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All Star Structure

What is

All Star Prep ?

CHEER AND DANCE TIERS
All Star Cheer and Dance are divided into categories by age and experience so that an athlete may participate in a way that fits them perfectly . USASF member clubs may offer teams in any or all of the following divisions :
FUNDAMENTALS : fun and non-competitive for first-time All Star athletes . NOVICE : focuses on strengthening technique and performance skills to prepare for prep or elite teams . PREP : a competitive team with limited tumbling , less time and cost commitment . ELITE : high-performance level with strong cheer training and solid technical ability .
THE LEVELS
When All Star began as a sport , there were no levels , minimal rules and vastly fewer teams . Now there could be as many as 1500 teams at a competition ! Levels are necessary to differentiate skill level in all aspects of All Star , mostly pertaining to tumbling and stunting . Here are the levels and BRIEF examples of skills you may see in each level :
LEVEL 1 : cartwheels , round-offs , forward and backward rolls , front and back walkovers , knee or waist level single-leg stunts , two-footed preps , straight cradles LEVEL 2 : back handsprings , front handsprings , Level 1 tumbling
Rr connected to a handspring , prep level single-leg stunts , extended twofooted stunts Stucruw , half-twisting mounts , barrel rolls , begin basket tosses LEVEL 3 : running tucks , standing series back handsprings , jumps connected to standing back handspring , full-twisting mounts to prep , full-twisting dismounts , extended single-leg stunts LEVEL 4 : standing tucks , running layouts , full-twisting mounts to extended two-footed stunts , double-twisting dismounts from twofooted stunts , release moves to extended single-leg stunt LEVEL 5 : standing tumbling to layout and running tumbling to fulls , full-twisting mounts to extended level , begin double-twisting mounts , twisting release moves to extended level , double-twisting dismounts from extended single-leg LEVEL 6 : standing and running tumbling to double fulls , doubletwisting mounts / dismounts and advanced release moves . LEVEL 7 : tumbling is comparable to level 6 , free-flipping mounts , flipping tosses , 2.5-high pyramids ( an athlete holding an athlete who is holding another athlete )
All Star Prep divisions enable athletes to participate with less time and cost commitment . Many clubs offer Prep for half-year teams and some use it as an introduction to prepare athletes for traditional teams . The differences between All Star Prep and traditional All Star include :
• The routine is only 2:00 minutes as opposed to 2:30 .
• No basket tosses allowed .
• At a two-day competition , Prep only competes one of the days .
• Scoring may not be as strict for Prep , possibly enabling a team to max out in a category without a full-team skill .