- Dec 4, 2014
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Why do they let so many of these cheerleaders cross to so many other teams and lower leveled teams like someone from the level 5 team can go on a level 3 team? It doesn't seem that fair
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They make rules about what these girls can wear before and after competing but not one for a big % of level 5 team athletes crossing to level 2 .
Nope, there's no rule for that unfortunately. The only exception is NCA Nationals where you can't cross between levels at all.I'm pretty sure the rule is that you can only cross two levels. I honestly don't think it's a big deal if one or two girls cross but when more than half of the team is from a higher level, that's when I get mad.
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Nope, there's no rule for that unfortunately. The only exception is NCA Nationals where you can't cross between levels at all.
I can understand a few to cross over but not when it's almost every kid doing it and the gyms around me are all doing that and it's just not fair and stacking teams competing against true levels is cheating. JmoCrossovers make a lot of sense at a small gym. It allows them to have more teams to offer so that every athlete has a team that challenges them. It also allows kids the opportunity to do different stunting positions the same year - for instance, someone who bases for a younger team and flies for an older team, etc. - this is even good at a big gym. Another thing is some athletes just want to get extra practice and workout time and being on more than one team lets them do that.
That's for injuries which you would.I am talking about the teams with same girl on 2 or 3 teams all year not for filling a spot last moment.There is a team from my area that has same little flier on 3 teams and she not even that good but small so they hold her up.So I don't think it's fair that level 4 go to level 3 and to 2. I think that that's cheating and then there's many that do it and pack there teams with the higher cheerleaders to winI go back and forth on crossovers in a lot of cases because in a lot of cases, it's your best option in a pinch.
Ex: If you have an injured Senior 3 kid, and you do not have Level 4 or Level 2 teams, are you REALLY going to pull from say, Junior 1 to fill that spot?
Nope. You're going to pull that Level 5 kid to fill it because you don't have the time to take the risk of putting L1 kid in to base or fly a stunt that is likely a challenge for them. You're going to fill in with the kid for whom that Level 3 stunt is EASY.
say you have a lower level team such as level 3/4
and if some of the girls on those teams have fulls
then some gyms might create a higher level team for girls to throw fulls, so that they can have a season just to practice doing higher level skills out on the mat; but the majority of the girls on the team may not have the skill level of throwing fulls but go on the team anyways to improve their stunting/get the feel for a higher caliber routine
the lower level team might be the main team for most girls and then they use the higher level team as a low-stress thing to just be practicing their skills to refine them for the following season
just my two cents
i think it's a good idea if you're using the higher level team as a low-stress thing for girls to practice their fulls and growing level 5 skills out on the mat. especially if the main team for the girls is their lower level team. then in my opinion, it's not stacking, because the girls are truly level 3/4 athletes but also being placed up so that they can have a little exposure to the harder skills to come.
I would think it's foolish to put a level 5 team out on the mat at competitions that wasn't ready. IMO a gym's L5 team is their "showcase" team and if I want to assess a gym the first thing I do is look for a video of their L5 team. There was one local gym I was considering and then I found a video of their L5 team from 2 seasons ago - it was such a trainwreck that we didn't even go look at them, and never will (I'm also shocked that they haven't got the video removed yet). Oh, and I'd consider a gym w/ no L5 team at all before I would one that had a "bad" L5 team.