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It's not a difficult concept. At all. However, between this thread and a couple of others, the majority of people who posted what team their CP made YE and GP, and several also listed JE in that mix. So, you may bee 100% correct, but based on the information that has been posted, the information given is there are majority crossovers between the 3 teams. Can't blame people for side eyeing with the information that has been put out there. Add to the next statement I bolded, you are right, we aren't experts on any one individual's skill set, but we have seen enough videos (since they are posted all over the place) to know that YE has majority level 4/5 tumbling and stunting, so every crossover to GP is performing higher level skills - stunting, jumping, motions, and/or tumbling on a regular basis (they aren't all nuggeting in the back for the entire routine). Yes, it is totally within the rules, but to say it isn't happening (and some are trying to lead us to believe this or that it is ok in this particular situation and this is where my issue lies) is calling the rest of us fools. That and a coach saying the average age of the team is 6.5 years. That means for every 11 year old you have a 3 year old which means you must have a lot of 3 year olds with back handsprings on the team. Again, I get that these posts can be hard for a parent with a CP on the team to read, but the posters here are all making legitimate and respectful points.First of all, GP is not made up entirely of YE kids. In fact, more than 2/3rds of the kids that are on GP were on a Y2 or Mini2/3 last year (many are brand new to the program as well). Just because YE is a 'well rounded level 5 team' does not mean that ALL of the athletes that are crossing from YE to GP are included in that statistic. YE does have many kids who are on the team because they bring one specific thing to the team. Their height, their jumps, their ability to base, or sometimes just their heart and love of the sport. One kid may be a beast of a backspot and doesn't have a handspring. One kid could base someone twice her size but has a tumbling block on a tuck that she just can't seem to shake. As I've said before, I can completely vouch for this because my kid is one of them. Of the small number of YE kids that are crossing to GP, I'd say that 95% of them fall into one of these above type categories. Do all of them? No. Do most of them? Absolutely.
Of the handful of YE kids that are crossing to GP, I'm not going to sit here and list them out, discussing their strengths and weaknesses, what strengths they have and what level they are in everything they do. We know these kids. We see them every day, in person. We watch them struggle. We watch them learn. We know what they're capable of and what they're not capable of. Just because you see them in a JTV video on Y5 doesn't somehow make you an expert on their skillset.
I really don't see why this is such a difficult concept.