Cheer Pet Peeves?

[eat-sleep-stunt]

when the team has different levels of flexibility on their scorpions it bugs me... you should try and make them look as similar as possible!

 

[Jaded_Cheermom]

Cheerleaders who come to practice for the sole purpose of doing NOTHING
Coaches who do nothing about it
Crazy moms who never shut up

 

[CSA_Kendall]

When the ignorant people think that they are to cool to put there hair in a high ponytail. Then they just look stupid on the floor when everyone else jacked it to Jesus and they look like a wet dog.

 

[justpeachy]

Moms that think their child is more advanced bc she is on an older age division team. Grrr.

 

[CheerBank]

Moms that think their child is more advanced bc she is on an older age division team. Grrr.

Wait isn't Senior 2 better than Youth 2? After all, it is a Senior team. And my Suzie who is 10 is on the Senior 2.

 

[Mackenzie <3]

delicate flyers....please. if i can take a hit and go to the floor, im sure you can deal with my knee accidentally hitting your butt every once and a while.

 

[Megan(:]

Flyers that don't their job
People that don't try

 

[giiibbby]

When girls have their bows laying flat on the top of their heads!

 

[everythingcheer]

not having fully attended practices right before a nationals. everyone on a level 5 team that is preparing for worlds should be there.

 

[12stepCheermom]

Gym rules that are only sporadically, if ever, enforced.

 

[initfortheglitter]

The show Cheer Perfection.
Its so inaccurate! And cheerleaders wonder why we have so many bad stereotypes and are trying to get rid of them...

 

[TLC Twistar]

When flyers make bases do all the work.

 

[SmileyRyleigh]

Gym rules that are only sporadically, if ever, enforced.

Just cheer rules in general really.... Hair has to be in a high ponytail and bangs back? Girl shows up to a game with bangs in her face and hair in a low pony... Okay for her, someone else shows up same way and gets told to fix it... Most annoying thing ever.. lol

 

[12stepCheermom]

Just cheer rules in general really.... Hair has to be in a high ponytail and bangs back? Girl shows up to a game with bangs in her face and hair in a low pony... Okay for her, someone else shows up same way and gets told to fix it... Most annoying thing ever.. lol

My opinion has always been, if you don't have the intestinal fortitude to enforce the rule across the board (including with your favorite kids, the kids with the epic nutcase cheer moms, the quiet kids and/or the ones you don't like) then don't even make it a rule.

If you're not going to have a spine enough to say the same thing to EVERYONE (rather than just letting your rule follower folks do it because that's who they are, then stick your head in the sand over the non-rule followers with the crazy cheer moms you don't want to lock horns with) then just don't make it a rule in the first place so the rule followers don't feel like they're the only ones made to actually toe the line while everyone else gets to do whatever they want.

Because for as much as rule followers will talk about how THEY are going to do whatever they want next...since it clearly doesn't matter....we won't. Because we can't bring ourselves to break the rules, even when we want to and know there will be no consequences. Instead, we just get annoyed that no one else has our rule-following character....and no one else is making them have it either.

#endrant

 

[12stepCheermom]

not having fully attended practices right before a nationals. everyone on a level 5 team that is preparing for worlds should be there.

Not a worlds team....but how about going 4 months.....you heard it right....MONTHS....and only having two practices where the entire team showed up. And nothing was said to anyone. So, could we really be surprised that for the first competition someone didn't show up either and for the second two people were almost an hour late.

It's so ridiculous the parent section actually has a pool every week for the number of team members that aren't going to show up. I won (bragging rights only) last week with four.