- Jul 30, 2013
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The squad I'm assistant coaching for is doing great on every stunt we practice except for one. It's a walk-in-hands press up to extension (semi-single-base) stunt. Side base supports main base's right wrist and back spot steadies flyer's ankles while main base presses her up to extension.
It's just not working. At first I thought Little Sis (the flyer) was the problem because she wasn't getting her left foot around the base's shoulders to her left hand. Figured out she was used to balancing her weight equally so the left side kept dropping before it was secure. We told her to step up like she was going to do a Liberty and put most of her weight on her right leg until the base had hold of her left foot.
That seemed to help until I noticed that now the back spot is releasing Little's right ankle because she feels the weight shift & thinks she needs to steady the stunt by grabbing higher up her leg. Then the right ankle is not supported so Little tries to steady by leaning left and the base still doesn't have her foot secure and omg, it's just a disaster.
At the last game Little hit the dirt from full extension and hurt her hip. Our mom was NOT happy. I'm stressing over it, trying not to be mad at the back spot, and I'm thinking this stunt group is never gonna get it. In addition, I personally don't think the main base has the upper body strength to basically do what a guy would be doing in a partner stunt.
At my wits end and so DONE with this stunt!!! Have other teams had a particularly hairy stunt that just never worked right so you dropped it out of rotation? Or am I just over-reacting coz it's Little Sis getting dropped repeatedly? Aaargh...
It's just not working. At first I thought Little Sis (the flyer) was the problem because she wasn't getting her left foot around the base's shoulders to her left hand. Figured out she was used to balancing her weight equally so the left side kept dropping before it was secure. We told her to step up like she was going to do a Liberty and put most of her weight on her right leg until the base had hold of her left foot.
That seemed to help until I noticed that now the back spot is releasing Little's right ankle because she feels the weight shift & thinks she needs to steady the stunt by grabbing higher up her leg. Then the right ankle is not supported so Little tries to steady by leaning left and the base still doesn't have her foot secure and omg, it's just a disaster.
At the last game Little hit the dirt from full extension and hurt her hip. Our mom was NOT happy. I'm stressing over it, trying not to be mad at the back spot, and I'm thinking this stunt group is never gonna get it. In addition, I personally don't think the main base has the upper body strength to basically do what a guy would be doing in a partner stunt.
At my wits end and so DONE with this stunt!!! Have other teams had a particularly hairy stunt that just never worked right so you dropped it out of rotation? Or am I just over-reacting coz it's Little Sis getting dropped repeatedly? Aaargh...