How many point shoes should i take for a Summer Intensive?

Question:ok. here it goes, i have been accepted in the Orlando Ballet School Summer Intensive 2008 and one of the uniform requierements is to take the necesary amount of point shoes depending on how much time i'm staying. So... I'm staying for 5 weeks and only have two pair of good point shoes (one pair is brand new and the other pair is half year old) by the time of June, how many point shoes should i take? anybody with expirience have any idea? it would mean a lot!!! PLEASE!!!!

Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: ok. here it goes, i have been accepted in the Orlando Ballet School Summer Intensive 2008 and one of the uniform requierements is to take the necesary amount of point shoes depending on how much time i'm staying. So... I'm staying for 5 weeks and only have two pair of good point shoes (one pair is brand new and the other pair is half year old) by the time of June, how many point shoes should i take? anybody with expirience have any idea? it would mean a lot!!! PLEASE!!!!

I suggest that you start breaking in your new ones and get another brand new pair. Don't break in the ones you just bought! You will be able to break them in at the intensive. Your half a year old ones sound almost dead. Stop dancing on them and give them a rest but bring them to the intensive. So in result, you will bring three pairs of pointe shoes, a brand new pair, a fairly broken in pair, and a very soft almost dead pair! I always do that and it works perfectly for me!

2, 3 is tomany

Congratulations on your acceptance! Remember, based on your age and ability, you will probably be taking pointe 3 to 5 times a week. Think about how many classes it takes you to wear a pair of shoes out. I would advise you to be extra prepared and buy an additional pair before you go. You never know, and you don't want your shoes to wear out before this ends. You will want to get as much experience out of this as you can! So stock up on one or two more pairs. Also, if you don't use the extra shoes, you always have them for next year.

two should be fine.. if you need new ones (i don't think you will) just call home and ask if they can send you a care package with new pointe shoes.. tell whoever would send them what kind and what size ahead of time so they can buy them immediately :]

for 5 weeks definetely bring 3 because your shoes will wear out with al the work you will be doing

what i would do is calculate how many hours you do before your shoes die. then calculate how many hrs you will be doing pointe at the intensive. I recomend switching off everyother day a pair because mostlikely you will be doing pointe everyday. Pointe shoes need a full 24 hrs to dry, this prevents premature wearthrough. so bring atleast 2, and sew them before you go, it will save you time that you could be resting.

Well if i were you i would bring 3 at the least.Anyways depends how much time you'll be using it so it's all up to you. Congratulations and Good luck by the way!!! :D