Blog 18: 2-Hour Meeting Answer #3

1. What is the best way to prevent injury as an All-Star Cheerleader?

2. One of the best ways to prevent injury as an All-Star Cheerleader is to demonstrate proper technique.

3.  

1. Technique is how your muscles learn a skill so well that the athlete will be able to perform it without thinking.
2. Having technique drilled upon training, an athlete will perform a skill correctly, absent mistakes, meaning that injury potential will seriously be reduced.
3. When an athlete is fatigued in their routine and can hardly think of what they are doing next, technique carries them through it and allows them to perform everything correctly and safely due to muscle memory.

4. My mentor Jason Brandt and readings from Debbie Love. Debbie love is one of the most decorated Cheer/ Gymnastic coaches because of her strive for perfect technique.

5. I plan to study the effectiveness of coaching technique, and different ways to teach it, also ways to absorb the information.


MAXIMUM TIME FOR EACH PRESENTATION IS 2 MINUTES.

Fourth Interview Questions

1. What is the best way to prevent injury as an All-Star Cheerleader?
2. What are some of the most common injuries in this sport?
1. What are some ways you would prevent or treat those?
3. What factors go into the potential of injury in cheer?
4. How can stretching help an athlete stay safe?
5. When is the best way to insure an athlete is stretched out?
6. What are further benefits of stretching?
7. What is the wrong way to stretch?
8. How can strength help an athlete stay safe?
9. What is the best type of strength to have?
10. What should strength consist of in this sport?
11. How can strength be a bad thing?
12. How can technique improve safety?
13. Why does technique play such a big role in the routine?
14. What does proper technique influence?
15. How does muscle memory tie into safety?
16. How do you successfully teach technique?
17. Why should athletes warm up before work outs?
18. What injuries have you witnessed or experience that you thought, "Hey, I know what could have stopped that."?
19. What is the job of an individual cheerleader in this sport?
20. How could a well educated athlete, paired with a certified coach, go on to do great things in their cheer career?

Blog 16: 2-Hour Meeting Answer #2

1.  What is the best way to prevent injury as an All-Star Cheerleader?
2.  Another way to prevent injury as an All-Star Cheerleader is to make sure you possess the strength to perform the tasks you are asked to do.
3.

1. If you are not strong enough to support your body weight, you will fall in your tumbling and get hurt. 
2. If you do not have enough stamina to hold your stunt in the air you can drop your flyer and she can get hurt. 
3. If your muscles are not strong enough and you overwork them you can produce long term damage to the fibers. 

4.  My mentor and Coach Jason Brandt help me come to this answer from the lectures he has given during practice.

5.  I plan to further my study of my answer two by understanding how to increase muscle strength, stamina and resistance to injury through workout and eating right. I plan to look into how specific workouts can increase large muscle groups.

Blog 14: Independent Component 1

LITERAL
(a) I, Dominic Zavala, affirm that I completed my independent component which represents 30 hours of work.

(b) Grace Contreras: (626)-333-1145 or email: starliteallstar1@aol.com

(c) Logged from December 12th, 2012 to January 24th, 2013. Independent component hours.

(d) I spent 30 hours coaching to put towards the 250+ hours I need to become USASF certified. I'm not sure if I will be able to achieve that amount this year, and if I can't I will have to save up to get some other safety certification. Hopefully it will be easier once I'm 18.

INTERPRETIVE
Attached are pictures of my team at Jamz Nationals in Vegas January 26th. This is proof I reflected in my 30 hours. I wish I could have gone to support them but sadly I couldn't. I worked very hard with these girls to help them be the best they could. I also helped some girls from team black work on their back handspring and helped Priscilla on that team get it by herself on the tumble trak. I'm very proud of her and hopefully I can record
it and put it up on my blog.

APPLIED
This component helped me understand the dynamics of managing a team and making sure they know how to keep each other safe. It was getting into the mindset of an athlete that helped me understand how to teach these kids to keep each other safe. I had to teach Priscilla proper technique in her handspring when she was trying it on the tumble trak. It was such a rewarding feeling to have her progress in such a short amount of time from bad technique and a sketchy handspring to proper technique and a very clean handspring.  Overall it has helped me understand safety and how to manage a team and successfully teach a pupil new skills.