There is a very specific reason that we didn't mention what shoe Josephine fit me in. (And she always abides by this rule). You have to find what shoe works for YOU. Often dancers get swayed by name brands- "So and so wears this shoe so I have to also!" "Well Kathryn Morgan got these shoes so I want them to." And it might be the COMPLETELY wrong shoe for you. So I am totally happy adhering to the rule! I would like to wear these for a few months first. If I stick with them, I will probably let you guys know what they are! :)
Please let us know!!! I have watched a lot of your videos and feel like I have very similar feet to you. A lot of the times your problem have been my problems so I’m curious to try!!
My son danced but I was so fascinated watching the girls! And over time I could tell when girls had bad fitting shoes. One school always pushed 2 pairs only..I would tell them to go to a fitter at a real place!
I did ballet for a few years when I was younger. And probably never would have made it on to pointe. But I love watching ballet. And I absolutely love every fitting video I've seen on josephine's channel.
It's true! I fractured my arm when I was 7, and then decades later went for a pregnancy massage. The masseuse worked through clothes and honestly just gently touched my rib cage on that side and asked "have you ever broken this arm"? I've had lots of massages and no one else ever picked that up.
Honestly Josephine is just absolutely the BEST pointe shoe fitter in the world. I am based in Australia and my daughter has struggled to find pointe shoes to suit her hypermobility and wide feet. At the end of the road and with the possibility of my daughter stopping her love of ballet because we could not find the right shoe we found out about Josephine's virtual fittings. In just one appointment she was able to give us the details of the shoe to suit my daughter. Upon trying on the shoe she has never looked back and has danced better than ever before. Josephine is soooooo good at what she does she managed to nail the right shoe and drive her car at the same freakin time. We can't love or thank her enough. Amazing.
@@kathryn_morgan I have NEVER seen you smile sooooooo much. Wow! I am very happy that you found the right shoe! I found "The Walking Company" and have never looked back. One Love. 💚💚❤❤🧡🧡💜💜💗💗
I have a student whose big dream is to be fitted by you! She has flat feet with a narrow heel and has not yet found that perfect magical fit-but she’s a go-getter and a lovely dancer. Her dad has promised her a road trip of her choice when she gets her drivers license and she wants to drive to be fitted by you! We hope she can!!
I gotta read that book. As far as my feet go, I broke my right big toe about twelve years ago helping my mother move. It still hurts. I have to wrap it with a lidocaine strip at times when I dance. Now THAT is keeping score. 😬
Not a dancer but had a teeny tiny slip down (less than half an inch) and wrecked both Achilles’ tendons. That was at least 20 years ago. The left still flares up from time to time with the right one less occasionally but the right also has to deal with a bad knee that’s still iffy after 6 years from a popped cyst. Add in three broken toes, sometimes it’s just argh.
I just recently did a virtual fitting with Josephine and it was the same magical experience!! Mid-20s lifelong ballet student, ~14 years en pointe with ~1.5yr break between my late teens and "starting over" as an adult dancer. Never had a shoe I "loved" besides maybe gaynors as a teen. Josephine read me like a book over zoom in 15 mins and same thing, the shoes she put me in made my feet actually look pretty!! I wore them for the first time for 2 straight hrs of class and felt like I could go all day when I was used to limping around in pain after barely 1.5 hrs. Such a difference, I was slightly skeptical of a virtual fitting but can highly recommend her virtual appointments!!
if you had told 16 year old me that I would get to edit & create content with THE Kathryn Morgan, I wouldn’t have believed you. This was so fun to work on & such a dream collab. Thank you, Kathryn!!! 😍❤️
I sincerely wonder if 22 years in slightly misfitting shoes is what led to her ankle injuries? She said her foot had never been able to go up en pointe quite like that before. The improvements in information and technology are really helping in so many lives across many disciplines.
My friend compeated in yagp with joffrey and texted me saying she was like 20 feet away from Kathryn and I freaked out! Kathryn you are my biggest role model! You have taught me that I am worthy of dance, you help me be able to look in the mirror every day, which is a huge feat for me. you are such an amazing person, dancer, and role model. I hope one day I can tell you in person how much you have done for me. Because of you I feel like I can belong in the dance world, even with my body. you have absolutely no idea how much you have done for me. I just want to thank you for that
maybe this is what all video comments on kathryn's videos are like and ive just never read them before, but this is so cool and sweet. i know this is part of why she makes videos, but still really nice to see that they work.
Watching this has taught me that - some people's bad feet look WAAAAYYY better than my good feet. - I should possibly stop blaming my pointe shoe for not being able to do certain steps (my left foot hates me though I swear) - I am apparently the type of person that would consider a 14000km trip to get fitted in pointe shoes
The fact that Kathryn Morgan helped lead me through starting ballet at 11, and Josephine has helped me learn so much about pointe shoes as I start my pointe journey. This collaboration is LEGENDARY!
Katie speaks with her body. Like when she points to Josephine and says "That's why she's the pro" she does this tearbouchau (I actually have no idea how to spell this) and later too. I love it! Keep being you Katie!!!
