I travelled from Canada in 2011. We stayed off property, but were lucky enough that our hotel had an 8am shuttle to Magic Kingdom every morning. From there we were able to take a Disney bus to All Star Resorts and then ESPN. We only did this for ICU on Friday and Saturday's Prelims though, since...
Does anyone know if they announced the finalists for IO6? It was supposed to be at 6:30pm, but I missed it in the midst of the large coed insanity and cannot find anything anywhere about it!
To add to the Canadian perspective, we don't pay as much as you would being on a senior all-star team. The open teams up here that would compare to the US would be IO6 and IOC6. Generally but not always IO5 and IOC5, are the most competitive teams in the gym and are a mix of senior aged athletes...
When you lay it out like this bids are a lot more surprising than I thought. I knew a few things were interesting this weekend, and there were definitely a few teams that got bids that I wasn't expecting, same with those who did not.
But when you see it like this, I think they need to have a...
As far as the Worlds bids results, partial paid bids went to:
CheerSport Great White Sharks (IOAG5)
Cheer Force Wolf Pack (IOC6)
Mystic Allstars (IOC5)
Cheer Motion (IOC5)
Flyers Allstars (IOAG6)
And the at-large bids went to:
Black Widow Wild&Reckless (Sm Sr 5)
RND (Sm Sr 5)
Cheer Sport Grey...
I trained with Grey Reefs (International Open 6) this summer, the team is great and from what I've heard, looking to be much more competitive this year. U of Waterloo is large coed, they did great last year, considering they were in an extremely tough division, which is dominated by Western and...
I pulled mine doing a heel stretch in the air without warming up or stretching in January. Not giving it time to heal it was still bugging me up until last month. It wasn't until I stopped cheer for the summer that its gotten any better. But my jumps and front body positions definitely suffered!
I find with the little ones who are just trying to kick and hope that they magically land on their feet it helps to try and tell them to kick their foot over the top and bring it down to the floor, because a lot just kick up, rather then over. Have her do a bridge on the floor facing a wall and...
We actually had a TON of coaches love the wine as a coaches gift. It went rather well with the Niagara theme of the entire competition. I found that between each team having two coaches there was always one of age, and if they didn't drink that there would be other coaches in the program who...
Also if anyone does have any questions of suggestions from Nationals this year, I was staff at the event and am hoping to continue working with CE in the future, so I can definitely send you in the right direction for any questions or suggestions, or hopefully answer them to the best of my ability!
Because of the height of the ceiling in the Scotiabank centre the stage had to be lowered from the usual 4 feet, to 3 feet. Which means if the fan zone was in the front like it normally is the judges view would have been obstructed. We got a lot of complaints about the fan zone being where it...
I wasn't apart of the family of anyone that competed this year, I knew some athletes and had very good friends on teams, but I didn't come down to support a family member or vacation, I came to watch worlds. I agree that the issue isn't with too many bids being given out (that is a whole other...
Coming from an international perspective, I'm only from Canada so its not very far, but I personally have had enough of Disney. I came to Worlds this year as a spectator and will hopefully be returning next year to compete, but I mean once you have seen disney once or twice theres nothing new...
A canadian team won IO6 and as far as I know there were no legality issues with their routine and if there were I'm sure the deductions were taken into account. But I'm sure they are not sitting at home wondering if they won because they cheated. I understand your point but I don't feel because...
Tsunami came in 4th and I feel they got just as much respect as those who globed. They competed 4 times that weekend and went through things that most teams would fall apart at and managed to keep it all together and hit their routine 4 amazing times. They really showed the world they shouldn't...