Deshanking your pointe shoes is not a practice I recommend.
Should You Deshank Your Pointe Shoes?
Cutting off part of pointe shoe shanks is common practice among many highly trained and experienced ballerinas. (Also known as deshanking or 3/4 shanking). Personally, I do not advocate doing it.
However, many ballet students want to know why other ballerinas do it and how it is done.
Should You Deshank Your Pointe Shoes?
For educational purpose, I’ll show you in this video how it’s done, and explain the reasons for this practice.
If you’re a student still, I recommend you get a good fitting at the pointe shoe store and avoid de-shanking your shoes. They’re expensive and you can seriously hurt yourself!
Video uploaded to YouTube by Romy Macias.
Should You Deshank Your Pointe Shoes?
I don’t deshank my pointe shoes. I want them to last as long as possible. Our company does not pay for ours so we have to make them last!
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See you next time. And shanks for stopping by! 
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