There are various thoughts about what Tierbouchon actually is - most modern ballet teachers use it to indicate the higher retire position used by the Russian school ie above the knee, with the toe on the thigh or slightly devant. I was taught that (decades ago - and yes, I had Russian teachers), in order to achieve the 'corkscrew' movement, the toe is actually drawn up the leg, from the ankle to the thigh, as you are turning. For example, whilst doing a grand plie in Centre work, when coming upwards you simultaneously turn, also drawing the toe up the leg - hence the 'corkscrew' movement, the downward pressure (mass) from the body, transferring energy unto the supporting leg (force), to achieve the upward thrust for the turning gyroscopic mechanism (and yes, it is physics!). From this movement you can end in a high attitude derriere etc. You will see it in Vaganova school videos on occasion - it is taught after the 4th grade as Tierbouchon requires a great deal of stability and balance, including a strong core. The other name used for it is Raccourci. The full name is En Tierbouchon. One of my teachers was Sulamith Messerer, sister of Asaf. They both danced with the Bolshoi. She was an absolutely fantastic teacher.
Could I also add to my rather long epistle - Tierbouchon has two spellings depending on the teacher. 'Tier', meaning several levels or layers or 'tire' meaning pneu, part of a pneumatic action (to inflate, using air or gas - the upwards motion from the plie for instance). I was taught Tier as the levels meaning is a more accurate, understandable, description, ie going up several levels (the leg). The 'bouchon' is the corkscrew part as louise mentioned.....Hence, going up several layers as you turn.
I am so glad to hear that I am not making up being hyper sensitive. I have fair skin, and everything always hurts more, bruises easier, and generally makes me crazy. I get grief all the time from nurses doing blood tests, because needles hurt me unbearably, because I have very sensitive skin. Of course they all think I am being overly dramatic. After 51 years, your comment about fair skin has finally validated what I have always said about myself.
Same here! My feet always blister and bruise and get cuts so easily (like my first day wearing new shoes, that fit, I would often bleed) and her comment makes so much sense! I am practically translucent
I've been in post op from a c-section and several major surgeries and the recovery nurses are aware of these sensitivities. I had to develop a very high pain tolerance, and I stood out for not being in excruciating pain, but yes, sensitivities as a extremely fair skinned redhead are very common.
Yes! It was so validating to hear her say that. I also struggle with this. I’m not a redhead, but my dad & sister are. I have very similar sensitivities to them, as do my very fair daughters.
Nurse here, and you’re not alone. I actually suspect this is a type of autoimmune disorder or neuropathic disorder or both. I’ve seen it A LOT. Also a lot of fibromyalgia, lupus, and other stuff. I don’t know for sure, but I believe this may be a disorder where a physical appearance trait actually indicates a possible medical disorder or issue. I’m not wording it well, but for example, many redheads do not absorb anesthesia the same way as non redheads. They can often have difficulty being put under, and they can often wake up from anesthesia while still being operated on. Pain tolerances are also much less. Yes I know that is terrifying. In any case, if you have the very pale, translucent skin and find things so much more painful, I’d talk to your doctor and see if anything else needs to be checked out. It may save you from worse issues down the line.
I’m not a redhead. Blonde. However, my mother has told me many times when I was born, I had strawberry blonde hair till I was about two weeks old, then it turned white. My hair was “neon” 😂 blonde when I was a child, and progressed to dark blonde as I aged. I have always, all my life, been sensitive to needles. I remember as a child, I was 10 at the time, and had to have stitches in my knee. It took four grown adult men to hold me down because needles hurt. When I was 4, I was jumping on my bed and cracked my head open and had to get stitches. It took my mother and two nurses to hold me down. As a child getting my required vaccines, I had to be held down. I’m 53 and my husband has to basically sit on my opposite arm when I get blood tests because it hurts so bad I want to swing on the person doing it.
“It’s not you. It’s the shoe”! 👈🏻This👈🏻!!!! Thank you for putting these videos out! It’s so helpful for us to see that even very experienced/ professional dancers have shoe woes. Dancers! Don’t stay quiet! If you’re struggling, ask for help. Struggling with your shoes is NOT unusual. Even for expert dancers! If your technique, strength and conditioning are all solid, but you still feel you need a NASA engineer to design a shoe for your “difficult feet…”it’s not you. It’s the shoe!” My academy dictated what shoes we wore based an out dated and extremely flawed training philosophies (we were not allowed to use lamb’s wool either). I stayed quiet and did my best in the wrong shoe for years. YEARS! Compensating for a bad fit lead me to over develop lateral stabilizer muscles just to protect myself from injury. This limited my range of motion, caused repetitive stress injuries and held me back artisticly. My dance physiotherapist insisted I meet with a master fitter and it immediately felt like someone took a 50lb weight off my back. I was able to focus 100% on my dancing because I didn’t have to think about protecting myself while fighting the shoe. If I’d known then…etc etc. Don’t stay quiet. Find a master fitter and get the right shoe!
