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findingfeather: time-lordd: saiktaru: vagin0: disneyprincessoflyrian: books-and-cookies: alexbelvocal: ultravioletnights: i’m sorry but there is no way you could have stopped me from standing on my chair and screeching like a banshee if i saw this live… What how HOW “ballet isn’t a sport” The thing about this is, you can barely see their muscles straining from effort. The effort to keep each other and themselves balanced, definitely, but that guy’s hand is barely shaking. The amount of training and strength and balance to go into this is fucking insane. Ballet is raw AF “How”: to do it properly the biggest thing is every single muscle in each of their bodies is actually working, and that’s also why no single visible muscle-group is shaking and freaking out. Her balance is a combination of every single muscle in her legs, torso, neck, everything, all tensed exactly the right amount to maintain the balance of her skeleton. That includes all the muscles you don’t think about most of the time: the little ones in your ankles, the little ones in your neck, the “extra” ones around your ribs, your pelvic floor, everything. Every single one of them has an effect on the exact placement of your skeleton and organs, which affects your balance and ability to keep it while balanced on one foot en pointe up in the air. Likewise him. He’s not just lifting her with his arm and shoulder: he’s lifting her with his hips, and his low back, and his upper back, and the other shoulder pulling his torso back to account for her weight, and his thighs, and his ankles, and everything else. Many, many sports and other widely recognized “athletics” allow athletes to focus on specific muscle-groups and competencies. That’s why you see such massive divergences in body-types across a real range of Olympic sports, and also why they tend to specialize. Ballet (dance in general), at this level*, does not. And it will need you to use all your body all at once, and look pretty doing it (especially if you’re a woman). *and like I think this is also important: it is possible to do ballet, and enjoy ballet, and even make lovely art doing ballet, without REQUIRING that you be at this level of peak physical athleticism, and also this level has costs. Just ask any physio who deals with dancers and watch them laugh hysterically and then cry. 1) what M said, re: how 2) ……so, pursuant to that last line, the most frustrating clients I have ever had as an LMT aren’t the 350lb. football players wanting deep tissue. oh, no. no, it’s the fucking dancers. I don’t cry because it won’t help anything but I WILL THINK ABOUT IT when I get a professional dancer on my table. (a 2 hr. appt is usually enough to make a useful fucking dent in their shit. a 90 minute is not. this is…. not true of other serious athletes, even. it’s just the fucking dancers.) -- source link
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