All-Star Maxing Out Level 2 Jambrands

[Hodiestoe]

Hi, I would love some advice from all you of you there on how to max out the score sheet for Jambrands. This is our first proper competition and I want to give the girls the best shot possible. Our tumbling is the area where will will take a hit, only 12 of 20 can series BHS, but I"m willing to take the hit there as none of them could when I took them over in Sept, we didn't even have any front/back walkovers!!!

This is what we have:
1. How many body positions you have - we have full squad (5 stunts) lib/scale/arabesque; 8 single base lib/arabesque in stunt sections
2. How MANY load-in and/or dismounts you have - 3x roundoff 1/2 twist loads; 3x hands stand loads; 5x 1/4 turn cradles from 1 leg; 5x 180 prep/ext (not quite got all to ext yet); 4x basket cradle; 5x ext cradle.
3. How many actual stunts you put in the air at one time - 5 single leg, full base groups; 8x single leg, single base; 5x ext; 5x stunts in pyramid
4. How well you execute your stunts - yeah this is where we all play by chance ;)

TUMBLING - we don't have a standing tumbling section as they are struggling with standing BHS, is there anything else we can put in? We have 12 ro/bhs/bhs/bhs, 2x fhs/step/ro/bhs/bhs, 8 fhs for running tumbling.

JUMPING - triple jump section all TT, 1+2 jump section - herkie, pike, tt

How can I help the girls more to max out the score sheet?
Thanks

 

[cupieqt]

Hi, I would love some advice from all you of you there on how to max out the score sheet for Jambrands. This is our first proper competition and I want to give the girls the best shot possible. Our tumbling is the area where will will take a hit, only 12 of 20 can series BHS, but I"m willing to take the hit there as none of them could when I took them over in Sept, we didn't even have any front/back walkovers!!!

This is what we have:
1. How many body positions you have - we have full squad (5 stunts) lib/scale/arabesque; 8 single base lib/arabesque in stunt sections

You need 5+ body positions in one stunt sequence to max. You need 5+ body positions in pyramid also.

2. How MANY load-in and/or dismounts you have - 3x roundoff 1/2 twist loads; 3x hands stand loads; 5x 1/4 turn cradles from 1 leg; 5x 180 prep/ext (not quite got all to ext yet); 4x basket cradle; 5x ext cradle.

Have a creative load-in, transition and dismount for every stunt.

3. How many actual stunts you put in the air at one time - 5 single leg, full base groups; 8x single leg, single base; 5x ext; 5x stunts in pyramid

This depends on the amount of kids on the team. If you put up at least ONE stunt section with as many flyers as you're possibly able then you're maxed. Get creative here.

4. How well you execute your stunts - yeah this is where we all play by chance ;)

TUMBLING - we don't have a standing tumbling section as they are struggling with standing BHS, is there anything else we can put in? We have 12 ro/bhs/bhs/bhs, 2x fhs/step/ro/bhs/bhs, 8 fhs for running tumbling.

You need a ST section. Put in some forward rolls or cartwheels or a variety of those somewhere. Otherwise you have a big fat zero.

JUMPING - triple jump section all TT, 1+2 jump section - herkie, pike, tt

You need 3 DIFFERENT connected jumps (whip connected) to max. Triple toe is three of the same. So you'll lose a few points here. Try to connect the herkie pike tt too.

How can I help the girls more to max out the score sheet?
Thanks

Performance!!! Hit clean and energetic with lots of smiles and happy faces!

Good luck!

 

[Rudags]

You can find all your answers here and it also has Jam Score Specialists to answer any questions you may have:

The JAM Brands Cheerleading and Dance Competitions

 

[imrichhowboutu]

Hi, I would love some advice from all you of you there on how to max out the score sheet for Jambrands. This is our first proper competition and I want to give the girls the best shot possible. Our tumbling is the area where will will take a hit, only 12 of 20 can series BHS, but I"m willing to take the hit there as none of them could when I took them over in Sept, we didn't even have any front/back walkovers!!!

This is what we have:
1. How many body positions you have - we have full squad (5 stunts) lib/scale/arabesque; 8 single base lib/arabesque in stunt sections - I have a break down in my folder which is at home, Its either 5 or 6 body positions plus an extension.
2. How MANY load-in and/or dismounts you have - 3x roundoff 1/2 twist loads; 3x hands stand loads; 5x 1/4 turn cradles from 1 leg; 5x 180 prep/ext (not quite got all to ext yet); 4x basket cradle; 5x ext cradle. You need to have 5+ LDTs to get in max range, and the majority must do it, so 3+ groups. You have 5, but the Handstand load in is level 1, so it doesn't count. The basket cradle would count as a basket.
3. How many actual stunts you put in the air at one time - 5 single leg, full base groups; 8x single leg, single base; 5x ext; 5x stunts in pyramid - since you do 8, you should be maxing out in quantity
4. How well you execute your stunts - yeah this is where we all play by chance execution all depends. If you have average flexibility and control, you are around a 7.

