I kinda want to take level 5 out of this conversation, because while I am passionate about it and it encompasses a lot of my job I have a couple of questions that relate to all levels.
1. If the event producers really are agreeing to half plus one maxing out your tumbling, can you please put it in writing and guarantee it now, because tryouts start in less than two weeks for me.
2. Should half + 1 be = to squad tumbling.
I was blessed to work with a team this year that I believe might put out the best level 2 tumbling numbers out there. (I'm not saying they had the prettiest or best timing). With above average technique my small mini 2 threw 88 standing bhs (except for One who occasionally was mental so it became 84 for some competitions.) this weekend that number will be 108. They have great variety, and yet have failed to max out a standing tumbling scoresheet this year (another issue lol)
Should a team that puts up 11 bwo bhs out of twenty equal their score? What if I put twenty on the floor and one kids feet slip on the Velcro causing her to fall to her butt after the pass, is that team of 11 skills better than mine now?
3. Is half plus one good for our sport
Honestly, I could make a lot of parents happy by only putting 11 tucks on a level 3 team and then putting 9 other kids who are in no way ready for level 3. Parents already think the level they are on means more than actual skill anyway.
4. Will half plus one increase injuries?
Say I start building teams without squad skills, when I need a particular person that doesn't have a skill to do one purely for choreography purposes do I ditch the idea or do I push a kid that's not ready.
Does that kid without a tuck think they are letting the team down and all of a sudden try something they aren't ready for?
For that matter will the 11 I put on to create a majority think they can get lazy and not do skills now because 9 others on the team don't have to do them?
5. What the heck is this teaching our kids?
Success in the real world takes either luck or a lot of hard work, sweat and tears. Half plus one can create a situation where a kid who is extremely out of shape, a lil bit lazy, and who doesn't care about being well rounded but is strong enough to stunt decently well a free ride to level 5.
I'm sorry honey, but you have to work to be at the top. I don't work 60+ hours a week because I enjoy it, I work that much because I strive to be successful at both my jobs. You should t get to be level 5 by only coming to practices when half plus one of your team has to come into the gym and work theirselves to death to make sure that they can carry half the scoresheet themselves.
This part of the ordeal has pissed me off more than anything else besides the shadyness of it all. And standing fulls, because that's the only decent level 5 skill I have lol.
1. If the event producers really are agreeing to half plus one maxing out your tumbling, can you please put it in writing and guarantee it now, because tryouts start in less than two weeks for me.
2. Should half + 1 be = to squad tumbling.
I was blessed to work with a team this year that I believe might put out the best level 2 tumbling numbers out there. (I'm not saying they had the prettiest or best timing). With above average technique my small mini 2 threw 88 standing bhs (except for One who occasionally was mental so it became 84 for some competitions.) this weekend that number will be 108. They have great variety, and yet have failed to max out a standing tumbling scoresheet this year (another issue lol)
Should a team that puts up 11 bwo bhs out of twenty equal their score? What if I put twenty on the floor and one kids feet slip on the Velcro causing her to fall to her butt after the pass, is that team of 11 skills better than mine now?
3. Is half plus one good for our sport
Honestly, I could make a lot of parents happy by only putting 11 tucks on a level 3 team and then putting 9 other kids who are in no way ready for level 3. Parents already think the level they are on means more than actual skill anyway.
4. Will half plus one increase injuries?
Say I start building teams without squad skills, when I need a particular person that doesn't have a skill to do one purely for choreography purposes do I ditch the idea or do I push a kid that's not ready.
Does that kid without a tuck think they are letting the team down and all of a sudden try something they aren't ready for?
For that matter will the 11 I put on to create a majority think they can get lazy and not do skills now because 9 others on the team don't have to do them?
5. What the heck is this teaching our kids?
Success in the real world takes either luck or a lot of hard work, sweat and tears. Half plus one can create a situation where a kid who is extremely out of shape, a lil bit lazy, and who doesn't care about being well rounded but is strong enough to stunt decently well a free ride to level 5.
I'm sorry honey, but you have to work to be at the top. I don't work 60+ hours a week because I enjoy it, I work that much because I strive to be successful at both my jobs. You should t get to be level 5 by only coming to practices when half plus one of your team has to come into the gym and work theirselves to death to make sure that they can carry half the scoresheet themselves.
This part of the ordeal has pissed me off more than anything else besides the shadyness of it all. And standing fulls, because that's the only decent level 5 skill I have lol.