Is Ballet Training Right For Male Athletes?
Take a look at a male dancer in full flight across a theater stage. There you will find a perfect combination of strength, suppleness and stamina all packaged together with perfect control, balance, spatial awareness and unsurpassable kinaesthetic intelligence. The male ballet dancer has the power to perform explosive jumps and leaps many times in succession. He also has the strength to lift his female partner above his head and throw her about with ease and grace. What more does any male athlete from any discipline need as the ideal foundation on which to build their sporting skills? Whatever your sport the basic body skills needed are the same. An athlete from any sport needs highly developed core stability in order to execute any movement of the body. Without core strength balance and control will suffer. A male ballet dancer has this is abundance. Watch a male ballet dancer working at the ballet barre and you will see that ballet is all about being strong from those deep inner core
