MDM STOCKISTS – Australasia

Welcome to the

MDM Stockists Page for Australasia.

 

This page is here to assist you with all things MDM, from pricing and product information through to imagery and Social Media posts. We hope that this page will assist you in understanding more about why MDM should be the footwear choice for your customers.

Below are links to documents to assist your understanding of the MDM brand.

Click here for a Product Catalogue

Click here for a more comprehensive guide in understanding the MDM Brand and our products

Click here for a RRP (AUD) Price List

Click here for B2B ordering instructions

Click here for Terms and Conditions

Click here for our Brand and Social Media guidelines.

Click here to contact us at MDM Head Office

 

MDM 7 Video

A quick video to help you, your staff and customers understand the revolutionary innovations in the MDM range.

There’s just 7 things you need to know.

Your Website

Logos:

Here are some options for our logo, please make the appropriate selection by using a white background.

Contact us should you need transparent logos for web, that would go over any colour other than white.

Grey

Pink

Black

 

Product Images:

Here are our Product Images for use on your website.

Directions: Right click on your chosen image to save to your Desktop.

If you have specific requirements, please feel free to connect with our Marketing Dept for further assistance; clicking here.

Helpful Tips for Remote Purchases

  • Ask the dancer for their foot length and width measurements in centimetres, then bring your ruler to the MDM foot measurement. Make sure they measure from the back of the heel to the end of their longest toe.

  • Do the same for the width measurement to make sure they measure the widest part of their foot – across the metatarsal area.

  • The number you reach will be very close to the MDM size required by the dancer.

  • We usually go up from about 1/2 to a normal size from here, depending on how the dancer likes their shoes to fit.

  • *Note MDM sizes are close to US street shoe size.

Disclaimer – We know nothing will ever be as accurate as an in-store fitting, so though this will work 90% of the time, there will be some students that you may find challenging to fit online/over the phone due to foot shape/fit preferences.

IF THE DANCER MEASURES 20 CMS IN LENGTH, THEY WILL LIKELY BE A SIZE 2 MDM

Perspex Display Clips

A friendly reminder that we now consider these a requirement on all MDM shoes you have displayed.

We’re sure these bright clips will draw customers to pick up the MDM shoes and we hope they’ll encourage some questions about how our shoes differ from anything else on the market.

If you have many MDM styles displayed and need extra, please feel free to ask for more!

See below for where/how to display them on the shoes.

Social Media Images

We would be pleased for you to share to your Social Media Pages to advertise the MDM Brand is available at your store. Please tag us @mdmdance and #mdmdance so that we can see and “like” your posts!

Directions:

  • Click on the image you wish to Save (it will open in a new tab.)

  • Right Click

  • Download and save to your Desktop

  • Upload and post to your pages!

Click here for our Brand and Social Media Guidelines

Please take a moment to look through our Brand and Social Media Guidelines as listed in this document here.

Facebook Banner

The images below have been sized for use as a Facebook Cover Photo, please feel free to save and use on your page.

Informative Posts for Social Media

Below are more informative posts you may also wish to use to assist your customers understanding of the MDM products. These can also be attached to email blasts, newsletters etc..

You can “click and save” in the same way as instructed above.

Click here for MDM Facebook Page.

Please take a moment to look through our Social Media guidelines as listed in this document here.

MDM Videos

A brief introduction to the 7 benefits of MDM shoes.

Product Videos

Testimonials

The following testimonials are from highly esteemed Dance related health professionals, who tour extensively internationally giving workshops and educating both dancers and teachers alike.

Marie Walton Mahon, founder Progressing Ballet Technique.

Lisa Howell, Renowned Physiotherapist and founder The Ballet Blog

Articles you may wish to Share

We have many wide ranging articles on our SquareSpace page, please visit our page to see more interviews, videos, dance tips, health and wellbeing articles.

Here are a few links below:

https://mdmdance.squarespace.com/shoplocal

https://mdmdance.squarespace.com/dance-not-about-the-body

https://mdmdance.squarespace.com/intrinsic-muscles-of-the-feet

https://mdmdance.squarespace.com/finding-your-turnout

How is MDM different?

Here are just a few ways the MDM range of dance equipment is different:

The Drawstring – While it seems a purely cosmetic change, by reinforcing the heel MDM are able to dispense with the pull-in drawstring. While there are indeed many cosmetic reasons for doing this and some that are simply irritations, the most important reason is that the majority of the public have protruding heels. This means the heel is susceptible to inflammation if too much pressure is placed upon it. For this reason MDM have replaced the drawstring with a pre-tied elastic that snugly fits the heel to avoid undue pressure on the bursa.

The Hybrid Sole – The MDM Hybrid sole, develops a better proprioceptive awareness as the foot works against the slightly greater resistance, which better assists young students in transitioning to using floor pressure when moving through degagé into tendu.

The Bones – Our feet start as cartilage and don’t fully develop into bone in most people until our late tween years. And as young people go through the process of growing spurts their bones thin slightly, adapt and change before thickening and strengthening again, repeating until they stop growing. And like any involved in high intensity physical activity dancers can be susceptible to over-training and muscle fatigue. For this reason MDM have added a layer of EVA for impact support and protection to their range of shoes, which cushion the landing to absorb some of the stresses away from the muscles and bones.

Arch support – Landing from jumping, running or even walking on hard surfaces places strain upon the foot up to 5 times our body weight. In an ideal world where we all had optimal posture and technique 100% of the time we wouldn’t require arch support. We would land, naturally pronate forward a little to absorb the landing stresses, before rolling back into the middle of the foot to take off again. Most people however do not have optimal posture or technique, and even for those with great technique they too are susceptible to fatigue which means a disengagement of accurate technique at certain times. In such cases we land and pronate forward, yet fail to activate the musculature of our foot accurately and take off from a position of non-alignment which puts stress on the feet, ankles, knees, hips and lower back leading to injury over time. It is for this reason that MDM added arch support to it’s Jazz Protract and Sheer Dance Sneakers making them the most comfortable and also the most valuable piece of equipment in your dance bag.

Pronation – As discussed above some pronation is inevitable and indeed desirable. Pronation helps absorb the natural stresses of landing. But as importantly, the foot must also move back from the pronated position to the middle neutral position and take off with the weight evenly distributed across the toes to ensure correct alignment and avoid injury. Dancers with flatter feet or weak feet (and we all start with weak feet) tend to continue pronating and take off from this position, putting undue stress on the skeletal system which can result in the development of a non-aligned musculature. For this reason MDM developed the Dance Base Support which provides feedback to assist in developing the muscles of the feet to provide correct foot position.

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