- Apr 2, 2011
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The underlying issue is in cheer leading you have coaches that are teaching skills that are known to not be legal at any level We have a unique situation in cheer, if a team does 10 comps a year that is a lot. But at the most counts for 20 days or about 20 hours. Yet a team will practice a minimum of 2 days a week for a minimum of 2 hrs a practice 208 hrs a year. Not including clinics, camps, and extra practices Clearly more time spent in practice. The reason more injuries are received in practice.
If you want to limit innovation based on the current Cheer Rules & Regulations...then you're in for a boring sport. Rules get changed every year, and sometimes not for the better. When I cheered 10 years ago there were less concussions, we practiced 3days/week June-March, and the rules were a bit more liberal....
It comes with coaching. If the coach knows the rules and is willing to bend them to try new things and push their kids to the next level, is there anything wrong with that? We wouldn't have tick tocks, inversions, and awesome transitions without someone pushing the bounds.
I do agree with you on the violation deductions though...if a program/team receives several violation warnings at more than one competition, it should be noted, and they should be fined.