NFHS Spirit Rules

1
NFHSSpirit Rules
2007-2008
2
OVERVIEW

• Rules Process
• NFHS Task Monitor-Consult-Review-Evaluate
• Rules Committee
• Editorial Review
• NFHS Board Approval
• Book Layout
• Rule Changes / Points of Emphasis / Index /
  Philosophy
• Rule 1 Definitions
• Rule 2 General Risk Management / Situations
• Rule 3 Dance/Drill/Pom Risk Management /
  Situations
• Pictures / Coaches Manual

3
Basics The Three Rs

• Responsibility
• Coach Participants
• Readiness
• Progressions Evaluation
• Risk Management
• Reasonable Rules
• Surfaces/Props
• Safety First

4
Points of Emphasis

• Coaching
• Double-downs
• Spring Floors
• Matting
• Bracers
• Game Officials

5
Spirit Rules ChangesMajor Editorial Changes
2007-2008
6
2-1-4 Discarding Props

• New When discarding props that are made
• of solid material or have corners or sharp
  edges, team members must gently toss or
• place the props.

7
2-1-7 Spring Floors

• Use of mini-tramps, springboards,
• spring-assisted floors or any
• height-increasing apparatus is illegal during
  performances
• and competitions.
• See Points of Emphasis for appropriate use of
  such devices during training sessions.

8
2-5-2 Basing Extended Stunts

• New Bases of extended stunts must have both feet
  in direct weight-bearing contact with the
  performing surface.

9
2-8-3 Braced Stunts

• In braced partner stunts/pyramids, at least one
  bracer must be at shoulder height or below . . .
• EXCEPT. . .

10
2-8-3 Braced Stunts

• 1.These extended stunts may brace any other
  extended stunt
• Chair
• Multi-base deadman lift
• Multi-base straddle lift
• 2. Extensions may brace stunts listed above
  and other extensions (except totem pole).

11
Extended Deadman Lift. . . Now a legal bracer
12
Illegal Check flyers center of gravity.
13
IllegalBracer on right is bearing flyers
weight. Flyers center of gravity not over
bases.
14
Illegal Bracer controls flyer through transition.
15
2-9-1Forward Suspended Rolls

• Change Requires flyer in both single base and
  double base suspended rolls to maintain
  hand-to-hand/arm contact with two bases or two
  posts during the flyers dismount to a cradle
  or the performing surface.

16
2-10-1 Tosses

• In all tosses
• New e. The flyer must not hold objects
• in her/his hands.

Exception Load-in tosses (a.k.a. toss to
stunt - toss to hands)
17
Major Editorial Changes

• RULE 1
• 1-2-2,5 Stunt Personnel Clarification A post
  is a ground level person a bracer is a second
  level person.
• 1-9-10 Non-Release Specialized Stunts New
  definition of Swedish Fall, specifying that it is
  an extended stunt.
• 1-10-1,3,5 Release Skills/Stunts Distinguishes
  different levels of force in
• Art 1 Pop - controlled upward pushing motion
• Art 3Toss - forceful upward throwing motion
• Art 5 Release stunt - moderate upward
  throwing motion

18
Major Editorial Changes

• RULE 2
• 2-10 Tosses Section has been revised. Art. 8
  addresses load-in tosses.
• 2-11 Release Stunts New Section. Log rolls and
  helicopters are included in this section.
• 2-12-1-c L.O.C. Transitions Clarifies that the
  flyers center of gravity must remain directly
  over the base(s).

19
Book Corrections
Situation 2-1-4 Pg. 27 Discarding Props
Should distinguish between poms/soft props (ok
to throw) and solid props (not ok to
throw) ______________________________________ ___
___________________________________ _____________
________________ _____________________________
20
Todays Question . . .
How can we, as interpreters, keep pace with the
whirlwind of new creative stunts and transitions
without losing our marbles?
21
By . . .

• INTERPRETING
• STUNT
• FAMILIES

22
Analyze - Analyze - Analyze

• Inverted Mounts (2-8-2-b)
• Checklist
• Is the flyer in a weight-bearing inverted
  position on the floor before the base(s) take
  her/his weight?
• Is the flyer moved immediately into a
  non-inverted position shoulder height or below?
• Is there someone (base/spotter) who is in a
  position to protect the flyers head/neck if she
  biffs it?

23
Legal Inverted Mount
24
Illegal Inverted Mount
25
. . . And Analyze Some More!

• L.O.C.Transitions (2-12-1)
• Checklist
• Is the flyer constantly braced during l.o.c.?
• Does the flyer ever become inverted? Bracers?
• How many bases?
• Is there a separate spotter for the flyer and
  each bracer?
• Are spotters paying attention to the correct
  flyer?
• Is the flyers weight ever supported primarily by
  a bracer?
• Is the l.o.c. a continuous up down movement -
  no pause?
• Does the flyer remain directly over the base(s)?
• Does the flyer return to the original base(s)?
• Is the flyer released to a toss?

26
Illegal1. Bracer is not really a bracer.2.
Stunt is a dismount, not a transition.

• Pretty Girl Transition

27
What about the Texas Twister?
Texas Twister
28
The Future . . .
Tosses
Transitions
Bracers
?
?
Creativity
29
HAVE FUN, BE SAFE AND. . .
But for now
30

• Have A Great Year !!

Diane Wolf, Assistant Director Idaho
High School Activities Association Outgoing
Chair, NFHS Spirit Rules Committee
wolfd_at_idhsaa.org Susie Knoblauch, Assistant
Director Illinois High School Association Incomin
g Chair, NFHS Spirit Rules Committee
snoblauch_at_ihsa.org
31
Thanks to..

• Hamilton SE Cheerleaders
  Kaylee Johnson, Coach
• Jim Lord - AACCA
• Susan Loomis NFHS
• Spirit Rules Committee
• Kathy Tadlock, Arkansas