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Its all fine and well if you look at it that way - its when the teams purposely put certain people on the team instead of others because they are skinny mini flyers who are obviously lighter to lift than a normal sized athletic teen.
I am not saying the girls do not deserve or have the skill to be on Panthers, however I have noticed this on some teams for a while now.
I think people just need a different perspective on it. In acrobatic gymnastics you generally start out as a top (flyer) when you're young and tiny, but you're being based by people that were tops when they were young and tiny too. You go into it knowing that once you grow up you generally have to switch to basing unless you are just naturally short and thin. It's not a bad thing, it's just how it is. You know that eventually you'll be basing too most likely so you're fine with them putting the smallest up because you want that same right once you're a base.
I don't get why there's such a stigma about small flyers in Allstar when they're isn't the same stigma in hs cheer, college cheer, or acro.
What do you expect a 5 foot 12 year old with a double to do? Base a girl 5 years older than her?
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