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• Cheerleading


  Its main purpose is to entertain spectators and boost team spirit by helping to encourage their home sports team through movement, acrobatics stunts, and tumbling mixed with chanting and cheers
• Cheerdancing


  A recreational activity and competitive sport composed of an organized routine. It includes required performance elements and skills like dance and gymnastics
• Terminologies used in Cheerdance

  • Flyers
  • Bases/Mounts
  • Spots
• Flyers


  The cheerleaders who are held and thrown into the air and are doing the stunts
• Bases/Mounts


  The persons in charge of holding and controlling the throw of the flyers
• Spots


  Members who stand behind or in front of the flyers and support the flyers to prevent them from falling. They help the bases when lifting the flyers
• Performance Elements in Cheerdancing

  • Motions
  • Jumps
  • Stunts
  • Tumbling
  • Cheers, chants, dance routine
• Motions


  • High V
  • Low V
  • Low Touchdown
  • Touchdown
  • Torch (L/R)
  • Punch (L/R)
  • T Motion
  • Broken T
  • L Motion (L/R)
  • K Motion (L/R)
  • Diagonal (L/R)
  • Clap
  • Clasp
  • Candlestick
  • Bucket
  • Dagger
• Leg Motions


  • Feet Together
  • Feet apart
  • Dig (L/R)
  • Hitch (L/R)
  • Scale (L/R)
  • Liberty (L/R)
  • Side Lunge (L/R)
  • Front Lunge (L/R)
  • Side Knees (L/R)
• Jumps


  • Pencil Jump
  • Tuck Jump
  • Spread Eagle
  • Herkie
  • Toe Touch
  • Pike
• Rebellion of male students after American Revolutionary War


  18th Century
• Great Britain (Cheer and Chant in unison)


  1860s
• Intercollegiate Football Game Princeton and Rutgers University ("Sis Boom Rah!")


  Nov.6, 1869
• Cheerleading started with all-male Activity
• Thomas Peebles from Minnesota (1884)
• Johnny Campbell - First Cheerleader (University of Minnesota)
• Inclusion of women in Cheerleading


  Late 1920s
• University of Minnesota-Birthplace of Cheerleading
• Fred Gastoff - pom-pom


  1965
• Cheer Organizations

  • NCA-National Cheerleading Association
  • ICF-International Cheerleading Federation
  • WCA-World Cheerleading Championship
• Cheer dance meets ALL the athletic specifications, but its primary purpose is to support high school and college athletic teams. Competition comes second
• Cheerdance/Cheerleading is more than a sport
• Cheerdance/Cheerleading strengthens the heart and lungs, reduces risk of heart attack, stroke, high blood pressure, and Diabetes, tones and develops muscles, displays attitude before, during and after the event/training, and enhances self-esteem and encourages discipline