Cheer Mom Jessica- A Year of New Beginnings

 October 9, 2020

      Hello Cheer4Today Readers, It's Cheer Mom Jessica. Last season I started by telling you how "C"  made the elite team of her dreams and how I was hit with the reality of all the responsibility and costs that went along with it.  As I planned for my 2nd blog entry about our experiences flying cross country and competing at some amazing events... The Corona Virus set in and all of her other competitions were canceled. For the most part, we had no problems getting our hotel and competition fees back, but we did struggle to get our prepaid airline tickets back. To get a good price, we had to plan early and we had no idea what was going to happen with the country shutting down. it was really a tough time. Allowing my daughter to compete on a team like that costs a lot of money and I make an average salary so I really could have used a full refund on my airline tickets. ugh... Did any of you experience that? Did you get your money back or did you have to just deal with the loss like us? 

     Enough of last season, it is now a new season and after really thinking about it and weighing the options we agreed to let "C" come back and cheer this season. It didn't take long for her to get her skills dusted off and she is even working on a "specialty pass".  She's super eager to contribute to her team. Some of the kids on her team have been part of this team for many years, but  this is only her 2nd year on the team and last year really wasn't a full year. She is also a flyer this cheer season and she is a bit nervous. Last season at one of our first competitions, we heard 2 parents talking as they watch another team compete. I guess they were "rivals" and they were almost wishing that the flyer would fall. Do I think they wanted the girl to get hurt... no, but they wanted the team to lose points so their child's team would win.  My daughter heard that and asked me if they realized that she could get hurt. I think sometimes people get so into the competition that they forget that every cheerleader is somebody's child and we should support one another. You shouldn't want another team to fail, rather you should want your team to be even better. I think this is in the back of my daughter's mind as she has been working on her elite stunts. I keep reminding her to just do her best. This will be a new experience for her. 

       Although none of us really know how this season is going to play out, we have to do our best with whatever we are dealt. Whether we end up traveling like nothing happened, end up doing mostly virtual competitions, or something somewhere in the middle; we just have know that in the end, it will all be ok. 

Keep Cheering,

Blogger Jessica

Blogger Nayeli 9/11/2020

Hello! It’s Nay coming back for another cheer blog. 

In early August, "Big League Chew" had choreography for two days, which one of those days was actually my Birthday! Both days were a bit exhausting, but at least I had fun during and after choreography. I’m a little sad that "Twix" hasn’t had their choreography yet, I hope it comes soon!

Now let’s move to the middle of August. I went on a day trip  to Chicago for a GK casting call. Getting my photo taken was so much fun! I felt like a Vogue Model! (LOL!) Getting to chat with the photographer made a normal casting call photo shoot become a mini runway session. I was fantastic!

Now I will fast forward to the end of August and early September. I started school, and I was super excited to have an epic first day! I also recently got my fall cheer schedule, and I am ready for a new and totally different season! I will be at cheer for half a week.  I know I am ready for this challenge!

Hasta la pasta and see ya next time! 

Gotta go! <3 ~~~

Nayeli

Blogger Trinity 8-24-2020

 

MY TEAM TRAINING~

Hello Guys... It's me Trinity again!

Today I will be talking about my team’s training routine. To start off we do the basics warming up, then stretches, and then finally we warm up our tumbling. On some nights our team focuses on one specific subject. An example of this would be doing jumps, tumbling, stunting, and then the routine. In previous weeks, we have been focusing on stunts, jumps, and dance. We have the first half of our routine so now all is left is the dance. So dance is what we will be focusing on for the next couple of weeks.

Let me talk you into more about our training. For our jumps we do 1 set of 8 toe-touches, 8 hurdles {each leg}, and last but not least 8 pike jumps to gain our stamina.

Next would be tumbling. First, we do the basics e.g. handstands, cartwheels, and more. Then, we move into stuff like standing tumbling and running tumbling. 

You guessed it... next is stunting. Normally every night we will start with LOL’s which stands for Lot’s Of Legs. That is just another way to say we are warming up our base's legs for when we stunt. It also means we are warming up the flyer's legs and body positions as well. 

When all of that is done,  we do a big nice refreshing stretch and say a BIG thank you to our wonderful coaches! 

I hope you enjoyed my blog today,

Trinity

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Welcome Blogger Trinity- 7-26-2020

      Hi my name is Trinity and I live in Brisbane, Queensland. I am 11 years old and I cheer and dance at FAD Logan West.  I am in 5 routines this year, I'm on a Level 4 AG Senior Cheer Team, and a Senior level 4 Assisted partner stunt!  My favorite thing ever to do is stunt! I have been cheerleading for around 6 years. Five of those years I have been in All Star Cheer. My position on my cheer team is being the flyer. My favorite part about cheerleading is that I get to stunt and be around all my team mates and see my coaches.

     My team has around 13 cheerleaders on it. My coaches are awesome and you might even know them. Their names are Bek and Gareth and I love having them as coaches.

     Now It is important when you are a flyer to have good bases. I want to tell you about my bases. First of all, I have Kathleen who is the back spot. She is really good at what she does! Then I have Ami. She cracks me up! She is a really good base especially with her twisting grips! Then I have my favorite base Kayla. Now, I'm sure you’re probably wondering why Kayla is my favorite... well here is why. I have known her for quite a while because of all our specialty routines together, the heaps of time together, and she is a TANK( aka, my engine)! She does a lot of hard work. All of my bases do too!


   I hope you enjoyed reading about me cheerleading in Queensland. I cant wait to blog next month!

Sincerely,
Trinity Bauer

Welcome Blogger Nayeli - 7-23-2020

      Hello, my name is Nayeli. I’m so happy to share with you my very first blog.  I cheer at Top Notch Allstars as a J2 & J3 cross over athlete and I am going into the seventh grade. All star Cheer has been a part of my life for just about half of my life.  Aside from cheerleading I also model and rep for GK Allstar, Crazypants US, Rock Your Hair , Be you Brands Apparel, and Cheerfit. I also like to draw, craft, sew, make TikTok videos, Cosplay, and play games with friends. 

     This year has been such a tornado of a year! Having our season cancelled due to COVID was totally disappointing and scary and there was a time where I didn’t think there would be a 20-21 season either!  

   Now fast forward to July, where I’ve been very occupied with cheer. During the first two weeks of July, I had my first team practices for TN Twix (J3) and TN Big League Chew (J2) They used to be Warheads Y2, but the Y2 was merged into the already exiting J2 small making is a J2 large.

   This year I also start a new venture as a Jr High Sideline and Competitive School Cheerleader with our local Jr High.  I can't wait!

Well that’s enough about me for now , we will have more time in the future to

get to know what the life of a cheerleader is like for me!

Hasta la Pasta, 

see you later and make good choices! 

<3

Nayeli