ESPECIALLY TO ALL TAEKWONDO AND BALLET TEACHERS Can I take ballet and karate together?Give me proof/explain?

Question

please tell me if your really a taekwondo or ballet teacher(no joke) because i rreeeaally want to know if it can go together. taekwondo might make me stiff and ruin my ballet form and ballet might ruin my form in teakwondo and make me soft/fluid in taekwondo. taekwondo might make me so not gentle and graceful in ballet. please tell me. im doing both ballet and taekwondo now. tell me if it has any bad effects to each other. THIS IS ESPECIALLY TO ALL BALLET AND TAEKWONDO TEACHERS. P.S. tell me if you are a taekwondo or ballet teacher.

Answer 1

I'm a student rather than a teacher, but you can always tell the students who do dance and martial arts because of the way that they move.

Doing dance will seriously help your flexibility and balance for martial arts, especially when it come to doing high kicks or kicks that involve turning through 180/360. It can be a real bonus, however it will often lead to a student doing picture perfect moves with no power behind them (mostly with girls, rather than boys) as they tend to concentrate on form rather than function. If you want to do martial arts for self defense or competition you will need to fight your natural ballet urges a bit. However if you want to do it for fun or for display then ballet will help you as mentioned with flexibility and balance.

Viewed from the other side, if you come from a martial arts background and move into dance you will have to fight the urge to do everything fast. You will have to force yourself to slow down and to be more graceful. The stamina and muscle strengthening from martial arts will also help you.

Getting sore will be a problem at first but this is true with both martial arts and ballet as the kind of fitness required for ballet is different from martial arts. For example, in Martial arts you might have to kick your leg up very high which can be jarring and can make your muscles sore at first, but in ballet you need to be able to get you leg up and keep it up and to bend and stretch in different ways, which can also make you sore. You're body will get used to it though.

Answer 2

alot of martial artists practice ballet or yoga for flexibility. but taekwondo will most certainly NOT make you stiff. it will limber you up very well. my sister used to be able to stand flat with her back against the wall and kick the wall above her head. i'm not a tkd instructor.

i think they'd compliment each other very well.

Answer 3

ok im lost !!! are you talking about at the same time??? but you can do each seperatley but the closes thing you'll get in karate is Tai Chi