Apolla socks provide the benefit of a shoe and comfort of a sock. That is why dancer's call them Shocks! They provide all the sport-science features you need in ONE sock.
Patented targeted zones provide arch and ankle support:
- The 20-30 mmHg compression zones lift in key points of the feet to lift and stabilize but do NOT prevent range of motion like an orthotic...so you can still build foot strength
- The high quality compression assists circulation & recovery by reducing inflammation which energizes your muscles.
- This is very similar to the support you will get from taping…except it allows for better movement and comfort.
- The stability they provide is raved about from customers with joint hypermobility and are looking for comfort and stability.
Knit-in Energy Absorption:
- A 2019 independent study at Ohio University showed Apolla socks reduced force.
- Our padding on the ball of the foot AND the heel provides comfort for your metatarsals but is not too thick in shoes.
Additional Features:
- Antimicrobial
- Moisture-wicking
- Durable
- Recycleable
- Apolla socks are anatomically correct. Click here to see how to wear them properly
ALL OF OUR APOLLA SOCKS HAVE BEEN GIVEN THE AMERICAN PODIATRIC MEDICAL ASSOCIATION SEAL OF ACCEPTANCE.
WHY DO YOU WANT ALL OF THESE FEATURES IN YOUR SOCKS?
Our high-quality, patented compression, and energy absorption combined stabilizes the 26 bones in the foot and the ankle’s tendons and ligaments. This minimizes the amount of inflammation that takes place during your daily life or exercise that occurs due to overuse in your joints and muscles. We encourage you to have a pair for your exercise and a pair for recovery or everyday wear.
Inflammation is a natural occurence in the body, but if it is not removed or given enough time to decrease it can build up to cause chronic pain and issues like plantar fasciitis and tendonitis. Apolla socks help to not only decrease this painful inflammation that exercise and long days on your feet produces, but it also helps remove it. You will notice less fatigue, muscle pain, and they don't prevent range of motion so your muscles can still build strength. When you remove inflammation, you ache less and feel better…and you can do MORE of what you love, longer & stronger!
Comments
Erin Parsley said:
Sylvie, it is amazing to hear of your wonderful teachers you are now experiencing and your lifelong dedication to the beautiful art of ballet.
Anonymous, I am so sorry for the hurtful and discouraging words from your former teacher. I hope you can come to understand that is just one (apparently deeply unhappy) person’s subjective view, and not inherently the truth about you AT ALL.
I suffered years of abusive training and mean spirited comments in pursuit of my ballet career. It nearly wrecked me to the core at an emotional level. But I love dancing too much to let myself be deterred from creating a life around it, and I am SO GRATEFUL that I found the inner strength to never give up on myself. It’s taken me many, many years to undo the terrible mental conditioning I received at the hands of so many teachers, and to reshape my self-image into a positive, supportive one of myself.
But I did it! And dance continues to be the center of my life, and my most favored form of challenge, freedom and expression!
And that is why it is my mission now to impact my students in an incredibly uplifting way – empowering not only wonderful, sound dance technique, but also self-confident humans who feel awesome about themselves and ready to take on any challenges they may be facing (in life or on the dance floor).
Dance is hard. We’ve got to work our butts off, but also have some fun in the process! And celebrate and honor how we show up!
Sylvie CHARLOIS said:
I am not a professionnel dancer, but I took ballet classes from the age of 5 until I was 18. I did not (and stil don’t) have a body type suited for a professional career, or I would have tried for it, such was my love for ballet. So I trained for the sheer pleasure of it. I have had good teachers, and bad teachers. The good ones knew how to praise good work and when to point out, in a constructive way, mistakes so that I could improve.
I am now 57, I still love ballet, and last year, after a 39 years iatus, I joined again a ballet school. I am the oldest on my class ! And I have a great, positive, supporting teacher who doesn’t shy from pointing out what’s wrong, but also doesn’t shy from praising things that reserve praise. That’s what I think is a good teacher. She uncompromising in her desire for us to be the best we can be, and knows how to show us how to get there.
And I had the opportunity to take a class last week with Wayne Byars, and it was amazing. What a teacher ! He made us all feel like prima ballerinas, correcting every mistake with such gentleness yet you could feel his desire for us to love ourselves and what we did, and strive for perfection. It was amazing.
And the next day in class, I found out that his comments and teaching paid off ! Some moves that seemed still so hard for me to achieve became suddenly easier. And all because of a few positive remarks.
Ballet is hard, it’s a cruelly demanding discipline. Yet for those of us who love it, it is a joy. And a good teacher who knows how to share with you that love and joy of the perfect, seemingly effortless move, without glossing over the harsh really of technique, and without making you feel like a total failure if you botched a pirouette, that is a good teacher.
anonomous said:
I once asked a teacher who I had studied with for years – and revered – if she would Mentor me for my RAD certification – and she told me (with great vitriol) that I was " simply not good good enough"! This not only devastated me at the time – but has haunted me ever since – so much so that absolutely every challenge I face in life not only with teaching, but with everything else as well, I approach with great fear and trepidation, not to mention a morbid dread of failure. I have Never felt like I have been a success at anything I have done in life …and I have failed at more things than I would like to admit (things I really shouldn’t have failed at). Many years prior to this she had discouraged me from even attempting to apply for the training, but at the time she said there was not a much market for RAD teachers in the area where I live, but in retrospect I realized she was telling me (even then when I thought I was one of her “star” pupils) that I was “Not Good Enough” … I have not thought of this in a very long time – but clearly it has stayed with me for all these years … and still brings me to tears as I write this.