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12-21-08, 08:41 PM
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Join Date: Apr 2003
Location: Margaritaville
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Ballet Bares
Hi!
I would like to start doing more ballet related workouts and I know a lot require the use of a bare. I was wondering at how one would going about buying an inexpensive or building a bare. Any help is appreciated!! Geoff |
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12-21-08, 08:45 PM
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12-21-08, 08:47 PM
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12-21-08, 09:31 PM
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Apart from the Fluidity set, no barre workout that I am familiar with actually requires a barre. You can just use a kitchen/dining room chair with a back that is somewhere between waist and hip height. You absolutely do NOT need a barre.
That said, I like having a barre so installed a wall-mounted 5ft one that wasn't very expensive to put together. The specialty brackets were about $30 and the 1.75" diameter pine dowel was about $15. |
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12-22-08, 04:28 AM
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Join Date: Feb 2002
Location: PalmTreeVille
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hey Delt,
if you type in "barre" over in the equipment forum, there's many threads on homemade barres: ~ clothes rack (ballerinas use these) against the couch ~ galvanized pipe w/ insulation padding (i tried this and ended up returning the pipes because the "plugs" cut my hands before i added the insulation ~ i suggest trying PVC pipe - less dangerous) ~ wall mounted yoga ropes and barres (see this post and many others written by cinza, a VFer) ~ saw horse from Lowes (or Home Depot)
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12-22-08, 12:10 PM
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