Reacting to VIRAL POINTE SHOE HACKS

[@ovalandovoid]

My favorite part of every video is Josephine casually identifying the shoe brand and model within two seconds. 😊

[@doggosarepawfect]

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[@GooseMatooseFamousRockstar]

seriously tho 😂😂😂

[@besarandle5683]

MEEEEEE TOOOOOO

[@Missab4000]

A video with you and Katie, maybe where Katie dances with a pair of dead shoes, then again with broken-in shoes to demonstrate how much it affects the performance would be interesting.

[@revinaque1342]

Yes! And maybe also with a pair of brand-new shoes that haven't been altered in any way apart from adding ribbons/elastics

[@Fias4rt]

OMG YA THAT WOULD BE SO GOOD

[@LacedWithOreos]

Or like...people trying on each others' shoes. Not even actually dancing, just at the barre showing how it fits differently or lacks support in different spots.

[@sharim]

All of those suggestions sound wonderful. Bear in mind. This is coming from a non-dancer but one who loves to see ballerinas prepping, and dancing. And of course Josephine doing her thing.

[@hopeadler507]

Yes but it’s dangerous to do too much work in dead shoes!

[@Void_Mother]

Knowing very little about ballet but knowing how expensive pointe shoes are and watching a lot of Josephine's videos, it still startles me seeing how quick dancers are to rip open and break their brand new shoes right out of the box. I know they have to, but MAN it's still so scary to watch LOL. I can only imagine how it feels to be a kid in ballet explaining to their parents why their dance "supplies" (for lack of a better term) are so expensive

[@math_plant]

To be fair, when you start you wont know how to customise them. I dont have strong feet so I usually never rip them, I just darn the tip. The first few lessons my pointe shoes feel a bit stiff but they break in naturally

[@draignathair]

I will say, for big toe pain, I know a lot of people like to add more padding to the big toe and I used to be one of them. However, I've found it much more useful to add padding under my shorter toes to help even out the support and weight distribution. I used to use loose lambswool for this and eventually switched to the perfect pointe (molded silicone) toe pads.

[@tuftela]

I've been wondering about that! Even if adding something soft directly on the impacted area will help some, wouldn't it be more beneficial to take away the extra material exactly where the pressure point is? To spread the pressure around more and alleviate the exact point that is most impacted? I am guessing they have their reasons, I just don't know enough about it myself.

[@meridian111]

thank you so much for this comment! I saw it about a month or two ago and decided to try it. And it worked like a charm!! So much less painful. so thank you.

[@draignathair]

@@meridian111 Yay! I'm so glad it worked for you! It certainly was a game-changer for me :)

[@anicapreston3198]

YES DEFINITELY MAKE THIS A SERIES i would absolutely love seeing which hacks are real and which ones are terrible ideas

[@emmysrandomcrafts]

I'm pretty sure that the stitch she used to "Frankenstein" her point shoes was the ladder stitch also called the invisible stitch.

[@unavoidablycanadian397]

My hardware store lunch break is complete when I get to watch the Pointe Shop Reacts.

[@LacedWithOreos]

If I'd grown up in the ballet world....I would SO start a tiny business doing peoples' shoes. It's so time consuming but I personally love that sort of tedium. Especially if I'm getting paid lmao

[@Ale_Taormina]

I love this series so much❤ It’s very helpful 😊 Also love your videos!

[@Monizallart]

Please make this a series!!! I love ❤️ watching them and I’m not even a dancer 😂

[@abbyepayne]

plz bring back the pointe shoe hacks vids, i love going back and watching them

[@kerriemckinstry-jett8625]

I need to cut some of the shank out of my Bloch Heritage shoes because the shank edge hits me in the middle of my heel (not comfortable when doing any move on flat). I'm worried about doing it, though, about taking out too much. I'm thinking of waiting until it's almost time for a new pair & trying it on my by then mostly dead pair... 😂

[@southie21]

When did the lady with the ENB shirt find the time that the upstairs studio at old RAD site was empty?!? So many good memories from that studio as a rubbish dancer who refound ballet as an adult!

[@yarynayatsenko6748]

I love your videos and I used to go to RWB/royal Winnipeg ballet

[@LondynxAri_offical]

Hey Josephine!! I love your vids and I just got fitted by you a few days ago! Thank you so much ❤

[@Madeline6919]

A 3/4 shank (maybe even a 7/8) was a must for my foot type. I have a Josephine tapered octopus foot that looks like an inverted L, so it actually helped me to not sink in my shoes as much!

