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[liltoria105]

to young. in my dancing school the pick who goes on pointe by their strength not by their age. thats retarted.

[dancerers12]

Picking pointe by age is the stupidest thing ive ever heard of! obviously the studio was too lazy to focus on the dancers individually and find out who is strong enough for pointe yet!

[sherashenaWO]

icky! the feet drive me crazy! they cannot go on as a class! r they dumb! u have to be 10 at my company/school and have to pass certain requirements! they should wait 5 years and try again if they r WAY WAY WAY better.

[tessalishish]

Listen. Strength is veryy important for pointe. BUT so is the age!!! If you are not 11 or older, your growth plates in you ankles,knees, etc. will get so messed up and it will hurt you. I know this because I have known people that went on too soon and now they cant dance. Its dangerous when you are not strong enough BUT its also dangerous if you are too young!!

[RhiannonStar2]

wow, they're not strong enough to be en pointe

[poketvenus]

when you show me a teacher with x-ray vison you can tell me that good teachers know when a kid is "strong enough" or not

[poketvenus]

once again, the only way to measure is with x-rays....i was one of those extra strong kids....and i went up at 10. i always had more discipline and body awareness as well so i always danced three classes above my age. i have permanant bone damage from going up before the bones in my feet calcified. i was strong enough to dance en pointe with out pointe shoes by the time i was eight. people thought it was cute. people thought it was cool. trouble is now i suffer for it.

[satiesm]

aff que chato

[DazzIeBerry]

Ouch. Most of them don't even seem strong enough to push over their box.. too young :(

[OsipovaFan20]

okay, yes these girls arent ready and probably wont be for some time, but

it´s just not right that they all are going to get " really bad foot damage".... really bad foot damage doesnt come from ,i dunno, i´m guessing 30 minutes of point a week or so, if even? It can, but it will not be this way for everyone. there are dancers that can go years with incorrect technique and forced turn-out with nothing happening. they CAN of course injure themselves anytime.....

[prettyprincess266]

WHAATTT... no way i did not just see this, these children are waaayy too young!!! even if they are training professionally its just wrong before 13 there bones are still very week and not fully developed neither strong enough. im 16 and now train professionally and i only went onto point just over a year ago, and im glad i wasnt asked before because i would never had been strong enough! there going to injure them selves soon! !!

[naniloa86]

as far as I have been told, you cannot go on pointe until around the age of 12. going en pointe before their feet are fully developed could handicap them permanently