Cheerhastakenovermylife
Cheer Parent
- Aug 23, 2014
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I save a screenshot of the meet & compete times to my lock screen. It allows me to quickly see where we need to be without having to open my phone & search for it.
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We didn't have the uniform issue, but we barely survived the last year my kid crossed. Practices overlapped and she never got to tumble. Competition times were almost always first team of the day and last session of the day (except for UCA when one team was at warmups at WWOS while her other was competing at Indiana Jones). It was awful. Never again!! Hopefully the comp schedules allow for enough time to change but won't keep you there all day! Can you meet her with her second uniform right after she competes so that you can help her change and make sure you have all of the pieces accounted for?
My ten year old is crossing this year. I am asking for crossover hints. How did you survive two teams?I think my biggest fear (not counting logistics) is that she will have two uniforms . I really don't want her losing a few hundred dollars worth of sparkles during the day. Help ;)
My big tip for competitions is to try your best to carve out a time where she can really rest. Especially at 2 day competitions. I only crossed for one competition but my first teams meet time was 7:30am and my second team didn't perform until like 6 at night so I was up all day, plus I was the go-to hair girl so I was doing that also. But I made sure to have a time where I could go back to the hotel room to lay down or just make sure I at least sat down for like an hour so I was resting and not running around tiring myself out. I crossed at age 17 and was exhausted lol so I definitely recommend having a rest time if at all possible.My ten year old is crossing this year. I am asking for crossover hints. How did you survive two teams?I think my biggest fear (not counting logistics) is that she will have two uniforms . I really don't want her losing a few hundred dollars worth of sparkles during the day. Help ;)
We would see that with our flyers. If performance A went poorly chances are there were also issues in performance B.Although all of the logistics can be difficult the most difficult part for us was the mental aspect of competing twice. I never thought about what might happen if team A had a disappointing performance or even worse.... my cp was extremely disappointed with her performance for the first time and I had to try to help her pull it together to compete again on the higher level team in a matter of minutes. It certainly helped her learn some important lessons but we clearly haven't learned our crossover lesson as she begged to be on two teams again this year and I gave in!
I hot glued a metal barrette to my CPs bows last season. Made it easier to switch out.And does anyone have suggestions for quickly switching out bows?
Yes! Assuming you use multiple elastics for the ponytail, instead of using the elastic that comes on the bow take a zip tie and secure it to one of the random elastics so on comp day you just have to do a quick snip of the zip tie and then secure the next bow. I hope this makes sense it's a little harder to explain than I thought lol.
I hot glued a metal barrette to my CPs bows last season. Made it easier to switch out.
I screenshot my comp schedules from my notepad and made it my open screen.
Made sandwiches and packed a cooler for long comp days and also packed comfy shoes for CP so she wouldn't be walking in cheer shoes the entire day.
That's not legal from what I understand, or wasn't a couple of seasons ago when we looked into it. Safety hazard. I don't know how anyone would catch it though.
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This was a few years ago, so the rule may have changed, but they told us no metal barrettes at all on bows, gymnastics clips in the hair were ok. The concern was that they could roll on them at the lower levels on have a stunt come down on them and have it cut their head. They equated it to the no jewelry rule.Really??? I used the small ones and clipped it into the ponytail holder. I can see the big ones being a safety hazard though. Hmm.....