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[quote author=blackcatcheer link=topic=18454.msg211467#msg211467 date=1142386935]
Gymnastics are very important if you want to be taken serious as a squad.  At the high school level everyone should have standing handsprings, round-off handsprings and be working hard on everything else.
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Respectfully... you can not be serious. If you don't make the back handspring and robkhdspg mandatory at the middle school level, you'll never get them at the high school leve musch less anything more difficult with any consistancyl!!!!!!! Too much happens with hs girls and if they don't have the ability coming in, then they'll drag it out and mommah will be raisin hell all the way thru because the coach is just "being mean or hates her baby"!!!! The coach wil be between a rock and a hard place because she let them on the squad knowing better and all the girls and their mothers will be madder than hell because they've paid thru the nose for gymnastics, sacrificed things for those lessons, worked their tails off to get the passes, but they can't win squat because their level of difficulty is that of a middle school squad because some were allowed in without being qualified! Talk about nasty situations, but it's going on all over this state as we speak!