Struggling.

[FierceSnaps]

I had cheer practice at school today and all was fine and dandy for the first like maybe half hour until we started learning the dance we're doing for our school's bonfire in a few weeks. It's a hip hop dance, and it's a little challenging to say the least, especially with our coach.
We have a part in our dance where we have to squat down really low, throw ourselves back onto our hands, and at the same time, kick our legs up/back and out like we're doing a toe touch on the ground before snapping them together and landing hard on the ground.
We have mats. But our coach has refused to get them out. So we do our dance on hard concrete school building floor tile. This floor has a bunch of cracks in in, separating the tiles. And we did this part of the dance about 100 times, because she thought this would "teach us how to do it right" (when she never explained to us how to do this dance move in the first place correctly) and now half of the team have giant bruises and scrapes (i'd describe it kind of like friction burn maybe) going up their backs (me included)
I was just wondering how I can convince her to get out the mats (because we've already had a girl get a concussion from banging her head off the floor)?

 

[oncecoolcoachnowmom]

Document the situation and schedule some time to speak with the athletic director or staff member who oversees cheer.

 

[SharkDad]

True, but I think discussing with coach might be better first. I always like the win-win approach:

"Coach, we all love the dance and think it will look great, but right out it is scrapping our legs and beating the crud out of us on that bare concrete. Can we use our mats to learn it? We'll take them out and roll them back up before/after practice to not cut into your time."

Or something like that