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Additional point about Y5:
It is a great place for younger kids to get consistent with 5R stunts with girls their OWN size.
If you're 9, you learn a lot more about flying L5 and technique on a group that is generally your size/age (like 9-11) than you do when your bases are 17-18 and can practically hold you in the air with one finger.
On the flip side, there may be a 9 y/o who needs to base, but she is not going to learn basing skills on a junior team when she is not a flyer nor is she big enough to base with the 11- 13 year olds basing. A friend of mine has a daughter who is senior aged, but also hasn't aged out of junior, she is just too tiny of a base for senior and had to be placed on junior, not for talent or maturity but for size.. so my argument, where do the L5 athletes who are very young in a sea of pre-teens and teenagers go to learn to base these higher level skills consistently? Its not always about a flyer.