When I was a little girl I wanted to be a ballerina. I took a dance class at the park and rec center when I was 12. I had to save up my own money to take it. I still admire the talent and skill of the dancers. What I love about your channel is that I can learn more about the dancers shoes and feet. It helps me appreciate the art even more being knowledgeable about it. So thank you for teaching me about dancers feet.

Better balance: Russian Pointe Rubin More rotation: Nikolay 3007 More flexibility: Capezio Kylee Easy roll through: Bloch Heritage Longer lasting: Gaynor Minden

Will you do a video about Freed of London? (Like so she can see)

I can’t wait to start ballet, it’s hopefully going to improve my skating

Hi Josephine! I've just signed up for a virtual fitting (January 11) and I am very excited. I am an adult dancer and I am from Hungary. It is a dream coming true. I love your professionalism and your personality!

I absolutely love your videos. Your knowledge of pointe shoes and fitting them is incredible.

Happiest of holidays to you and everyone at the Pointe Shop, Josephine! I look forward to a new year of pointe shoe videos!

Happy Christmas, Josephine!! Thank you so much for your amazing videos. We love you! 💗🩰

AHHHH I DID MY FIRST FOUETTÉ ON POINTE WATCHING THIS...HOLY CRAP i- *s h o o k*

Christmas Queens! Haha I love the big Nutcracker decoration Happy Holidays to The Pointe Shop!

Love your videos!! 🧡✨

All I want for Christmas is shoes! I asked for convertible tights for Christmas :) Merry Christmas, everyone!

Capizio Kylee was my 1st pointe shoe! Best first shoe for me ever, I now wear bloch eurostretch wich are the best shoes for me now but I'll always remember my capizio kylees ❤

Oh my... thank you so much! This may be a lifesaver. I’m in Bloch Heritage right now, but they haven’t felt like *my* shoe. From what you said, I think I need to try the Capezio Kylee. So... super helpful! Merry Christmas!

Can you do videos on what you’ve learned about foot care from fitting point shoes? I know it’s a weird request, but I think it would be interesting!

I love your Chanel!

Merry xmas Josephine 🩰

God bless y’all and have a great day✝️🤍🌈🥰🩰

Would love to hear your thought’s on the new Soffolk Silhouette!

Hehe the nutcracker music in the background

this made me want to do a great fiting, because I've never and all my pointes have been really bad for me

eee short toes crowd! I'm currently in the bloch european balance and i can roll through fine but it does cut me off a littleeeee too high and I've blistered once or twice. I'll try on the heritage next time!!!

PLEASE COLLAB WITH CLAUDIA DEAN!!!! She was a soloist with the Royal Ballet and started as a tutorial based youtube channel and changed to ballet entertainment videos around the time she made her first leotard collection. At the start of this pandemic she offered a free live class on Instagram and announced on it her new platform, Claudia Dean world.live to improve ballet anytime anywhere. The new platform quickly outgrew CDW.live and got its own website, Coach Me World. The reason why this would be a great collab is because she was formally a Bloch ambassador but when her brand grew so quickly, Bloch started to see her powerhouse self as a threat and she has since callabed with a local dance wear store to find her fit in different brands, but I think it would be fun if you two did a virtual fitting where you find her all round shoe, and in another video her pointe shoe journey and different problems she had in the different shoes and stuff.

This was great because I'm getting a fitting in January. Then I relise that I'm getting fitted with you . But I already have russian pointe rubin..

I would love pointe shoes even though I’ve never taken a dance lesson in my life. I still continue to watch your videos though ✨.

Can you do a review of the grishko katya??? 🥰

I have been a dancer for 7 years and I really need to try the ganors right now i use the euro stretch I I would recommend them to anyone with narrow heels

Is it possible to do a virtual fitting for dancers from Europe? :)

Can you please review the bloch European Balance shoe. I have been using them in class for about 2 months now and they have been great. Do you have any tips for these shoes?

I hope that you could tell us the price💞💞💞 great video thanks!

Do you think that you’ll carry Elektra techs sometime soon? I really want to try them but I can’t find them anywhere.