What an education that was. WOW! I was particularly struck by the statement that the body remembers it's injuries. When I was 16/17 years (now 60 something) I strained and inflamed my metatarsal ligaments in both feet. After 4 months rest and restorative exercise I was left with being able to step onto pointe, but not relevè onto pointe without considerable pain. I continued dancing, but gave up ballet class halfway through my first year of Bachelor of Music studies. I have remained in performance in theatre in one form or other and concert work. My ballet training gives me a sense of presence onstage and the ability to connect with the audience. Anyhow, enough about me... How wonderful to see an experienced professional analyse Kathryn's feet and know precisely what is needed to provide maximum comfort, fit, support and aesthetic effect. Even the professional needs a professional! This holds true for any pursuit be it art, science, business etc..... Thank you both for your level of excellence.
Videos like these make me so sad there are no fitters like Josephine in any nearby country here. It truly makes such a difference how she spots the issues immediately and knows what to do about them.
It was awesome to see your reactions to the new shoes! For me, this was the best Josephine fitting video ever, and it couldn't have been for a nicer lady!
You know it's a good fitting session when you just try one shoe and then spend the rest of it gushing about how beautiful your feet look and how comfortable you are.😄
It is amazing what proper tools will do for your craft. I do crochet, and it is amazing what a difference the proper tools can do. It is not about price, or vanity, but what is the best for the job. Watching these two, made me feel good. Two crafts persons in synergy. Amazing!
This was such a great video to watch! Watching two Masters here at work was so enjoyable. To see the look on your face was priceless and to see the look on Josephine's face was priceless too! The excitement you both had when the magic pair went on was like Christmas! Thanks for sharing this video! Loved it!!!!
If you watch some of Josephine's fittings with younger dancers, it doesn't really work like that. She fits them for their first pointe shoes, then at regular intervals thereafter, and often the shoe she recommends (not just the size, but the model and even the brand) changes from fitting to fitting. She actually explicitly says in some fittings with beginners, "this is not your forever shoe, as you get stronger and your technique improves you'll need something different." As someone dances more and gets better, their feet change and so do the shoes they need. Once a dancer is an adult, their feet will change much less and, as they say in this video, having experimented with different shoe types when they're younger, they'll have a much better idea of what their preferences are. THEN you can find a "forever" shoe. I agree that young dancers should get regularly properly fitted though. I dread to think how much long term damage has been done to young dancers' bodies because they've been improperly fitted.
Omg I always thought not having a nice looking foot was just part of the deal when putting on new point shoes without anything done to them. But this is giving me hope for when I finally get to do a good fitting!!!
You look so beautiful! I love seeing you out there on pointe,no ribbons because the shoes fit so well,as if balancing on your toes is the most natural thing in the world.(Not what I've seen in other pointe shoe fittings that Josephine has done).Happy that you are happy,you've waited so long!
They kinda look like Grishko StreamPointe. I have these shoes and THEY ARE PERFECTION. They just work for you and your feet in every way. I tried them on during a fitting and had the exact same reaction as Kathryn. Anyway, I'm very glad you found THE shoes for you! :)
I absolutely love this, I love watching Josephine fit dancers and I love that you were able to find your perfect shoe. As a dancer myself it took me a while to finally find a pair of pointe shoes that work for my feet because I have really narrow feet and they are very compressible. I ended up finding the RP Rubin 3width works best for me.
You looked like you were going to float away (in the best way possible) when you were dancing with your new pointe shoes! You looked so light and so happy! I feel like the best of dancers are pretty good at masking any discomfort they're feeling... but its hard to mask when you finally feel really comfortable for the first time or the first time in a long time... and you were just exuding joy! It was a pleasure to watch. I also found this super informative. I had no idea about past injuries can cause permanent swelling and I knew favoring could happen but I always assumed I favored my left side because I never received PT after an injury... but perhaps that's not the only reason. (sprained my 3 of the ligaments in my knee at once but have sprained that ankle on 6 separate occasions and broke it once without knowing it for 6 weeks) I have some things to talk about with my ortho now. Thank you!
I just watched a video the other day where you said you were between two brands because you hadn’t found your perfect pointe shoes. Congrats Katy!!💕💕💕💕
Delighted to learn of the range and variety of pointe shoes now available. I was a dancer in England 50 years ago and have just completed by 3rd set of corrective foot and toe surgery. Do so hope this is now a thing of the past for current professional ballet dancers.
You're such a great and inspiring dancer! I'm so glad for you that you finally found your right shoes! This collab is gonna be amazing, I love both of you!
Magical!!! Loved this video. I have the same problem with pointing my feet in shoes, no matter how strong my feet are, my foot is totally stretched in the shoe but the box area looks sloppy!
I love how you were like a adorable teenager getting pointe shoes for the first time throughout the fitting process. No longer teacher mode, you were full scale giddy
Love to see your fitting 💕 Josephine is so gorgeous! My two favorite ballet related UA-camrs doing a collab. I'm in heaven like you in your new shoes 🩰
Wow! This explains so much. I hope that young dancers can learn from this and get the fit they need to not just look their best but to dance their best. This would have been invaluable to me.
