is cheerleading the same as drill? what exactly are the general requirements to make a high school squad?
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Drill team is just dance, not gymnastics. Cheerleading is a combination of both.\n\nIf you wanna learn more about it, go here, it fun, I did drill one year.\nhttp://www.danceadts.com/
65595
most gyms (as in places where you do gymnastics, none of that YMCA junk) offer classes to help cheerleaders. if you can't do that then i would recomend just working on your flexibility and stomach, leg, and upper-arm strength.
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Okay, I was a cheerleader.  My squad wasn't great, but I have a little bit of experience.  First off, try this website http://www.mspineapple.com/tryouts.html .\n\nStretch for the splits.  Go as far down into the splits position as you can and sit there for a minute or two.  Repeat for each type of splits.  Also, do straddle stretches (where you sit with your legs apart and bend down.  Try to touch your stomach to the floor.\n\nPractice jumps.  Toe-touches, herkies, hurdlers, etc.  I think hurdlers are easier than toe-touches, but that's me.\n\nUm, about memorizing dances: practice.  If you can get whatever song it is you're supposed to dance to, practice at home.  All you can do is practice.  I stink at memorizing dances, but I got it down as long as I practised.\n\nAnd, to mellogirl89: I don't appreciate your comments.  Yes, many cheerleaders are obnoxious, but my entirew squad wasn't and I'm not.  And I'm not just saying that.  People are always surprised when I say that I was a cheerleader.
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About a week before tryouts the coaches will usually have a clinic where they'll teach you all of the material. Make sure that you pay close attention to everything they tell you. When it comes time for the actual tryouts make sure that your hair is up, shoes double knotted, and you make a great outward empression. When it comes to the technical aspects you should be sharp and tight with every move you make. Make sure you smile and if you have to perform a dance work it! After you finish a cheer or chant make sure that you spirit and keep a big smile on your face. Overall you should give off a sharp empression that is ofcourse peppy and outgoing. The coaches might also require you to do jumps, stunts, or tumbling, so tone up those skills by finding a local cheerleading gym. Hope this helps, and good luck at tryouts!
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Yes definitely!\n\nImagine a football player having to run a play, while reciting a cheer, staying in step with the player next to him (or her), then at the correct moment have three to four players lift him up.  Cheerleaders do it.\n\nA high school cheerleader will, in most cases, memorize the names of all of the football and basketball players in order to do personalized cheers...on top of the pages of generic cheers they must learn.  A football player does have plays to remember, but he doesn't have to worry about the basketball team.\n\nIf you take five football players, five basketball players and five cheerleaders and required them to score a touchdown, score a basket and put someone in a half, (a half is where the flyer is lifted to sholder height of the bases) the cheerleaders will win.  There is a specific way the flyer has to jump into the hands of the bases or it's not going to go up.  Throwing a football can be done most anyway you hold it.  It may not go far, and it may not spiral, but it will go.  A basketball does not have to roll off the fingertips to score, but it will go into the basket.\n\nI broke my finger playing football as a child.  I ripped the tendon in my shoulder while playing centerfield as a teen.  I didn't injure myself playing basketball, but I did play on a league as a teen.  I have never been able to do anything above a thigh stand in cheerleading.  So, I am familiar with all sports as a participant.\n\nCheerleading is definitely a sport.  Like football, there are "plays" to remember and execute.  Like basketball, there is timing.  Like running, there is endurance.  The only difference is the participants have perfect hair the entire time.
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I was in JROTC in high school (about 6 yrs ago) and we didn't have anything called a production team. It was Navy ROTC.\n\nHope this helps
562129
I've said this before and I'll say it again...\n\nDefinitely. The word sport is defined as "Physical activity that is governed by a set of rules or customs and often engaged in competitively." Cheerleading is just that.
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Hi\n\nIve coaches YMCA and USA swim teams... and Those do have National Compettions after State IF you qualify of course...\n\nBut your friend may be right as I do not think WIAA which governs most High school sports has that?\n\nI am not sure but I dont think so.\n\nIf your friend is done with her swim season now  ( early)  or when she is done she can hop onto a USA or Y team and make some qaulifying meets and go to nationals that way in the spring.. we have High school girls do that all the time!\n\nShe just cant swim for both teams at the same time.\n\nGood Luck\nWismom
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Well, cheerleaders have to do a LOT of work, so make sure you're in really great shape for tryouts. I think the cheerleaders in my school have to be able to run a mile and lift half of their bodyweight. But I could be wrong. At any rate, you need to be strong and fit, and you need to be flexible. If you could do gymnastics this winter, that would be really helpful. Also, remember to be loud and proud! Make sure that you know the cheers you may have to do, and have a few in mind in case the coach asks you to make one up on the spot. Smile, smile, smile! And, of course, make sure that you follow all of the appearance requirements... they will probably ask you not to paint your nails, to wear your hair in a ponytail with ribbons in your school colours, and to wear white tennis shoes. Also, make sure that you are a cheerleader off the sidelines too... set a good example. If you are a kind person and help people who need some cheering on in the halls and cafeteria, word will get around that you're a person that the coach wants on her squad.
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Well, first...who cares if you are poplular or not.  That is my feelings..but to answer your questions. Kids like someone who is either a sports player, or cheer leader.  You have to be good at it. You have to be somewhat smart, and join a few clubs too.  These are my own observations. Take care.
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You need to go and support your friends. The more you are around the better. You can get them to give you tips and help you with your stunts and then next year you shouldn't have a bit of problem making the squad. You might want to enroll in a gymnastics class...then who knows..when you do try out next year you may be better than they are and they will see how much you have worked and that you are really serious about cheerleading. Another thing...If they are truly your friends then they won't abandon you.
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okay, so I'm a bit confused.  You are just on a cheerleading all star team, not for a school, right?  Squad is called Cheer Invasion, and a team called Senior Silver. That is where I get confused.  You need to say the cheer that you come out to so we can get an idea of where you would want the wording...\nsorry!
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Probably that you have a cheer voice, are enthusiastic, committed to the routines and learning.  They aren't going to expect you to know everything, since it's your first tryout, but by high school you will have to be experienced, so start now if you really want to do it.
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at my school cheerleading is under athletics so it is counted as a sport, but most people dont believe that cheerleading is a sport. IT IS!! NEVER LET ANYONE TELL YOU THAT CHEERLEADING ISN'T A SPORT!!!
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As a current cheer coach, first and foremost I would have to tell you to be ready.  Know your routine backwards and forwards, and keep your movements sharp.\n\nBe loud, but not shrill....use your diaphragm.\n\nBe enthusiastic and don't stop smiling.  Most of all have a good time.\n\nGood luck
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U should go to your local cheerleading squad and ask for a private lesson to learn the basics so that when they say something like everyone show me ur Herky u will no what to do. I hope u take my advice and make the team!!!!
800203
our cheerleading tryouts are in 4 days! I am trying out for the first time!. Usually tryouts are in the summer for the first quarter (for football).  There are also tryouts in the fall too for basketball.  Thats how it is here. It may vary depending on your school and where you live.  Hope i helped!