Fusion Deput

Date: Thu Dec 7 2:33 PM, 2006

RE: Fusion Deput

Date: Thu Dec 7 3:04 PM, 2006

I completely agree PH was amazing and can not be replicated. Hopefully Fusion will become that.

Date: Fri Dec 8 12:21 AM, 2006

Awesome wrote:

Some Truth not all wrote:

To truth...PH owners are coming back next year and there are quite a few PH people still there. As any gym knows each year there is turnover even at very sucessful gyms. The merge has gone extremely well and all the kids, coaches, parents have adjusted great. One of the things to remember is that these kids have never cheered TOGETHER unlike teams that have been cheering for several years and the teams have meshed....these kids are doing an outstanding job learning each other different coaching styles and tons of other things. The reason for not having competition in the same town is that in this town the high schools are also competitive in cheerleading and unfortunately discourge girls from doing both all star and school cheer so basically the talent pool is spread thin so for this community it was the idea to merge.

These gyms are not close to each other , with the exception of Power and Starstruck. Many kids wouldn't do it because of distance.
I would like to see Athletic Perfection, Cheer Odyssey, Power and Starstruck merge. They would be unstoppable.

Date: Fri Dec 8 12:24 AM, 2006

hm no wrote:

can we please not wanna merge all the nor cal teams together

i think its so much cooler when you have kids who grow up in your gym and turn into awesome level 5 athletes than having a bunch of gymnasts and boys just join the team. powers an expample of that. all their level 4 girls push it so much cuz they know they wanna be on 5.

but yea we need different teams not a bunch of kids thrown together. cuz as we have seen ahmen (encore) it dosnt always turn out to be "everything people were hoping for"

The problem is you can't survive off a one or two teams. Kids and parents don't realize that, and even some coaches. It's a business and you have to pay for MANY things that aren't always apparent to the customers. Plus cheerleading is VERY time consuming. It can take over your life and not everyone wants to do that so either they hire credible staff or merge with another gym so the work is spread out. I think mergers are a GREAT thing. Look at Stingrays, So Cal outlaws, New Jersey spirit xplosion. Those are all great programs and merged when the time is right. You find its easier doing things in groups and not alone.

Date: Fri Dec 8 12:29 AM, 2006

i totally agree, there are so many small programs in Sonoma County. I would love to see all of them get together. Any thoughts on that?

Date: Fri Dec 8 7:41 AM, 2006

I have to agree with that. It seems the gyms you hear closing down are ones that have one or two teams, and are either level 3 or lower. That might last a year or two, but eventually it's too expensive to try to keep them running. We were with such a gym. It was very disorganized, things were falling through the cracks all the time. We were going to competitions hardly anyone went to, and eventually this gym closed down. It would have been great if they had the opportunity to merge with another.