Question by Scarrlet:): How would i know if i would be a good cheerleader?
How would i know if i would be a good cheerleader? I’m very cheerful, but I’m not that popular. People say I’m really pretty.
& I’m skinny, and pretty FLEXIBLE
Please let me know 🙂
THANKS!
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Answer by happygospunky
You’ll never know, until you try. Go for it.
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Hey if people are giving you compliments, go for it. Doesn’t matter if you’re popular. Even if you aren’t, once you’re on the team you pretty much get popular and meet everybody.
can you do flips and all that cheerleading stuff? if yes then the yelling and cheering will come. do it.
You sound like a good cheerleader, you should try out!! And if your school requires tumbling, enroll in a class at a gymnastics gym!
Good luck!
Well cheerfulness being pretty and skinny aren’t all it takes. Flexibility helps though. You don’t have to be popular. Here’s what you need to know:
Don’t be nervous. Just walk in, SMILE, and act like you own the place. lol. They want to see confidence. Be as loud as you can without screaming. Wear your hair in a ponytail with a bow (it will make you look cheerleader-ish. lol). Wear comfy shorts and a t-shirt. Stretch A LOT before you tryout. Practice your dance until its muscle memory (you don’t have to think of the moves as you do them). Do at least two different jumps, toe-touch and hurdler are the easiest (Google them). Make sure you can do all of your tumbling skills without a mat (you might have to try out on a gym floor). Throw your best tumbling pass THAT YOU HAVE MASTERED. It is better to not be as showy than to fall during tryouts. lol. Know what position you want to be (flyer (semi-short, light weight, good balance, not afraid of heights), base (short, medium, or tall as long as their is someone the same height as you, and can lift at least 55 lbs chest level and above your head with your arms locked), or backspot (tall, can lift some weight, not clumsy)). I have the best jump on my team (better than the four professional gymnasts on my team too). So try this to improve your jumps. Put a chair backwards in front of u. hold on to the back. Use it to push yourself up and do a toe touch. You can also have someone stand behind you and hold your waist, then jump while they lift. Or you could face them, put your arms on top of theirs (their arms should be palm up, yours should be palm down) and grab their elbows. Have them do the same. Then use them to lift yourself when you jump. Don’t 4get 2 point your toes and keep your head up. Practice your splits a lot. I am also a tumbler. A great way to get your backhandspring is to have someone stand next to you, facing you. The other person should place one hand on the arch of your back and the other on the back of your legs, behind your knees. If you still don’t feel comfortable, have someone do the same on the other side of you. Swing your arms down, up, and back as you jump. The other people should push your legs over as they help to arch your back. As you get more comfortable, have one spot stop spotting you. The gradually have the other use only 4 fingers to support you, then 3, then 2, then 1. After awhile you won’t even notice they are there and they can move their hand completely. TADA! Learned a backhandspring in 3 weeks doing that with my friend. To stretch your arms good for a backhandspring try this. Put your hands on the wall and slide them up until your shoulders are bent behind u. don’t bend your elbows. That helped me a lot when I learned. If you get to a backhandspring, this is exactly how your arms will look when you do one. So it’ll help a lot to practice now. Always you’re your arms locked when you tumble. Stretch REALLY well before you tumble too. ALWAYS! After you learn a standing backhandspring, a round-off backhandspring is sooooo easy. It’s the same thing as before, except start a few feet away, run, and round-off. Now when you land, you should be between your spots and in the exact same position as if you are doing a standing backhandspring. DO NOT SLOW DOWN! You will lose power. Keep going and flip backwards. Your spots will help you! Don’t worry about the fear. Just think “I can do this. I can do this” Don’t think of it as a backhandspring. Think of it as a fast backbend walk over. I had a horrible confidence issue when I learned. The first time I did it by myself, my friend was supposed to be spotting me. She had one finger arching my back (i refused to do it without her because I was scared), but she moved it when I leaned back and started to swing my arms down. lol. I looked around when I landed and she was 10 feet away and everyone was clapping. lol. And that gave me the confidence to do a round-off backhandspring by myself after only three or four tries with spots. Hope I helped! Good luck! (Btw, you don’t always have to know how to tumble. I didn’t when I tried out but I decided to learn because I thought it would be fun. IT TOTALLY IS! lol)