I came back from my first college cheer camp a couple weeks ago. I’m only 5’1 and I’ve only worked with flyers who are my hight, shorter than me, or only about an inch or two taller. All the flyers on my college team are taller than I’m used to and they’re heavier. My basing technique went out...
Hi! I’ve been injured a few times and whenever I start tumbling again I feel like my roundoffs are sloppy and I freak myself out about going in to a skill too. My tumbling coach always had me back track a little bit and just work on roundoff sets a couple times and when I remember how to do that...
My college cheer coach posted a guide for how to dress at tryouts back in Spring, but a good rule is to look gameday ready! For my team that was red lips, false eyelashes, plain white bow, and the black sports bras and black spandex. If your team is more casual, there’s nothing wrong with going...
Your coach probably has a reason for putting you in that group- maybe they didn’t want an inexperienced flyer paired with inexperienced bases because, well, that’s a recipe for disaster. In my experience (with both flying and basing) I’ve been put with weaker flyers/weaker bases in order to help...
Hi! Here’s a little about my experience with practicing too much. I’m about to be a freshman in college and will be a collegiate cheerleader, but for four years I was on an all star team plus my high school team. School cheer was an hour every day during the week, and all star was a 2 and a half...