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Hi drdance, that does make a lot of sense thank you! I'm worried about this for a number of reasons really: 1. I've started pointe work with my teacher and she really emphasizes the importance of having strong 'inner thighs' to help stay up on pointe and come down from pointe safely. 2. Tendus a la seconde have always felt 'easy' for me, as I've said I don't feel my 'inner thigh' working so I feel as though I'm not doing something right or my technique is wrong. 3. Similar to the above point, all the muscles in my legs are toned except the 'inner thighs' (when I stand in parallel so the adductors and vastus medialis as you said above) so this makes me think I must be doing something wrong and not working them properly. Thanks for your help.

Hi drdance, I'm aware of this, this is what I'm referring to; I can't feel my adductors activating when I'm closing my tendus. All of my other leg muscles are toned and working well, it's just these I can't seem to get working. Hi Kate_N, I've tried this one a lot and the muscle that I can feel activating is the very small one right underneath my bum (not sure what this is?) rather than my adductors unfortunately.

Hi everyone, I've found that I have a real problem engaging the adductors in my working leg when doing tendus. I have no problem engaging them in my standing leg but I really struggle to do so in my working leg, especially in tendu à la seconde/to the side. I've tried standing in second position and slowly dragging my leg and foot back into first and fifth, I've tried doing tendus with my foot flexed and off the floor so I'm definitely using my leg muscles and not my foot to return to first and fifth but I still can't feel my adductors working. I have swaybacks/hyperextended knees so I try to bend/'straighten' them so they don't get in the way and I'm holding my turn out as much as possible when coming back into first and fifth position. Any tips? Thanks!