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Anyone know when UCA usually posts their updated rules, and division changes if any?
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Last year NFHS released the updated rules in early July I believe so it will probably be around that time this year. I’m pretty sure UCA follows NFHS rules. I would imagine the skill progression charts for UCA won’t be updated until the new rules come out if they are this year.
I don’t know about divisions.
It should be sooner than that for divisions.
As for rules..
UCA follows AACCA guidelines which are much more easily updated than NFHS. NFHS typically follows suit with AACCA, albeit sometimes a year later (see also: implementation of allowing standing tucks while holding Poms became legal for AACCA in 16-17, but NFHS not until 17-18).
NFHS holds one rules meeting annually, you are correct on the approximate time of year. At that time, they look at all of the proposals and any rules surveys (example, we are sent a survey every year asking our opinion on the changes made last year, proposed changes for this year, and potentially dangerous trends we are seeing) received and basically discuss and vote.
AACCA can pretty much release their’s whenever they wish, and OCCASIONALLY release an update mid season. For most of them, changing a dangerous loophole or making a clarification is almost as simple as having a round table discussion in a morning meeting.
UCA progression grid is usually updated in August or September.
the nhscc rules aren't even on the uca site right now: Divisions, Rules, & ScoringAnyone know when UCA usually posts their updated rules, and division changes if any?
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Do you know what rule changes they were considering?
got online to look, and I'll be damned. It's earlier than I thought. Here are the changes for 18-19.
http://www.nfhs.org/sports-resource-content/spirit-rules-changes-2018-19/
ETA:
"Big Rocks"
1) Braced flips can be done to new bases/catchers now
2) Several rules that loosen up inversions, mostly allowing them to be caught by new bases/catchers who are not part of the original skill.
You still can't flip over another stunt right? Like over a group in load or anything like that.
No stunt can travel over another stunt. I rarely say "never," but I'm going to say that you'll "never" see that legalized in high school cheer. It shouldn't be legal in All Stars. The amount of risk they allow is asinine, and basically serves no purpose. Of course, I look for the all star industry to get someone killed in the next few years, then we may all be ground bound for life.
A double based front flip over a load isn't dangerous at all IMO. I've seen a lot of things go wrong in allstar and terrify me but its never been a flip over a load or a shoulder sit. Especially since oftentimes that person in the load throws the flyer from hips and directs her to the catchers.
On an unrelated note, it sounds like headsprings are finally allowed in cheer now. I thought it was ridiculous it was allowed for dancers on hardwood floors who aren't trained tumblers but not for cheerleaders on mats.
I'm still waiting for flips to be allowed to be braced by double based preps.
Edit: Also, it's important to note that the vast majority of catastrophic injuries in cheer come from HS cheer, not All Star.
Those HS cheer catastrophic injuries are the result of coaches coaching who have no business doing so or knowledge. I call it 'youtube choreography." Kid shows up with a youtube video of some level 7.2 all star team doing some of the dumb poop allowed in allstars and suddenly it becomes a good idea for this team that can't do a basic liberty to try it. It is these coaches precisely, who FAR, FAR, FAR OUTNUMBER the ones who are qualified, who will prevent that type of skill from being allowed.
On a related note to your unrelated note: I can't imagine any situation in cheerleading where a headspring would be performed.
You're right, but "youtube choreography" is the fault of the HS cheer industry not the allstar one. If they weren't copying allstar cheer they'd be copying Acro gymnastics. The burden of responsibility for ensuring safe coaching falls on the high school cheer industry, you can't blame all star for correctly executing skills above the level high school teams should be performing.
If you want someone to blame, you should blame varsity for fighting tooth an nail for years to keep cheer from becoming recognized as an official sport because they knew coaches becoming properly credentialed and the sport becoming safely run would cut into their bottom line.
Varsity's president didn't meet in front of the Supreme Court to say cheer isn't a sport because he believed it or because saying so was best for athletes all over the country. He did so because he cared more about his bank account than he did the safety of adolescents.
Lets not misplace the blame onto successful high level teams in all star. Lets call a spade a spade.
So our varsity team is doing a sticker chart for new skills at tumbling practice. Our JV team wants to do the same -however usually whenever we do something like that one team gets angry at the other for 'copying them'. What are some other ways to make it exciting to gain new skills (tumbling or stunting - tumbling ideas preferred) that is not the average sticker chart.
So our varsity team is doing a sticker chart for new skills at tumbling practice. Our JV team wants to do the same -however usually whenever we do something like that one team gets angry at the other for 'copying them'. What are some other ways to make it exciting to gain new skills (tumbling or stunting - tumbling ideas preferred) that is not the average sticker chart.