So the cheer fever is finally over, and this year my schools come back empty handed. Last years Best Newcomer winner came in a whisker to clinched a Top 5 award but because of the first day mishap, we were only good to be placed at 6th. I don't blame the team for this, but maybe myself. We lost our most calibre flyer (a cheerleader who is tossed up in the air during stunt) 2 days before the finals, when she landed her head on the floor performing a twist dismount from air. If I dind't asked her to do so, she wouldn't had fell and I didn't had to rechoreograph the stunt and routine in whole. And chances are my girls would have easily slipped in the Top 3.
I was confident these team in particular would deliver because I saw the techniques and difficulty level they have performed at the workshop and they were indeed one of the best. But I guess this is just my part of process to learn the drills of life. Not everyday is beautiful, and not everytime what you wish for will come true.
My other two teams were mediocre. The first team from PJ performed so badly on two this despite the confidence they have showed during practices. They too had high difficulty but when it came to the two day competition, they faltered worse from the earlier team. And the third team, which I slotted to win the Best Newcomer Award only managed a dismay 17th position overall out of 41 teams.
I knew they were the best, given the syncronised dance and motions as compared to the 2 all-boys team who beat them to the title. The only advantage these boys had was the stunting skill which I think is an insult to my new girls. And when Jien and co-host Sarah Tan announced who would win the Newcomer Award, the crowd cheered the name VIBRANT out loud! I was too already excited. Then, these two VJs announced something else. I stood there, stunted. I was looking at the bunch of boys bouncing around for they have won, and my girls did not.
I starred back at my girls, and just clapped my hands along with the crowd who too I guess was in shocked. I mean, the boys danced like these abeng on the street. Jumps not syncronised, and don't forget to mention tumbling. Stunt wise I can mute. But overall impression, I knew my girls was the bomb newcomer.
I'm not happy with the new scoring system because it does effect the overall standing. All-boys team stand bigger chance to win, since they're stronger. And then, new teams don't have chance to win because they don't have proper technique to challenge the oldies.
But whatever it is, with my good 6th placing performance it actually earned me an offer to coach another school which was once the force of cheerleading in Malaysia. An all girls school situated in the hill of Kuala Lumpur, I guess the offer came at the perfect timing.
Oh, I'm leaving to Jakarta next week from the 2nd until the 6th to judge a cheerleading competition. I was invited by my friends from the Indonesian Cheerleading Community.
Gowd, I'm skipping a week of class. Ish ish ish....