Petalviolet
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Are you sure swanprincess!!? You are a busy young lady after all? If I tell DD she could write to a proper training ballerina in a proper ballet school....called SWAN PRINCESS...well... She might pop! And/or be very shy!
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Thank you! Have pm'd you too!
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Hello Ms Sunshine! How exciting! You have but to ask...and Balletco delivers every time. When I said exotic....! I have had to google Guernsey? Please feel free to pm for a chat. Please also feel free NOT to read any of my previous 340 posts on this forum..just need to emphasise I am not..actually.......mad.
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My DD (8- year 4) would really love to have a pen pal. She did write to another girl she met on holiday this summer but hasn't had a reply in ages so she has lots of fairy notepaper, stickers and even fairy sparkly dust (a treat for any unwitting recipient) to send, and no one to send it too. I've been looking online and most pen pal schemes seem to be for older children or sponsorship programmes or by email or you have to pay or..dodgy. Ideally she would love to write to a girl or a boy the same age (year 4) who is equally as mad about ballet, possibly another who does associates, from somewhere properly foreign and far away like Bristol...or....Southampton ...or Aberdeen. Maybe as she doesn't have siblings another only child but that's not particularly important. She'd very happily write to a boy too especially if he were a fan of ninja warrior uk and believed in tooth fairy/Santa/Bigfoot/ability to fly unaided? I'm not sure really but I thought I would take a chance and ask and perhaps there might be someone here who could think of a suitable child who would be perfect and could help them get in touch? Any suggestions or if you have found a pen pal and have advice about how to go about it (safely!) that would be very welcome! PV and little pv.
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Finger cracking ugh. It's one quick and easy way to provoke a PV room exit.
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I am a bad influence.
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My other half and knuckle cracking! God! And every finger joint too!
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Oh yes we've had a "you're disgusting" comment from another child once. DD just rolled her tongue.
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A petalviolet question if ever I saw one.
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Knee crossers :-) :-) I think I might have swayback fingers!!? Definetly not legs. I don't even have calves I have cankles. Never had any trouble getting my hands flat to the floor as a child but DD's father can do the thumb back to the wrist. We are now trying to piece together our bits, it's making for some strange sofa positions right now.
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Sorry I really don't know anything about hypermobility and this has also been picked up in the lower school finals thread Amos has started but.. If your DD has these mobility issues pointed out in the diagram does that mean she would completely fail a physio for lower school auditions? I mean not that we are in this position but just a bit worried now. :-(
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Thank you for the article too!
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Thank you Dr Dance that is such a great diagram!! Brilliant! When DD does 4 just yuk yuk yuk stop it eeeek. I've not tried 5 on her but shall give her fingers a gentle prod tomorrow. Those elbows.... Hahaha I don't know why I'm laughing but it's just nice to see it in a proper demonstration when you normally just accept your child's quirks as being just 'them'.
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What do you recommend Dr Dance? How does your approach differ if you don't mind me asking?
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Don't go! Stay put please! Yes that was the advice DD had, to keep a small distance between her heels but even when she does this one knee still isn't right but maybe that's more of a turn out issue at the hip? Everything is connected I guess like cogs so if one bit isn't aligned correctly everything gets thrown off. She needs to work on maintaining her turnout and her legs etc it takes a lot of concentration and effort to stand up straight with your heels together and turn out I'm starting to appreciate. I had always linked hypermobility to children with very long limbs in my mind so it's strange that it also seems to effect her too? She's above average height but it's all torso. Oh and I don't swayback spot I short torso spot. There is always something you covet whilst some one else wants what you have!!!
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It's interesting what joints are hypermobile and what are not? I'd have thought if you were flexible say in your knees you would be everywhere but it seems there is a degree and that it effects some joints and not others? Bit of a lottery? Atacrossroads- can your DD put her elbows together behind her back?!! This probably sounds like a weird question! DD has also got double jointed thumbs, how USELESS for ballet is that?!
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I'd be very interested to hear people's experiences with swayback legs as it's something that is getting picked up upon more and more recently for my DD, in particular in her associates? She has the habit of overlapping one knee with the other in first and I wonder about the effect this has on her core strength and stability and her turnout. It's one of the most basic foundations of ballet being in first and if you struggle to get that right early on what bad habits are going to be laid down I don't know. Is it common for sway backs to effect leg strength too? DD struggles with jumps, she doesn't seem to have the lift or the straightness of leg, she can do it but it takes much more effort and she can't keep the technique up for long? At her EYB audition on Monday they pulled her out to do two pas de chats and a "change mont" Luckily only two in a row- three would have defeated her! She also has to concentrate on her elbows too, bending or softening them slightly to create a less quirky line? Do elbows and knees go together? So far it's something to be overcome!
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Just got back - phew. lots of exciting finals to come for some very talented Balletco DC's and I can't wait to follow them on their journey (with my pom poms) such a big achievement to get finals (or SS places) at any of these super selective schools in any year so you should all be incredibly proud!
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Here have one of my Pom poms. We could do a duet.
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Oh congratulations for the summer school place!! It's a 'sorry but then not sorry' from me to you xx
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Frantic frantic pom Pom waving!! Yaaaas! I'm a blur of Pom poms!!wahoo! Come on RBS! (Royal Ballet Smaug)
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The RBS email dragon stirs....hahahaha brilliant. Can he have Benedict Cumberbatch's voice?
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..can't ..keep..holding..up..celebratory...Pom poms.... .....must...rest... .......arms....trembling...
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Best user name ever above.
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Although I was watching a ballet not a wildlife documentary so perhaps should try a bit harder to suspend my disbelief.
