- Nov 18, 2010
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I guess you can ask my kids - but as a coach, Im fairly certain that I have the fear of god in them to even think about letting a flyer hit the ground... I realize mistakes happen, but if someone hits the ground or even clips the ground, the whole group has conditioning based on how bad the fall, how much I feel it was the bases fault, etc.
I have to ask the question, if your flier repeatedly doesn't fix a problem that could cause injury to her bases, what do you do? like a flier repeatedly not keeping her arms in and literally hitting every one of her bases in the head every time she doubled?...This past season a girl I was backing in the pyramid (single braced back tuck) wouldn't keep her ankles together and kicked out EVERY. TIME. I got a foot/knee to the arms, shoulders, neck, collarbone, cheek, and finally the temple. she kicked me so hard that she kicked me out of the stunt, I fell over, and blacked out for a few seconds. She got mad at me because I "dropped" her--when a flier repeatedly makes these mistakes that it threatens the safety of her bases, how do you approach that? You can only make the same correction so many times.