All-Star 3 Year Old Bhs

[Mom2Cheergirls]

Can we bring the cats out again now?

NO CATS ONLY KITTENS WHO HAVE UNIQUE TALENTS BEYOND THERE AGE!!!!!

 

[cscheerio]

I just find this thread hilarious...I threw my first back handspring at age 15, guess I'm a failure :p


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I was 24, huge failure right here lol


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[stuntjumptumble]

I was 24, huge failure right here lol


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Hey, better late than never! Good for you!


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[THEJOEL]

So kids are just genetic freaks. My daughter had a BHS at 3 and now has a perfect double and std full at 8. I conditioned my daughter from the minute she was three and didnt let her flip until she had the check points I felt would enable her to progress safely. When she could do the skills I felt were necessary and clean I let her try and she got the BHS is a couple days because her body was prepared. I have kids who are 17 in my gym and their bodies are not prepared to do a BHS. So I understand the whole body developing thing but if you have the core strength and other bio mechanics needed to perform---I say go for it. I allowed her to do them first off a 2 ft high mat in to the pit and progressed her to doing it off an incline mat in the pit then moved the incline to the floor and progressed her down it.

Yes your daughter is a genetic freak. Some kids/body types are just not suited for tumbling/gymnastics. Your CP grew up in a cheer gym, has your genetic code and unrelenting personal drive so that's just a pure formula for a super cheerleader. Plus having one of the best coaches I have ever met at her disposal 24/7 didn't hurt either.:D
My CP, who you have met, is very similar. Started tumbling 2 weeks before her 3rd birthday. Cartwheel at 3, BHS at 4, whip/tuck at 5 and layout at now 6. We got lucky that we took her to a gym that didn't hold her back and , as her parents, we were consistent about making sure she was at the gym week after week. We, us and her coaches, also never pushed her beyond her capabilities all while if she passed others in her age group they let her move up. My CP has the right body type and most of the skills she just watched and did.
IMHO the problem with this original post was she was pushing her CP past her natural ability so she could brag to her family. Most likely at the detriment of her CP's health.

 

[sparklequeen7641]

This thread is PERFECTION.

 

[GreenStormLucy]

I was 24, huge failure right here lol


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No failure, but respect for finally getting it and not giving up because of your age!

I´d be rich i´f i would get a dollar for every time a cheerleader tells me "i´m too old to learn this" ;)

 

[cscheerio]

No failure, but respect for finally getting it and not giving up because of your age!

I´d be rich i´f i would get a dollar for every time a cheerleader tells me "i´m too old to learn this" ;)

Yeah so many girls on my open team refused to even try because they were too old


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[XtremeWpg]

Yeah so many girls on my open team refused to even try because they were too old


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2 of my girls got theirs at 29. I figure how broken you are determines things, not how old you are!

 

[GreenStormLucy]

Yeah so many girls on my open team refused to even try because they were too old


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I still will try (with a spot), i've fallen so many times on my head, doesn't matter any more. But i just occasionally do it to show them they won't die, even though they are 25+ :-D


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[GiaBellaMom]

Kudos to the over 20 crowd! We should rename this thread >20 Year Old Bhs

 

[callmecoach]

2 of my girls got theirs at 29. I figure how broken you are determines things, not how old you are!

I always swear one day I'm gonna get my old-lady-at-25 self a back handspring and come out of nowhere with it at practice just so I can say IF I CAN DO IT YOUR LIMBER TEENAGE SELVES SURE AS HELL CAN.

Then I remember I haven't done it in more than a decade and I think about what would happen if I jumped backwards and I laugh at the pile of limbs that would probably result.

But your post has made me think twice. Maybe I really should. Wouldn't that prove a point!

ETA: I don't really want to do this just so I can yell. Mainly I would like to prove to those that think they're too far away to ever get a handspring that it is not an impossible feat. But the yelling something along the lines of "told you so!" would not be out of the question.

 

[retiredl5cheer]

I always swear one day I'm gonna get my old-lady-at-25 self a back handspring and come out of nowhere with it at practice just so I can say IF I CAN DO IT YOUR LIMBER TEENAGE SELVES SURE AS HELL CAN.

Then I remember I haven't done it in more than a decade and I think about what would happen if I jumped backwards and I laugh at the pile of limbs that would probably result.

But your post has made me think twice. Maybe I really should. Wouldn't that prove a point!

I got a kid to do a standing tuck like that last night. She was refusing to throw it... I threw mine and said "If I can do that at 22, you better be doing it at 12." BOOM.

 

[SparkleSpankies]

I retired from tumbling anywhere at 28... all of a sudden i tried a handspring w/ the intent to do a handspring back on the tumble track and well, not very gracefully, I (as I saw in another post) "dead hamstered"and walked away.

A week later I stretched and I got myself all ready and did it and same thing. I tried a tuck and I was like flat on the tumble track.. at that point, I decided that there is a point where your body tells you now and I took the hint :-)

 

[XtremeWpg]

I always swear one day I'm gonna get my old-lady-at-25 self a back handspring and come out of nowhere with it at practice just so I can say IF I CAN DO IT YOUR LIMBER TEENAGE SELVES SURE AS HELL CAN.

Then I remember I haven't done it in more than a decade and I think about what would happen if I jumped backwards and I laugh at the pile of limbs that would probably result.

But your post has made me think twice. Maybe I really should. Wouldn't that prove a point!

ETA: I don't really want to do this just so I can yell. Mainly I would like to prove to those that think they're too far away to ever get a handspring that it is not an impossible feat. But the yelling something along the lines of "told you so!" would not be out of the question.

Mine did it to prove a point. next year, despite it being worth literally 0 points to our routine, they want a standing back hand spring. And honestly, I'm going to give it to them. I figure next year, the year of their 30th birthdays, they earned a standing back handspring in the opening of the routine.

 

[WinstonsGirl]

I got mine at 29, RO BHS at 30, RO Tuck after that. I'm still working on Standing tucks and lays now. Nobody is going to tell me I'm too old. On tumbling class lists, most other gyms in the city put 12-18, or 17-25 etc. for age ranges. My club always have 17+ or similar cos I"m in those classes too.

I hate the I'm too old to learn excuse. Maybe you never will BHS, but at least try and get some other skills (cabaret at least??), some body awareness and strength and you never know how you might surprise yourself