[@grahamjones5400]

These videos ASMR level relaxing. Thanks for sharing, Josephine!

[@chicknsandwich1388]

I was thinking how many people watch the pointe shop but don't actually dance in ballet because I don't I just watch because dance fascinates me lol

[@jenniferhill9924]

Repetto is a luxury brand, and are more well known for making the street ballet flat for Bridget Bardot. They retail for around €350 and will NEVER go out of style!

[@romywhite290]

Okay 1) why would someone use a pointe shoe instead of a demi if they dont really use the shank? 2) what are good break in tips for kids/beginners/folks who pay for their own shoes?

[@tspawn35]

The answer to 2 funny enough is let them break in naturally by dancing in them.

[@katlover4442]

I loved the special appearance of that beautiful black kitty!!!

[@jenniferdionne2901]

I have never danced, I will never dance, I think I've only been to see ballet twice in my life... But I am OBSESSED with watching people break in pointe shoes 😅

[@tsuki_blue]

This video was awesome! Would definitely love to see more :D

[@char2173]

What do dancers with a longer second toe do when going on pointe?

[@C-SD]

It always makes me laugh a little because you spend as much or more time breaking them in as you do wearing them.

[@xXCourtneyLee13Xx]

My daughter started pointe in February and she chose Claudia So Danca as her first pair. We had to get another pair for class this year and she went with Stream Pointe Nikolay. I wish I had thought to use my sewing machine on her ribbons and elastics!

[@francinasaiz4596]

I find these videos fun and I also learn a lot!!

[@elizzy8754]

Maybe Patrick Armand and Mathilde Froustey* had something to do with the adoption of Repetto at SF Ballet. *Now at Ballet de l'Opéra de Bordeaux.

[@seamstressdragon8707]

I wonder what dancers do if they have Morton’s toe or a Greek foot where the 2nd toe is longer than the big toe when going en pointe?

[@Danceextream81]

I'm starting pointe in August do you have any tips?

[@mikhalterentiev8799]

I am curious who else is a non dencer, though knows a ton about point shoes from watching Josephine's videos? I find point shoes amusing❤

[@balletmeli]

❤ these hacks I wish they were around when I was dancing.

[@emmamusolf9582]

4:59 when I was dancing my teacher told me I needed to cut my shank but then 2 year later they told me I didn't need to do that I just needed a better brand of shoe and the ones I have where holding me back and that's why I had so many foot cramps

[@charlottesinclair9354]

When I was dancing I had an exam where we had to have demi pointes, but it was going to be difficult to get one in my size in my country, so I just broke down an old pair of pointes to use instead!

[@parlayestes9426]

I love your videos they’re so helpful and funny

[@rharper1139]

Love your vids so hilarious

[@asinromeo37]

I have a question. How do you know when you are ready to make adjustments to your shoes? And how do you decide which adjustments to make? There are so many different things that dancers do and I don't even know where to start.

[@anipartida8801]

Hi josephine because its summer we are traveling to miami and im gonna get my first pair of pointshoes im 11 years old from Mexico and i have been your fan a looooong time ago i would love to have my first pair with you but i know you are in California 😢😢😢😢sending love ❤❤❤❤❤😃😃😄😊😊🎉🎉

[@zenjiart8524]

love your videos ❤❤❤ im not a dancer tho I wish I were😅 but these videos are still enjoyable to watch

[@kayleigholiver395]

You should start dancing

[@zenjiart8524]

@@kayleigholiver395 I really should tho I can’t pay for lessons so if there’s an alternative I’d love to know 😊

[@ludwigvanbeethoven7932]

@@zenjiart8524 yet you can pay for an expensive drawing tablet. ok....

[@zenjiart8524]

@@ludwigvanbeethoven7932 ??? If your talking about the iPad in my videos than uh it’s actually an old tablet I’ve had it for quite a while even before my urge to want to learn to dance. Plus dance lessons cost more than what I paid for the iPad

[@ludwigvanbeethoven7932]

@@zenjiart8524 no they don’t. The average class is $65 a month. I’m sure any iPad costs at LEAST the same amount as a year long class. Besides, if you really wanted to dance you’d make sacrifices for it, Just as I did when composing Für Elise.

[@antopac4067]

0:30 I love the double entendre: beating the shoe while wearing Beats Headphones

[@maryberrie1]

Before the days of Jet Glue, I would brush mop and glo inside the tip and the shank, place in the oven and bake. It hardened the shoes to last a little bit longer. One time, I "over-baked" them and burned them. Good times. Good times lol

[@queenmysticartist9218]

dumb question but would the ouch pouch work for figure skaters as well? My big toes always hurt when I am done skating.

