ballet clasess inside dojang??? Ummmm

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Well last night I had a very.... Ummmmm... different workout at dojang, I was told tuesday and thursday we are going to have a bellet dancer given us a ballet workout, you know the kind of work out the ballet dancers do before the dancing classes.

Ohhhh boy I was ..... well... not confortable doing this, I wanted techs,one step kyorugi... something rough... but well sambonim told me this work out can enhance my flexibility.... however I hated the ballet class of yesterday.

The next class half of the hour of TKD will be the ballet work out and then TKD class.

Manny.
 

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There's what you WANT and what you NEED. Seems these are out of balance.
 

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Hmmm. Well ... ballet can help increase balance, flexibility, softness/flow and uses muscles in a different way which would be good cross-training. They also believe in locking out the knees which is very damaging and why so very many dancers retire in their 30's.

Yoga would be a better choice IMVHO.
 

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well, dancers retire at the age of 30 because - well it's like most football players, a demanding job.

However, for the amateur, the work outs are exquisit! They are low impact and like forms if you do them right you sweat buckets within minutes.

it is WONDERFUL for flexibility and who here said van Damm did ballet? His splits made him a rich man.

Yoga is cool, too but ballet id different. you use all of your body (dancers have wonderful arms, considering that they really don't do anything with them. it should be an extreme sport, really.

You are VERY lucky to have this opportunity!!!
 

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well, dancers retire at the age of 30 because - well it's like most football players, a demanding job.

You are VERY lucky to have this opportunity!!!

Speaking of ballet and football; Lynn Swann comes to mind along with the flexibility, balance and flow that have already been mentioned.
 

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Oh, BTW your sambonim, called, there's a new uniform you'll need. And tights.
 

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Ha ha ha...don't sweat it. We did this a few times. One of our kids mom is a ballet instructor and our GM asked her to give all the black belts a ballet lesson. It was the funniest thing we ever did. No one was any good and we gained some respect for what they do. It is really quite hard and demanding.
 

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Well last night I had a very.... Ummmmm... different workout at dojang, I was told tuesday and thursday we are going to have a bellet dancer given us a ballet workout, you know the kind of work out the ballet dancers do before the dancing classes.

My sister and brother-in-law were professional ballet dancers with a major US company. They were ripped, strong, and flexible from their intense workouts. The men were extremely strong as much of their job was lifting live weight at decidedly awkward angles. (You try lifiting a 120 lb girl at arms lengths for 15 minutes, oh and you have to do it gracefully.) I wouldn't want to do it everyday, as I don't do ballet, but see value in it as a cross-training exercise. As for your dislike of it, well, tough. It isn't like this is a permanent change. Get over it.
 

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Ballet sounds interesting. We spend so much time being hard, strong, fast that we fail to realize that being soft and flexible also has a place in Martial Arts training.
As much as you like self defense I think that it would be especially helpful there. I also think that dance is very expressive which could translate into forms as well.
 
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Ha ha ha...don't sweat it. We did this a few times. One of our kids mom is a ballet instructor and our GM asked her to give all the black belts a ballet lesson. It was the funniest thing we ever did. No one was any good and we gained some respect for what they do. It is really quite hard and demanding.
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That's the same in my dojan the dancer is mom of one of the girls that do TKD and the sambunim think the stretching and exercises made by ballet can be useful to TKD.

Manny
 

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Some of the best forms practitioners that I know have dancing/gymnastics backgrounds. There is also something to be said for "shocking awake" the body by doing something demanding, but different.
 
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Manny did you learn anything?


Yes Terry, I learn I have to have this ballet calistecnics before the TKD class, and I think that maybe this ballet calistecnics can improve my kicks a little. Yes I really don-t like so much this but I will give it a try.

Manny
 

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Not gonna say it, not gonna say it, oh hell, yes I am.

Don't confuse the 2 classes. Kicking a ballerina in the head doesn't earn points and doing your form in a tutu is just wrong!
 

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Not gonna say it, not gonna say it, oh hell, yes I am.

Don't confuse the 2 classes. Kicking a ballerina in the head doesn't earn points and doing your form in a tutu is just wrong!

Pffft, they think they're so tough but let me tell you, some people think TKD's got no ground game but a ballerina... don't get me started.
 

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As kids when I was just doing karate, my sister was in karate and ballet. I'll tell you, she had, grace, speed, power in the legs, if I wasn't such a dumb teenager I would have joined her ballet class to learn some of that.
 

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A frequent example of the ability to focus past the pain is from one of my sister's friend at the Houston ballet. This ballerina was doing her solo in the Nutcracker and fell, she recovered, finished the remainder of the piece, and as she came off the stage she told her understudy to take over. I may have neglected to mention that she BROKE HER LEG when she fell. Talk about indomitable spirit.
 

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A frequent example of the ability to focus past the pain is from one of my sister's friend at the Houston ballet. This ballerina was doing her solo in the Nutcracker and fell, she recovered, finished the remainder of the piece, and as she came off the stage she told her understudy to take over. I may have neglected to mention that she BROKE HER LEG when she fell. Talk about indomitable spirit.

Two words:

pointe shoes
 

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