THINGS DANCERS DO *pointe shoe fitter reacts* 

Maya’s zombified toe pad is a meme at this point. The moment she gets new ones is going to be a huge moment.

On another note, I know nothing about Ballet but I still know about Maya’s legendary toe pads.

Maya's undead toe pads are the ballet equivalent of using a (clarinet) reed until it's green and chipped af. It looks like hell, but it works PERFECTLY, aside from people around you being abhorred

Eva (the one who bought Maya all the toe pads) does a lot of dance photography, you should check out her stuff!

Maya's TOE pads are SINGULAR. they're only for her second toe. it finally makes sense. and i am amazed that the algorithm brought that short to me before you saw it!

IT'S ABOUT TIME SHE TALKED ABOUT MAYA'S TOE PADS!! 🤣

Maya is iconic at this point. She's amazing! ❤ It's definitely psychological for her. She says she'll "never" change them. Lol

I feel like Maya’s zombie toe pads have become iconic 😆 And I feel like the day Maya buys new toe pads for herself it will break the internet 😂

mayas toe pads are actually genius because as her feet get stronger, her toe pads wear down more and allow her to fully transition to no toe pads lol but it's also probably psychological

Maya is definitely adopted by the internet because everyone adores her. She's a gorgeous dancer.

I'm so glad you explained the dancer logic behind the zombie toe pads.

' dont forget to breathe ' is my teachers favourite thing to say when we stretch or do a warmup ( an intense one at that) or do turns and im like ' i have to pull up, engage my core, stay on my axis and you expect to BREATHE ??? '

Maya and her enchanted toe pads are not to be trifled with! She's the most amazingly talented, gracefully gifted, beautifully elegant dancer, that even possess the ability to float through the air, as if gravity is nothing! Maya is amazing, janky toe pads and all! Love Maya, she's definitely a Prima Ballerina! 🩰

Josephine! Check out more stuff by Eva Nys Photography! She photographs with dancers from the Master Ballet Academy!

When I took my yoga teacher training I learned that a decent percentage of the population has gene that causes joint hypertension and stretchier skin. I also learned that it’s more likely for those people to have lifelong injuries because they don’t feel pain upon hyperextension so over time their joints give out after being hyperextended so many times. I hope that girl from the second video finds her balance before her joints fight back. 😅

Regarding dancer hype: One of my most treasured memories that makes me feel good about the world was a time when I was working security at a cheer competition. The music cut out in the middle of one team’s routine and they were allowed to restart. But then it cut out the second time as well and they decided to keep going, so all the other teams started shouting out their eight counts for them. They could have so easily decided to laugh or boo or try to throw off their timing or even just do nothing - after all, they were in literal competition with each other! - but the entire arena decided to be kind and helpful. It’s been almost ten years, and it still warms my heart every time I remember it.

😄 My daughter would totally understand the dancer with the very worn toe pads. She was a volleyball player with very worn knee pads. Tried buying her new ones. She hated them. Wouldn’t use them. She liked her “broken in” nasty ones. Not even her coach could get her to give them up.

I go to Master Ballet Academy where Maya was trained :) She is amazing and so sweet!

The Necronomicon can't even bring Maya's toe pads back

When I just started Ballet I was four and we had a little boy in class who didn’t participate in all exercises we did, but all girls loved him he literally was surrounded by like 12 girls who all wanted him for themselves, he was like two or three. Not sure what happened to him but I can still remember him so vividly and I’m sure everyone else from my beginner classes back then still remembers him as well because we all loved him like he was our little brother 😂

Maya might benefit from trying making GB her own pads out of socks. You can use as thick or thin a sock as feels good for you but even a really thin sock would be a layer of protection from rubbing and blistering.

Eva Nys Photography and The Pointe Shop is the crossover I’ve been waiting for! ❤❤❤

I have been waiting for Josephine to react to those toepads😂😂

I’m so glad you reacted to Maya’s toe pad.