[@ashleywilcock1514]

PART 2!! Make this a series

[@aishasollars]

Hi! Can anyone explain why some studios don't allow rosin anymore? I don't know much about ballet and Google is failing me on this! Just curious as it's apparently good to stop you slipping?

[@Whiskyunicorn]

The Marley floors that are becoming ubiquitous are expensive and damaged by rosin

[@decodolly1535]

So I'm having a little pointe shoe binge (perfectly normal behaviour) when suddenly the next item in my recommendations is a video of a farrier shoeing a horse! Not sure what youtube is trying to tell me......

[@mizzwitty1042]

What? A pair of those shoes keeps for 15 hours professional dancing? That makes 2½ pairs in a normal 37,5 hours working/dancing week. 100$ for each pair? 1000$ a month which I assume is not counting as workware and being payed by the company!? Totally bonkers! And I am not even asking how much a professional dancer earns! 😳🤯

[@alg94]

suede caps sounds much more pleasing than the term my teacher used: mole skin

[@kutanra]

Where do you think the suede comes from? 😏😆

[@Fatherdowling]

I miss the pointe shoe hack videos. I find it totally fascinating

[@stephiehellyeah2557]

When do you fit JIM?! 😍😍😍

[@dogsBFF]

hey i have a question how do i keep my pointe shoes from slipping off my heel it keeps hapeening and tighting the drawstring doesn't help btw i'm new to pointe

[@princemaggie5684]

Make sure you have an elastic on it, around your ankle. Put into youtube elastics for pointe shoes and it'll show you different methods to sew them to best keep your shoe on x

[@dogsBFF]

@@princemaggie5684 Thanks!

[@denby001]

Q: Have you ever seen someone do a hack that did so much damage that you didn't understand why they just didn't buy a different model shoe instead

[@jos2364]

The Way se Can just see What brand and model pointeshoe is like what

[@Agnes_B96]

Oh jeez… I can’t watch those dancer crush the box… for me I need a really hard box to be able to dance otherwise the shoes will be dead in 2 hours 😅 I don’t know how they can do this

[@hannahxx17]

Ballet dancers: Buys a beautiful expensive pair of point shoes that takes years of training to have the skill to make. Also ballet dancers: immediately bashes, cuts, glues, and duct tapes them to make them even better.

[@tspawn35]

And kills them faster by doing them. So the dancer also has to provide a warning if it's on video "To not do these if you are just starting out. You need the shoes to last as long as possible."

[@tierramd]

Can you review Spider Gwen? Her shoes are all over the place. It almost looks like she's using her super strength to keep wearing dead shoes. Although the Spider heroes tend to be broke, so I get it lol.

[@sensor-sweep]

1:31 ladder stitch!

[@maggiesweowat5589]

I would love to know what you think of Julia del bianco she has a KZbin channel

[@lyn100]

why do i get so excited seeing people use the same shoe i did when i still danced on pointe... come on european balance!!

[@Allthingsdance]

Can you review the new Bloch etu

[@MinkaTheBallerina]

6:20 I wear that exact Pointe shoe (Balance European 4 and a half 2x)😮

[@kayleigholiver395]

My second pair of pointe shoes was a Gaynor,s

[@lunaloveless7234]

Have you ever fitted someone for pointe shoes with an accessory navicular bone or have any hacks for that?

[@knittingwithlisa]

I used to 3/4 my pre-arched shanks in my Russian Pointe Muses when I was dancing

[@Ojoni_H]

im feel soo lucky to see this vid soo early 1h after but still lol

[@melodysmith3728]

i've seen most of your reaction videos and these point shoe hacks, but I have a question... if a lot of dancers do the same type of costumaztion of the shoe, why isn't the shoe already made to fit the dancers' needs?

[@reneekuijpers5160]

I have a weird question as a person who doesn’t know anything about ballet. Why do you have to do a fitting and find your perfect shoe if you are gonna customise it anyway?

[@MooshroomDragonzArt]

This probably isnt a great way to explain it but every dancer's feet are different and dancers like to customize them to make them work better with their feet. And they dont make pointe shoes to fit one specific dancer. I'm sure someone else can explain better tho sorry if this doesn't make sense😅

[@TizzySnik]

You want to get your original shoe as close to perfect as possible so you don’t have to modify them as much :)

[@reneekuijpers5160]

Thanks for explaining

[@ljetty-so4ys]

Wow your so cool love you!

