What is sickling?

[lilyenilane]

Dammit I'm sickling

[Quinnhop]

Ya your stuped bitch

[jcm1116]

aaaah shit... i sickle. 

[xXxpandasxXx]

I wish my arches were like yours T^T

[travisphillips18]

can you spread your toes really far apart?

[dnsc9798]

Sickling is when you are putting to much weight on your little toes and feet. You also don't want to roll in your feet by putting to much weight on your front toes and feet. You want to put weight evenly on your toes and feet. I used to have a problem rolling in my feet, and one on my ballet directors said that rolling in your feet can cause hip injuries. I hope I helped.:)

[thedancer5499]

good example, but for those who dont get it to sicke is to have the toes over the heels in reference to tendus for demi point (releve) its pushing the heels out/and or back

[pu20302]

You are beautiful, I just saw your other videos, so you have nice arches :)

[laurenboren94]

when i was learning to point my teacher said now dont sickle and im like what now i kno lol and not being a hater but its not just on your big to its on the first threee but i understand u mean ilke go towards the big toe not the smal :)

[Simpsonize143]

i have that roblem in my left leg!! help?

[crazyjoe1148]

i think you have real nice feet .i don,t know why say there sicking ? i think there real pretty .

[stupidthingthissucks]

you're my favourite ballerina on youtube, i think i've watched all your vids! :) haha, not to sound creepy.. and wtf with the person who says you have a foot fetish? like REALLY? wow. they're dumb.

[JennyW410]

you have great arches. i'm so jelous! i'm still working on mine tho :)

[madabouttoes]

wow, really hot feet...u probably didnt mean to be, tho

[Sillygoose1997]

u shouldnt have all of your weight on the big toe....it should be evenly distributed between at 5 toes.

[pointeal22]

Thank you this helped a lot!

[allyissandtaylor]

thats bad for your ankle...i know from past experiance...but then again i have different pointe shoes :)

[iamawsomebciam]

oww i dance and im not on pointe yet!! lol but just watching you do this hirts my feet lol :-) btw i know alot of people who sickle and it hurts me lol im paronoied :0

[dancer4eva00]

You would really want your weight distributed over all of your toes, but you were still right. Good video!

[balletdancerocks1]

no your weight needs to be in the middle not to the left or right in the middle your going to teach beginneers bad thing.

[EvanescenceROCKSS]

ive been looking on the internet as im getting soft blocks in jan 2011. Amelie soft, to be exact i think, frum bloch though im not entirely sure yet. im 13 and i was just wondering if you can go onto pointe with soft blocks or not. if you see the shoes they basicly look like pointes... theres been so much info on the web about yes and no that its not getting me anywhere... plz help!! sum1..?

[Balletshoes102]

@EvanescenceROCKSS

i own a pair of Soft Amelie and they are ffrom Bloch ... they worked really good for me and you can go on pointe with them !

hope this helped !

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[SLYCoopaEatsChicken]

more like sickling and rolling

[CoutureDolls]

oh thnx for explaining glad i dont do that or else i can say good bye to my ankles!

[dancechicka4ever]

the weight should be kept in the ball of your foot. sickling is SO UGLY!!!!!! and it hurts after a while of doing it.

[Roshiagohime]

putting all the weight on your big toe like you did in the start of the video creates a beuatiful line but it is incorrect its known as winging look it up on here

[cooperneely]

everyones saying that it shouldnt be on the big toe. but if you think about putting your weight on your big toe then the weight disperses to the correct place which is around the ball of your foot

[Kentislandgirl]

you shouldn't keep most of your weight on one toe actually. yes keeping it on your pinky toe is bad. but its just as bad to put it all on your big toe. all weight should be distributed evenly through all the toes.

[AlliKat7329]

Actually, the weight should be in the middle of your foot, not your big toe...

[missrabbitgirl2]

great im much better now thnx xxx

[odettemsb]

please don't tell anyone to put all their weight in their big toe every again. you'll break your ankle without question if you're en pointe. the weight should be in the center of the feet spread evenly between all of the toes. what you're talking about is winging, which is nice, for the free foot in an arabesque, but it is very bad for a standing foot and certainly not a straight foot by any means.

