For this week’s elite cheer
review I will review Top Gun All-stars level 4 coed team at UCA Internationals
in 2012. Top Gun Cheer is a large gym out of Miami, Florida. Top Gun has many
teams and has produced many champions. Recently Top Guns level 5 coed team won
worlds, which is one of the highest honors, and championship for any all-star
cheerleader to win.
Top Guns performance begins
with team standing tucks, and one kick full basket. I see only girl whose hands
touch the ground after her tuck. Other than that they all look good. Then Top
Gun moves into a new formation and again has team back handspring tuck, that
all look very sharp. Next we see an interesting formation transition, with a
few girls in shoulder sits and somersault out of it. We see about five girls
doing 4 back handsprings with a layout at the end, and the rest doing motions
to their new stunt spots.
This is where we see straight
up extension heel stretches being done, with a full down at the end. The full
downs could use a little work on technique and timing, but other than that,
this part of the stunt sequence looks good. The stunt groups then move while in
a load in position to a new stunt formation, to where they perform a full up to
prep, then pushing it up to extension, where the flyers pull a scorpion to a arabesque,
then full down again. To make this stunt sequence harder, and get more points,
I would recommend doing a full up straight to an extension, instead of stopping
at prep first. This would receive a lot more points and it would look a lot cleaner
too. Again a lot of the flyers are kicking out of their full downs, so they
need to work on the right technique of a full down.
I am very impressed with Top
Guns jump sequence and just their jumps in general. There is a boy on the team,
that is front and center who has better jumps then anybody on the team. His
jumps are literally amazing because of how hyper extended they are! If you don’t
know what hyper extended means, it basically means that his legs revolve up more
so that his jumps look like they are going above his head.
Top Gun moves into their basics,
but before they do the actual basic they do something funny with the flyers
that I don’t particularly like, I personally think it is just a waste of time
and space on the floor. The basics look good, Top Gun doing a kick full, they
could however be thrown a little higher. The team then moves into their
tumbling sequence. All the tumbling looks great, but I don’t think even half
the team tumbled, so if I were judging this competition I would probably take
off a point for not having the whole team tumble.
For the pyramid we see the two
side start of separately on different side, coming in together. I personally
love Top Guns pyramid, because of all the flipping and level changes. Plus Top
Gun performed it perfectly with only a minor bobble on the left side of the
pyramid. But however, when the team moves into their dance formation, I’m not
very fond of their dance. I like the level changes, but I don’t really like their
dance and how they perform it.
If I were to give Top Gun coed
level 4 a score out of 10, I would probably give them a 8 out of 10 because I
loved the pyramid, and jumps, but I wasn’t particularly fond of the dance. Also
I think that this team needs to work on their full downs and kick full baskets. Top Gun Level 4 Performance
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