BlueCat
Roses are red, cats are blue
- Dec 14, 2009
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You completely missed my point. I was saying that in gymnastics difficult skills are executed well the majority of the time as in cheerleading difficult skills are rarely executed well if at all. BUT instead of persecuting teams on how they need to do easier skills persecute teams on how they need to clean up their difficult skills because yes a team with clean easy skills is solid but a team with clean difficult skills is even better.
In gymnastics, good technique is rewarded more than in cheer (or bad technique is punished more - depends on how you look at it.). When the cheer scoring system changes to reflect an emphasis on technique, the execution will improve. Fair or not, teams don't have "gymnastics-level" execution of skills because it isn't sufficiently rewarded on the scoresheet.