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My dd has started doing it with her leg raised in arabesque since a girl she met on a course (a Royal MA) told her that's what they do there. Strangely enough, her teacher has started saying "what a lovely leg line"!

The trouble with statistics is that there is no such thing as average... I bet the fatties eat their letters on the way home from school!

Shirley315, they quite often do Wolverhampton I think, would that be too far?

Congratulations to the British Three Day Event Team on their silver medal!

It's funny, the tv coverage - I've noticed that there seems to be an awful lot of chit-chat with visiting celebrities, and "why we didn't win a medal in that event" gossip, rather than actually seeing the events taking place live. I don't mind what events they show - I quite like watching things I would never normally see - and it would be nice if they showed a wide cross-section of everything, rather than the things they think we want to watch. Also, anyone else tired of hearing the phrase Teeemm Geee Beee?!

It might be worth taking her to an osteopath, my dd goes about every 6 months and she says it helps a lot.

This is great - really interesting!

Re how much active children and teenagers need to eat, I worked at a riding school when I was 17, and on a wet boring afternoon we worked out our calorie intake - it was over 4,500 a day!

I don't know anything about nutrition and this is probably going against all the 'healthy eating' advice out there, but I can't help wondering if your dd is getting enough fat in her diet? I think it might be worth finding out, because I'm sure I read somewhere that fat is important in the diet of adolescent girls.

Absolutely Anjuli, dd had been shown how to do a fouette in a free class, and had it explained to her - she just couldn't do it! Seeing it broken down step-by-step really helped her to understand it better.

How much weight has she actually lost (I hope it's ok to ask)?

Hi, I've reopened this thread as the course is on at the moment!

I wonder if it is intended for young adults or whether it is suitable for children too.

My dd is 13, It's the first time she has done any Cecchetti as she's an RAD girl, so it will be interesting to hear what she makes of it, and the choreography competition, she's never had to do that either... I haven't had any texts yet so I don't know who she's dormed with - although her dorm on the top floor, as I found out to my cost when hauling her stuff up the stairs!

We've occasionally found things on youtube that can be handy, we saw one once about how to do fouettes that explained everything, broke it down into individual elements and showed it in slow-motion.

Pas de Quatre, thanks for this link, I didn't know this sort of thing was available. It sounds very useful.

Dd at Tring at the moment at the Cecchetti Summer School - I can't keep her away!

Wherever you order from, make sure you order well in advance - recently dd's modern teacher had to source some different outfits at the last minute as the original ones were on back-order and didn't come in time.

Thanks for water bottle advice - we haven't got any paperwork as it is our disabled friend who organised it. I'll tell hubby to take empty bottles - although he said if he gets thirsty he will wait for it to rain and then tilt his head back and open his mouth for a drink!

On a slight aside here: my hubby accompanying a wheelchair-user to olympics on tuesday, and he's been told he can only take water bottles containing 100ml. We've measured that amount and it's ridiculously small! Does anyone else know anything about this, and where can we get Lilliput-sized bottles of water from?

Primark are brilliant at hair accessories as well

Have you tried checking on another forum? It's called: dance.net There is a large and enthusiastic freestyle forum on there and I'm sure someone will be able to help.

Clara, perhaps your dd might like to do the short residential course at Tring just before Christmas - it's a ballet weekend, they rehearse & perform a short show for parents on the last afternoon, and also go up to London to see something in the West End. My dd has been several times and loved it!

Everybody is so different - my dd started her periods age 10 when she weighed 4 stone 9 lbs, although they were very irregular to start with. She grew 4 inches the following year and only about an inch or two since. She's now 13 and has practically stopped growing at 5'4" and 7st. I started my periods when I was 10 too.

Thanks, yes she came out smiling, and said the free enchainement was a lot easier than she expected it to be, so fingers crossed - i suppose we will have to wait till the end of the holidays for her to get results though,