[jem0jessie]

Thankyou. My teacher always keeps on going on about how i have a really bad sickled foot and i had no idea what she waz talkin about but now i know and i know what to do. Again thankyou

[iGOTCHOPPERS1]

hahaha i think that comment that got blocked out down there was someone saying you have a foot fetish and i'll second that!! and its not the fact that you're showing your feet, that portion is strictly for educational purposes, but you seem to like to unnecessarily touch your feet. i love it muahaha

[balletdancer923]

Excuse me? I do not have a foot fetish. That's gross. The comment that is blocked down there is blocked because it said something like "you've got hairy legs!" and it wasn't even bad so I don't know why it's blocked. You're weird.

[iGOTCHOPPERS1]

the feet produce the same pheromones as the genitals. sorry my human instinct attracts me to them. and lets not hate on something you've probably never experienced. just like many things in life, it CAN be gross. it all depends on how you do it. if you do it my way, with moderation, cleanliness and romanticism, you might love it. ive introduced it to girls just like you and most ended up telling me it felt soo good. shit, the feet have THE highest concentration of nerve endings in the human body

[iGOTCHOPPERS1]

and let me just say im a 1st year Marine officer living on base straight out of getting my bachelors at UCF. ive been exposed to alot of freaky stuff these past 5 years, im just a product of my environment!!! dont rain on my parade : [

[M3d3a]

A fetish develops through classical conditioning. It has nothing to do with pheromones or nerve endings. The feet do not have the highest concentrations of nerve endings, the highest concentration would be in the genitals (otherwise you wouldn't have orgasms). Basicly, a fetish develops the same way a phobia does but because it gets people off, they don't want to get it treated. And as long as you don't prefer the feet over the person they're attached to, it's not necessary either.

[lovelypointe]

@balletdancer923 even if u dont mean for it to be, showing ur bare feet on camera like this is incredibly hot, expecially how u flex and bend ur toes like that.  that video where u pointed n spread ur toes right in the camera made me explode!

[princessruby14]

thank u

[peter357]

Why is sickling bad?

[balletdancer923]

In ballet, it creates an ugly line.

[peter357]

Ok... And I agree!

[pointeisawesum]

its also very bad for your feet ... you can break your ankle that way

[PinkIce2335]

Also, you'll hurt your toes. Be careful!!

[fujimorimomoyia]

@peter357 XD, Also sickling your foot increses your chance of falling over or cramping your foot. -_- personal exsperience lol. ^-^ hope this helps.

[xXLindsayLovelyXx]

@peter357 and when your en Pointe you rick breaking your ankle,

[KattyKatrinaFu]

@peter357

it hurts and it looks bad

[lilly94white]

@peter357 also, when you're on pointe and you sickle you have a higher risk of falling off pointe and damaging or even breaking your ankle :/

[IllicitNotifications]

@peter357 It also works your ankles the wrong way, usually leading to injury..BAD injuries. If you go on pointe like that, you will most likely strain or break your ankles. And as said, it creates a bad line. You want nice and clean (:

[cuzisaidso9007]

@peter357 it's also dangerous and can lead to some serious injuries.

[sleepdancelove19]

@peter357 It can lead to injury and poor technique

[IheartMusicsite]

can u make a video on how to fix ur sickling because now i know that i am sickling when doing posse on releve and i don't know how to fix it

[Jojobluer]

Wow! You got SOME HAIRY LEGS!

[balletdancer923]

I do not! lol

[Jojobluer]

I know I was Just Playin! Lol!

[danceforlife2014]

you should have ur weight equally disributed, it should NOT just be on ur big toe

[balletdancer923]

@danceforlife2014 I know, but for someone who has no idea what sickling is, it's easier to understand it this way at first.

[balletforlife14]

what if... i do not sickle, but the shape of my feet make it look as if i AM sickling, so i have to push or pronate to compensate...i have very flat feet. what can i do?

[dancer5616]

flat feet is not always good but you could always fix it by some excersises like rolling your feet on a glass cola bottle

[ballet81895]

@dancer5616 does that really work?

[DancerWithTheBadKnee]

I love the way you seem to be very conscious of keeping your toes nice and straight and not scrunching your toes under... :)

Good job!

[Lissbirds]

You explained it very well. Thanks for putting this up.

It's so hard for me not to sickle and I can't really wing at all...do you have an exercises/tips to help with winging?

[dancer5616]

really its almost phsycologicaly thinking. if u dont think of your feet you could easily sickle. What you do is basicaly IMAGINE being on top of your big toe and most of the work is in the heel in which you would have to move inward. hope that helped

[Lissbirds]

I hadn't thought of the heel before but I just started putting that into practice and that's a great mental image. Thanks!!

