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I was gonna let this whole thread go if you were a child, but since you seem to be an adult coach if not an owner: as a parent I would be absolutly mortified if someone in charge of my program came on a public message board and made these comments about a nearby gym. There may be many reasons...

Would the flyer placing a foot on the floor while in the cradle then doing the front walkover make it assisted tumbling instead of a dismount, and would it be legal at L1?

Have not used them but I've seen Gabi Butler's stretching videos on YouTube recommended several times by others on the boards

King I think this ^ may be a solution with the currently available technology. The issue becomes adoption (because I doubt the subfloor cost is prohibative if they own the mats). Like right.now. I would completely run fundraisers and seek donations for the foam block floor components and provide...

A last resort (and yes I mean last): if all else fails and you're determined enough - things don't change, it's summer, no one up top listens, and someone can identify a qualified skills advisor (aka: coach, but don't call them that in front of people), and also a friendly faculty advisor if...

http://uca.varsity.com/docs/competition/1213/1213_HS_Rules.pdf Non-tumbling: No feet over head rotation except inversions into load in positions, stunts and pyramids. Best advise I can give is look up teams that placed well in past years, and search for videos of them online to get a feel of...

At the Title IX level, cheer is not a sport. NCATA is trying to change that at the college level, and STUNT is varsity's attempt (some allege it is a fake attempt) both looking at gaining NCAA recognition as an "emerging sport" and later as a full "sport". Most states adopt NFHS rules for their...

I'm thinking this as some variant of a foam block floor may be most efficent with current air floor limitations (I'm sure if the market was there, 10 years could easily see materials science and engineering improvements to make a full portable airfloor feasible.) Wheels and hinges may make the...

24 sections, 14in x 6ft footprint when folded minimum, the school would have to devote at least 168 sq ft to storage of these alone that is gym accessible. With 7.5 ft doorways in between. Sounds plausible for some schools, anyone else want to weigh in?

I'm not seeing a solution yet that deploys in <5 mins for a full-size floor. Pulling whatever setup out of storage (the cheer team is not going to get premium storage space, especially not for this amount of equipment) would likely take longer than that. The closest setup would be the edge...

How long does it take to set up a normal competition floor (working at a decently brisk pace)?

What about this system? Foam Block Spring Floor

Cp was happy enough with the converse kick twist indoors once she got it broken in. She's really not picky about her shoes though. They run <$30

Air floors may not be feasible. Tumbl trak air floor pros (that don't need mats underneath) are 9m x 2m. That would be 14 mats to create a somewhat larger than competition sized floor. At $3400 a piece, roughly, that's $47,600 before tax/shipping

Also with the air tracks, I've only seen people tumbling straight down the center of them. How well would they perform in the instance a stunt came down that was straddling 2 tracks pushed together? Would it be much better with some sort of top layer? How do you design it so that a top layer...

We run mostly the local Epic Brand comps. Spirit Unlimited's Maryland Halloween Championship, and UMBC Championship were favorites of mine. Halloween brings lots of good competative (but generally not overwhelming like RTB) teams, UMBC is smaller but still a good atmosphere and is a nice break...

RTB Rec is kind of our winter "hump". Sometimes the local "renting elementary school space cheering football all volunteer rec" teams end up lucky enough to pick the right division that year and place well, CP's team has not yet and I frankly could care less. For us it's about having a...

Looking for recommendations on under-shell long sleeve turtleneck crop tops that do not snag and/or run. The knit nylon ones are getting on my last nerve. We're on our third crop in 2 years. The first had runs all along the neckline half way through the year, after a uniform change this year...

It depends on the kids and coaches. If the kids are driven, they will step up and benefit from a well run 6 hour practice, even at level 2. They will also fall asleep on the way home every night for weeks. What do I mean by well run? Conditioning, tumbling instruction, targeted building...

Bought a curling wand because I thought I'd have to emergency-curl CP's hair (long story) the morning of a competition a few weeks ago instead of doing rollers overnight and my curling iron is too big to do cheer curls right. Didn't have to for comp, ended up playing with it the other night on...