I so wish I could have been fitted by someone with her level of experience. I always had such trouble finding a shoe that worked. I didn’t manage to pursue my ballet dreams but I do think to certain degree my difficulties with shoes really impacted my technique and confidence on pointe. I’m jealous of anyone Josephine fits she is so great!
4:36 I dont know if this is something you've covered before but what Josephine is describing now is typical of hypermobility spectrum disorders (EDS). While it can affect any of the body's collagen, it was first discovered by 2 dermatologists because of these exact skin descriptors.
I call the box a Tulip or Bulb shape, for people who need the width, but sink in boxy shoes. I have high profile feet as well and if I don’t have the crown space to push over it’s a no go.
Holy cow the difference in how her OG shoes fit vs the new ones is night and day :O As a non professional even I can see that huge difference. Good job!
I love Katie's reactions too like Josephine explains how she actually did go wider in the box but since they changed the shape of the shoe she didn't sink and Katie was like *surprised pikachu face* :0
It's very interesting that the body continues compensating for an injury forever. 3:55 I've noticed this with my back, I'm always guarding my left side and I can't stretch as much on that side. I'm not a ballet dancer, just noticed this personally. Also, I feel like my body is overly sensitive to everything, pain, touch, etc. I have that white, see-through skin, too.
I’m so happy that you found your shoe! A lot of instrumentalists (especially flutists because we have an array of different brands, different metals, and different head joint cuts to try out) have to try to an array of different instruments to find out which instrument works for them.🥰❤️
There is a very specific reason that we didn't mention what shoe Josephine fit me in. (And she always abides by this rule). You have to find what shoe works for YOU. Often dancers get swayed by name brands- "So and so wears this shoe so I have to also!" "Well Kathryn Morgan got these shoes so I want them to." And it might be the COMPLETELY wrong shoe for you. So I am totally happy adhering to the rule! I would like to wear these for a few months first. If I stick with them, I will probably let you guys know what they are! :)
Please let us know!!! I have watched a lot of your videos and feel like I have very similar feet to you. A lot of the times your problem have been my problems so I’m curious to try!!
Maybe you can do an updated pointe shoe tutorial once you're more familiar with them!
I completely get it. Your feet did look sooo pretty in them. You did look like a little kid at Christmas!!! So Happy you Love Them.😊❤
I always had custom figure skates, it makes all the difference. You will feel so much better. Wow 22yrs!!! Finally😊❤❤
so curious! I have a gut feeling it's not a brand you've ever worn before
Are other non ballet dancers fascinated by these shoe fitting videos? I think they're so interesting.
Yep, my dance experience has been w/ tap and Latin, and I do neither professionally. But these are fascinating and somewhat relaxing.
My son danced but I was so fascinated watching the girls! And over time I could tell when girls had bad fitting shoes. One school always pushed 2 pairs only..I would tell them to go to a fitter at a real place!
I did ballet for a few years when I was younger. And probably never would have made it on to pointe. But I love watching ballet. And I absolutely love every fitting video I've seen on josephine's channel.
Never danced in my life. I am obsessed with watching these videos.
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“The body keeps score forever.” Spoken like a true physio-therapist. ❤
It's true! I fractured my arm when I was 7, and then decades later went for a pregnancy massage. The masseuse worked through clothes and honestly just gently touched my rib cage on that side and asked "have you ever broken this arm"? I've had lots of massages and no one else ever picked that up.
Honestly Josephine is just absolutely the BEST pointe shoe fitter in the world. I am based in Australia and my daughter has struggled to find pointe shoes to suit her hypermobility and wide feet. At the end of the road and with the possibility of my daughter stopping her love of ballet because we could not find the right shoe we found out about Josephine's virtual fittings. In just one appointment she was able to give us the details of the shoe to suit my daughter. Upon trying on the shoe she has never looked back and has danced better than ever before. Josephine is soooooo good at what she does she managed to nail the right shoe and drive her car at the same freakin time. We can't love or thank her enough. Amazing.
so happy for her ❤
OK, she did that while driving?!?! Yup, officially the BEST fitter in the world.
So happy we found you your shoe 💞 Love you Kathryn!
THANK YOU! Love you back!
@@kathryn_morgan I have NEVER seen you smile sooooooo much. Wow! I am very happy that you found the right shoe! I found "The Walking Company" and have never looked back. One Love. 💚💚❤❤🧡🧡💜💜💗💗
I have a student whose big dream is to be fitted by you! She has flat feet with a narrow heel and has not yet found that perfect magical fit-but she’s a go-getter and a lovely dancer. Her dad has promised her a road trip of her choice when she gets her drivers license and she wants to drive to be fitted by you! We hope she can!!
‘Body keeps score forever’ - so wise Josephine
I gotta read that book.
