ACEDAD wrote:

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This whole safety deduction confused me, so I decided to go straight to the source.  I emailed Justin Carrier, VP of NCA and asked about it.  Here is his response:

"The athlete had on actual bracelets--not metal--but by all means it was jewelry. This was in addition to the hair bands she had on her other wrist. There were 2 girls. One had 6 friendship bracelets and one had 1 hair tie. Les Stella looked at both girls. (And a hair tie is a bracelet once it's on your wrist)."

So it was more than what we were led to believe and makes more sense to me now.

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I guess one of those balance braclets can't be worn then. wonder why they are selling them at the comps if they cant be worn in competiton.

 

SuzyB wrote:

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ACEDAD wrote:

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This whole safety deduction confused me, so I decided to go straight to the source.  I emailed Justin Carrier, VP of NCA and asked about it.  Here is his response:

"The athlete had on actual bracelets--not metal--but by all means it was jewelry. This was in addition to the hair bands she had on her other wrist. There were 2 girls. One had 6 friendship bracelets and one had 1 hair tie. Les Stella looked at both girls. (And a hair tie is a bracelet once it's on your wrist)."

So it was more than what we were led to believe and makes more sense to me now.

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I guess one of those balance braclets can't be worn then. wonder why they are selling them at the comps if they cant be worn in competiton.

 

 

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Because they know cheerleaders/parents will buy anything

The jewlery thing i dont thibk is a dumb rule but the fact that it was a hairtie yes! All comps give out bracelets at comps, and i would think its just as dangeorus as a hair tie.

POSITIVElycheer wrote:

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As silly as it sounds we ALL know this rule but rarely enforce it though quite frequently you see athletes on the floor with jewelry.  As athletes it is our responsibility to take it off when we put on the uniform, as coaches it is our job to double check, as event producer to enforce the rules.  Hopefully a lesson learned for all.  It just suck that they had to pay to go to Dallas to learn it.

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I agree. It sucks for them especially because it was just a hairtie, but everyone knows that not even hairties are allowed. The reason that they have to enforce the jewelry rule, even though it's just a hair tie, is because then people will start to debate that if you can wear a hairtie you can wear things like sillybands and balance bracelets and such, and then things just get complicated.

Gimme_The_Bid wrote:

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was cheer extreme senior elite at this comp??? havent seen or heard anything about them on here.

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They didn't go..That's probably why you didn't see or hear anything of them :)

Hope everyone realizes that the first 4+ pages on this thread are from 2010. SuzyB's post above is the first one from 2011.

Ironic though how another jewelry deduction was issued this year.

So I was watching some videos from NCA with my daughter and we saw a video of Stunning Stunt Sequences from the weekend. One of the sequences was from Charlotte All-Stars and their says they were the first team to do a double up...but if I am not mistaken didn't OC All Stars Small Senior 5 do this last year and the beginning of this year? Not trying to start drama but I feel as if the team that actually did it first should be credited in this situation

I enjoy reading the posts on here and have never posted. Ok, actually, I get a laugh out of reading the posts. But I had to speak up here.

Actually, I believe Charlotte All-Stars was the first to double ups. They did them before the USASF even began to "sanction" events back when Kevin Brubaker was still coaching them in the season that they were 2nd at Worlds. Maybe 2007? Not sure of the year. But, if you never get out of California and aren't familiar with what everyone else is doing, then honest mistake.