How to make dance shoes slippery to make spins easier?
trythis asked:
I have recently taken up modern jive and wanted to get some comfortable shoes for dancing in. Most shoes have rubbery soles which makes it difficult to do the turns properly and taking small steps to do the turn looks clumsy. Can anyone suggest a way of making the soles more slippery so I can spin better?
I have recently taken up modern jive and wanted to get some comfortable shoes for dancing in. Most shoes have rubbery soles which makes it difficult to do the turns properly and taking small steps to do the turn looks clumsy. Can anyone suggest a way of making the soles more slippery so I can spin better?
Go to a specialist dance shop who will be able to sell you suitable thin-soled shoes. Vamp
Depending on the floor and the shoes, sometimes making them wet can help making them slippery, but on some shoes they become sticky instead (this is mainly on ballet shoes though!). If you’re finding that you can’t spin in the shoes, you might want to get some new ones with a different sole.
Dancermegz
Hope this helps…
i put a little bit of baby powder on the bottom of my ballet shoes when im sliding a lot TDADance5678
You could just get jazz shoes. These have kind of rubbery soles, but they still turn really well. They also have great traction when you need them to. Here are some places you can buy them. If I Were A Boy…
well at my dance school we have thin soles that aren’t rubbery, im not sure of the brand name but they are satin and have pink ribbons.
maybe you could put talken powder or air spray on them ( actually thats to make them stick )
maybe you could steam the bottom of them, like when kettle boiles put sole over it, also bend them alot afterwards incase they go stiff, rubber is always stick so im not sure :/
never heard of rubber soles, go to a shop like la Danse, good ballet shop. But you can’t always blame turning on the shoes, try and improve in yourself though rubber would be extremely difficult to turn in, like in bare feet.
wait just relaised you said jazz shoes, you can’t do anything to them, you just have to get pair to suit you and get used to them, like find a method of how to spin, my techiques were for ballet shoes haha Animee X
you don’t want to do anything to the shoes, you just have to get the right ones. Ask your teacher for what they recommend so that you’re sure it’s okay. Especially if you’re going to put different substances on the bottom of your shoes while you’re dancing on their floor! I have dance shoes with rubber bottoms, but by balancing my weight in different ways I can manage. Just keep trying while you figure out what shoes to purchase. Any small steps don’t make you look clumsy - big ones do. Believe me. My dance instructor gets mad if we take big steps because we look off balance. Small steps are key. Good luck! mes
mabey get some jazz shoes or thinner sole DancingBabe4eva!!
Buy some proper dance shoes where the sole is made of thin suede.
And buy better quality shoes as better suede means less risk of slipping. What we want are shoes that let us pivot or spin halfway around on one foot, but do not let us slip and fall. Data Detective