Ballet or Gymnastics as an adult male?

[turtlejoy]

@twins4heaven Most dancers have jacked feet. I didn't do near 6 hours aday and still have jacked feet. But I was too lazy to tape up my feet. Now they have spacers and toe caps and tons of other support for dancers feet. If they start to bother you definitely head to the dance supply store and ask about them. (And I didn't go en pointe.)

 

[twins4heaven]

@turtlejoy Thanks for the tips. I'll defiantly be taking caution when I feel something going wrong. Seen too many people get sport injuries.

 

[dawn16]

@twins4heaven You do you, but ide rather take a martial art. Barring that gymnastics.

 

[fradoff]

@twins4heaven Ballet will be the most helpful to your ultimate frisbee game. Sucks that the logistics are against it.

 

[twins4heaven]

@fradoff I'm not too worried about improving my Frisbee. I just play that because running around feels real good.

But out of curiosity, how would you say it will improve my frisbee? I thought they were pretty different

 

[fradoff]

@twins4heaven Explosive movement with precision is really useful in ultimate and is one of the skills ballet trains.

 

[twins4heaven]

@fradoff Aaaah yes. I like the way you put it . "Explosive movement with precision" sounds like a perk I'll get from the ballet/parkour skill tree

 

[shebu12]

@twins4heaven Quit your job and do both

 

[twins4heaven]

@shebu12 Ha. I wish. I'll do another 5 things if I could do that.

 

[najdib]

@twins4heaven Jujitsu

 

[twins4heaven]

@najdib Will check it if there's any classes nearby

 

[najdib]

@twins4heaven I really wish I didnt live in the sticks. About 50 min to the nearest gym in a few directions. Still thinking about it.

 

[twins4heaven]

@najdib That sucks man. I live in a small town too but managed to find a BJJ club. It's on Saturday so I can do it alongside other stuff .

Hope you find a place near you soon. Maybe try muay Thai? That's a bit different tho. Judo?

 

[najdib]

@twins4heaven Nothing around here. Okinawa karate of some sort but not too interested in that. Vt is a bit slow

 

[twins4heaven]

@najdib Time to move . For reals tho, hopefully you find something cool nearby

 

[najdib]

@twins4heaven Your probably right Haha. Beautiful here but they want it to be a retirement home for rich people.

 

[twins4heaven]

@najdib Sounds like every small town in New Zealand . I'm pretty lucky to be in one of the larger not-quite-a-city towns

 

[baristaben]

@twins4heaven I did ballet when I was a kid. It might be different in different parts of the world, but my sense of it is if you don't get in early and have a talent for it, there's no point. This is true for women, and even more so for men. If you really want to do it, you can try it, but expect it to be something you'll drop.

 

[aggiesoldier]

@baristaben agreed, sort of. if your goal as an adult male beginner is to get good enough to join a decent ballet company, you're crazy. it might not be completely impossible, but it would take insane dedication (and talent, and flexibility).

on the other hand, ballet is an excellent way to learn a physical and mental discipline while getting stronger and more flexible. if what you want is to be relentlessly challenged, ballet will do that. i tried martial arts for a while and never found anything remotely close to the level of focus and difficulty of basic ballet classes.

and then, once you have some basic ballet skills, the worlds of modern, jazz, hip hop, etc become much more accessible. these other disciplines offer a lot more achievable performance opportunities for adult beginners. it's not that they're "easy", but the learning curves are much gentler than ballet, and you can actually look like you know what you're doing pretty early on. ballet fundamentals are very applicable to these other styles, too. (you'll find a ton of borrowed ballet terminology and variations on ballet poses/movements.)