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[Sterling von Shimmer]

Been watching a lot of cheer videos and seeing some technique variations.

1. What is this “buckets” motion (arms extended straight in front, aka “candlesticks”) kids are doing in toe touches now?

2. Why are kids jumping during baskets? I understand the reflex to do so, but isn’t that technically a major no-no since bases can’t leave the performance surface?

 

[retiredl5cheer]

Been watching a lot of cheer videos and seeing some technique variations.

1. What is this “buckets” motion (arms extended straight in front, aka “candlesticks”) kids are doing in toe touches now?

2. Why are kids jumping during baskets? I understand the reflex to do so, but isn’t that technically a major no-no since bases can’t leave the performance surface?

1. I'm going to guess that candlesticks can look more uniform than low-v because it's easier to get everyone's arms in the same place.

2. Some coaches encourage jumping in baskets as a way to teach athletes how to follow all the way through with their toss.

 

[cheerbowgirl101]

Been watching a lot of cheer videos and seeing some technique variations.

1. What is this “buckets” motion (arms extended straight in front, aka “candlesticks”) kids are doing in toe touches now?

2. Why are kids jumping during baskets? I understand the reflex to do so, but isn’t that technically a major no-no since bases can’t leave the performance surface?

The buckets motion...my coaches would straight up murder me. I watch revered athletes do it, and it makes me cringe. Their hands aren’t even in fists, also? So it has to be intentional.

 

[cheerbowgirl101]

Question: How many floors does CEA Kernersville have? Am I crazy, or is it just the one they’ve always filmed videos on?

 

[Eyes On The Prize]

Question: How many floors does CEA Kernersville have? Am I crazy, or is it just the one they’ve always filmed videos on?

IIRC, they have a main floor and then a second, smaller floor for tumbling.

 

[Sterling von Shimmer]

1. I'm going to guess that candlesticks can look more uniform than low-v because it's easier to get everyone's arms in the same place.

2. Some coaches encourage jumping in baskets as a way to teach athletes how to follow all the way through with their toss.

When did they start doing low V’s? Am I completely out of touch? We’re over here doing T’s still.

 

[Sterling von Shimmer]

The buckets motion...my coaches would straight up murder me. I watch revered athletes do it, and it makes me cringe. Their hands aren’t even in fists, also? So it has to be intentional.

I don’t think the fists/blades re: toe touch debate will ever be resolved. We switched between the two in high school depending on the coach. There is no consensus it seems.

 

[oncecoolcoachnowmom]

T approach with fists > blades.

I'd even take a low v.

 

[retiredl5cheer]

When did they start doing low V’s? Am I completely out of touch? We’re over here doing T’s still.

Depends on the team? I've done both.

 

[Cheer Dad]

Question: How many floors does CEA Kernersville have? Am I crazy, or is it just the one they’ve always filmed videos on?

They own a Worlds floor, does anything else matter? [emoji1787][emoji1787]


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[Thinkpositivethoughts]

Well one of my younger somewhat very distant cousins has hopefully learned her lesson in why you don’t post certain things on the internet. Her boyfriend and her posted a very ignorant video on social media. They are thankfully being held accountable and and facing the the repercussions of posting the racist video.

 

[Sterling von Shimmer]

Well one of my younger somewhat very distant cousins has hopefully learned her lesson in why you don’t post certain things on the internet. Her boyfriend and her posted a very ignorant video on social media. They are thankfully being held accountable and and facing the the repercussions of posting the racist video.

Well I’m glad they learned. Even though social media can be unforgiving, I hope the silver lining is that kids learn young what you can and can’t say and why. So maybe in a few decades we won’t have any more middle-age parents wondering why their kid donning blackface for Halloween is offensive.

 

[CoachTamara]

Well one of my younger somewhat very distant cousins has hopefully learned her lesson in why you don’t post certain things on the internet. Her boyfriend and her posted a very ignorant video on social media. They are thankfully being held accountable and and facing the the repercussions of posting the racist video.

Pretty sure I saw that video and YIKES. Blunt about their beliefs I guess, there was no sugar coating that.

 

[Sterling von Shimmer]

Pretty sure I saw that video and YIKES. Blunt about their beliefs I guess, there was no sugar coating that.

Okaay I think I just saw it and yeah that’s bad. I really thought it was probably just a couple of kids singing the n-word, which I’m a little forgiving toward since I totally get why their kid logic would let them think that’s an okay thing to do. I mean it’s still stupid, but in their heads they’re just singing song lyrics. I don’t condemn a kid for parroting words they don’t necessarily understand fully. I’m embarrassed to think of some of the things I probably said as a teen when the words “gay” and “retarded” were thrown around freely.

But no this is way worse. I hope they still can learn something from this, but honestly the most discouraging thing about incidents like these isn’t that it’s just a couple young kids posting something hateful and stupid on the internet. It’s that there’s an entire community surrounding them that allowed them to get this far in life thinking it was okay. Whether that community is family, friends, or just internet forums, it’s an unsettling thought. They didn’t develop these feelings in a vacuum.

 

[FamousxMindset]

Well one of my younger somewhat very distant cousins has hopefully learned her lesson in why you don’t post certain things on the internet. Her boyfriend and her posted a very ignorant video on social media. They are thankfully being held accountable and and facing the the repercussions of posting the racist video.

The video was bad but the subsequent posts were even worse, yikes.