High School Cheer Rules Scholar? Test Yourself With My Legality Questions.

[OldskoolKYcheercoach]

Thanks. Good to know about the inversions. Does that mean the stunts I listed above that popped to extension would be legal if we landed in a prep first? Here they are again, for reference:

C. Cheer Extreme, at the 2:39 mark ("plank" to extended stretch).

E. Top Gun, at the 3:32 mark ("handstand" stunt to extended stretch).

G. Cheer Sport, at the 5:38 mark (extension down to load, push up into handstand inversion, pop to extended lib... but ours would have the flyer's hands on bases' shoulders).

H. Cheer Athletics, at the 6:36 mark (backward roll into handstand, pop to extension).

I. Cheer Extreme, at the 7:26 mark ("plank" into extended lib... I think this is the same one as the Cali one above but I'm not sure).

Also, could you explain why these are illegal:

D. Cali, at the 3:32 mark (front walkover into load into full around?).

F. Cheer Athletics, at the 4:52 mark (leap into load).

Lastly, if ball ups aren't allowed from a load, can you explain why it worked for Bishop McCort last year? At 1:17:



Is there something else happening here I'm not seeing that makes it legal?

Thanks.

Pretty sure I said I thought the Cali thing was legal, but I would send a video of it to the powers that be to make sure I didn’t miss anything.

The cheer athletics leap into load actually leaps into a suspended split at a load-in level. Suspended splits have to have 3 bases. I’m pretty sure this one is illegal, but I would send a video of it to the powers that be to make sure. I would be hopeful that we could do it, but I would be anticipating a “no-no.”

Bishop McCort started with one foot on the ground, not both feet in a load. They probably got away with it as a modified form of a switch up.

 

[Sterling von Shimmer]

Sorry if my replies seems inconsistent sometimes. By the time I get to sit down and study cheer stuff it’s like 12:30 am here and I’m barely conscious lol.

Thanks so much for your help. You’ve been so thorough and reliable. I’m going on vacation this next week but I’m sure when I come back I will be revisiting this thread Hope to talk to you again.

 

[AndyT_T]

Would the spin into the inversion be illegal? I’m worried it would justify catching in a downward inversion.

 

[OldskoolKYcheercoach]

Would the spin into the inversion be illegal? I’m worried it would justify catching in a downward inversion.

It’s illegal, but there’s no such thing as downward inversions anymore. We had a similar skill in our routine this year at nationals, have to maintain hand/arm-to-hand/arm contact with the top throughout the release if she lands inverted.

ETA: we remedied it by simply finding a way for the back to place her hand over top of our flyer’s wrist in our version.

I’m a little busy right now to go to a rule book for specifics, but I am questioning the twist into an inversion anyway. Regardless, without the contact mentioned about it’s not legal.

 

[AndyT_T]

It’s illegal, but there’s no such thing as downward inversions anymore. We had a similar skill in our routine this year at nationals, have to maintain hand/arm-to-hand/arm contact with the top throughout the release if she lands inverted.

ETA: we remedied it by simply finding a way for the back to place her hand over top of our flyer’s wrist in our version.

I’m a little busy right now to go to a rule book for specifics, but I am questioning the twist into an inversion anyway. Regardless, without the contact mentioned about it’s not legal.

Thank you!