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.

Blog 13: Rough Draft of 30 minute presentation

30 minute document.

Blog 12: Third Interview Questions

Questions for Interview 3

1. What is the best way to prevent injury in an All-Star Cheerleading team?

2. How would you prepare your athletes in a way that would lessen injuries?

3. How would having a certified coach bring more safety into a gym's atmosphere? 

4. How can fear, and mistrust introduce sources of danger?

5. Why should a gym hold safety workshops?

6.  What role does stretching play in the preparation of an athlete?

7. What role does technique play in an athlete's preparation? 

Follow up: How does one teach proper technique?

8. What role does strength play in an athlete's prep?

9. How would the surface cheerleaders use affect the safety of the athlete's?

10. What role does trust play in the athlete's performance?

Blog 11: Mentorship 10 hours check

1. I am doing my mentorship hours at Starlite All-Stars Cheer and Dance Company in the city of Industry.
2. My contact is Grace Contreras, owner of the gym.
3. I have a total of 45 hours, with more to come as the season goes on. I will make more of a dedication to go, I missed 4 weeks due to work and other engagements with school.
4. The last 10 hours of service I did, I helped the girls clean up their motions, choreographed a dance for the boys on our team, I helped a stunt group learn and understand how to do a show and go, and I helped a girl on team black make progress in her back-handspring. I learned from my coaches that you have to be stern with the athletes to get things through their head, but you also have to be compassionate, supportive and relentless. Effective coaches never give up on their athletes, they possess an undying love for each and every one of them, as well as a huge amount of trust for them. These traits make an effective team atmosphere and a potentially successful outcome.
Mentorship Log

Blog 10 Senior Project Update

(1) Currently I am doing the only thing I can do for my independent component and that is continuing my mentorship and coaching a team. I have been looking up courses I can take along with my mentorship to become safety certified and they are very expensive. The one I need is $110 and it it only 3 and a half hours long. I found another course that is 45 dollars and it is a certification through the National Federation of State High School Associations. It too is online and only requires a couple hours. I need some consulting, I'll set up a meeting with Pittman this week.

(2) (Sticks and Stones Will Break That Bone! - Activity - www.TeachEngineering.org) I found this project and it interested me quite a bit, I might add this to my science fair to test bones. I'll go to a butcher's shop and ask for some pig bones since their physiology is closest to a human's. I will apply pressure and test the bones to their breaking points and record the amount of force it took. This lesson as given me new ideas of how to use the force plate to get even more data. I am very excited to begin my procedures.

(3) This is my team, Starz Pink. I coach them nearly every Friday and Saturday for about 2-3 hours. This team has improved so much since they started and we got two boys! I'm very excited for the rest of the season and I already love every one of them. I have learned ways to connect with the team and communicate with them properly. Through my research I have become a better coach and I have actually helped some of them!