Anyone know any good ballet stretchers i could do at home ??

Question

hey i wanna get more flexible and it will help me with ballet does anyone know any good stretches i could do at home ????

Answer 1

ballet is more to strength your body but it also gets you more flexible.  I would say work on your splits most defintatly and work on some plies, toe roll ups( where you go on your toes up and down and move to 2nd 4th 5th and 1st it gets really hard) holding your leg in the air and moving it around slowly.  Theres lots of ways.

Answer 2

practice your splits and do some toe touches, this will help you become more flexible, if you have time take a gmnastics class, this will also increase yourflexability and help you move fluidly

Answer 3

start off doing some plies they always warm-up your whole leg.

sit with your legs out to the sides and stretch onto your legs (you know what i mean).

also sit on you bum with the soles of you feet together then stretch one leg so it staight infront of you while keeping the other where it was (bent in) now stretch down so your head touches your straight leg. repeat this on both sides. then go back to the first side and take the leg that was bent in and take it to the back (it should be bent and the back,you should look like your doing a hurdle jump) then stretch again and repeat on both sides. doing that eveeryday will really improve splits.

do not take a gymnastics class. gymnasts are sent to ballet lessons for a reason, to learn how to be more flowy and graceful. gymnastics will really mess up you arms for ballet.

by the way i have nothing against gymnasts i love watching them but its not a good idea for a ballet dancer to use their methods

Answer 4

just stretch, thats all you can really do.

PS how will gymnastics make you move fluidly? gymnastics is all choppy and stiff.