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The very best Stretches - What's My Best Program
The ballet beginner and also the adult starting ballet class both want to learn and understand the best stretching exercises. Each wonders "what's the very best for me"? Those who work in love with, and already watching ballet closely, can see that high leg extensions, long curving back bends, elastic knee bends and cat-like jump landings, and high leaps in the splits, would be the mere norm in classical dancing. A tall order for most!
After training countless ballet students, I tell you, it effects everyone differently, and almost each one of these wished they had only one more physical attribute, the one which everyone but they, had. You may be a ballet student with high arches, flexible hips, and yet - you have lousy turnout.
You may be a dance student with a long neck, elastic shoulders, a willowy upper back, and high arches, yet have a tight pelvic area. Believe me, it appears as though the most gifted ballerina has an area that requires a lot of stretching exercises, simply to meet up with the remainder of their physique.
Ballet is simple for practically nobody, just in this regards. Yet, if you learn some functional anatomy, and if you KNOW what your least flexible group of muscles is, you will get it up to par with your more flexible muscles.
Don't despair if you do not possess the easy flexible ankle joints, however, you possess a deep, elastic, demi plie. Your long and stretchy calf muscles provides you with a range of motion in the depth of the plie, for your highest point of foot, providing you with a powerful jump upwards.
If you have a shallow demi plie, but more motion in the ankle joint, that movement provides you with a strong push-off from the feet. In either case, you can work on the other, to get more movement, as well as much more of a trendy look in the result, which as we all know, ballet is very picky about.
For those who have a small flexibility both in the ankle and demi plie (leg muscles), then you will have to patiently focus on both areas. The good news is, no matter how slowly, you'll improve, with knowledge of parts of your muscles and joints, and never with only forceful pushing in it.
The essential arabesque - you have to be flexible in the hips, psoas, or long postural muscle going from the thigh towards the anterior of the spine, and through top of the back into the shoulder girdle, for a really fluid motion. Some dancers end up tighter in a single spot, that is very annoying...but can be corrected.
Understanding Myofascial Release
Releasing tension in the fascia, the wrap-around tissue that surrounds and joins all of your muscles from top to bottom, will release tension and elongate the muscles as well. Referring back to the low legs and rearfoot flexibility, a relaxation technique for myofascial release of the shin muscles can be done BEFORE you stretch the rearfoot. You will feel more flexibility if you do it within this order.
