Summer Class

Another Picture of Rachel at Balletmagnificat! She is sitting on the ground of the left. In the middle with the pointe shoes on is the founder of Balletmag! and her husband.

Today in class Rachel showed us the anatomy of muscles, bones, and the ligaments and tendons. (from a dancing perspective-she learned at BalletMagnificat!) It was kind of interesting.

Ligaments attach to bones, and tendons attach to the muscles. Something interesting was about the abs. They don't go all the way across your stomach. They stop right in the middle. Learning about the knee cap and the hip was interesting too. We talked about different kinds of body problems like sway backs, and knock knees. That sort of thing is when your knees are not lined up with your feet.
Sprains are different from strains. I can't remember exactly, but the strain is actually better, even though it stretches the ligaments that are not supposed to be stretched. Because it will eventually heal as the sprain will never get back to where it was.

One more thing... In your calf there are really two muscles, a deeper one then the outermost one. Then off of the calf muscle a tendon goes down to the foot.

Tip

I remembered something that Rachel had taught us before. When your arm is in second position, think about your arm above the elbow as rotating down. Then the lower part of the arm rotating up. Here is a picture. (girl in our studio)

You will know when you get it! You will feel it! (Ouch!)
-Sarah-