There is much discussion about Hyper extended knees - how to develop strength and keeping the legs correctly. Understanding the neutral spine, neutral leg, and understanding support system of muscles of the base is vital. Every ballet exercise requires a neutral leg support. Dancing shoes on top, especially, requires a strong leg and neutral perfect alignment. During discussions on the hyper extended knees, some students who have been dancing for years are beginning to understand that their knees hyper-extend or over-stretched. Explaining a neutral leg, in the first class is as important as the neutral explanation of the column, which uses the words of the master. (Unless there is hyper extended legs in class, this is necessary).

One leg is neutral: the knee above the ankle bone, pelvis above the knees. A line drawn across a photo of you standing, taken from one side, you show a postural plumb line from the center of the skull, neck, spine (through your natural curves), pelvis, through the knees and ankles, or just to the ankles, depending where you rested your weight. Hyper extended legs, knees StreTCH behind this line. While this curve out to the back of the knees is an admired line in the gesture of the legs of a dancer, which causes many problems in one leg of support.

Firstly to the sensation of the legs are bent, when kept in an upright position. However, in this upright position, it is much easier to maintain participation and have the pelvis in a neutral position in which they can build strength in your heart. When the knees rest in hyper extension, turn on the thighs, and often gets in the pelvis. Now have endangered the security of your lower back. (In this position, you can develop large thighs and bulky hip muscles). From here destabilize the balance. Can compensate for this distortion in many ways in soft shoes, to a degree.

When you arrive in tip shoes, all kinds of problems will appear, if not longer. Easily a whole booklet could be written about it. To maintain simplified, focus on the line, or neutral leg. If you are a couple of years in training, is extra work, the nerve pathways of reprogramming. But most dancers do this all the time as they progress through their training and careers.

There are lots of quads too much talk about developing the muscles of the knee or inside, or any other deformity, because of holding the leg straight. Not so. If your pelvis is neutral, you can use the muscles properly. There is no need to hold or press. You want your thighs stopped a long time. You want a feeling of pushing down through the center of the leg bones of the ground. I imagine a space between the bones of the hip and upper thighs. You can get a real stretch to do this, the deep lower abdominal pull up and good, and now his muscles are the foundation supporting the length you want.

You will be able to maintain their participation and have a strong leg support. When you get in shoe tip, the body will be aligned as well, on this small point on the ground. Always remember that in your ballet stretching to relax and lengthen all your muscles. Use a soft rubber ball to knead the muscles, leaning against a wall, or use it with the ground. Deborah Vogel is a DVD on this topic. You can find it in thebodyseries site.

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