TIP TOES :p

[Colz]

Does anyone have any advice on getting right up high on your toes? I can do it easily, i just forget. Anyone have any idea how i can drum it in so that it happens without me thinking about it?

Apparently in the last feis i dance amazingly but my flat feet let me down. Any advice would be greatly welcomed

XX COLZ XX

[dancingqueen17]

do you mean just standing on your toes or dancing on the balls of your feet and not your heels?

[Colz]

actually dancing on your balls, really high...i never dance on my heels, but i'm never high enough. I can do it...just forget when i get to a feis

[dancingqueen17]

at my dance class we do these exercises:
first exercise: cross your feet in the regular position (like your about to dance), stand on the ball of your feet for 4 counts, then go down for 4...repeat this a lot then change to the next foot
second exercise: cross feet, then stand on the ball of your feet and with one foot in front of the other (don't change feet) walk 4 counts and stop and cross your other foot in front then walk 4 counts

i hope these help. do them to warm up at the feis too!

[Tempress]

hahaha! my teacher does these same ones with me here in Australia!

[Colz]

yer we do those too. I do it sometimes, maybe i'll try doing them more often. Like after every dance etc. I need something that will drill it in so hard i dont need to think about it

[kyliemillar23]

try when u are at home just walkin sound in ur bare feet or socks on ur toes. i dance really high on my toes and my mum said to tell u that why i can do it. ive always walked on my toes when im at home. even when i was a baby. it prob why my hamstrings are wrecked lol

[Colz]

lol thank you. I've tried all these things, it's starting to help. I'll keep at it, but any more advice will be greatly welcomed

[jadeorgana10@insightbb.com]

Colz, I was reading this and I have the same problem! my teachers are always telling me "higher on your toes" and I can do it, I just forget to while dancing...but the fact that I have absolutley FLAT feet might have aomething to do with it as well...

[Irish_sunshine]

I have flat feet too, and I have Colz' problem, I can do it, it's just that sometimes because of my flat grizzly bear feet, i forget to, lol!!