As far as my feet go, I broke my right big toe about twelve years ago helping my mother move. It still hurts. I have to wrap it with a lidocaine strip at times when I dance. Now THAT is keeping score. 😬
Not a dancer but had a teeny tiny slip down (less than half an inch) and wrecked both Achilles’ tendons. That was at least 20 years ago. The left still flares up from time to time with the right one less occasionally but the right also has to deal with a bad knee that’s still iffy after 6 years from a popped cyst. Add in three broken toes, sometimes it’s just argh.
Each time I hurt one of my feet I put a rock in my other sock to even the score
I just recently did a virtual fitting with Josephine and it was the same magical experience!! Mid-20s lifelong ballet student, ~14 years en pointe with ~1.5yr break between my late teens and "starting over" as an adult dancer. Never had a shoe I "loved" besides maybe gaynors as a teen. Josephine read me like a book over zoom in 15 mins and same thing, the shoes she put me in made my feet actually look pretty!! I wore them for the first time for 2 straight hrs of class and felt like I could go all day when I was used to limping around in pain after barely 1.5 hrs. Such a difference, I was slightly skeptical of a virtual fitting but can highly recommend her virtual appointments!!
thanks for taking a chance on us! ❤
How do you do a virtual point shoe fitting?
@@scarlettwinters5642 you book online on the pointe shop website!
I’m not even a dancer but I find pointe shoe fitting totally fascinating.
if you had told 16 year old me that I would get to edit & create content with THE Kathryn Morgan, I wouldn’t have believed you. This was so fun to work on & such a dream collab. Thank you, Kathryn!!! 😍❤️
You’re AMAZING Jazley!!!!
@@kathryn_morgan
The before and after is crazy! You can tell such a difference and like Josephine said, they make your feet look so nice!
I know! She looks nine feet taller in the new shoes.
I sincerely wonder if 22 years in slightly misfitting shoes is what led to her ankle injuries? She said her foot had never been able to go up en pointe quite like that before. The improvements in information and technology are really helping in so many lives across many disciplines.
My friend compeated in yagp with joffrey and texted me saying she was like 20 feet away from Kathryn and I freaked out! Kathryn you are my biggest role model! You have taught me that I am worthy of dance, you help me be able to look in the mirror every day, which is a huge feat for me. you are such an amazing person, dancer, and role model. I hope one day I can tell you in person how much you have done for me. Because of you I feel like I can belong in the dance world, even with my body. you have absolutely no idea how much you have done for me. I just want to thank you for that
Aww thank you so much! That means the world to me. So much love to you!
maybe this is what all video comments on kathryn's videos are like and ive just never read them before, but this is so cool and sweet. i know this is part of why she makes videos, but still really nice to see that they work.
Watching this has taught me that
- some people's bad feet look WAAAAYYY better than my good feet.
- I should possibly stop blaming my pointe shoe for not being able to do certain steps (my left foot hates me though I swear)
- I am apparently the type of person that would consider a 14000km trip to get fitted in pointe shoes
hey, a long trip is better than a lifetime of foot/ankle issues
Get on the good foot! (James brown)
Heyz she does do virtual fittings! 😁
The fact that Kathryn Morgan helped lead me through starting ballet at 11, and Josephine has helped me learn so much about pointe shoes as I start my pointe journey. This collaboration is LEGENDARY!
Katie speaks with her body. Like when she points to Josephine and says "That's why she's the pro" she does this tearbouchau (I actually have no idea how to spell this) and later too. I love it! Keep being you Katie!!!
Russian school - "Tire-bouchon" (pronounced tee-ear-boo-shon...the 'shon' sound is quite short.
@@surquhart64 i dont know anything about ballet but "tire bouchon" means corkscrew in french ;)
@@louiseropiteau7736 Thanks!!
There are various thoughts about what Tierbouchon actually is - most modern ballet teachers use it to indicate the higher retire position used by the Russian school ie above the knee, with the toe on the thigh or slightly devant. I was taught that (decades ago - and yes, I had Russian teachers), in order to achieve the 'corkscrew' movement, the toe is actually drawn up the leg, from the ankle to the thigh, as you are turning. For example, whilst doing a grand plie in Centre work, when coming upwards you simultaneously turn, also drawing the toe up the leg - hence the 'corkscrew' movement, the downward pressure (mass) from the body, transferring energy unto the supporting leg (force), to achieve the upward thrust for the turning gyroscopic mechanism (and yes, it is physics!). From this movement you can end in a high attitude derriere etc. You will see it in Vaganova school videos on occasion - it is taught after the 4th grade as Tierbouchon requires a great deal of stability and balance, including a strong core. The other name used for it is Raccourci. The full name is En Tierbouchon. One of my teachers was Sulamith Messerer, sister of Asaf. They both danced with the Bolshoi. She was an absolutely fantastic teacher.
Could I also add to my rather long epistle - Tierbouchon has two spellings depending on the teacher. 'Tier', meaning several levels or layers or 'tire' meaning pneu, part of a pneumatic action (to inflate, using air or gas - the upwards motion from the plie for instance). I was taught Tier as the levels meaning is a more accurate, understandable, description, ie going up several levels (the leg). The 'bouchon' is the corkscrew part as louise mentioned.....Hence, going up several layers as you turn.