TUMBLING - we don't have a standing tumbling section as they are struggling with standing BHS, is there anything else we can put in? We have 12 ro/bhs/bhs/bhs, 2x fhs/step/ro/bhs/bhs, 8 fhs for running tumbling. You need some sort of standing tumbling.

JUMPING - triple jump section all TT, 1+2 jump section - herkie, pike, tt i dont understand how you wrote this. Elaborate please. BUt for the top range you need a triple jump that has variety and another jump.

How can I help the girls more to max out the score sheet?
Thanks​

 

[SarahS]

For standing tumbling, put in however many standing BHS you have, preferably right after the jump series (with a pause, of course). Actually, in level 2, you can do back walkover BHS - can any of your kids do that (sometimes it feels more like running tumbling after a back walkover, at least mentally, for some kids)?

For JamBrands, you get a difficulty, technique, synchronization, and quantity score for standing tumbling - if you don't perform skills in level (ie standing BHS), you can only get a max of 5 for quantity and will automatically get a 0 for synchronization (even if your whole team performs forward rolls). If you have just two kids who do standing BHS, you would get a 7 for quantity and 1 for synch. (If you don't do any standing tumbling, you get a zero on all four of these, so definitely do *something* - you'll still get difficulty, technique and quantity points!)

 

[SarahS]

And as far as stunt difficulty goes, "L2 teams that execute at least one single leg stunt at prep level and an extended
level two legged stunt will start at: 6.5, Any prep level single legged body position executed beyond the criteria above
will raise your score a tenth of a point for each additional body position up to the maximum of 7.0" - so you need prep level single leg stunts with six body positions plus extended two legged stunts to max out with a 7... but remember, each body position is worth only one tenth of a point, so you might want to seriously consider execution versus difficulty, here.

 

[Hodiestoe]

Thank you so much for all your helpful suggestions. I think we need to work on body positions and standing tumbling. I"ve just had an open session tonight and rechoreographed the 8-ct after the jumps to include BHS/BWO's ;)
I think I will take the hit on not having 5 body positions, we don't quite have the flexibility yet, but we will for the new season :)

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JUMPING - triple jump section all TT, 1+2 jump section - herkie, pike, tt i dont understand how you wrote this. Elaborate please. BUt for the top range you need a triple jump that has variety and another jump.

We have a triple toe touch section linked by whip and a separate section which is herkie, move place, pike and toe touch linked by whip. Do I need to link the herkie to the pike and tt to max out??

 

[SarahS]

We have a triple toe touch section linked by whip and a separate section which is herkie, move place, pike and toe touch linked by whip. Do I need to link the herkie to the pike and tt to max out??

If by "move place" you mean that you do a clap punch approach, that should get you in the 9.6-9.7 range, while a whip approach it should get you 9.7-9.8. Not much difference, so again, look at that tenth of a point in difficulty vs. execution (I know that, for both of my teams this year, adding that third jump with a whip approach *killed* their execution, so we kept the clap punch approach because they were so.much.cleaner that way).

The last page of this pdf breaks down the jumps very specifically http://www.thejambrands.com/JAMScore/Cheer/1112ScoringClarifications.pdf
(the rest of the pdf is really helpful, too)

 

[CoachMandiCF]

Hi, I would love some advice from all you of you there on how to max out the score sheet for Jambrands. This is our first proper competition and I want to give the girls the best shot possible. Our tumbling is the area where will will take a hit, only 12 of 20 can series BHS, but I"m willing to take the hit there as none of them could when I took them over in Sept, we didn't even have any front/back walkovers!!!

This is what we have:
1. How many body positions you have - we have full squad (5 stunts) lib/scale/arabesque; 8 single base lib/arabesque in stunt sections
2. How MANY load-in and/or dismounts you have - 3x roundoff 1/2 twist loads; 3x hands stand loads; 5x 1/4 turn cradles from 1 leg; 5x 180 prep/ext (not quite got all to ext yet); 4x basket cradle; 5x ext cradle.
3. How many actual stunts you put in the air at one time - 5 single leg, full base groups; 8x single leg, single base; 5x ext; 5x stunts in pyramid
4. How well you execute your stunts - yeah this is where we all play by chance ;)

TUMBLING - we don't have a standing tumbling section as they are struggling with standing BHS, is there anything else we can put in? We have 12 ro/bhs/bhs/bhs, 2x fhs/step/ro/bhs/bhs, 8 fhs for running tumbling.

JUMPING - triple jump section all TT, 1+2 jump section - herkie, pike, tt

How can I help the girls more to max out the score sheet?
Thanks

This link should really help you out
http://www.thejambrands.com/JAMScore/Cheer/ScoreSheets/1112JAMBrandsScoreSheetBreakdown.pdf

It pretty much breaks down by level how you can max out the scoresheet. Now remember, in tumbling - you said you only have 12 of the 20 who can do series HS. Have a few of those people do multiple passes. That will bump up your number. For Jam's Scoresheet, it's the total number of passes.

Also, for Level 2 pyramids, score is based on how many 1-legged structures you hit to get the difficulty score.

Good luck!!!!