Something I constantly catch myself doing in class is during combinations I'm constantly biting my lips because I'm so focused but forgetting to breathe. Also idk why but in class or at rehearsals it always feels awkward to smile but during the performance it's so easy to smile.

I kept a pair of Pointe shoes for 15 years and then I finally let them go in a moving sale. I switched to training and showing my horse in Dressage. Which is ballet for horses. I had to train my turnout to turn in. It took three years.😂

My ballet tights, leotards, & shoes live in a bin in my closet. 😂 My first pointe shoes were Bloch Soloists. My current ones are Bloch Heritage. Eva Nys has done awesome phot shoots with dancers. Her current series is horror-themed for Halloween & is really different!

I love Maya and her mummified toe pads! 😂❤

Toe pads are practically the equivalent of me keeping my baby blanket despite being torn to shreds 😂

I haven’t done a dance class in over a decade but can say that I still sleep in passe every night 😂😂😂😂😂

Hahahahahahah Maya’s toe pads have finally made it here😂

Please watch Melanie Mcintire trying to get to 20 pirouettes!

You should do a whole video reacting to Eva Nys photography!!!!!!

Omgosh I totally relate to the things in a dancer's closet. I have leotards and ballet slippers that I haven't worn in over 20 years now. Mostly because I stopped dancing after a car accident. I guess I always hoped that maybe someday I would dance again. Then I got busy having kids. It might be time to pull everything out of storage and see if anything still fits. I might need differnt shoes though as the accident messed up one of my feet.

Maya's toe pads are the Internet at this point it's like we don't know her but we all know Maya's toe pads

Maya's zombie toepads should be in a museum at this point. They ain't mummies, they the mummy wrappings. 😭

Maya's lace toe pads 😂 ❤ The only thing holding them together is dancer's sweat.

My first pair of pointe shoes (1989, or thereabouts) were Capezio Infinitas (the first softer shank Capezio model I believe) and I still have them along with a few other special pairs. Back then we had to use lambswool to wrap our toes to make "custom" toe pads. Shortly thereafter lambswool toe pads came out but they were too thick until after they compressed and molded to your foot. Then gel toe pads came out, and I liked those better because the part under the toes was flat and so they provided padding where it was needed but you could feel the floor and articulate your toes better. I never got a great fit for my pointe shoes but my favorites were eventually Repettos that I 3/4 shanked myself.

Maya is future royalty, but already out of this world!

You should totes do a pointe shoe fitting on Maya!! 😍

Mayas toe pads are iconic but my friend has been using TOILET PAPER for the last 3 years

I call them Maya’s emotional support toe pads.

I absolutely love the mini mug of pointe shoes on your desk

My first pointe shoes that I remember, not my first pointe shoes ever, were Bloch Serenades. I loved those shoes.

I was just thinking Maya's toepads are now psychological exactly as Josephine said it. Plainly, I have watched too many of Josephine's videos!

lol ex dancer here.. stopped ballet at 12 and dance team at 17 (I’m 32 now). When I go to the gym, specially if I’m doing squats, I’ll be at the squat rack with my leg on the safety bar stretching like a ballet barre. Reminds me of the one stretching like that too.

I cannot and I mean I CANNOT get over ur hair it’s amazing.

3:17 , this is crazy true, I haven’t done ballet for a decade and I only did it for about 6-7 years but I still stand in first or fourth, or with my leg extended and toe pointed, cause all my friends never did dance or things similar they make fun of me for it and I’ve low-key become self conscious, but it’s 100% unconscious it’s just comfortable.

I spent years after ballet unlearning my turned-out everyday walk, because it gave me hip issues. But yes, people could spot it a mile away. 😂

"MAYA YOU ARE A BAD CHILD" can't take that out of my head, I don't even do ballet and I'm in love with this comunity

Maya’s toe pad is so iconic ✨

The first pair were Gamba, back in the '70s. Toe pads didn't exist, we had the joys of lamb's wool (which did nothing). The shoes were horrible, looked horrible, were very uncomfortable. My next pair were Freed's which had nice long wings and looked gorgeous. I'd like to say happy memories, but they probably weren't! 😁

Love your reactions and seeing the videos themselves, too!!! Keep up your great work with the SF Ballet!!! Good for you, Josephine!!

