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Double back injuries can be broken necks compared to triple full injury of ACL. Also, in gymnastics there is only one person on the floor when the gymnast is throwing their double back, no one to run into, run you over, or fall in front of you.
I'd say triple fulls over double backs, and double backs never. My daughter was in gymnastics for 14 year and I think I only saw 2 or 3 triple fulls ever competed.
As in the vid posted falling flat on face and neck is also very much possible on triple fulls. I was watching a gymnast last night at one of our tumbling locations and she was working triples. She was doing 2.5 to her face as well, or spinning her legs directly into the ground. I cringed every time she landed. Now this was an athlete that has been trained for years and has a sense of spatial awareness. She was never lost in the skill; just not landing it.
I can not see cheerleaders on a whole being able to do this skill. Not based on the current structure of the industry in regards to tumbling. Of course you have the few that could. I have a couple if it were allowed that could possibly do it if we allowed them to. I have others who would attempt it because it was legal just for the challenge. But because a few can do it, does not mean the majority should or be allowed to do it.