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[i]> Hi guys. I was somewhat disturbed to recently hear that the stresses on a dancers joints when landing from something like an entrechat can be up to fifteen times his own weight. This is incredible. I would imagine that training strengthens the muscles but can't do much for knee and ankle joints. Is injury therefore inevitable? People who run for exercise will spend a fortune on expensive running shoes to absorb the impact, but ballet shoes offer, I would say, virtually no protection. Can joint damage be avoided or is it something all dancers should expect? <p>This is why every class begins with plies. The whole point of plies<br>is to make them second nature so that any time you land from<br>anything you will do so in a plie without thinking. The bending of<br>the joints in a plie provides a cushion so that the deceleration<br>upon landing will be limited to something your body can handle.<p>The stress depends on the acceleration. (Remember Newton: F = ma,<br>force is mass times acceleration.) When you come to rest after a<br>jump, that's negative acceleration, but it's acceleration just the<br>same, and the less acceleration, the less stress on your body. But<br>the less acceleration, the longer you have to go before your body<br>comes to rest. That means *deep*, "juicy" plies. The deeper the<br>plie, the softer the landing & the less stress on your body. A<br>really deep plie will provide lots better cushioning than the best<br>running shoe can.<p>Not sure your plies are soft & deep enough? Listen when you land.<br>Do a bunch of changements. Can anybody hear them? If not, you've<br>got nice, juicy plies, because the same forces that make noise are<br>the ones that stress your joints.<p>Tom Parsons[/i]
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