[@michellebloch8970]

Not a dancer. Since the shoes only last for a few days after you guys do all this work to prep them, do you normally just have a stock of new shoes at home to prep as needed? That seems 1: a bit crazy, 2: super expensive. And then what do you guys do for shows? How many pairs of shoes will the average dancer go through in month? Genuinely curious 😊

[@denelva]

I LOVE your videos and I have a question about demipoint shoes. I have a strenuous work (stable worker) and I'm on my feet all day. I wonder if a demi-point shoe can help non-dancer feet with building up strenght too? Not to stand on pointe of course, but to strenghten my feet muscles in general, using them to do my regular feet stretches?

[@gnguyen411]

I had stretchy ribbons a little over a decade ago, but didn’t sew them in a loop.

[@crazyamericanredhead]

The heritage was my first poin shie

[@Sacred_Fire]

Why is rosin not allowed anymore?

[@CecileLeMoine-lh4qj]

But she so awsome😍

[@El_Ophelia]

Longer videos with Josephine please! They're too short!

[@leiaorgana4907]

hi I am in a dance class and my ponínte shoes have to last longer than a week have you anny tips pleace ps.please ignore haow i write im from germany

[@JGreen-le8xx]

Josephine❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤😄

[@chocofuriina]

Im getting pre pointe shoes soon :))

[@badat3diting]

The way she fell in the beginning 😭💀 0:15

[@missrose3484]

Idk if I'm the only one having this problem with my flat lether shoes. After a few months, the inside sole rips up from the base. I where bloch split soles

[@chia1972]

I’m curious: if dancers cut the shank, why aren’t they just sold like that?

[@bobcatred]

So you practically spend 15 hours prepping a shoe just to get 15 hours out of it? I’m so glad ballet was never a thing I took up as a kid, this would make me crazy.

[@janeyannachicken9053]

Just found out: If your heel is baggy when you go on pointe, just sew in your elastic further down. So, not right under the drawstring but a couple of centimetres below and relatively far back. This will pull up the fabric when you go on pointe.

[@nin7464]

15 h!!!!! 😮 How many shoes does a professional dancer need per month?

[@gergyta9211]

my point shoe hack, dont stab yourself with the needle you sew your ribbons on with.

[@Hogwarts_RuLez]

Yes frfr

[@aubreydixon776]

I know nothing about ballet but love watching ballet 😌but can you not ask for them to be made to order. Don’t come at me I’m a admirer and newb 😊

[@lucycobcroft]

as a soccer player I'm screaming I cant imagine beating up a pair of brand new boots like this

[@GingerDoll548]

My brain is still trying to figure out how to still be a ballet student at my college if I have ingrown toe nails..

[@WhiteSilk1783]

3:43

[@rosestwelve3289]

Why is it preferd that dancers have a thin toepad over a thick one?

[@kauaneramos3321]

❤❤❤

[@edwardjohn5]

My question is, why don't the shoes producers make shoes that the dancers can just use at once without having to go to all the troubles first before wearing them? Or even offering to just make all shoes bespoke?

[@coloraddiction]

I will forever be sad that I was taken out of ballet as a little kid

[@betsybattles2696]

why do they sell these shoes in the condition they do if they always need destruction?

[@donnamurphy5698]

Are you aware that Elephants walk on (pointe) the tips of their toes.

[@Kiwi91663]

what I don't get... from a completely outsiders view is.... If pointe shoes are made one way... and dancers need them a different way...why aren't they made differently to start with as I have seen...not sure why it pops up from time to time... dancers smacking and stomping and smashing their shoes... ripping them, sewing them, cutting them...if they are not good out of the box... then why don't manufactures just make them more like what dancers need???

[@lisasallery7860]

I’m not a dancer so I apologise for any ignorance. But I really don’t understand why the shoe maker doesn’t do all this in the first place!? Why make a beautiful pointe shoe to only have it smashed to within an inch of its life?

[@ShethTora]

I’m not a dancer, I’ve just watched a lot of videos, but I think the shoe makers don’t do the changes because every dancer has a slightly different preference for things like length and the like. Plus when you are new to the shoes, having them before any changes adds extra support and things for you to learn correctly.

[@als3243]

Am I just hopelessly behind the times? Men wear pointe shoes now? Granted, I have taken ballet in 60 years and just started watching these videos, but I'm serious. Have men been wearing and performing in pointe shoes?

[@mylaeamaker5587]

Yay! first one

[@frankiefranklin9761]

I am sorry, I am still not over the girl just dancing on a box. 😶

[@LouannBehrmann]

Me wanting to become a ballet, danswer My most devastating destroying my point to use