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I hate ugly double downs so I'm much happier to see a good clean pop off lol.
Conversely, there’s nothing I love more than a beautiful clean double down.
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I hate ugly double downs so I'm much happier to see a good clean pop off lol.
Conversely, there’s nothing I love more than a beautiful clean double down.
There are times when a coach has no choice to have 1-2 nuggets on a team. However when the industry rewards multiple athletes standing around that is a problem. I think the scoring has reverted back to more athlete utilization, but up until recently you could have more than a full stunt group stand behind the elites, pyramid, 50%+1 in tumbling and jumps, etc. It was maddening to see a team of 22 with 3 stunts in the air scoring in the high 90s.Both of my kids had a nugget year, and these were thoughts from a coach when at the end of the season I told him I'd rather my kids be on teams where their skills can be utilized, even if it meant a lower level, over and above nuggeting:
1) Putting teams together always has athletes from the strongest to the weakest. To have a nugget is to have insurance, especially when you have nuggets that coaches know are in classes working on skills.
2) Putting teams together is hard, again working from strongest down to weakest, and you don't always have a place for everyone. We still have to have a competitive routine and the alternative to nuggeting isn't that they get to do everything, it's someone having to tell you we don't have a place for your athlete.
3) Cheerleading is hard. It is a game of hitting the toughest skills while maintaining enough stamina to get through an entire routine, and the routines keep getting harder. Often "nuggeting" is a coach purposely giving an athlete a breather, coaches have done this, and we can tell when athletes need more energy going into something. Tired athletes are often injured athletes.
Not that it made me any happier both kids had nugget years, but it made me look at nuggeting differently from a team perspective and placing athletes.
There are times when a coach has no choice to have 1-2 nuggets on a team. However when the industry rewards multiple athletes standing around that is a problem. I think the scoring has reverted back to more athlete utilization, but up until recently you could have more than a full stunt group stand behind the elites, pyramid, 50%+1 in tumbling and jumps, etc. It was maddening to see a team of 22 with 3 stunts in the air scoring in the high 90s.