Ballet originated in Italy. When it comes to it, people will think of a ballet princess who is elegant and noble on the stage and dances in a white dress. It seems that girls who have studied dance have a graceful temperament that ordinary people don't have, and ballet dancers are among them, so many parents are eager to try, hoping that their children will become elegant little princesses after learning ballet. However, learning ballet is not a simple matter. Not only are there many difficult dance moves, but also the practice intensity is not well grasped, which is easy to cause physical injury.

Opening, stretching, standing straight are the basic requirements for learning ballet. Most of these dance moves are done with feet and legs, which is very difficult and requires high training.

"Open" is the whole outward opening from thigh and calf to ankle, sole and toe. If children are exposed to ballet too early, repeating the opening of 180 degrees will have a direct impact on the development of hip joint and may cause splayed feet. This is also one of the negative effects that many parents worry about their children learning ballet.

"Stretching" means stretching the foot, requiring the practitioner to push the toes down with his thumb, and it is best to make the foot surface protrude to increase the aesthetic feeling of the foot shape. Proper foot stretching can increase the strength and flexibility of ankle and wrist joints. However, frequent foot extension will affect the development of arch ligament and medial plantar muscle, which will easily lead to flat feet.

"Straightness" and "Erection" are an integral concept in ballet practice, which requires the practitioner to stand up straight, not to bend over and hips, not to hold his chest and fold his back, and to tighten his knees when his legs need to stand upright. Proper upright training will make a child's figure more beautiful. Once you practice too much, it will cause joint instability and lead to bone aging.

In the basic movement practice of ballet, most of the movement strength falls on the legs. Long-term practice will make your legs very strong. This is also the reason why teachers especially emphasize the slender legs when selecting professional ballet students. Only when the lower body is longer than the upper body can it still look beautiful after the leg muscles thicken.

Professional ballet is very strict and requires great perseverance and determination from the practitioners. Body ballet is an extension of ballet. Fitness ballet is usually called body ballet. Professional ballet training is boring, while body ballet aims at fitness and is less difficult. It is not required how straight the legs are kicked, how high the feet are lifted, and how standardized they are. It just teaches you how to integrate the unique elegance of ballet into your life style. Moreover, from the kinematic point of view, the three elements of ballet "opening, jumping and straight" have the function of contracting muscle fibers, effectively consuming excess fat in static and dynamic exercise, and making people become slimmer after training. Therefore, although there is physical exertion, it is also exercise, but its movements emphasize muscle endurance and physical flexibility, and the intensity of exercise is not great, which is acceptable to most people.

If parents don't emphasize their children's professional dance, but just want their children to learn dance to improve their image and temperament, they can choose not to learn ballet, or let their children learn China dance, or improve their temperament. Moreover, there are many kinds of China dances, which are more interesting and more suitable for children to learn.