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Starting a Cheerleading Team
Due to the safety problems, it is advisable that all cheerleaders have sufficient strength, endurance and flexibility before attempting any tumbling, partner stunting, basket tosses or pyramids. Depending on the experience level of your applicants for the cheerleading team, you may have to roll out the level of your cheerleading program over a period of time. E.g., the first year you might do only cheers, the second year you add group stunting, basic basket tosses and 1 and ½ height pyramids with spotters. By the third year, you could have safely trained new cheerleaders to do individual stunting, high pyramids and full difficulty basket toss flyers. How long it will take will be dependent on how much cheerleading experience is available from those who try-out. The most important factor in the success of your team is going to be the head cheerleading coach who will have the responsibility for at least organizing and running try-outs, choreography, training and on the field management. You will need a person with a great deal of experience in cheerleading, cheer choreography, modern dance, jazz dance, physical fitness and strength training, stunting and pyramids, tumbling, break dancing and hip hop dancing (if that seems as popular in your area as it is in cheerleading here. We even have hip hop cheer dance competitions here in the U.S.). To some extent, assistant coaches can cover some or any of those areas of expertise the head coach lacks. But your head coach will have to be able to integrate all those aspects into your performances and thus will need a wide range of experience. Ballet dance experience has not proved to be very large factor for successful coaches here in the U.S. as the style of dance is much different. It is not a disqualifying factor though if the coach also has experience in the other dance areas. As a cheer
squad cheering for a rugby team, special routine performances s will need
to be created for:
Sideline cheers need to be developed in order to have at least one for every aspect of the game such as kickoff, scrum and ruck. We don’t have any cheers in Italian, but there are ideas for cheers in our book and other sources for them on the Internet. In general, they need to have rhyme and/or rhythm. Generally,
fans will expect the level of cheer to match the level of play on the field
so sufficient training is necessary. A professional cheer squad would
train two (or three) times daily and training would include:
A suitable
training facility needs to be available. In the United States, many
gymnastics training center facilities are expanding their programs to include
cheer training. An ideal facility would have:
Few cheer programs in the United States have all of these training advantages, but in most situations, cheer programs use a number of facilities to get access to all the training they need. Colleges and universities often have all or most of the facilities needed and may be rented.
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