[sweetiecandykim]

I am glad you have put this up, because some people don't know. I used to sickle in tap, and it is hard to distribute my weight evenly because I have quite square feet. On the southern strutt dance website one of the pictures on the slideshow shows a girl sickling really badly and it really annoys me!

[tdsmeg4]

no you should be on all your toes not just the big toe but no tilting like that just try to sty on all of them

[d1664256]

Thank you for showing this; I was afraid to ask what it is. I was starting to think that sickling was just something critics say when they can't actually find anything wrong.

[balletzenaida]

Actually my teacher says you must releve in all the toes but you musn't turn your feet to the side cuz it gets all ruined then.

I don't know if I explained myself

[kashra909]

whew !

thanks so much i totally didnt know what sickling was before this!

:)

[fredvrp]

when you go on demi pointe balance your weight on all of your toes

nice arches!!!!!

=D lizzie

[lmknite6]

Actually, when you go onto demi pointe, you should level your weight between your first 3 toes: BIg toe, 2 toe, and middle toe!

[tealxie]

@lmknite6 you're right :D even though putting weight on ur little toe is bad you shouldnt put all of it on ur big toe either.

[ReiMidorikawa]

@lmknite6 She knows, but for someone who has no idea what sickling is, it is much easier to understand this way at first :)

[xAngelOfTheNightx]

i do that (go onto my pinkie) but i didnt know it was sickling... thanks for posting this :)

[adibaby1979]

thank you for explaining that. I'm not a dancer but I like watching ppl dance and I kept seeing ppl say "you're sickling, don't do that" and I kept wondering what the hell they were talking about.

[strangesugarfairy]

that pants really are in the way ;D but you did a good job explaining it. I'll show people your video if you are asking what sickling is.

[xMyrthe]

i do that....

[artboy4433]

I agree, i would love to see your soles as you pointe.

[strangesugarfairy]

this is for dancers, not perverts. go watch some porn and leave the girls alone.

[Tinytinytiny3me]

i think you are very right when you say they should leave these girls alone especially b/c alot are UNDERAGE! However there is nothing wrong with having a foot fetish.. But there's a time and place for everything.

[strangesugarfairy]

Thank you. :) The point where something starts to be wrong is where you're harassing people, and that's what these comments do. If a girl is doing ballet exercises to get constructive critique, she doesn't look for "your feet are so hot"-comments. Those comments are okay if a video title says "my oh so hot barefoot floor pointe with super sexy ballet feet", but I didn't find videos like that yet, fortunately ;D

[balletdancer923]

Thanks strangesugarfairy and tinytinytiny3me. Finally someone who understands! =p I can't stand all these stupid comments about feet being hot.

[stunninglee]

my teachertrs in Moscow learn us to support to the little toe

[balletdancer923]

While you were up on pointe? Or while you were standing on flat? Cause while standing with the feet flat, the weight needs to be back on the little toe or else your rolling in. That's what my teacher says. =)

[stunninglee]

while standing on flat) It adds up )

[balletdancer923]

Yup. =)

[eminenceone]

Aw you have the cutest southern voice haha. I really like your accent it is so cute. I am from Seattle so you probably think I'd sound funny =P

[ImeldaBootstross]

Excellent video. 5 stars

[BalletFeetHD]

can you do this all over again, but face the other direction, so the camera sees the bottoms of your feet? Please please? Thanks. ;)

[balletdancer923]

Why? it would be the exact same thing. I think you can actually see sickling better from the front anyway.

[BalletFeetHD]

Well, I don't mean so much for you to demonstrate sickling. You've shown that quite well. But the only angle of your feet you haven't shown in your videos has been the bottoms. No one does a demi-pointe video facing the other way. I think it would be different and unique.

I'm sure I'm not the only one with this request, right everyone?

[strangesugarfairy]

you can call it "different and unique" or you tell the truth that you're a feetloving pervert. there are MANY of you guys here on youtube, and it's disgusting.

[eminenceone]

Love your toes sweetie pie! =] You have got some great arches too. Your heels are so round and well pronounced. love em :>

[RiotAct37]

you learn something new every day :) Thanks!

[surladoshortii]

Very nice hun. A very informative video

[balletdancer923]

Thank you! =)