High School Another Stunt Legality Question...

[Sterling von Shimmer]

Curious if this brand of cradle is legal at the HS level (2.21 mark). It’s inverted but never released, so I think it’s okay? It would just be SO COOL to show up at Nationals next year with a specialised cradle like that instead of a kick twist which seems to be the trend nowadays.



Also, where on a list of tumbling skills would you put an aerial in terms of difficulty?

Thanks.

 

[OldskoolKYcheercoach]

Curious if this brand of cradle is legal at the HS level (2.21 mark). It’s inverted but never released, so I think it’s okay? It would just be SO COOL to show up at Nationals next year with a specialised cradle like that instead of a kick twist which seems to be the trend nowadays.



Also, where on a list of tumbling skills would you put an aerial in terms of difficulty?

Thanks.

Not legal

I can’t tell for sure where they are maintaining contact in just a quick look at it, so I will play out both scenarios:

If the “main” is maintaining contact with the foot, it meets the definition of a roll, which has to have a “bracer” either on the ground or in a prep-level or below stunt. That bracer has to maintain hand/arm/upper body contact in such a way as to control the upper body of the top person.

If the “main” is making contact with a hand, and releasing the foot, it’s a flip, and has to be braced on both sides by double base preps with spotters and hand/arm contact.

ETA: in response to your aerial question. I would place it in the category of don’t even bother unless you’re just using it for choreography purposes and in that case don’t worry about the scoring. The competitive teams at nationals are going to have a group of layouts or group of fulls. Tucks would be an absolute minimum. Spending the time working on aerials would be a lot of waste. Taking the counts to do a group of “aerials through to ______” would eat up a lot of 8-Counts for a 5-point difficulty score.

ETAA (edited to add again), I’m not even sure that meets the definition of a roll. It just looks like a head-down inversion from a prep level stunt and might even require two people to control the upper body. The only exception to that inversion rule is the foldover or “pancake”

 

[Sterling von Shimmer]

Thanks so much; that’s so helpful. Disappointing, but helpful :) Yeah, the legality of the “pancake” was what was throwing me off, because this cradle is essentially a backwards pancake.

My returning girls are in love with aerials. (Personally, I think they just want to keep up with the song team because they have a bunch of aerials and I think my girls are feeling “shown up” by the dancers’ surprise tumbling skills). Anyway, they wanted to know if I would put them in the routine if they learned them next year as a sort of passing flourish (probably for USA, not UCA). I said I’d think about it. I want to encourage personal goals, but not at the risk of unnecessary injury all for something that’s not going to get us any points.

 

[AndyT_T]

Even if it was legal it would just score like a roll over which on the UCA scoresheet is only advanced I believe if not lower. Better to spend your time on other inversions that will score.