The difference between "Good Pain" and "Bad Pain"

Hey guys!! I'm back (to blogging) sorry haven't posted in a really long time :/
So I wanted to tell my readers that I had suffered from an injury in my foot and it was emotional and physical pain  (since I wasn't able to attend my classes and dance). It was a muscle and ligament injury and had to get physiotherapy. But thankfully it's fine now!! But now I have a hamstring pull :(.

So please be careful when you dance and if you feel a shooting and inexpiable pain then it is definitely an injury and you should go to the doctor as soon as  possible. I just thought that it was a cramp and continued to do my class and it worsened. Whenever you  get such a pain then sit during your class and I know how guilty and bad you feel when you skip class or sit during class but hey! it's better to take precaution than suffer later. Now the good pain is usually the pain you get when you stretch, workout or dance for a long time. It's a burning sensation and you feel good because of  that kind of pain.

But then again when you stretch and you get a stabbing feeling anywhere in your leg (basically your hamstrings or gluteus maximus) then you should get it checked and if you can't go asap then put a hot water bottle on the area where it is paining. It takes a long time to heal so be patient and don't exert yourself or it'll just become worse.

That's all I had to say for today and please take care!!

HAPPY DANCING!!!

(ps:- If you hurt your foot or hand or any area where there is shooting pain and not a muscle pull put ice on it asap cause it'll help in making the swelling go away.)

Pointe!!

Hey guys!!

So today I will give you some tips to improve your point. Pointing is really important in almost all the western dance forms. You have to point when you jump, turn, do an arabesque basically everything! The most important thing is to never sickle  your foot. Its the worst you can do. Its like a useless cheat basically. You foot should aways be winged and turned out or in some cases parallel. Now to improve your pointe you can sit on your knees and bend forward for a long time like this:-

But try to put more pressure on your feet and they should obviously be pointed. 

Next is increasing your pointe with the help of a thera band. Sit on the floor  with one leg stretched out and just put the middle of the band where your foot arches and pull it with the other two ends like this :-

Don't just keep your foot in pointe… keep articulating your foot. Do that at least eight times. 

You can also try stretching out your toes like this:- 

And do this also eight times. Try not to let your big toe go back. Do this slowly. 

You can also try keeping your little toe on the floor first and then your other toes g follow and vice versa.

 You can also tell someone too sit on your feet while in pointe when you are sitting on the floor with your legs stretched out. Then you can get a pointe which looks like this *_*:-

Hope this helped!!! :D thanks for reading! 

HAPPY DANCING!!!