This skill is legal for high school teams. There can be a foot bracer as long as there is at least one hand/arm bracer. The bracer on the hand/arm must be in a double based prep with a spotter. The bracer on the foot must follow the normal release rules for bracers. This can be [...]
This skill is illegal for high school and below. In a braced flip, there must be at least one hand-arm connection with a bracer.
LEGAL for high school and below. Rules updates in 2024-25 allow vertical releases to start and/or end in a seated position as long as they don't begin seated, twist, and end seated.
LEGAL for high school and below (2024-25). This skill is legal since the change in wording to only restrict upright vertical prep level stunts (i.e. preps and shoulder stands) from going to the performing surface.
LEGAL for high school and below. This skill is legal by rule 3.5.6 which allows skills to release from a cradle or horizontal position at prep level or below to release to any non-inverted stunt with up to 1/2 twist. This skill is also pictured in the NFHS Spirit Rules book on page 72.
This release is not legal for high school teams because it is a seated position AND twists. Vertical releases can land in a vertical skill, including seated/pike positions. However, the one restriction is that it cannot begin seated, twist, and end seated. In order to make this visual legal, someone on the ground would have [...]
Legal - The bracer has contact at the waist. Hand to hand/arm contact is not required.
This is a legal inversion with a hand to leg connection.
Legal - The bracer has contact at the waist. Hand to hand/arm contact is not required.
Ruling: ILLEGAL Basket toss flips are illegal for high school teams. They have been illegal since the 1980's. It is only allowed for college teams and All Star beginning at Level 7. The rule explanation is as follows: The first rule under inversions is "Unless allowed under the rules in this section, a top person [...]
Ruling: LEGAL This skill is a braced roll because of the grip with the backspot. The visual looks like a braced flip, but it is not. Therefore, it only needs to follow the rules of a braced roll, which does not require the bracer and top to have a hand to hand/arm grip. The connection [...]
Ruling: Illegal A foldover must initiate from prep level or below. It can drive through an extended position, but it cannot stop or pause in the extended position. Determining whether this skill actually stops is a judgement call, so teams should stay away from showing an extended position before falling forward. The forward foldover should [...]
Ruling: Illegal While there is no longer a requirement for upper body contact during an inversion, there still must be contact in this stunt. The top person cannot be released and land in an inverted position. To make this skill legal, a base could grab the top person's shoulder as she's coming up from the [...]
Ruling: ILLEGAL High school rules prohibit a person from moving over or being under a partner stunt. This top person is moving directly over the thigh stand.
LEGAL for high school dance teams. This skill is legal for high school dance teams, but not for high school cheer teams by NFHS rules. The dance rules are less strict and allow participants to move under lifts because dance teams are restricted from performing extended skills, braced flips, etc. As soon as the top [...]
This skill is illegal for high school dance teams.
LEGAL for high school cheer and below. A braced flip requires at least one hand/arm connection between the bracer and top.
LEGAL for college and below. The definition of a dive roll says that a dive roll is an "airborne forward roll where the feet of the performer are at or above the performer's waist prior to the hands making contact with the performing surface." Since the feet are not at or above the performer's waist [...]
LEGAL for high school and below. Vertical releases are legal from prep level or above as long as they land in a vertical stunt. The can include a skill and up to 1 1/4 twists unless released and caught in an extended position, which is limited to 1/4 twist.
LEGAL for high school and below. Inversions may be released to dismounts with up to 1/2 twist.
LEGAL for high school and below. Inverted releases are allowed to a dismount with up to 1/2 twist.
LEGAL for high school and younger. High school teams require the bracer to be in a double based prep with a spotter and three people under the top person performing the flip. This single bracer version requires that there must be a hand/arm connection between both hands/arms of the top and bracer.
Ruling: ILLEGAL for high school teams The rules for inversions below prep level require that at least one base maintain contact with the top person. In this video, the bases are not maintaining contact, and therefore cannot provide any type of assistance if the top person were to fall.
ILLEGAL for high school cheer teams. This skill is legal for high school dance teams, but not for high school and younger cheer teams by NFHS rules. The dance rules are less strict and allow participants to move under lifts because dance teams are restricted from performing extended skills, braced flips, etc. As soon as [...]
Legal - Releases from inversions may land in a non-inverted stunt at any level, and can include a 1/4 twist.