Pebbles49
Cheer Parent
- Jan 27, 2014
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For the last 4 years, my daughter had been competitively cheering, but this season, she decided to take a break and solely dance.
When she was cheering, she had weekly tumbling privates and was constantly pushing and wanting those level 5 tumbling skills. Well, even though she is not cheering, I still have her taking 1x week tumbling lessons at her old gymnastics gym with her regular tumbling coach. However, she made a competitive dance team and she seems to be doing really well on this team (mainly in Jazz, Tap and Hip-Hop). Matter of fact, She have been selected to do a solo routine in Hip-Hop and a duet in a Jazz routine and she made the elite dance squad that is made up of 6 dancers.
In general, I was approached by her dance instructor and was asked that she stop taking tumbling privates. Her dance instructor says that in dancing, level 5 tumbling skills is not needed and at most, she said that layouts are the maximum skills needed. Additionally, her dance instructor also mentioned that dance judges are unimpressed by dancers who tumbles...
In general, I want to know, people who are familiar with competitive dancing arena, is this true and why, if it is true that tumbling is not used in dancing?
When she was cheering, she had weekly tumbling privates and was constantly pushing and wanting those level 5 tumbling skills. Well, even though she is not cheering, I still have her taking 1x week tumbling lessons at her old gymnastics gym with her regular tumbling coach. However, she made a competitive dance team and she seems to be doing really well on this team (mainly in Jazz, Tap and Hip-Hop). Matter of fact, She have been selected to do a solo routine in Hip-Hop and a duet in a Jazz routine and she made the elite dance squad that is made up of 6 dancers.
In general, I was approached by her dance instructor and was asked that she stop taking tumbling privates. Her dance instructor says that in dancing, level 5 tumbling skills is not needed and at most, she said that layouts are the maximum skills needed. Additionally, her dance instructor also mentioned that dance judges are unimpressed by dancers who tumbles...
In general, I want to know, people who are familiar with competitive dancing arena, is this true and why, if it is true that tumbling is not used in dancing?