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An investigate piece came out this morning on USA today. It's a incriminating article given all of the negative publicity cheer has been getting lately. Personally I believe our industry needs to step up and take responsibility for this. It certainly paints cheer in a bad light and I'm not...

Recently college cheer basket safety rules came under serious revisions allowing All-Girl groups to be able to toss non-twisting baskets while allowing all-boy groups to toss up to ONLY single twisting basket variations, meaning skills such as arabian 1/2, pike open dubs, and simple double...

The USASF Cheer Rules and Age Grid for the 2018-19 season will be available in your member profile on February 15th. While this is a non-rules-change year, there are some new opportunities offered in the Age Grid that will be helpful to all programs - new or established; small or large. Please...

Athletes in Allstar cheerleading experience all types of injuries. Concussions in athletes have become a serious discussion in the past couple of years. Many different sports organizations have developed Protcols to ensure the safety of their athletes. When will the cheerleading industry? Will...

I have a girl that broke her nose over the break and she is cleared to return, but only if she wears a nose protector while we are stunting/competing. All of the nose guards we have found are huge...anyone know where we can get one that doesn't take up her face and make her look like the Phantom...

alright everyone... Just wondering... Do you turn in/video your whole routine front to back... Individual skills? First half, cheer, then 2nd half? For the love what do you turn in? Not trying to make something that isn't complicated, complicated I was going to turn in the entire routine beg-...

Click For Full Article Coaches Training, Rules Changes and Partnerships Have Contributed to Success of Safety Efforts USA Cheer, the governing body for cheerleading in the U.S., has been a driving force in promoting best practices for cheer safety. A recent report from the journal Pediatrics, a...

Click For Full Article The safety judge test link was sent on Sept 7th. If you did not receive it please contact Jessica at: [email protected] ASAP. Testing ends on Sept 21st for all of those who have completed the course.

Click For Full Article The USASF recently made 2 announcements. The first is additional dates and locations to get safety judge certified. The second is a call for owners of cheer programs with multiple locations to contact their regional directors. Additional Dates for Safety Judge...

Click For Full Article Additional opportunities to get Safety Judge Certification have been scheduled. Please Click Here to register. Cheer Saturday, August 29th in Charlotte, NC – Registration Deadline is Thursday, August 6th Sunday, September 6th in Cypress, CA Sunday, September 27th in...

Click For Full Article We’ve added two additional cheer and one additional dance Safety Judge Certification opportunity for 2015! All Safety Judge candidates are welcome to select any Regional Meeting location or one of these new locations in August and September for Certification. Click below...

Click For Full Article The 2015-17 USASF Cheer Safety Rules have been released and emailed to coaches in the USASF system. Following the rules vote by coaches and owners last August, and final preparation by the Rules Committee, the rules for the 2015-17 cycle are now available online. 2015-17...

Click For Full Article The 2015-2017 USASF Cheer Safety Rules are now available. Click Here to download the Cheer Safety Rules. The USASF Image Policy has also be updated with examples. Click Here to download the Image Policy.

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Join us on Twitter today at 2 pm EST to discuss all the latest in concussions in cheer. Our hosting panel included founder of PinkConcussions, D1 Acro &Tumbling coach MaryAnn Powers, NueroPsychologist Mark Herceg, Certified Athletic Trainer Mike Hopper, Author/Physicist/martial artist Jason...

Click For Full Article FiveThirtyEight published Where Cheerleading Ranks in Safety Among High School Sports. Although the raw-injury count in cheerleading may tell a headline-grabbing story, it’s important to look at those numbers in context. Yes, catastrophic injuries happen, as do...

Click For Full Article Working hard to meet your goals can be a good thing, but when you work TOO hard you could end up hurting yourself. Check out our Safety Zone tips on how to avoid overtraining.

Click For Full Article Hop into the Safety Zone as Jim Lord explains how to stay safe during your upcoming tryouts!

I submit to the USASF cheer safety/legality email often. But it sometimes (usually) takes a semi-long time to get a response. The quickest has been 3 days, sometimes up to two weeks or in a few instances I never got an answer at all. I know there are Prob a TON of submissions and I'm not trying...