hole more, and more, and more, and more...

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Pointe Shoe Fitter Reacts to Tik Tok - Part 13

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Pointe Shoe Fitter Reacts to Tik Tok - Part 13

Happy holidays y'all. You asked. We listened. It's Josephine being traumatized by the internet...for the 13th time.  What shall the ballet algorithm bring us today? Comment "flamingo" below if you enjoyed this video! 

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