A teacher preparing to teach a punitive pointe training class
A reader asks: After reading about punitive pointe training from my December 27, 2009 entry ‘Jill pads and punitive pointe training’ Risa asked “Can you explain deeper what kind of pointe training used as punitive pointe training? I really interested to this topic”
The section of the entry she is enquiring about is: “Anya and punitive pointe training: Because Anya is a masochist and enjoys brutal pointe sex along with other specialties she accepted a commission from a unit of Taryn’s Adult Media Empire to advise the Swiss head mistress on what additions should be made to the classical syllabus for pointe training to heighten its punitive aspect and exactly what the disciplinary regimen should consist of to achieve various levels of pain for training purposes. She will also examine the physical plant to see if any changes need to be made to introduce ‘solitary barre’ punishment and if there is need for any additional machines and devices creative punitive pointe training can require. The trip will also give her an opportunity to see Castle Deiter for the first time since its renovation with Tanaquil and one of her lieutenants, who used to be one of Deiter’s girls, giving the tour.”
Punitive pointe training, the details: PPT can and will vary from school to school and from teacher to teacher. I see it needed when a student with potential doesn’t take her pointe classes seriously enough and isn’t performing at the level she is capable of. I think that is showing disrespect for the art and the tradition of the skills being handed down from one generation of dancers to the next. Therefore, every teacher who administers punitive point training under my supervision wears a short (classical) tutu and pointes and is on pointe with the student being disciplined during her entire disciplinary session.
There is nothing elaborate or particularly special about the punitive pointe training regimen I use. Well, not to begin with, although the punitive regimen calls for the woman undergoing PPT to take class with a special vaginal plug inserted. The plug is inserted to give the student something to block out of her mind – a lesson in partitioning - while concentrating on the steps she required to perform. It also has a more sinister purpose if it turns out that she is very stubborn and refused to be compliant.
We find using classical steps and poses at the barre and then center work are usually enough to bring a student with a recalcitrant attitude in line. Using steps from the classical idiom provides justification for the very intense training needed to make certain the student in question has that step, combination or pose committed to memory and the stamina to perform a long series of an exercise correctly.
We first have a dancer undergoing a punitive training regimen do a twenty minute barre – in pointe shoes – to make certain she is well warmed up. Then we take her through a series of steps depending how naughty she has been. Basic steps like:
Relevé from straight-knee positions, fully rolling through the foot while both rising and descending is very important.
Relevé from demi-plié, springing strongly from the heels and drawing the toes slightly under the insteps so the feet are in first position on pointe with the toes directly under the heels. It’s important to work through demi-pointe when returning the heels to the floor.
Échappé on pointe, in second or fourth position. Standing in fifth position, demi-plié, then spring out to second position on pointe, pushing off strongly with the heels. The feet can be exchanged, front, back after an 8, or 16 count or changed each time you close.
Relevé en Arabesque, with the left leg extended back in arabesque à terre well turned out from the hip, demi-plié. Spring up into Relevé on the right foot extending the leg back parallel to the floor. Lower through demi-pointe to demi-plié maintaining strength in back not permitting the left leg to drop and keeping a strong point in the left foot. Repeat 8 or 16 times on the same foot then repeat the series on the other leg.
Administering PPT: The class is taught by a very experienced instructor. I teach PPT with a 30 inch riding crop with a thin leather tress on the end. To make corrections I flick the tress against the sole or toe-box of the dancer’s pointe. The steps are basic, but the number of repetitions is not. We start with fifty 16-count reps on each foot and go through the series of steps while I judge the mental attitude of the student. If I don’t think she is cooperative and giving me her best effort we go through the process again with one hundred 16-count reps on each foot. This will generally separate the determined from the serious bloody toes masochists. Very few students can do one hundred 16-count reps w/o going rubber-legged and falling off pointe at which time the girl is grounded until she can perform the required amount of discipline successfully.
Occasionally a teacher’s authority will be directly challenged by a new student who has been to a more liberal school as far as pointe training is concerned. Or, one who has burnt out and no longer cares, but doesn’t want to quit. It those cases as a last resort to bend the naughty dancer to the teacher’s will she can operate a small remote transmitter that sends a charge of electricity through electrodes in the trainee’s plug. One electrode is in contact with the ring of nerves just inside her vagina while the other electrode is along the anterior wall of her vagina against her G-spot and bladder.
The teachers administering PPT have all worn ‘spark-plugs’ as they are known and had the plug activated while we are trying to hold a pose or perform a step. You are thinking about getting the step done correctly when the shock hits in total surprise. You feel this tremendous jolt and every muscle seems to contract at the same time. Some gasp and fall off pointe, some double over with severe cramps, most start to cry. We all empty our bladders spontaneously and it’s a scary and humiliating experience.