I am so glad to hear that I am not making up being hyper sensitive. I have fair skin, and everything always hurts more, bruises easier, and generally makes me crazy. I get grief all the time from nurses doing blood tests, because needles hurt me unbearably, because I have very sensitive skin. Of course they all think I am being overly dramatic. After 51 years, your comment about fair skin has finally validated what I have always said about myself.
Same here! My feet always blister and bruise and get cuts so easily (like my first day wearing new shoes, that fit, I would often bleed) and her comment makes so much sense! I am practically translucent
I've been in post op from a c-section and several major surgeries and the recovery nurses are aware of these sensitivities. I had to develop a very high pain tolerance, and I stood out for not being in excruciating pain, but yes, sensitivities as a extremely fair skinned redhead are very common.
Yes! It was so validating to hear her say that. I also struggle with this. I’m not a redhead, but my dad & sister are. I have very similar sensitivities to them, as do my very fair daughters.
Nurse here, and you’re not alone. I actually suspect this is a type of autoimmune disorder or neuropathic disorder or both. I’ve seen it A LOT. Also a lot of fibromyalgia, lupus, and other stuff. I don’t know for sure, but I believe this may be a disorder where a physical appearance trait actually indicates a possible medical disorder or issue. I’m not wording it well, but for example, many redheads do not absorb anesthesia the same way as non redheads. They can often have difficulty being put under, and they can often wake up from anesthesia while still being operated on. Pain tolerances are also much less.
Yes I know that is terrifying.
In any case, if you have the very pale, translucent skin and find things so much more painful, I’d talk to your doctor and see if anything else needs to be checked out. It may save you from worse issues down the line.
I’m not a redhead. Blonde. However, my mother has told me many times when I was born, I had strawberry blonde hair till I was about two weeks old, then it turned white. My hair was “neon” 😂 blonde when I was a child, and progressed to dark blonde as I aged. I have always, all my life, been sensitive to needles. I remember as a child, I was 10 at the time, and had to have stitches in my knee. It took four grown adult men to hold me down because needles hurt. When I was 4, I was jumping on my bed and cracked my head open and had to get stitches. It took my mother and two nurses to hold me down. As a child getting my required vaccines, I had to be held down. I’m 53 and my husband has to basically sit on my opposite arm when I get blood tests because it hurts so bad I want to swing on the person doing it.
I love how excited Katie is for her new shoes.
“It’s not you. It’s the shoe”! 👈🏻This👈🏻!!!! Thank you for putting these videos out! It’s so helpful for us to see that even very experienced/ professional dancers have shoe woes. Dancers! Don’t stay quiet! If you’re struggling, ask for help. Struggling with your shoes is NOT unusual. Even for expert dancers! If your technique, strength and conditioning are all solid, but you still feel you need a NASA engineer to design a shoe for your “difficult feet…”it’s not you. It’s the shoe!” My academy dictated what shoes we wore based an out dated and extremely flawed training philosophies (we were not allowed to use lamb’s wool either). I stayed quiet and did my best in the wrong shoe for years. YEARS! Compensating for a bad fit lead me to over develop lateral stabilizer muscles just to protect myself from injury. This limited my range of motion, caused repetitive stress injuries and held me back artisticly. My dance physiotherapist insisted I meet with a master fitter and it immediately felt like someone took a 50lb weight off my back. I was able to focus 100% on my dancing because I didn’t have to think about protecting myself while fighting the shoe. If I’d known then…etc etc. Don’t stay quiet. Find a master fitter and get the right shoe!
This was like a pointe shoe fantasy where the queen of pointe shoes collaborates America’s ballet sweetheart. Your feet look so beautiful💕💕💕
She did not even tie them!! They worked like tailored shoes!
What an education that was. WOW! I was particularly struck by the statement that the body remembers it's injuries. When I was 16/17 years (now 60 something) I strained and inflamed my metatarsal ligaments in both feet. After 4 months rest and restorative exercise I was left with being able to step onto pointe, but not relevè onto pointe without considerable pain. I continued dancing, but gave up ballet class halfway through my first year of Bachelor of Music studies. I have remained in performance in theatre in one form or other and concert work. My ballet training gives me a sense of presence onstage and the ability to connect with the audience. Anyhow, enough about me... How wonderful to see an experienced professional analyse Kathryn's feet and know precisely what is needed to provide maximum comfort, fit, support and aesthetic effect. Even the professional needs a professional! This holds true for any pursuit be it art, science, business etc..... Thank you both for your level of excellence.
My daughter just had this moment when we went to a new store that had a 3/4 shank! She loved them and she could roll down for this first time.
It’s insane how much the new shoes improved the lines of your feet! They look more pointed and with higher arches.
when josephine fit me over the summer the first shoe she put on me was the perfect one as well!!!! shes literally so amazing my mind was blown
Videos like these make me so sad there are no fitters like Josephine in any nearby country here. It truly makes such a difference how she spots the issues immediately and knows what to do about them.
