- Jul 29, 2010
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YES.
I had a girl make my team who came up from JV as a flyer. Super tiny (think still 6th grader level tiny in 10th grade.) She was great at the caliber of stunt that JV did (think all star level 2, no extended stunts usually as the group is a little less experienced.)
So she learns to lib/full down for tryouts. Does well. Mind you, she had some of the most experienced bases on the team,
Fast forward to the next level of stunts (full ups/1.5 ups/etc.) and she is failing miserably. Bailing. Not staying core tight. Etc.
I let her know she was going to transition to basing this year. Cue tears. Cue EVEN MORE TEARS when I reconfigured stunt groups with someone *gasp* not as tiny as she was. Her parent actually told me that her daughter was 75 pounds and could not base.
Fast forward two years, she has grown a little and is a beast base but she was my number one example of every teeny tiny not being meant for flying.
Yep.
Even in the home camps!
My friends have had staffers come into their schools for UCA home camps who were formerly cheerleaders from "big deal" teams. Happens all the time.
The staffers actually don't make as big of a deal of it as you'd think.
Exactly.
I've worked several dual traditional/speed camps and the staffers (famous or not) all acted like normal human beings, because they are normal human beings.
Every staffer I ever worked with that was "famous" didn't play it up. They're adults and they're on a business trip (essentially). They're not trying to sign autographs or sell scented bows. They're highly trained and more than qualified to teach elite skills to your high school teams, and that goes for all three branches (UCA, traditional NCA, and Speed NCA).
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