1. If you're not flying, being able to pull these positions is not necessarily required. However, all of the girls on our team enjoy working towards getting their scorpion/needle, regardless of whether or not they fly. You should absolutely still be doing stretches (you'll most likely be...
This isn't necessarily that difficult of a stunt, but it does take some coordination and experimentation. It's probably easier to do out of an arabesque instead of a lib, since the flyer's leg is already extended. If you still want to do the front walkover dismount from the lib, the flyer will...
I think the example you gave is totally acceptable though, especially if other kids were becoming distracted. It happens.
The particular case I was describing was a couple years ago while an athlete was trying to get her back handspring - our tumbling coach, who is fantastic at dealing with...
Is this - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hl0fLbHwiSg - what you're talking about? This isn't quite how we do this stunt but for the life of me I'm having a brain fart and can't remember what it's called.
I don't know about any bribes between our parents and their cps, but we've had parents threaten to take their cps out of the program if they don't get a skill. It can be frustrating if kids just aren't getting the skills in the time frame that many parents want, but other things could be going...
All of our competitive flyers (even the little ones) learn how to base. Not only does this help our flyers build up upper body strength, which they need, it gives a chance for some of the bases to fly a bit. Some bases who never get the chance to go up in the air really don't know what it's like...
We are an allstar cheer program located at the Elk Grove Gymnastics School in Elk Grove Village, IL. We are looking to form teams for ages 4-18 for all skill levels; Open Evaluations will begin May 25, and tryouts will take place May 31 (between 10-12 and 2:15-4), June 5 (from 4-7) and June 7...
Even at large gyms, flying positions at all levels are scarce. If she doesn't have all of the required level 3 flying skills (360, twist cradle, extended flying skills, all that jazz), it's likely that there are other flyers who have already mastered those skills. I'll bet some of the flyers put...