I think she does virtual fittings over the Internet, using a camera. So you could look into that.
She does virtual fittings
So many videos lately - we love it! And so happy you found your shoes 🩰😍
Thank you!
This really is something we have been waiting for and is gonna be so much fun! 👌✨
Katie looks so genuinely happy in the new shoes. 😍❤
I can't wait to watch! This is like my dream collab!
It was awesome to see your reactions to the new shoes! For me, this was the best Josephine fitting video ever, and it couldn't have been for a nicer lady!
You know it's a good fitting session when you just try one shoe and then spend the rest of it gushing about how beautiful your feet look and how comfortable you are.😄
It is amazing what proper tools will do for your craft. I do crochet, and it is amazing what a difference the proper tools can do. It is not about price, or vanity, but what is the best for the job. Watching these two, made me feel good. Two crafts persons in synergy. Amazing!
This was such a great video to watch! Watching two Masters here at work was so enjoyable. To see the look on your face was priceless and to see the look on Josephine's face was priceless too! The excitement you both had when the magic pair went on was like Christmas! Thanks for sharing this video! Loved it!!!!
It is wonderful to finally see Josephine do a pointe shoe fitting! 💗 She is incredible at what she does. 💞
I wish professional schools would do this for the young dancers at the beginning of their training to get the correct shoe 🙏🏻🙏🏻🌻
If you watch some of Josephine's fittings with younger dancers, it doesn't really work like that. She fits them for their first pointe shoes, then at regular intervals thereafter, and often the shoe she recommends (not just the size, but the model and even the brand) changes from fitting to fitting. She actually explicitly says in some fittings with beginners, "this is not your forever shoe, as you get stronger and your technique improves you'll need something different." As someone dances more and gets better, their feet change and so do the shoes they need. Once a dancer is an adult, their feet will change much less and, as they say in this video, having experimented with different shoe types when they're younger, they'll have a much better idea of what their preferences are. THEN you can find a "forever" shoe.
I agree that young dancers should get regularly properly fitted though. I dread to think how much long term damage has been done to young dancers' bodies because they've been improperly fitted.
a collab i never knew was coming! I take Kathryns online classes and watch all the pointe shop videos~
It's so nice to see her so happy! I did ballet but never got on pointe, even to my untrained eye it looked soooo much better
omg! josephine is the absolute pointe shoe queen! what a joy to watch you two together. ❤
"The body keep score forever." SO true!!!
Omg I always thought not having a nice looking foot was just part of the deal when putting on new point shoes without anything done to them. But this is giving me hope for when I finally get to do a good fitting!!!
You look so beautiful! I love seeing you out there on pointe,no ribbons because the shoes fit so well,as if balancing on your toes is the most natural thing in the world.(Not what I've seen in other pointe shoe fittings that Josephine has done).Happy that you are happy,you've waited so long!
They kinda look like Grishko StreamPointe. I have these shoes and THEY ARE PERFECTION. They just work for you and your feet in every way. I tried them on during a fitting and had the exact same reaction as Kathryn.
Anyway, I'm very glad you found THE shoes for you! :)
Seeing Kathryn SO happy with her new shoes is so heartwarming!
Kathryn looks so happy & excited to dance! Love this pair-up!
I absolutely love this, I love watching Josephine fit dancers and I love that you were able to find your perfect shoe. As a dancer myself it took me a while to finally find a pair of pointe shoes that work for my feet because I have really narrow feet and they are very compressible. I ended up finding the RP Rubin 3width works best for me.
You looked like you were going to float away (in the best way possible) when you were dancing with your new pointe shoes! You looked so light and so happy! I feel like the best of dancers are pretty good at masking any discomfort they're feeling... but its hard to mask when you finally feel really comfortable for the first time or the first time in a long time... and you were just exuding joy! It was a pleasure to watch. I also found this super informative. I had no idea about past injuries can cause permanent swelling and I knew favoring could happen but I always assumed I favored my left side because I never received PT after an injury... but perhaps that's not the only reason. (sprained my 3 of the ligaments in my knee at once but have sprained that ankle on 6 separate occasions and broke it once without knowing it for 6 weeks) I have some things to talk about with my ortho now. Thank you!
It's so great so see how happy the right shoe made you, Kathryn. Josephine does an amazing job.
I love The pointe shops channel and yours so I’m really excited for this collab!💕🥰
When she put those new shoes on 😍😍😍 Wowee! Kathryn, you look so amazing!!! Josephine truly is the fairy godmother of pointe shoes!
Your tendu in the new shoe is unbelievable! It really allows your feet to be expressive even when you're not en pointe. I feel so happy for you!
I just watched a video the other day where you said you were between two brands because you hadn’t found your perfect pointe shoes. Congrats Katy!!💕💕💕💕
Delighted to learn of the range and variety of pointe shoes now available. I was a dancer in England 50 years ago and have just completed by 3rd set of corrective foot and toe surgery. Do so hope this is now a thing of the past for current professional ballet dancers.
