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  1. BalletBoyMumma
    My DS was called back in apparently (with another DC). To repeat stretches already done and to do some little jumps. DS initially felt he’d got something wrong but they reassured them both and said it was just because they’d missed watching those two doing those particular exercises while in the group.
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    Yep. I think we all prematurely got our hopes up based on previous years. Probably two weeks as they said it would be - Thursday or Friday maybe?
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    Aww. That sounds so lovely! I might have to pinch that idea. It is such an incredible achievement to make it to finals. I just said to DS ‘It would have been nice if you got to keep your audition number’ and he said ‘I DID!!! I just forgot to tell you.’ He has both. They were still in his bag after all this time. 🤭😅
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    They did. And they are still within. I hope so! It’s our own faults for overanalysing previous years results time frames and getting our hopes up. 😂
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    I was going to ask if anyone is brave enough to ask RBS (I’m not 🤣)
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    Hopefully we’ll finally find out today though - day 11 today post-boys final, aren’t we? 😫Everytime I get an email notification for this board too, I get really anxious incase someone has had their result through. 😬😅
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    Yes, I was about to say this too. Apparently it wasn’t a machine as such (that makes it sound grand or overcomplicated), just a little handheld device and they may not have even realised as they’d have been lying flat on their front for the manoeuvre so wouldn’t have seen it (DS said he saw because he witnessed the DC in the physio before him have it done). That said, it might have just been put on those where natural turnout potential wasn’t obvious by just looking or the other assessments that came before it (would explain a lot for my DS as his isn’t anywhere near flat but again, no idea really). We’ll never know their reasoning. And we are relying on 10/11yr olds to give a detailed description of events so even if they all had the same done, it’ll still sound different in many ways. Try not to worry - I say that as a fellow worrier though.
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    I hope so too. The unknown is really stressful. DS keeps asking too even though we’d geared him up for a no even before he went in to audition. He had far too much of a good time I think. 😁 (thank you to everyone who made it wonderful - the fellow auditionees and the WL staff - all brilliant!).
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    Yes, DS is vague on who was present too now though I knew it was coming up because we had pre-warning and so I asked him about it at the time and I’m certain he said someone came in but just had a clipboard and was writing notes. DS’s teacher is hypermobile (and DS has bowed legs so has to work extra hard to tighten up in the thighs) and I’ve been lucky enough to be present in some of his classes with her when they’ve discussed these issues - if the dancer knows how to work with these things to compensate the over bending and make them aesthetically pleasing it’s generally fine. I guess that comes with age. I wouldn’t worry too much there. As for the toes, you could be right, though all of mine have their dads very flat feet but arches are appearing with the correct foot work (eldest DD is about to go on pointe which we thought might never happen - DS does the most work there of the three so his feet have much more of a foot arch than his sisters). It’s interesting what focused work on certain areas can do.
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    @Lara Eschler I think you could be right, though DS said in yr6 they had one but wasn’t touched, just told to do positions and watched (their teacher mentioned the physio assessment in yr6 and gave extra exercises for homework on the parents eve - DS was given hamstring stretches). In YR5 I think, going by what DS says, it was a bit more involved but they were in different classes then.
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    Well done for YDA!!! 👏 Your DS is fabulous - he’ll have some choices to make, no doubt about it. I think we missed our opportunities for DS this year due to not being serious enough about the vocational route early on however DS has a place at the oversubscribed local school with a fantastic music department and is a specialist sport and science academy (all his strengths, so I really can’t complain too much) - academically he’ll be fine, I just worry whether he’d be able to keep up his dancing to the standards that would be required to continue how he wants to. A private physio appointment would certainly help with some decision making, for sure.
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    Thank you. That’s good to know. We’ve never really taken this too seriously before but if next year we apply again (DS already really wants to), it might be worth having a private physio check beforehand, just incase, to rule out any physical limitations.
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    Thank you. So we are still none the wiser really. Gosh, this waiting really has us overanalysing things. 😰 I hope we are put out of our misery soon with some results.
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    Interesting conversation. So can you achieve the appropriate flexibility for ballet with zero hypermobility? I only ask as DS is pretty flexible (but only through constant work and he loses it really easily) but he doesn’t pass any of the hypermobility tests aside from maybe the pike stretch (which he didn’t have at first but has been taught how to stretch correctly to achieve it). There’s no hyperextension in the knees or elbows and he can’t touch his thumb to wrist and his pinkie and big toe can’t stretch beyond 90 degrees. His turnout he stands in is not great, nowhere near flat at all but teachers keep saying he has more and to try to rotate and use more because his pliés are very outward apparently, and he is comfortably in box splits when warm. I think it must be so difficult at this age to understand what muscles to engage...and maybe strength, they don’t have a great deal of muscle mass at this age either. 🤔 I’d love to know more about that physio assessment. Do the other vocational schools do a physio assessment at audition too (thinking for the future)?
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    I hope not! ☹️ DS doesn’t have flat turnout and I’m not sure he’ll ever achieve fully flat (he’s flexible but not at all hypermobile according to the weird tests I’ve seen online: elbows, toes, thumb etc). I hope we can get some sort of feedback. I’m sure I’ve read that teachers can ask but parents can’t - will ask ours.
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    But, given we are relying on the recounts of 10/11yr olds I could be well off the mark. 😂
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    Haha, this bugged me too. When DS told me I put my Google detective hat on 🧐😅 and I think, going by how DS described it and the way they manoeuvred his leg apparently, it might be a digital goniometer - there’s a compact one called Halo used by physiotherapists but DS said it wasn’t that one. It’ll be to check rotation in the hip socket, they’ll be able to tell if a child has natural turnout or forced (more from the knees) and how much range there is (apparently).
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    Not sure if anyone is in WL auditions today but if they are (and are reading on here): Good luck! Enjoy. Have a wonderful time! 🩰✨⭐️👏 Hopefully results soon. 🤞
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    It does get VERY busy with cyclists. 😰 No matter the weather. (Must admit, I was relieved when ours was a Friday because parking in the park can be a real nightmare on weekends). It’s a beautiful park though. Hope you’ve managed to spot the deer roaming around - they really aren’t shy at all. Are you waiting to pick your DD up now?
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    Good luck to those auditioning today. You’ve got this! ✨🤩🩰⭐️ I hope you have the most wonderful time. 👏
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    Yes! Same. 😰
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    Hope everyone has had a wonderful audition today. And good luck for those tomorrow and Sunday too! We are day 7 of no results today - do you reckon we are safe from expecting results for the weekend? (I really, really want my life back from this obsessive refreshing of emails 😅🤣)
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    Good luck to those dancing today. Enjoy every moment! Smile. Stretch your feet. Dance like you mean it! You will be wonderful and have the most amazing time! 🤩🩰⭐️✨
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    Awww. 🥺 Lots of hugs needed. Weloveballet - can you print it? It was the email we printed and DS handed in, I didn’t show the text. If you can’t, screenshot the email just incase and it’ll be fine - we found phone signal a bit sketchy up at WL. But others did show their phones (that could have been text or email).
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    Oh my goodness!!! That is terrible of them. 😳 Glad Premier Inn had space. Maybe grab a wine - I certainly would need to in that situation. Bless you. Breathe. It will be fine.
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