Question by erin: how does cheerleading relate to geometry? its for a project?
I have a project due friday on relating geometry to real life and i was thinking of doing it on cheerleading since i am a cheerleader. I just can not find any information besides the angles of arms & legs. Can anyone help me please?
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Answer by Jordan
wouldn’t you say that a cheerleading pyramid is a geometric shape? Or yeah, the angles of bent arms – coach might say “right arm straight out, left arm up at 90 degrees?” maybe “move the pom-poms in a circle”? “do a split (legs at 180 degrees)”.
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It’s been years since I’ve been in geometry class, so this may not be at all helpful. If you have a ray that starts on a point on a line, it gradually moves further and further away from the line, making a bigger and bigger gap between them.
In cheering, if you have a basket toss set where the hands are even slightly tilted you have the same effect. The higher the flyer goes from that start point, the further off she is at an angle. http://z.about.com/d/math/1/0/c/1/angle.gif You have to tilt your head to the right to see this correctly, but BC would represent the direction the flyer should have gone… straight up. And BA is the direction she went thanks to the basket toss grip being tilted. The higher she goes the further the bases will have to run to catch her.
Good luck with that project! :^)