In the three years I’ve been administering PPT at St Lucy’s I’ve never had to activate a girl’s spark plug. I consider it a failure on my part if I can’t get a student to perform to the best of her ability w/o shocking her. Driving her into exhaustion takes a bit longer, but when I’m administering punitive training I’m doing what I ask her to do along with her step for step and they know after the first hour or two that they aren’t going to be able to get away with anything less than their best effort. I usually bond with those students during their PPT session and we end up being best friends.
Thanks for writing this article, I really apreciate this post. I'm really happy to know PPT, pointe training with BDSM spirit. I have pointe fetish for years and don't know how to "satisfy" the crave for ballet and pointes.
ReplyDeleteI have some more question, if you don't mind.
1. Do have specific requirements for the girls who join the PPT? I don;t think I can do a hundred 16 reps on every foot, since my legs start shaking at 20. I'm at late 20, not so good fitness since I rarely do workout. I'm not overweight, and not skinny too.
2. Can I do PPT training myself? I have a ballet class once a week with 20 minutes pointe training an I feel it don't enough to make better dancing on pointe. I use bloch suprima for pointe training.
3. Can you post pictures the Vaginal Plug used at PPT? Is it specially made for st lucy or available at fetish stores?
Your training technique very impressive, your dancers must be very proud and happy to have a ballet mistress like you. Not easy to found a ballet mistress.
Once again I'm so happy found this blog, success to you
Hi There,
ReplyDeleteI personnaly use a very efficient technic when a ballet dancer needs a bit of motivation in her work.
I make her wear her pointe shoes, no toe pad, no tight or no sock in her pointe shoes. Then I ask her to stay en pointe, without any move and I turn a cd with a modern song on.
She must not move for the whole play duration. If she doesn't, she "wins" and can get back to flat feet and we switch back to a normal training.
If she does move, she must get back en pointe and I will play a longer song.
If she fails once more, I use a more coercive method ;
I ask her to remove her pointe shoes, then I spread a tablespoon or two of coarse salt. I ask her to wear her pointe shoes back (she's then allowed to wear toe pads, but still no sock or no tight.
Then I turn the music on back without any instruction.
Within seconds, she's back en pointe and she will stay as long as I will not instruct her to get back flat. If she does, the salt grain will bite her feet very painfully.
I can tell and promise you that this method is very very efficient for any reluctant ballet dancer !!
Hi Ballet Lover... so you put coarse grain salt in her shoes? Devilishly clever! And there isn’t the trauma of using powdered glass…
ReplyDeleteHi Risa, I’m glad you liked my article about PPT.
ReplyDelete>”Do have specific requirements for the girls who join the PPT?”
It is for the girls who choose not to follow orders or who aren’t performing up to the level of which they are capable. No one volunteers.
>”I don’t think I can do a hundred 16 reps on every foot, since my legs start shaking at 20. I'm at late 20, not so good fitness since I rarely do workout. I'm not overweight and not skinny too.”
If you start going rubber-legged at 20 then you understand the challenge. St Lucy’s ballet students are in great shape, but not usually with enough stamina to do 100 reps of 16 count exercises.
>”Can I do PPT training myself? I have a ballet class once a week with 20 minutes pointe training an I feel it don't enough to make better dancing on pointe. I use Bloch Suprima for pointe training.”
It sounds as though you are just beginning pointe. I think at your level it would be best if you could take pointe at your school at last 2 and preferably 3 times a week until you build up strength and stamina with your teacher watching to see that you are doing the steps correctly.
Once your feet are strong enough then if you want to continue building stamina keep doing the 20 until you’re legs are no longer shaking and then increase the reps to 25, then 30, and on up. But trying to do long series of exercises when you aren’t strong enough can lead to serious injury, so you should be very careful not to over train and cause yourself an injury.
>”Can you post pictures the Vaginal Plug used at PPT? Is it specially made for St Lucy or available at fetish stores?”
The’ Spark Plugs’ are made especially for St Lucy’s, but you should be able to get something similar at a good sex/fetish shop.
>”Your training technique very impressive, your dancers must be very proud and happy to have a ballet mistress like you.”
Thank you for the complement. Girls first starting PPT don’t consider themselves fortunate, but I’m pleased to say that at the end of the course they are glad to have been pushed to the very edge of their endurance and to have survived as stronger and better dancers.
Hiya,
ReplyDeleteYou do not always need any complicated gear to make someone "suffer". Mostly, the simple fact of knowing that something can be painfull is sufficient to make someone become very submissive.
I used to meet a girl who was convinced that wearing pointe shoes and beeing en pointe was the worst pain ever. I always brought a pair of pointe shoes when we met and played. She never had to wear or try them, she was afraid enough that I may make her wear them to not refuse anything :-)
Humain brain is a strange machine, innit ?
B_L