All-Star Individual Cheer! Pros? Cons?

[Born2Tumble]

This was given as a possible option for my CP for this upcoming cheer season. I honestly don't know much about Individual cheer besides what I have seen on YouTube, LOL. So, if there is anyone out there who has any experience, stories, advice.... please share! All feedback welcomed (:

 

[MomOf2ThatsMe]

This was given as a possible option for my CP for this upcoming cheer season. I honestly don't know much about Individual cheer besides what I have seen on YouTube, LOL. So, if there is anyone out there who has any experience, stories, advice.... please share! All feedback welcomed :)

From what I have seen, any time you do an individual in any division besides tiny, if you are there to win and not just perform, you will probably need solid level 5 skills. Small competitions (think high school gymnasium), not so much, anything bigger than that, I wouldn't even bother unless my kid was throwing at least a full, and had textbook jumps. Therefore, we don't bother ;)

 

[Born2Tumble]

Gotcha! Thats what I thought but I wasnt sure! So if you do compete do mini aged kids compete against senior aged or are the still divided by age just not skill level?

 

[SheCheers]

i've never considered it because it's just more time, money, hassle. i love cheer, don't get me wrong, but i have 4 kids in different activities in different parts of town, and my cp is just one of them. Her 3 days a week at the gym is enough for our family.

 

[Born2Tumble]

i've never considered it because it's just more time, money, hassle. i love cheer, don't get me wrong, but i have 4 kids in different activities in different parts of town, and my cp is just one of them. Her 3 days a week at the gym is enough for our family.

LOL, I completely understand!!

 

[kaliangel01]

The most recent one I seen was seperated by the different levels.

 

[MomOf2ThatsMe]

Gotcha! Thats what I thought but I wasnt sure! So if you do compete do mini aged kids compete against senior aged or are the still divided by age just not skill level?

It depends on the EP. Most of the time it is separated just by age division. I have seen them divided into mini novice, mini advanced, youth novice, and so on, but I think that is the exception rather than the rule. Personally, if EP's wanted to make individuals more appealing to all athletes (and the people that pay for them), they would divide them by level and not age (for the reasons I mentioned above) or do more the novice vs advanced within the age divisions, but I think they are moving away from doing individuals in general.

 

[Born2Tumble]

Right someone told me that individuals were dying off...I wonder why that is?