HOW DO THEY DO THAT?

Not a big fan of ballet or opera, I can name a few and have only been to one of each, I must admit that I am a novice in these two arts. But how in the world these women stand that way, let alone walk and dance like that is beyond me.

When I was a freshman in high school I tried to kick a field goal the old fashioned banana leg, straight on style. I tried it with a regulation football and my regulation Keds tennis shoe. I thought I had kicked a brick. Without any kind of wrap or toe plate or stub toed shoe, I winced and was thankful I didn't lose a big toenail.

Maybe you need some kind of special toe wraps to do what the gals pictured are doing, I don't know. I just know that if I could do that for any length of time, say 10 seconds, I 'd probably have a charley horse.

Maybe they eat a lot of bananas. Maybe that's all they eat since most are petite. Except for the fat lady who just sings at the end of a ballet according to Yogi. Or maybe it's the opera. See, there I go again mixing them up.