A.Lane: Bill Nye Point Shoe Article?

Do you know where this article came form? THANKS!





Here's an article with him about it:





"You have a patent pending for a ballet slipper. Please explain.





We did a show on bones and muscles, and I'm standing there on the sidelines at the Pacific Northwest Ballet, and these women, these young women, these girls, have bloody shoes. And I kind of get to talking to them. And I talk to the ... it's not called a coach. That guy, the dance instructor, the class leader or whatever he's called.





The term is "sadist."





The women were all saying, "This happens every day. I have to throw shoes away because they're bloody." So I just got to thinking about it and I just realized that traditional pointe shoes — first of all, they're traditional. You can't mess with the look of them. And this business of the pain being part of the rite of passage, I totally get that. But there's another aspect to it, and that is they haven't changed in years and years and years, and so couldn't we make a new shoe? The

A.Lane: Bill Nye Point Shoe Article?
Link to the article:


http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/te...





There are new pointe shoes engineered to work with the foot. I wore a German brand that I ordered from San Francisco in the 1980's that had a wider, flatter box and a manmade rubber material for the shank. They were strong enough to last for months instead of days, and they were fit so that your foot could feel the floor. An Alabama teen, Harper Niedermeyer, has a patent for a new design of pointe shoe that won her a prize in the materials and bioengineering category at the recent 2007 Intel International Science and Engineering Fair.





Bloody feet are a sign that the dancer hasn't prepared her feet properly. With appropriate taping most blisters can be prevented. With toe caps, and lambs wool most feet can be comfortably accommodated in a pointe shoe.
Reply:What's the quetsion? ANd teh rest of the article?
Reply:I think feet wern't made to be on pointe.


I know that girls do it because they love


to dance and that is how they show it and all.


They also say that if your a "true" dancer


you would be willingly to wear pointe shoes,


but a true dancer is when they dance with their


heart. Long story short if your feet hurt and


bleed because your on pointe your body is


telling you something......duh. Your feet wern't


made to be be on pointe! So young girls STOP


damaging your feet!!!



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