All-Star How Old Were You When You Threw Your First Back Handspring? Full?

[cheercurl]

I am. But I pushed her REALLY hard back then. I can't say I regret it, but I can say that when I look back on it, I pushed TOO hard for progression and didn't focus enough on the perfection first. I was lucky that she didn't end up hurting herself. :/ Now that I'm at a gym that focuses so much on technique, I can see where I failed her some back then. She really struggles with standing tumbling because we never took the time to make her BHS's sharp and clean and pushed her on to bigger and harder tumbling skills way too fast. :/ So while I am super proud that she was able to accomplish such hard skills so quickly, I do wish I had let her perfect things first. :)

You horrible mom! Kidding...I just think early in cheer the focus was on getting the next skill, good technique was just something you hoped would happen. My oldest was a gymnast first where technique and perfection before progression was mandatory. I was shocked when we got to cheer they didn't care if her feet weren't together or if her toes were pointed or even if she stuck a landing.

In the evolution of cheer I think there has been a new push for technique and its starting to be reflected in scores. The only unfortunate thing is that smaller gyms don't have the same quantity of quality tumblers so I think they are still forced to push the next skill before perfection....where as bigger gyms have more quality tumblers and can take there time with progressions...growing great little tumblers. I have always wondered if they raised the age for seniors to 13 or 14 if it would give gyms the time to allow athletes to progress a little slower stressing perfection before progression.

Quantity of quality tumblers is what sets gyms who have competitive "World's" teams apart from gyms that have "World's" teams that are never going to be all that competitive. Wow this post went totally off track???

You are great mom because at the time you did what was best for your children....thats all we can do. Right?

 

[CheerCoach84]

I learned a BHS and a ROBHS my Junior Year of HS, and the only reason I wanted to do it, was I would look at our cheerleaders, and a couple of them could do it, and I just thought: They can do one, so why can't I??? I went to the Y, drug out a panel mat and just threw myself backwards, and it just happened, didn't land on my head either! This was so Back in the Day!!!-1983!!! The only teams at the time that I ever saw tumble were : Greenup County, and I just loved it!!! Tucks, Layouts and fulls came a few months later, I was the star of my School, and I LOVED it!!!! Every class reunion that I have went to thereafter I always throw at least 1 Standing Tuck!!!!! and I am in my early 40's!!!!! Love tumbling, and especially Cheerleading, as I have been able to see where it has evolved from!!!! Haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!! so OLd, but not really!!! Still tumble everyday!! On tumble tracks and spring floors!!!!

 

[BowsnBling]

I was 7, I threw cause my coach told me she would give me a bag of M and M's lol...layout was age 11 and I never got the hang of the full, it was just not my thing, but I have no problem teaching them, go figure.

 

[mckenzie]

BHS: 8
Backhandspring tuck: 12
Roundolph tuck: 12
Standing specialty (no standing tuck yet): 10


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[cheernerd5678]

7. I actually got my RO back handspring before my standing, and then I got my standing shortly after.

is that weird? that's how everyone I know progressed, running before standing.. I've gotten all my running skills before standing

 

[wishfulthinking]

is that weird? that's how everyone I know progressed, running before standing.. I've gotten all my running skills before standing

When I was learning my BHS, the majority of kids seemed to be working on their standing, and very few had a BHS at all, let alone a running BHS. My coach seemed really shocked that I kind of did it backwards. Glad to know I'm not alone!

 

[cydcydchick]

handspring: 7
running tuck: 8
layout: 8
standing tuck: 10
full: long story short- started working on it when i was 9, i'm 17 now and i still cant do them by myself. never took time off from tumbling either. i guess i was just never meant to be a twister :(

 

[THEJOEL]

CP was 5 for the BHS one month away from 7 currently working towards a full.

 

[cheernerd5678]

When I was learning my BHS, the majority of kids seemed to be working on their standing, and very few had a BHS at all, let alone a running BHS. My coach seemed really shocked that I kind of did it backwards. Glad to know I'm not alone!

huh, we kinda worked them both at once and pretty much everyone got running first... more momentum, you know? huh

 

[wishfulthinking]

huh, we kinda worked them both at once and pretty much everyone got running first... more momentum, you know? huh

I think I preferred learning running first because of the momentum.

I mean, when I switched gyms, it was kind of the same scenario where kids were learning the standing BHS first, and then the running, but when they progressed into more advanced tumbling, they were doing running tumbling, and then the standing.

 

[Daniellerae]

In Michigan cheer most coaches focus on standing tumbling before running. Most of the girls on my team learned standing springs and tucks before running. There's a girl on my team with a beautiful triple toe touch to tuck, but she's absolutely terrified to throw a round off back handspring.


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[ErinS]

BHS: 8
Backhandspring tuck: 12
Roundolph tuck: 12
Standing specialty (no standing tuck yet): 10


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I don't know how the spelling of "roundolph" happened...auto correct whatever.....but thank you so much for it.

 

[TheUltimateFan]

BHS 6/7
Full 11/12

BHS - you were 5. Vern taught you. :kiss:

 

[vannahlexis]

Standing handspring: 15
Running handspring: 16/17 I have it sometimes, others I don't lol
I don't expect to get any new skills ever, but I'm proud I made it that far!


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[nicoleW1]

Back handspring-10
Tuck- still currently working on it...


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