Last updated: 1/2012

A Essential Book For Young Dancers, Encouraging Them To Take Responsibility For Their Own Strengthening Prior To Beginning Pointe Work. Split Into Four Easy Stages To Work On Foot And Ankle Mobility, Foot Control, Turnout And Core Strength. Incl. Workbook.
Are You Jealous Of All The Older Girls Already En Pointe?

Beat Them At Their Own Game By Learning All The Secrets On How To Get Strong Enough For Pointe Work In 4 Easy Stages!

"The Perfect Pointe Book" is a fantastic new, unique book for dancers, that guides you through all the stages you need to make sure that getting onto pointe is as fun and as safe as possible!

Written by a Dance Physiotherapist this book teaches you how to test yourself, and work out what any weaknesses may mean. It then guides you through four special exercise programs designed to really target those areas and improve your technique and strength as quickly as possible!

From: Lisa Howell - Dance Physiotherapist - Perfect Form Physiotherapy (Sydney - Australia)

Hi Guys!

If you are anything like me when I was starting pointe work, you will be dying to know how to get strong enough to go en pointe quickly, and are always on the lookout for any tips that will help make your dancing spectacular!

Well, you have found the perfect solution!

"Building A Strong Foundation Builds A Strong Future!"

After years of working with dancers, personally and as a therapist, and constantly seeing the same problems en pointe, I simply had to find a way to teach girls how to get it right from the beginning. The problem is, if you start off with bad technique, it is VERY hard to UNLEARN this later on.

You can learn fantastic technique NOW, and find out how your feet work, so that when you go onto pointe, you will get much better, much faster, than girls who try to learn it as they go.

If you are planning on any form of career or continued practice in ballet, this book is an essential part of your ballet bag. Whether you are just beginning pointe, or have been en pointe for years, you will learn so much about your body and how it should work by going through this process.

"This is an excellent manual for both pre-pointe and advanced dancers. It is simple to use, and will be a great help to students who are serious about developing good pointe work. Lisa has written many helpful exercises, with clear photographs to demonstrate how to improve strength and prevent injury. This manual would also be very useful for teachers, and particularly student teachers, who want to learn how to safely prepare their pupils for pointe work. "

- Lindsay Ellman-Brown LRAD ARAD

Grade Examiner for the Royal Academy of Dance

Junior School Head Teacher - Ecole Ballet Studios, Sydney, Australia

With this book you get to learn what muscles do what, why some people find it easier than others, how to improve your turnout and how to get a great looking pointe! I wanted to make learning about the body as fun, and as easy, as possible. All of the exercises have lots of photos so that you can see exactly how to do them. (I hate trying to work out what position to get into when people just explain it!).

You test yourself at the start of each of the 4 stages, and then learn a program of special exercises that really focus on waking up all the important muscles. After doing all the exercises for two weeks, you can retest yourself, and, if you can do them all fabulously, you can move onto the next stage.

The 121 page book has four stages that look at; the flexibility of your feet and ankles; the strength of all the little muscles in your feet; your turnout muscles; and your core strength and balance.

Stage 1 - Fabulous Flexibility - Tests and exercises to make sure that you can get your foot into the best position for pointe work. Some people will find this stage easy, others will find it harder. No matter where you start, the easy exercises and stretches will help you get a great looking pointe. This is obviously VERY important for getting onto pointe.
Stage 2 - Marvelous Muscles - Here you learn all about the different muscles in your feet, and why it is important to get the right ones strong! Mastering the fine control of your toes helps prevent blisters on the toes, as well as overuse problems in the shins. This stage will transform how you work with your feet forever!
Stage 3 - Terrific Turnout - Getting onto pointe is not all about your feet! Find out how to find your true turnout muscles, and make them stronger, so that you dont start dancing in parallel once you are up en pointe!
Stage 4 - Beyond The Barre - Finding your balance off the barre, and strengthening you 'core muscles' is so important in keeping your body strong! A dancer can have fantastic feet, but unless she can hold it all together, she will not go very far!

It Is Really Important To Learn All Of This BEFORE You Start Pointe.

(Although it is better late than never!)

A lot of girls (and their parents) are understandably scared of what pointe work will do to their feet, and are worried about it being painful. In the past, with badly fitting shoes and often poor strength in the feet, many dancers did get terrible pain and had problems with their feet.

But this is not the case any more!

This fantastic new program teaches you how to strengthen your feet and body in the shortest space of time. Now that pointe shoes are available in so many different fittings, if your feet are very strong, and the shoes fit well, it is quite possible to dance with little or no pain at all! If you start off knowing what to feel, and how to get the most out of your shoe, you can have a long and happy career dancing on your toes.

In the past, this kind of specific strength only came with years of training, and learning it all the hard way. Thanks to my years of experience in working with dancers and seeing what makes the fastest improvements, this program is now available for you to take advantage of!

This Book Is The Only One Of Its Kind!

A book that teaches you how to learn about your body, and discover ways to strengthen all the right bits in all the right ways. You will get stronger, and feel much more confident about going onto pointe.

You get:

¡¤ A 121 page book packed with priceless information that will transform the way you dance, forever!

¡¤ A fantastic set of Screening Tests that you can use over and over to monitor your progress.

¡¤ A wonderful set of Dance Specific Exercises, all with photographic illustration, that you can use any time to build your strength.

¡¤ Simple explanations of all the Anatomy you need to know to get the most from your training.

¡¤ An Ongoing Program incorporating exercises from each of the stages, to keep your strength improving.

¡¤ Access to a Live Blog, supported by qualified dance physical therapists (physiotherapists) who you can chat to about the book and ask any questions you may have about your pointe work or ballet training in general.

Hear What Other Girls And Dance Teachers Have to Say About The Book!

Log on to www.perfectpointe.blogspot.com to read the latest comments from girls who already have their hands on the book.

Why wait? Even if you are not planning on going onto pointe for ages, the earlier you can learn all of this, the better!

To get all of this information through regular therapy sessions, you would need at least 8 private sessions with me. At $90 - $110 an hour, this can get kind of pricey, which is why I wanted to make it easier for you to do most of the work yourself. This means you save over $800 and still get the same information! (Although you don't get the nice smile!).

To keep the price as low as possible, we have made the book available as a downloadable PDF document. This means that you don't have to pay a cent for any printing or delivery costs, and even better... you don't have to wait for delivery! After you go through to the payment page, you will be able to download the 121 page book immediately! I recommend saving it to your hard drive, and printing out a hard copy. Take it off to your local copy centre to get it spiral bound, and you immediately have a fantastic program to take your dancing to a whole new level!

Look at it this way - $65.00 ($47.77 (USD)) is really a painless drop in the bucket to be able to get your hands on The Perfect Pointe Book and start using it right away to improve your dancing! (Due to the rules of the payment company, the price has to be in USD!)