HOW IS THIS THE FIRST TIME YOU ARE SEEING MAYAS TOE STRINGS!? 😅

Maya is sooo absolutely adorable! I love evanysphotography's channel

I still can’t believe maya rejected 200$ of toe pads 😭

Oh I love seeing masters ballet girls on your videos! Just recently started watching them and they are wonderful!

Me who never done ballet or dance in general, sees Josie uploaded: Happy happy happy... Also, I really do just appreciate ballet as an art form and ballet dancers make such good references for art studies especially to study leg muscles.

yup can confirm, havent danced in 10 years and still have 2 buckets full of all my leotards and dance shoes

I'm not a dancer by any means but I love these educational reaction videos. Also, I don't know if this is a thing anywhere, but if you have a ton of old leotards, why don't you do a scrapbook of a photo of each leo and a brief description of when you performed in it, and then donate the leos to a dance studio so that the dancers that cant afford brand new leotards have something to wear for competitions. Like the studio could rent them out to the dancers and the funds stay secured and then the funds from the renting of leotards go toward the student when they leave the studio, like for college, or going to summer intensives, something. Just an idea.

Omg the first dancer with the band on, made my ankles hurt lol. When my parents were moving my Mom said I have something for you. It was a box of all my dance recital clothes my first ballet shoes and first and last tap shoes. It was a hot mess in that box, I had quite dancing when a junior in high school. I graduated almost 40 years ago lol.😆😆

Your videos make me happy. You are so sweet and cheerful. I wold love to have been a ballerina. But at 66, I think I’ve passed the point of no return lol,

Loved this one!! Your content is so fun!🎉

I absolutely LOVE Josephine.

ALWAYS love your videos!!❤❤

The ballet boys in comparison to ballet girls points are sooo true, it hurts 😂😭😂

My first pointe shoes (aged 50) were Gaynor Mindens because nobody at Grishko or Capezio in NYC had shoes that fit me. The GMs weren't quite right either and the next year, I went back and they sold me another pair just a bit bigger that were even worse. A couple of years later my teacher took me to an Energetiks store near me, and they sold me an Energetiks pair but then lockdown happened and I haven't done pointe work since 😢. I sold both pairs of GMs online though.

I’m doing my first dance on point for THE first time I’m so happy and I’m a little nervous and also excited

Eva’s page is amazing. I have never danced ballet, and Maya’s toe pads video came up in my feed….😂😂😂😂😂

I love your reaction videos xx we need more xx

I kept all my old dance stuff, cause I only had to quit ballet due to time constraints... when I finally got into classes again half of the elastics had become britle XD

hi! i was just approved to get my first pointe shoes on Tuesday, and im getting fitted at a pointe shop location today!! i love your videos!!

love you girl !

I've never danced a day in my life, but I tune in to every single one of these videos. Why? ✨w h o k n o w s✨

I had to say goodbye to some of my point shoes because our basement flooded and some were at the bottom of the wooden box with my dance and theatre stuff and got soaked 😢 Luckily my tutus where vacuum sealed and saved everything else ❤❤ (I haven't done ballet in 12 years but I still have everything)

I love those tiny Pointe shoes on your desk!

I still have my pointe shoes from my teens (back in the 1960's). Dance classes were thru the local rec council so, fun dance classes, but not on a level for anyone with professional aspirations. Every once in a while I pull'em out of storage and yep, I can still get into them at 73. And then my knees (especially the one I had a TKR in last fall) tells me to get down on flat feet. those dance classes were so much fun.

I like these types of videos much more than the tik-tok ones. Keep 'em coming!

I've just started pre-pointe. I'm really excited.

Josephine, you are awesome !

