When I do a Grand jeté my......?
back leg goes higher than my front leg. What does this mean? It has been like this for a while. It goes up and stays straight and the front leg is a little lower... I don't know why it does this. Can you help me even it out? I want a perfectly straight Grand jeté
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Here's some tips:
1. Focus on getting higher (up) rather than going farther (over). Get up as high as you can and don't worry about getting across the floor
2. Really use your plie. Without really bending your knee and pushing off the ground as hard as you can, you won't get the height in order to get that front leg higher.
3. Stretch out your hamstrings really well before you do your grande jete. Your hamstrings are the muscles that help your front leg get higher. If those aren't stretched for at least 5 minutes, your front leg won't go very high.
4. Strengthen your quads and hamstrings. Do bridges (search "bridges for hamstrings" on youtube), do 20 of them if you're doing both legs or 10 of them on each leg if you're doing one-legged bridges. For quads, do 20 deep plies in 2nd position. After that, do five where you do a deep plie in second, then spring off the floor and jump, then land in second again. Get up in the air as high as you can.
5. Do your splits and make sure your front leg feels warmed up.
6. when you practice them again, kick your front leg up BEFORE your back leg comes up completely. It might look funny at first, but it will make you more aware of your front leg to make sure that it comes up higher than your back leg. Once you can kick your front leg up first and it's higher than the back leg, then try doing both up at the same time.
Good luck!
i've got not got any theory what a fouette is, yet do be attentive to what a grande jete is and the thank you to do it. Its like a gleside different than you end along with your toe pointed coupe at the back of your foot. (and you should save your foot at the back of somewhat above the floor)
I had that problem too a few years back. All I did to correct it was...Practice!!! I did more leg exercises to strengthen my thighs and stretched more to get my splits. Once you do that, you'll start to notice a difference. While you're practicing just give yourself a little more of a push..and really use your plie for preparation.
After reading the answers, I now have much more respect for ballet dancers. That sounds like hard work.
That's how most people start out. You just have to jump higher and work on your flexibility.