Tumbling is hard to come by pretty much anywhere <i>but</i> the US to be honest. Look at most international competitions and the majority of teams only have a handful of decent tumblers. Most teams are happy with a couple of back handsprings never mind standing tucks.

I know what your sayind! I would give my arm for just 1 standing back tuck

that's crazy. my whole squad but two girls has a standing back tuck, and those two girls are pretty close. i guess you could say they have it, but they're the only two people that aren't consisentent

UCO: You have no idea how lucky you are! I know standing back tucks are normal in the USA, but really, you are sooo lucky. I guess it also has something todo with the gymnastics her. There are no such thing as cheerleading-tumnling-lessons. Just regular tumbling lessons where they jump on a tramploline half of the time :S

Even here in Australia (where there is quite a gymnastics culture) gymnasts are hard to come by. Case in point there is only one team that has full team tumbling and their requirements to make the team is round off bhs and round off tuck. They have a few layouts and 1 maybe 2 fulls etc. But that's the top of what we've got here.

Leg is perfectly straight...so to me, its perfect!

yeah, a little bit of luck i guess, along with A LOT of hard work. the all-star squad i was on before i graduated high school we had very hard conditioning so we would have our sbt. like 50 back tucks at the end of practice. and we do that on UCO, too.

i understand what you're saying about classes though. i won't lie, i've had some amazing tumbling coaches and i'm so thankful for them. i've had a couple bad ones too, but they never last long because they always got fired lol! are there no tumbling classes at gymnastics gyms there? you don't always have to be a cheer gym to learn tumbling. tumbling technique is the same whether you're a gymnast or cheerleader. i taught a power tumbling class at a gymnastics gym in Edmond last year.

...and if you can't find one, maybe you could ask the owner of a local gymnastics gym to START offering a tumbling class for your girls. if they know they will already have people who want to take the class, i'm sure they'll want offer the class.

this bow are arow looks really nice we use it in are partner stunt looks really afectif love it adam xxx

Your bow and arrow is really good! How do you do one? I can do a high heel stretch but I don't really know how to do a bow and arrow.

just keep doing your splits and keep trying to pull that bow and arrow until you can finally do it. it's not going to happen overnight. it also helps if you lean over your front leg when you do your splits. you'll feel a burn if you're doing it right.

I can do the splits and put my nose to the ground when I lean over my front leg so I'll keep on practicing for it.

Thanks for the help! =)

instead of putting your nose to the ground, turn your body and lay your shoulder on it

wow, i can't say that it's perfect but i would give it a 10! looks great.

It looks amazing to me. I'm insanely jealous. You're squad is amazing. Tell them I say congrats on how far they've come and to keep it up.

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It looks awesome to me. It's amazing on how flexible you are. I can't even believe you can do that. YOU ROCK!

Great balance. I think it's very difficult to achieve this.

I agree about pointing the toes. My daughter was doing the same thing as in the picture until her coaches told her she had to point her toes. Pointing your toes while doing a nice bow and arrow is much more difficult than the unpointed foot. So I guess I'm saying while this bow and arrow is good and better than alot of bow and arrows I have seen on other teams, it's not perfect and wouldn't be until the toes are pointed too. Also, someone else said to grab your ankles to point, but my daughter can point now while holding her foot.

Good but she needs to point her foot!!

Wow Thats A Lovley Bow And Arrow=)

Thats a great bow and arrow

yes it is a perfect bow n arrow a think u should try and get taller ppo to put u up higher lol ):)):))

yes, but if you grab your ankle, you can also pull your leg farther behind you AND it's easier to point your toe. if you grab your foot, you have to reach farther.

ya try to grab ure ankle so u can point ure toes
they always take off points when u dont point ure toes!!!

n maybe if u could get ure torso straitghter
but otherwise
it's AMAZING!!!!