Those shoes are beautiful on you ❤ I absolutely love Josephine's ability to find the perfect shoe for each dancer!
You're such a great and inspiring dancer! I'm so glad for you that you finally found your right shoes! This collab is gonna be amazing, I love both of you!
It's always awesome to watch a master at her craft.
this is so precious! i love seeing dancers get fitted! the joy on their faces when they find a shoe they're happy with is so wonderful!
This is the cutest video ever! I love how excited you were when you saw your feet in your shoes!
Magical!!! Loved this video. I have the same problem with pointing my feet in shoes, no matter how strong my feet are, my foot is totally stretched in the shoe but the box area looks sloppy!
Her advice is 👌🏻. I'm extremely pale and pink as well, so really appreciated that part so much.
Amazing difference! I look forward to seeing you dance a variation in these!
I love how you were like a adorable teenager getting pointe shoes for the first time throughout the fitting process. No longer teacher mode, you were full scale giddy
Love to see your fitting 💕
Josephine is so gorgeous! My two favorite ballet related UA-camrs doing a collab. I'm in heaven like you in your new shoes 🩰
Wow! This explains so much. I hope that young dancers can learn from this and get the fit they need to not just look their best but to dance their best. This would have been invaluable to me.
I've never danced and have no familiarity with ballet personally, but it was so fun to see how much joy the right pair of shoes can bring a dancer
This conversation helps every dancer deal with the pointe shoes issues, thank you!
What a beautiful arch! Cant wait to watch!!
Josephine the Queen! All Hail! Gotta love her!
We have all been waiting for this collab!
I so wish I could have been fitted by someone with her level of experience. I always had such trouble finding a shoe that worked. I didn’t manage to pursue my ballet dreams but I do think to certain degree my difficulties with shoes really impacted my technique and confidence on pointe. I’m jealous of anyone Josephine fits she is so great!
As an ice-skater these are so fun to watch cause skates are the same. All of them feel so different and different skaters need different feels
4:36 I dont know if this is something you've covered before but what Josephine is describing now is typical of hypermobility spectrum disorders (EDS). While it can affect any of the body's collagen, it was first discovered by 2 dermatologists because of these exact skin descriptors.
I call the box a Tulip or Bulb shape, for people who need the width, but sink in boxy shoes.
I have high profile feet as well and if I don’t have the crown space to push over it’s a no go.
I agree!! Your feet have never looked as good as this!! I’m so glad you found this shoe, I hope you start rediscovering your beautiful lines 😍😍😍
We're so happy that you're so happy!
Finally together! Glad you have found your best shoe ever! (And yes: gorgeous!)
Your reaction to those shoes is priceless... It's like you fell in love with ballet all over again! 💜
Whoa. That's amazing. What a difference!
I love how excited you are in those shoes!!!!
Holy cow the difference in how her OG shoes fit vs the new ones is night and day :O As a non professional even I can see that huge difference. Good job!
The shoes fit and look so much better.
I wanna do a pirouette! That was the cutest!
Crazy difference !🤩
You look sooo happy!! Josephine is the best!!
This was amazing. My two favorite people together talking pointe shoes. 💕
oh my god!! the collab of the century!!
So nice to see 2 favorite UA-camrs together!
I love Katie's reactions too like Josephine explains how she actually did go wider in the box but since they changed the shape of the shoe she didn't sink and Katie was like *surprised pikachu face* :0
the crossover i didn’t know i needed ❤
Omg omg omg finally!!! I’ve been waiting for this collab!! I’m so happy !!
Gosh what a satisfying fitting. Lovely response. I find myself smiling.
Wow! What an amazing improvement!!! 🥰
It's very interesting that the body continues compensating for an injury forever. 3:55 I've noticed this with my back, I'm always guarding my left side and I can't stretch as much on that side. I'm not a ballet dancer, just noticed this personally. Also, I feel like my body is overly sensitive to everything, pain, touch, etc. I have that white, see-through skin, too.
They look so much better!
Wow Josephine Lee love her black hair looks so good and Kathryn Morgan this video looks really good
This is my dream team collab! So excited you two finally got together!
i was able to take a class with you at yagp and it was such an eye opening class and i loved every minute of it!
Nikolai is my favorite pointe shoe I’ve been through so many and just recently tried Nikolai it is my new favorite
What a blast to watch you two lovelies . I’m wearing a 3007. It’s a conflict. 🌷💕😢
I’m so happy that you found your shoe! A lot of instrumentalists (especially flutists because we have an array of different brands, different metals, and different head joint cuts to try out) have to try to an array of different instruments to find out which instrument works for them.🥰❤️
Sounds like violinists with chin & shoulder rests.
@@guccideltaco My sister’s boyfriend tells me all the time, that if a violinist doesn’t have the right shoulder rest then you’re screwed 😊
@@kiaraeijo I've been playing for 40 years, and still looking for my perfect fit.
My favorite duo and I haven’t even seen it yet!!!! 🥳 🩰
I have been waiting for this!!! So happy you finally found a shoe that you love!