All-Star What Is The Best Cheer Advice Someone Has Given You?

The best bit of advice someone ever told me (when I literally couldn't physically do another full out when I was a fat cheer boy):
"Your body may hurt, your mind may be racing at a million miles per hour, but this team is your family, and they will never turn their backs on you. Are you going to give up on them now?"

Emma-Jane Kortegast said:

My favourite would be 'make a T to the front' before any sort of full down or double down. I think it just creates a nice mental image of what they need to do.

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We used to say "beauTIful) out loud to our flyers, we'd go BEAU... (The dip) T! (The T) FULL! (The twist) it really helped them with the timing!


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cheernerd5678 said:

We used to say "beauTIful) out loud to our flyers, we'd go BEAU... (The dip) T! (The T) FULL! (The twist) it really helped them with the timing!


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Ah the old "Boo-T-Full" trick. Works every time


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SparkleSpankies said:

In a standing tuck, flex my feet.. it may have not been pretty but back in the day when i could tuck, i landed every single one after that

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me too! but yeah, back in the day when i could do a tuck....

Cheerleading is a small world. Don't burn your bridges.

Don't break my glass!

The girl I coach with always says this. She compares the flyers to glass so in other words do not drop the flyers.

'I may yell at you, and I may tell you that if you don't try hard enough then I'll be dropping you down a level, but that's only because I love you and believe in you, and if you try hard enough, you can achieve anything you want'. That same practice I got my roundoff BHS tuck and 2 weeks after that I got my layout... after trying for 2 years. Thankyou coach!


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About a tumble block in the CP that lasted almost a season:

"Don't even discuss it at home, just let her coaches help her through it." - Ben Pope

Best advice ever. No perceived "pressure" from home, and she made it through.


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CEA_ATC said:

About a tumble block in the CP that lasted almost a season:

"Don't even discuss it at home, just let her coaches help her through it." - Ben Pope

Best advice ever. No perceived "pressure" from home, and she made it through.


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Funny enough, we are there right now. I haven't mentioned tumbling since before tryouts. Just taking a deep breath and letting it go.

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My mom told me to lean back when I jump.


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One of our owners used to always tell me right before we went on ," Just breathe." since I used to get so nervous before performing and that always seemed to help.

Practice is what makes us better, so we can come together on the mat and be a team.


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xoxbeastbackspotxox said:

One of our owners used to always tell me right before we went on ," Just breathe." since I used to get so nervous before performing and that always seemed to help.

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Before major competitions my team would circle up and collectively take a deep breath and let it out. It helped a lot with nerves and calmed people down. Probably the most helpful thing I have ever done before competing.


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At one point I couldn't land my double to save my life... ALWAYS one and a halves. I never fully rotated around. I did drill after drill and got advice from all of my coaches and nothing worked... I got soooo frustrated. Until one night I was trying to pull my double again and I couldn't do it ALL practice. I got so desperate that I asked this random UCF college girl and she told me "Just Think of doing a triple instead"
I tried it and landed flawlessly. The tip was sooo simple but if you hear the RIGHT advice then ANYTHING can become possible.


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cupieqt said:

Ah the old "Boo-T-Full" trick. Works every time


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Used then and used now! Old Top Gun pics and see all the flyers in T position, butt tucked!