Daughter had another cheer competition this weekend. Both my daughter and I were getting very fustrated with her cheerteam. They were going to be missing several girls so they dropped out of the all around (where they do stunts and tumbling) they were just doing a cheer dance, daughter was not at all happy with this. On top of that they are having trouble getting time in the school gym so they have been practicing in the school cafeteria and the last practice the coaches were not able to make it ( they are basically volunteers) so the older 8th grader lead the practice. Daughter likes cheer I think basically because it is a socail thing with her school friends which is fine she is having fun but I am so used to watching gymnastic meets which were at a whole different level than this cheer. I mentioned several times about daughter trying out for an all stsr cheer team but she says she does not want to. I think she likes the fact that she can do other activites and she likes being a part of the school team.
So we are at the competition I am waiting for her team to do their dance(daughter say she is not allowed to tumbling) when they come out to do their dance on the floor daughter leads them in with a ROBHSBHS that looked pretty good. I quess because it was before the dance so that was permitted. Daughter had the biggest smile on her faceface. This is surprising since this was the gymnast last year who hated floor and had a lot of trouble tumbling due to pain growing and I also believe fear issues. So after the competition daughter announces she wants to go back to her old gym for tumbling classes so she could get back her back tuck and other things. I said well maybe you want to go to cheer class at a gym that has all star cheer, she says why would I go back to a different gym. Then I reminded her it would just be tumbling she would not be able to do the other events( she really liked bars and beam not floor). For now she says she wants to go back to help her cheerleading so I told her she can ask her old coach if they have any room in the tumbling class. So we will see, I can not figure her out I had thought one of the reasons she quit gymnastics was because of that back tuck. She is certainly not getting any pressure from the cheer coaches to do this since she and another girl are the only ones who can even do a backhandspring but I have seen girls in the cheer competitions do them most land on their knees funny the ones who do them well are girls who were former gymnasts ( I know a lot of them from being on my daughters former gymnastic team. Stay tuned to see if she gets that back tuck back.
So we are at the competition I am waiting for her team to do their dance(daughter say she is not allowed to tumbling) when they come out to do their dance on the floor daughter leads them in with a ROBHSBHS that looked pretty good. I quess because it was before the dance so that was permitted. Daughter had the biggest smile on her faceface. This is surprising since this was the gymnast last year who hated floor and had a lot of trouble tumbling due to pain growing and I also believe fear issues. So after the competition daughter announces she wants to go back to her old gym for tumbling classes so she could get back her back tuck and other things. I said well maybe you want to go to cheer class at a gym that has all star cheer, she says why would I go back to a different gym. Then I reminded her it would just be tumbling she would not be able to do the other events( she really liked bars and beam not floor). For now she says she wants to go back to help her cheerleading so I told her she can ask her old coach if they have any room in the tumbling class. So we will see, I can not figure her out I had thought one of the reasons she quit gymnastics was because of that back tuck. She is certainly not getting any pressure from the cheer coaches to do this since she and another girl are the only ones who can even do a backhandspring but I have seen girls in the cheer competitions do them most land on their knees funny the ones who do them well are girls who were former gymnasts ( I know a lot of them from being on my daughters former gymnastic team. Stay tuned to see if she gets that back tuck back.