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since the old thread from 2009 was closed, I would like to give my experience to that challenge as well.
The first big tutorial to read can be found here which was very helpful:
http://ballet-heel.net/
The good part is, it is possible to learn walking in ballet heels.
The bad news is, that you can at least double or triple the time and energy that you were thinking it would take you to walk in them, say an hour per day.
Depending on your physical fitness and body weight you have to give it a few weeks until you can walk in them a little bit. That time is nothing compared to ballerinas who will not start en pointe until they've trained 2-3years and 2-3 times per week, from what I've read
.I was able to walk with them for about an hour after 2-3 weeks of exercises. Since I would call myself quite fit/sportive and slim, luck was on my side
, otherwise I guess it would be double that time.The dilemma you'll run into is the following. On one side you want to be patient with exercising and being cautious about not getting injuries. On the other side you'll actually want it NOW and not in 3 weeks and it becomes quite the downer to your excitement/arousal. If you, or your Mistress, have plenty of neurons left in their brain(s) you'll take it slow or accident awaits.
About permanent damage. If you train the right way you'll head for strengthened muscles and tendons. Now unless you would wear them 12hours+ I don't see how you should get shortened tendons if you keep doing the exercises outside the shoes, barefoot. But I'll be careful guessing too much into the future here. Your biggest health risks are short term, meaning: infected nail-bed, sprained ankle, accidents from falling. Luckily I got only infected nail beds until I learned how to cut/file them properly
And about bondage while walking in ballet heels/boots: If the wearer's arms/hands are bound/tied/chained you'll run into serious danger of head wounds from falls. So I guess that's where I would draw the line between wet fantasy meets reality.
My own experiences
I bought myself some devious-BalletBoots a while back. I shortened the heel a bit as shown on ballet-heel.net
Then you have to shorten your toe nails. Make them real short. And you will need padding for your toes. Ballerinas do that too.
My personal training experience was about doing feet exercises 3x/week or more with only trying to stand on them until I got a better sense of balance. After about 3 weeks of continues training and tormenting myself I was able to do some household chores. First 30mins with little breaks until 1hour. And from there you could steadily increase it. But, since I got lazy again my endurance decreased. And you have to constantly keep on maintaining short toe nails that are different from normal walking uses
. But since I started to miss walking in them for a while, motivation secretly build itself up again I guess, so a new training session seems to be coming up for me.Modifications to the Ballet boots
Now about my devious Ballet Boots, since I do like to modify and upgrade my "toy's" here and there a bit. (sorry no inches, I'm a mm-guy
)I removed the heels completely (they were nailed on) and replaced it with a aluminum 3-4mm plate, and made holes "under" the soft inside sole and screwed the plate on below. Then I used a double 6x20mm alu bar, made a proper angle into them They are now a bit shorter and a bit closer to the toe part than before. Screwed them together with the base plate onto the heel, followed by a long iron bar, 5x20mm and about 500mm long, as a sort of additional restraint to the boots, so that once the boots were on you cant bend your feet anymore. In the next day's I'll make some additional modifications so that they'll be lockable with an ankle shackle and a wire through the zipper
Of course keeping the balance in even straighter boots makes it even harder to walk, not easier.
So long
John J. Smith
