- Feb 2, 2013
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CEA does not "do" flyer classes to teach girls to fly. They learn it through practices or through privates with coaches (but that only gives new flyers a false sense of security.) Coed Elite boys used to have flyer camps to raise travel money. How does your gym do flyer classes? What kind of bases do they use? If you're trying to teach a 6 year old to stay up in the air with 7-10 years olds, where do you get 7-10 year olds to be the bases for this flyer class? Do you use volunteers from Jr & Sr teams? That only gives the new flyer a false sense the are doing it correctly so when they get back to their age and level appropriate team, the kids can't keep her up because she becomes spaghetti. All the CEA coaches know this.I think this is a really interesting strategy but what I'm not understanding, isn't this what classes are for? If I'm a really good base and want to learn to fly, I feel like it makes more sense in term of time, money, and the burnout aspect of double teaming for me to just take a flyer class. To each their own and I have no doubt CSP has her reasons for this system but I feel like classes are more effective and more fair to achieve the same effect.