Finally Maya's toe pads 😂

Mayaaaa! Love following those MBA dancers on youtube ❤

The first one! I haven’t taken a ballet class in 13 years and still have two ballet boxes in my closet full of stuff I’ll probably never wear again. 😂

Not me sat in bed watching this in passé. What a call out 😂😂

I love how maya was in it ❤

I will be 62 in a week. I have all my pointe shoes. all of them even the ones falling apart, lol. I have found out that the older you get the more you will hold on to memories that you can hold.

The wittle shoes in the mugggggg

Maya’s toe pads are her lucky charms

I light up when i see you posted 😜

Josephine, the mini pointe shoe leaning on the mug was about the size of my first pointes!

My son started ballet at age 3 because he saw his sister performing. Other than that all of the points about boys in ballet totally check. I have yet to see a costume or makeup spec sheet for any of his performances (Nutcracker included) either. 🤣

First pointe shoes: Capezio Pavolovas. Philosophy at the time (1993) was to give beginners the hardest shank possible so they had to work their feet harder. Same philosophy with slippers- we weren't allowed to wear split soles at my studio.

My first pair was Bloch European Balance! But I ended up switching and sticking to Grishko until I stopped dancing about 3 years ago

maya's making waves 😭😭

I've still got my army cadets boots, toe cap bulled. They are too small and they got trapped next to a radiator for a few months, so the soles are melted and soft now. So they are use less for what I put them through when I was a cadet now. Still they're proudly displayed with my Irish Guards beret and corporal rankslide. Those were good times. And I preferred my old holey cloth for bulling my boots, and the applicator brush that was packed solid with old boot polish. Sitting down to bull my boots on a Wednesday afternoon was so therapeutic.

Maya’s ripped up toe pads r something else ❤😂

My first pair of pointe shoes was Bloch European Balance❤ My current pair is Gainors❤

"Whatll you use then?" These !!😊 *ball of dirty thread*

I got my went on Pointe this year and my 1st pair of Pointe shoes are the Bloch balance Europeans

Question for Josephine! Also anyone else who knows anything about Sansha pointe shoes Josephine do you ever use Sansha shoes in fitting? I might need to schedule another virtual with you. I have a slight Sansha free pointe shoe with purchase from Sansha NY online hoarding problem 🙈 I had a follow up virtual fitting with you yesterday. I’m the one that was an early morning appointment and I said I felt like Cinderella in the shoes and that the heel stays on even without elastic! . It’s mind blowing you have this amazing ability and gift to know what shoes people need. Thank you so much again! I was feeling discouraged and down before and I want to let you know you have helped me persevere and gain back my confidence. So back to the Sansha brand 😅😅😅 I have a confession 🙈😅 I have so many Sansha shoes they sent me for free for spending over 90 dollars. Also for a few days they maybe made a mistake or it was super overstock they had ovation 3/4 and legende and others for $3!!!! Foolishly I was like “oh that’s basically free” in my mind 😂 Well they have no descriptions on the website and I’m not experienced enough to know exactly what I need by looking at the photos on their site. Also I always write in the box for instructions about the free pointe shoes and let them know what I need and they do get close but they just aren’t fitting right So of course none work for me 😂 some are close but also a few are like 2 sizes too big or more. Etudes, Esmeralda, Legende, Carola and some more I’m forgetting. now I have like 7 pairs of Sansha pointe shoes none of them fit properly maybe one or two kinda work but not as well as the ones you got me in so I have them carefully stored in my closet. I always tell the store what I need when I get to the notes for the free pair of pointe shoes and it’s always so so close but like baggy in the heel or too big lengthwise or the box isn’t right like too big or the vamp is too long or short even It is sooooo hard to say no to free pointe shoes when I can get them free 🤦‍♀️ I have this crazy idea I will get a local tailor to make them perfect for me Or that I will learn to sew well enough to get them to work. Like shorten the end and make the heel less baggy etc Is it possible to alter Sansha shoes with sewing and make them fit me 😅 Please tell me this isn’t possible so I go ahead and sell them for like a few bucks plus shipping or give them away and get it over with lol. Hope you are having a good day! Thank you again