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How to Make Your Cheerleading Practices More Fun!

Would you love some fun ideas to get your team excited?!  How about some great ideas for your upcoming practices? Check these out and get started:

1. Color Team Day:  Have a practice where the entire team wears a specific color.  For example, next week’s practice can be Pink day or Red day.  Also, you can have your entire team where the same color all day at school to reinforce team unity.
2. Color Stunt Group Day:  Have a practice where the each stunt group wears a specific color.  For example, one group can wear red while other groups can wear pink, blue, green and yellow.
3. Crazy Sock Day:  Have everyone where crazy or mix-matched socks.
4. TWIN Day:  Pair up your athletes and have them dress like twins at your next practice  You can use this to improve team unity as you can select the pairs and put people together that may have not really spent a lot of time together.  At the end of the practice have the twins do a little “fashion show” for the team and you can give out awards for the most creative;  awards can include lolly pops, cheer money, etc..
5. More Theme Day Ideas:  Here are some other themes that you can use at your practice:

• Disney Shirt Day
• Super Hero / Wonder Woman Day
• Polka Dots Day
• Bow Day – wear as many bows as you can.
• Crazy Bow Day
• Tie Die Day – Wear Tie Die shirts, socks, bows, shorts, etc.
• Heart Day – wear as many hearts as you can.
• Star day – wear as many stars as you can.

6. Give Back Day:  At the end of practice, take 30 to 45 minutes to do a community service project.  Ideas include to make toys for the animals at the humane society or to make birthday cards for a homeless shelter.

For more FUN ideas for your practices, upcoming pep rallies and to increase the spirit in your school or organization:

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How to Improve Your Cheerleading Jumps - the Front Hurdler

The Front Hurdler is a very popular cheerleading jump so mastering this one should be on your Cheer Goals list. As shown here, it can be done to the front or the side. Here are a few things to remember

Arms: Hit a high touchdown motion in the air.

Legs: Kick one leg toward your nose and in between your arms with your knee facing up; the front leg is always straight. Your back leg should be lifted, and bent, like a track runner jumping over a hurdle; the knee can be pointed down or to the crowd.

Feet: Point Your Toes!

Landing: Make sure to land properly with your feet together, toe to heel and with bent knees.

Tips to improve your front hurdler jumps:

1. Keep your chest up! It’s important not to cut off the height of your jump by tilting your chest forward.
2. Get air time. You’ll need a lot of power and lift to have enough time in the air to execute the skill. Be sure to jump hard off the ground, using your chest and arms to help lift you higher.
3. Work on flexibility for your “kicking” leg. If you can’t do a high kick toward your nose on the ground, you won’t be able to do it in the air. Be sure to warm up properly and make stretching for jumps part of your regular cheer practice routine.
4. Don’t forget about the back leg! The tendency is to concentrate so hard on kicking your front leg, that you don’t realize that the back leg is still dangling around down there. Be sure to bend that knee and lift your back leg, with as much power as your front leg!

** This jump is usually performed with the cheerleader positioned on an angle so you can see the jump.

For TONS of Jump Tips and Exercises to improve your cheerleading jumps TODAY, check out our Cheerleading Jumps Mastery Ebook Below on CheerAndDanceonDemand.com:

 

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Also, is you need a FUN and EASY Fundraiser for your team, FIT is also FOR YOU!  Check out all of the details below and we look forward to helping you create a new revenue stream for your or our organization.

 

Fun Easy to Learn Cheerleading Dance Routines are HERE!!!

Would you love super fun dance that you can use to get your crowd excited and fired up! This is perfect for a pep rally, side line activity, community event or just to have some fun at home!

The music is called "Supergirl" from Jojo Siwa and you can purchase the music from your favorite music app.

Check out this fun beginning dance routine today, taught by the Cheerleading Coaching Center, at CheerAndDanceOnDemand.com  ( check out the preview below and enjoy!).

 

Team Building Ideas to Create a Strong Team

Are you looking for some great ideas and games to improve your team? Team building activities are a MUST for ALL teams to help improve the relationships between your team members. So when should you incorporate a team building activity? A good rule of thumb is to try and do 1 small 5 minute game each practice to encourage teammates that don’t normally talk to interact and to do a large, out of practice, team building activity at least once per month. Here are some ideas to start with:

Make a New Friend Game

Have 2 cheerleaders sit together that do not normally talk and have them find ourt3 things that they have in common. Once you give the team 5 minutes for this activity, have the 2 cheerleaders stand up and introduce each other to the team and reveal what they have in common.

Compliment Game

Have your team sit in a circle. Each athlete stands up and gives a compliment to the person next to them. This is a great way to build trust and confidence!

Get to Know You Game

Have 2 athletes stand next to each other. Give them 1 minute to notice EVERYTHING about each other. Then, have them stand back to back and then ask them some questions about their teammate like: What is their eye color, hair color, shoe lace color, what are they wearing, are they wearing jewelry, etc.

Back to Back

Girls must find a partner of close height, lock arms back to back, and sit on the ground with their legs straight out and try to stand back up. See which pair gets up the quickest.

The Human Knot

The team stands in a circle and everyone reaches out both hands and grabs someone else’s hands. The goal is to get the knot untangled without releasing anyone’s hands.

For a TON of Team Building activities that you can do with your team, check out our Team Building Ebook below!

Have FUN :-)

Top Tips for your Cheerleading Summer Camp Experience

While at Cheer Summer Camp, you will have the opportunity to learn SO MUCH  material and it may be overwhelming for a lot of your team.  Here are some tips from our Experts to help you get as much as you can out of your cheer classes:

• Remind your squad that everyone is learning, mistakes are expected and that you rarely get things on the first try so KEEP TRYING!
• Keep the learning portion light and positive.  Give out compliments, rewards and make the learning FUN!
• When learning dances, split up your team and send a small delegation to each of the routines as it is difficult to remember 2 or more routines, plus cheers, stunts etc. For example, if you send 5 girls to the hip hop dance and 5 different girls to the fight song, you are more likely to come back home with girls who will remember all of the curriculum.
• Video tape as much of the curriculum as you can so you can reference it and refresh your memory at practice.
• Keep a journal (and ask your cheerleaders to keep a journal as well) to take notes of what you are learning, your thoughts and how you are going to incorporate the new skills into your season.