All-Star Kids Say The Darndest Things

I think one of my favorite things about when I coach is sometimes the cheerleaders have their own language. I will try to explain a count or a skill to them that I know I am explaining it right but they don't get it I clearly am being too technical so one of her teammates explained it to her along the line of "she grabs your foot you do this thing then that thing and then we catch you.. and then she magically gets it and Im like .. welp.. atleast she gets it lol !

My cp once told me at choreography camp that she didn't want to be on the line in the jump formation. Her reason? "I only look good on panels".
Haha we still quote that one!

I could write a book about some of the things my minis say...here are a few recent things:

- I had a raspy voice at practice yesterday and I jokingly told the girls I had a frog in my throat...then about 5 of them come up to me wanting to touch my throat so they can feel the frog
- One of my flyers comes up to me at least once a week after stunting and says "I tooted in my stunt" then giggles
- I now have a song created just for me that goes a little like this:
"You are so pretty, like P Diddy, what, what, WORD"

Plenty more where those came from! Never a dull moment...those girls are the perfect ending to my day

cupieqt said:

My cp once told me at choreography camp that she didn't want to be on the line in the jump formation. Her reason? "I only look good on panels".
Haha we still quote that one!

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I said once, in all seriousness ... kinda..that I couldn't go on a line because "I am a middle of the mat kinda girl". I was a senior in high school. I was kinda joking but not really.. lines scare me

I told one my jr girls to come on it was time for our private and the tiny sitting in her lap said "ewwwww! Gross! You said private!!"

after a terrible performance at a competition (but thats a different story) one of my youths comes up to me pulling her face down to a frown, then comfortingly says "i hope you know i love you, but that wasnt.. very.. good" with the pauses and everything. never go to an 8 year old to cheer you up after a bad run..

My son was watching videos with me and cp. He asked: "What's this thing called?" (messy kick full)
I told him: "We call this Kick Full Basket."
He: " Okay, looks more like a Kill Full"

So that's my new word for messy kick fulls (I had my nose fractured into several pieces because of a kick full basket gone wrong, so it's not my favorite basket)

I have so many of these, but my favorite ever was from last year. We were at the airport on our way to nationals. The plane pulled into the gate and we were waiting for the people to de-board before lining up. One of my absolute smartest girls (in school not common sense) was standing there just staring intently at the plane. She had never flown before, and you could tell she was thinking about something really hard. In complete seriousness she turns to me with a confused face and this is how the convo went:
Cheerleader - "how do we get out?"
me - "what do you mean?"
Cheerleader - "well, does the plane go under the building or somehow jump over it?"
After staring at her thinking she's joking and realizing she's not I just laughed and told her it backs up. She responded with a huge OH I didn't know it could do that!

This past weekend for UCA, we had a gym wide practice. One of our Youth 1 girls was asking me who my best friend was. I told the little girl that my best friend isn't with us anymore. She then looked at me and said "she died?!" I told her no and explained to her that she torn her meniscus. Then she asked "wait... You mean her Madagascar?!" Hahaha I lost it when she said that. Gotta love littles

Last season one of the tiny's was hitching a ride with us somewhere and I had on my glasses.
Tiny: "I didn't know you had glasses"
Me: "I don't usually wear them. I have contacts "
LONG PAUSE
Tiny: "My daddy has glasses, we need to get him some eye tacks too".
Same tiny told me it was raining so "don't forget your rainbrella"


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I do a private lesson with a tiny every week. Her mom posted this on my facebook wall: "Mommy, I'm so sore from all the air-conditioning coach Shannon had me do yesterday."

I died laughing. I had her do squat jumps and hollow holds.

Two that come to mind immediately:

1) A few years ago, one of my younger youth kids came up to me after warmup and said "whew!!! I'm sweating like a meatloaf!!!" which I found hilarious. I asked her if that was a saying she heard from her mom, but it was just something she made up herself.

2) Back when I coached Minis I was having them "make a pizza" to stretch out (everyone puts their legs out in straddle and then you have the kids reach to the inside of the pizza to add ingredients, etc). We were going around asking kids what they liked to eat on their pizza and got lots of the normal answers "cheese", "pepperoni", etc. We get to one girl and I ask her "what do you want to eat on your pizza?" She responds with "Hello Kitty and Candy Floss."

CLAshley said:

- I had a raspy voice at practice yesterday and I jokingly told the girls I had a frog in my throat...then about 5 of them come up to me wanting to touch my throat so they can feel the frog

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Once when driving my CP (many years ago) she asked me why we didn't go to the store by our house - I told "We came here because I have another errand - so I wanted to kill two birds with one stone". A few minutes later she says "Speaking of dead birds...." I had no idea of what she was talking about at first until she connected it for me. We still laugh to this day about that one!!!

Fun stuff everyone!!! Thanks for sharing.