How to save a badly broken pointe shoe

This Instructable works only if you have some kind of shoes. It can be used with Sansha Recital and Premerie. I think you can use with Sansha Futura and Partenaire if you have "super glue".

You can't easly ruin pointe shoes. I know that lots of people didn't believe what I do to pointe shoes to prepare them, or that the best pointe shoes (IMHO) have nails in them.

But one way to ruin them is breaking in them wrongly. I did it once, with a pair of Sansha Recital. But I've saved them!

Use can use this tutorial to re-new old pointe shoes that have the shanks too soft. Maybe you won't want to dance on your Premier at the Scala theatre with them, but they'll be good enough to exercise.

Please, note that I'm not a native English speaker, so forgive my mistakes (or gently tell me what I've to fix!).

Materials:

one pair of badly broken in pointe shoes
your feet
reinforcing stems

I bought the stems on Sansha website, but some shoes are solds with them (one of the pair of Premiere I bought have them).

Step 1 Look if your shoe have a hidden space

Take your ruined shoe and pull back the inner sole.

You should see the shank.

Some shoes have a pocket to put the stem in, like Premiere, some others have just a space, like Recital.