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  1. Matt Faherty

    All-Star Interesting Gym Locations

    I'm curious to hear about some of the interesting gym locations out there. First, I will share mine: One program I work with, Intensity Cheer Elite is located in a Mall. The locations gives the program a unique marketing tool. People will sit outside the glass windows and watch in awe of the...
  2. Matt Faherty

    All-Star Keeping Mats From Shifting On Spring Floor

    I'm curious how other gyms keep their mats from shifting on the spring floors. I have seen some people use Velcro strips to the wood. Personally, I'm a fan of a trick I learned from the floors at woodward, cutting 4, 5-6 foot strips of a Velcro and wrapping it in an almost "figure-8" fashion...
  3. Matt Faherty

    All-Star Does Your Gym Track Skill Progress?

    I am trying to figure out how (if at all) all-star programs track the individual progress of individual athletes. If your gym does, tell me about it! How is your progress assessed? How often are you assessed? How is the progress recorded? What is recorded? ex. just if you have skills, or how...
  4. Matt Faherty

    All-Star Illness And The Cleaning/upkeep Of Cheer Mats

    With flu season here and all, just seeing if, and how everyone is combating the spread of sickness within the gym. I'm curious how everyone takes care of their mats to keep them clean. Do you use a vacuum? Commercial or Residential? How often do you clean the gym/mats? Do you use any special...
  5. Matt Faherty

    Editing Posts

    I'm curious is there is a reason why we can only edit posts for a few minutes after originally posting the thread/reply? Even when quickly proofreading a reply before I post, I almost always catch typos and grammatical errors that would change the readability of my post, but cannot change them.
  6. Matt Faherty

    All-Star A Discussion About Tiny Teams

    A want to share a little bit about myself before I get into talking about our youngest cheerleaders. I have been coaching all-star cheerleading, mostly tumbling, for two years now. Before cheerleading, I coached recreational gymnastics for about 4 years. I was considered the "preschool director"...
  7. Matt Faherty

    Why Practice Does’nt Always Make Perfect!

    Hey I just wanted to let everyone know about my new cheer blog at cheerfullout.com. "Why practice DOES'NT ALWAYS make perfect!" is my first original article written specifically for it. I am planning on creating new weekly content to help cheerleaders develop their skills and fitness for the...
  8. Matt Faherty

    What Does Cp Mean!?

    I have been on this site for a little while now and I am a little embarrassed that I don't know. People always seem to make statement or ask questions about their "cp" and I have no idea what it stands for. Most of the time I just shrug it off since i understand the gist of what their saying...
  9. Matt Faherty

    Snapping Down In A Back Handspring

    There was a question asked in a reply to the "Ask Alton" post in the news forum. Since many of you are probably like me and don't often read those threads since the replies don't appear on the homepage with story, I figured I would share this question with the skills forum so everyone can...
  10. Matt Faherty

    An Interesting Article About Twisting!

    http://usagym.org/pages/home/publications/technique/1997/2/twist.pdf "Clearly the most effective twisting mechanism is to apply a large torque relative to the longitudinal axis during take off. The gymnast will then have considerable twisting angular momentum in the air and then if the arms have...
  11. Matt Faherty

    Free Tumbling Critiques

    If you have a question about tumbling, conditioning, flexibility or other related cheer topics feel free to e mail me at [email protected]. I will do my best to answer.
  12. Matt Faherty

    Private Lessons! 1-on-1 And Small Group Instruction

    In my gym, (Fame All-Stars NY) private lessons are huge when it come to skill building and conditioning! They offer one-on-one attention between the coach and cheerleader to maximize their progress. For athletes it gives them the drive and motivation to push their mind and body to he limit to...
  13. Matt Faherty

    Order Of Practice - Question To Cheerleaderes

    I am a tumbling instructor for a gym in NY, and as well as tumbling I also help build skill for all of the teams in my gym. While observing different practices I noticed that each one was ran completely different. Some stretched first while some conditioned first. Some started off with tumbling...
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