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Waiver only waive assumed risks. It is not an assumed risk in acrobatics and tumbling or anything that defies gravity to not have an injury protocol, an emergency plan in place and proper medical response.Doesn't the injury waver that everyone has to sign at the beginning of the season cover them from law suits?
I've always wondered about the point of gross negligence issue with competitive cheer. When a coach tells an athlete to push through it or tells her to continue with practice after she states she is hurt, I often wondered if they could be held liable if the child was seriously injured after that point. Thanks for the clarification.Waiver only waive assumed risks. It is not an assumed risk in acrobatics and tumbling or anything that defies gravity to not have an injury protocol, an emergency plan in place and proper medical response.
The waiver NEVER waives responsibility for negligence or gross negligence or any form of child abuse.
I would love to hear their stories of how it happened.
AmenPlease be careful, everybody, before you suggest the coaches were negligent in this case. Aside from the fact that officials stop gameplay in sports, the coaches had a LOT to digest and internalize during any crisis. It's very easy to watch a video and speculate what should have happened and when, but things don't play out in real time the way they do on video and in our heads.
I think conversation about how to improve the system is awesome. But speculative assumptions about impure motive is so uncalled for.
i think that injuries like this are going to continue to happen with the huge push for syncro/squad tumbling....
My daughter is 19+ years old, has 10 years as an Allstar cheerleader with 6 as a level 5 tumbler and thank the good lord her worst tumbling injury has been sprained wrists and ankles! Mak sure your CP is well conditioned and enjoy their progress! They can get hurt anywhere as children and no matter what you see in level 5 videos almost ALL cheer injuries are accidents just like wrecking their bicycles or falling out of a tree! Have faith and enjoy this great sport full of passion and athleticism!The tumbling in groups between each other back and forth scares the crap out of me. Granted the "fanciest" running tumbling my CP can do right now is a RO.. and I have virtually zero first hand exposure to anything above level 2.. But another question..
As long as I've watched these videos I have always wondered.. Is it generally a given that these athletes will throw these skills in a straight line? When I watch these advanced teams throw these synchro tumble ROBHS blah blah full etc etc with some going one way diagonally and some going the other..
1) How often do they drift?
2) When YOU are the tumbler.. Are you aware of your surroundings and can you act to change your trajectory or are you SOL?
3) Can they do that pass through tumbling at any level or is it only allowed at the upper levels? I would read the rules myself but some of them I don't quite understand yet.
Before I was on fb I thought it would be cool if CP were to make a level 5 team someday. Now between all the broken bones from falling out of stunts or tumbling and torn ACLs from doing fulls etc.. I'm just not so sure. Is it almost a given that if you stick to this you're going to break at some point?