Merry Christmas

i was only on pointe for about 7 months before i decided to quit dance (parents weren't too happy about that) but my shoes never properly fit in the first place as i only tried on one brand (russian classic if anyone has heard if it cos i certainly hadn't before then). i would love to at least have another pointe shoe fitting at some point just for nostalgia but yeah dk why u sharef that lol

I take 7 difrent type of dances and I do ballet but now I am doing point

With me having size 13 women's feet it's very hard to find shoes that fits properly......I really wish you could fit me for a pair of shoes

What Point Shoe could I buy in your shop when I am a beginner? My foot is not stretched as well and my foot is in the Greek shape

Can I take ballet classes once a week for 3 years and then get my first pair of pointe shoes? 🩰

I got some pointe shoes to practice in off of amazon and I'm looking into buying capizio... I'm Canadian can I still book an appointment with you?

Hi I’m 13 and just beginning ballet I hope to go on point in a few months Please help me with some tips for point shoes Because my foot is much larger and average It’s size 8 Indian standard

Josephine❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤😄

I've enjoyed watching your fitting videos this year. I wear Gaynor Minden pointe shoes and I frequently have a hard time staying on pointe (not rolling backwards off my box). I don't usually have this problem when the shoes are new, only when they start to die. Is there a way to safely harden them so that happens less?

Yeeye

Where would you suggest online ballet classes? I used to dance when I was little, and I would love to get into it as an adult (would call myself an adult beginner)! I've looked at the international ballet company website, but would love your advice! (I'm experienced jazz/lindy hop dancer, and this was a dance field I always regretted not pursuing!)

Omg I have never been this early to a vid, 3rd view and first comment

Curious to know the differences between Capezio Ava and Kylee. Avas work well with the shape of my foot but the shanks are a bit harder than I need.

Hi Josephine! I’ve been en pointe for 3 years and have always been a difficult fitting. I’m super petite, and my feet are narrow and very compressible. I usually see a local fitter who either puts me in the Suffolk spotlight/sterling or the Russian radiance/Rubin, but I’m still not thrilled with any of the shoes. Do you have any recommendations or suggestions? Thanks so much! 💕

I would love get fitted. I am 40 and been out of ballet for years. But I am getting back into it. Maybe a Skype visit?

Square shoes equal pain to me. I’d rather just be a better balancer. More work up front, less padding overall. The rotation thing is real though. I don’t have the skill for triples+, but my shoes try to exceed me. It’s like stay in your lane 🤣.

I love watching these videos! I wish I could go en pointe, but because of COVID-19 the studio keeps postponing it! By a lot, too. We were supposed to go on March 2020. Now it's almost 2021. Am I the only one who has this problem?

This is unrelated but on the off chance that you might know, a question. I never danced and am probably twice your age. But I have been in a very long, very abusive relationship and still trying to escape. I got to the point where I am looking at why bad men are drawn to me, because there must be something about ME that I need to change to avoid this. They've done a "walk test" with people who are known psychopaths and they ask them to look at filmed images of people walking away from them, and to select the easiest victim to target. In less than 10 seconds they can spot the person. The person they choose is someone who had been abused in the past, or some other kind of trauma. It was rather shocking that they could size up someone that quickly and like predators select the weakest prey. At any rate I wrote that because in the video they said that people took ballet training of a certain kind and it somehow changed them so they were no longer appearing as easy prey. I don't think they said what kind of ballet training or where to get it which is a real shame. I figure it has something to do with how a person carries themselves. I've noticed in your fittings all these ballerinas have amazing posture, something my parents had complained about since I was little. But I am taller than average and felt like I was sticking out in a crowd so I tried to shrink. Anyway, I was just wondering if you knew or could recommend a way to start just learning to get stronger and improve posture and how a person carries themselves. (Also in addition to bad marriage, i've got some creepy stalker who likes my high arches and will NOT leave me alone). I dont' want to have to fight these people but I'm getting backed into a corner and no one is helping.

Josephine, I have a question. You commented on a post about point shoes being biodegradable because they are made of papier mache, but how does it happen with Gaynors? Are they not environmentally friendly? Are there other point shoes like this? Love your channel!!

1:54 How will we show that this shoe is lightweight? Oh I know, pick it up and move it up and down! 🤣

Hmmm... "It's kinda like plastic... it's made out of polymer" Polymers are a class of natural or synthetic substances composed of very large molecules. Plastics ARE mainly a "synthetic or semi-synthetic" polymer. So while all plastics are polymers, not all polymers are plastics. That being said... the question is - does Gaynor Minden use a natural or synthetic polymer? . :)