. Even my CP at 11 already understands this.
Hahaha! I say the same thing! Little Susie perfect is great throwing her skills at age 7-8-9 whatever. Wait until puberty hits! If they can survive that without mental blocks, regression etc just for changes in height, hips, center of gravity, chest development and general teenage hormones then I'll even call them little Susie perfect.Yep - happens. Developing hips
Yep - it's for this reason I've learned to be way more impressed by older tumblers than younger ones. It's gotten to the point where you show me a little 6-7 year old tumbling like crazy across a mat or circling around the uneven bars like a pro and all I think is "yeah - let me see you still be able to do that when you're 14 sweetie and then I'll be impressed"
Ahhhh the rush to gain a higher skill.... i remember those crazy instances...Just reading this thread now.
There are so many parents out there want to be able to say that their kid can do X skill (pointed toes and straight legs aren't as easy to brag about as being able to say "my kid got her full").
This is because the majority of people are of the mindset that the kid who has the highest skill is the better athlete - there are far fewer feel that the kid that has the prettiest skills is the better athlete. I've always been a stickler for technique myself, and I find that I can clash w/ the "difficulty over execution" types
As for the cheer coaches, as long as janky skills result in more points than well excuted versions of lower-level skills, I think they are going to keep pushing kids to progress as fast as possible.
I also think that how stunting progresses faster than tumbling has something to do w/ the rush to put janky tumbling skills on the mat - like say you are a newer gym and you quickly develop a team capable of level 3 stunting, but only a few kids can do a good tuck - you are going to rush the tucks of those remaining kids just so you can put that level 3 team out there. Levels like senior 4.2 help w/ this, but people still want to get the all-around level out there. It's the same situation as the parents who would rather brag about their kid having skill X, a gym would rather say "we have a level 5 team", than they would "our level 4 team has the best technique going".
and a kid doing something dangerous without the knowledge and training or without the coach's approval. I doubt any parent on here would criticize a child for not landing something when they are learning.
My brothers are like that too! Luckily they hate jeans and wear basketball shorts 24/7 so the only time she has to buy real pants for them is for band concerts, but still.... Why did the tall and skinny gene skip me?
I'm not pointing fingers on what is good or bad but rather the crash and burn style or the coaches that are pushing kids to hard to gain skills before ready.
