Cheer Rules Scholar? Test Yourself With My Legality Questions.

Pretty sure I said I thought the Cali thing was legal, but I would send a video of it to the powers that be to make sure I didn’t miss anything.

The cheer athletics leap into load actually leaps into a suspended split at a load-in level. Suspended splits have to have 3 bases. I’m pretty sure this one is illegal, but I would send a video of it to the powers that be to make sure. I would be hopeful that we could do it, but I would be anticipating a “no-no.”

Bishop McCort started with one foot on the ground, not both feet in a load. They probably got away with it as a modified form of a switch up.

 

Sorry if my replies seems inconsistent sometimes. By the time I get to sit down and study cheer stuff it’s like 12:30 am here and I’m barely conscious lol.

Thanks so much for your help. You’ve been so thorough and reliable. I’m going on vacation this next week but I’m sure when I come back I will be revisiting this thread Hope to talk to you again.

 

Would the spin into the inversion be illegal? I’m worried it would justify catching in a downward inversion.

 

It’s illegal, but there’s no such thing as downward inversions anymore. We had a similar skill in our routine this year at nationals, have to maintain hand/arm-to-hand/arm contact with the top throughout the release if she lands inverted.

ETA: we remedied it by simply finding a way for the back to place her hand over top of our flyer’s wrist in our version.

I’m a little busy right now to go to a rule book for specifics, but I am questioning the twist into an inversion anyway. Regardless, without the contact mentioned about it’s not legal.

 

Thank you!