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My high school requires nothing. There's been 3 different coaches in the past 3 years. Kinda sad. Like one girl said on here, we're "permanently rebuilding."
High School What tumbling skills do you need to be on varsity?
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My high school requires nothing. There's been 3 different coaches in the past 3 years. Kinda sad. Like one girl said on here, we're "permanently rebuilding."
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The high schools in my area are really competitive, and we require atleast a standing tuck, and rdo bhs tuck. Make sure to work on your jumps too, and have a good attitude 
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Juniors and senior automatically make varsity at my school, but not all of them perform at assemblies and games. To do that, you have to have a toe touch, a hurdler, a back walkover, and a back handspring. For every skill, you get to cheer a quarter of a game. Skilled sophomores (3/4 game skills) can make it. No freshman in the fall. I kind of like this system, because we get the whole summer to build our skills before we have to tryout for our uniform/game time. Competition is a whole other beast.
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At my school varsity requires a bhs and robhs. Jv does not require tumbling.
There is one school near us that only has a varsity and requires a robhs tuck and standing tuck at tryouts in June, and a robhs layout and 2-3 to tuck by choreography at the end of August. That school's squad is usually rather small... So if you cant tumble, you cant cheer.
There is one school near us that only has a varsity and requires a robhs tuck and standing tuck at tryouts in June, and a robhs layout and 2-3 to tuck by choreography at the end of August. That school's squad is usually rather small... So if you cant tumble, you cant cheer.
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As a coach at a small school, I don't require any tumbling specifically. My tryouts are structured that as long as you attempt a cartwheel or a roundoff then you get a 1 for difficulty and then a score between 1-5 for execution, back/front walkover is a 2 for difficulty, standing bhs is a 3, round off bhs or standing series is a 4, and a standing tuck or series involving a tuck or layout is a 5. At tryouts I had one girl throw a r/o 2 bhs, full and the next closest was a back walkover. I also gave the girls an extra 1/2 a point if they connected their tumbling to a jump as this is important no matter what skill you have right now. Some of my girls that made the squad with only a cartwheel have their r/o bhs now so I just don't believe in requiring a certain skill.Tryouts is me looking for potential. It's after tryouts that the hard work begins as the whole squad is required to take tumbling since we have to have "half + 1" do a tumbling skill for it to count during competition.
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See, I don't agree with the if you can't tumble you cant cheer. Around here, most teams don't have tumbling requirements and most girls don't take tumbling until they are trying out for cheer or are on the team. It's just not something that is common here. But I can tell you that I have had some extremely talented cheerleaders that could only do a roundoff, but they looked fierce on everything else. Now I have an extremely talented tumbler that can't cheer as good as my non tumblers. Tumbling is tumbling and cheer is cheer.
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I am personally a very great cheerleader. I don't want to sound conceited, but I've been doing it for years. Tumbling on the other hand is not my thing. All I ever wanted was to cheer under the friday night lights and I can't because i don't have the tumbling. Girls who have never cheered before get on the squad bc of their tumbling from gymnastics and i have more experience and can't even make JV anymore.
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I completely agree that just because a girl can tumble doesn't mean she has the skills to lead a crowd. There have been a couple of girls who threw fulls at tryouts not make any team and girls who didn't tumble did. For my daughter's high school, tumbling is only worth 1/6 of the score and the range is 0-5 so even if a girl throws a full but her motions, spiriting and jumps are bad, she isn't going to make it.
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My freshman year of high school, we had one girl who could tumble which was another freshman. And freshman don't have to try out so they couldn't make varsity. Meaning JV and Varsity had literally no tumbling whatsoever. I got my tumbling starting in 10th grade and a few other girls learned/joined and some incoming freshman after me had lots of tumbling. So by my senior year we had 11 of 17 on varsity who could do at least a back handspring, with the hardest skill thrown at any games being a layout. At tryouts, everyone had to do some form of tumbling. Even if it was a forward/backward roll, you had to show that you had some sort of body awareness and the possibility of learning to tumbling.
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