Longer legs? Harder to dance and balance? Is that true?

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ladysonoma

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I have heard that it is harder to dance and balance with long legs. I, myself, find that I have a hard time getting as low as shoter women do and it drives me crazy. So I downloaded some dance and excercise videos to look at various women doing different poses and they don't look like they typically go as low as the shorter girls. Or, if they do, they don't stay down as long.

Do any of you find this to be true? Or can you do the same poses the exact same way?

If you can do the same poses as the shorter women? what kind of excercises do you do?
 
Longer legs don't make it more difficult to dance and balance, but poor dance training will. Also, those who've recently had growth spurts (ie teenagers) may need a few years to adjust to their 'new' bodies. Your center of balance is off while you're growing.
It's all about the proportions, too. The girls with longer legs may be achieving the exact same degree of flexibility as the shorter girls, but they'll look like they're higher because they have 8 inches of height on them. It's really all relative.
I really don't think the problem here is your long legs, I think you've had mediocre dance training your whole life and were never properly taught how to use them.
There are a lot of dancers that would kill for long legs.
 
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