#sautes

Poulet & Brocolis sautés au sésame

Poulet & Brocolis sautés au sésame

Poulet & Brocolis sautés au sésame

Poulet & Brocolis sautés au sésame

These next few weeks I'm finishing up the other activities I'm doing. I really hope I'll be able to start taking more ballet classes right after I finish the activities. The classes would actually be with the next level up, and even though I'm not good enough to be in that level yet, it would immensely help me. I wouldn't leave the classes I'm taking currently, just adding more. It just depends on how much begging I do.

They plan on moving me up anyways in the start of the next year, but the classes don't restart, so I'd be even further behind. You can tell what's going on in their minds: let him take the extra classes even though he doesn't have his basic technique down, so he can get some advanced techniques done at the same time, or wait until he has the basics down, but by then he'll be really lost with the advanced techniques. I hope they choose the first option.

A new step we've added to my current class is en croix. Even though it's a basic combination, it's a good... sign. 

Something I need help with is sautés. The muscles in the front and back of my ankle aren't flexible yet, because I'm not naturally flexible, so I can't go very far in my pliés. Which also means I can't jump very high. I'll be able to jump higher once I also build more muscle - and I'm doing that every class.

I didn't mention it in the flexibility post, but one thing that I'm super happy about is my turnout. It's naturally at 170° (in first). Yeah, yeah, say I have it easy, and true, it does make things easier, but you're probably more flexible overall than I am, so hey. Nobody is born perfect. I said all that to say this: I still step on myself when doing changement, even with my turnout. 

I really need to work on that.

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