cheercurl
Cheer Parent
- Dec 14, 2009
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You horrible mom! Kidding...I just think early in cheer the focus was on getting the next skill, good technique was just something you hoped would happen. My oldest was a gymnast first where technique and perfection before progression was mandatory. I was shocked when we got to cheer they didn't care if her feet weren't together or if her toes were pointed or even if she stuck a landing.I am. But I pushed her REALLY hard back then. I can't say I regret it, but I can say that when I look back on it, I pushed TOO hard for progression and didn't focus enough on the perfection first. I was lucky that she didn't end up hurting herself. :/ Now that I'm at a gym that focuses so much on technique, I can see where I failed her some back then. She really struggles with standing tumbling because we never took the time to make her BHS's sharp and clean and pushed her on to bigger and harder tumbling skills way too fast. :/ So while I am super proud that she was able to accomplish such hard skills so quickly, I do wish I had let her perfect things first.
In the evolution of cheer I think there has been a new push for technique and its starting to be reflected in scores. The only unfortunate thing is that smaller gyms don't have the same quantity of quality tumblers so I think they are still forced to push the next skill before perfection....where as bigger gyms have more quality tumblers and can take there time with progressions...growing great little tumblers. I have always wondered if they raised the age for seniors to 13 or 14 if it would give gyms the time to allow athletes to progress a little slower stressing perfection before progression.
Quantity of quality tumblers is what sets gyms who have competitive "World's" teams apart from gyms that have "World's" teams that are never going to be all that competitive. Wow this post went totally off track???
You are great mom because at the time you did what was best for your children....thats all we can do. Right?
