All-Star As We Head Forward Into Worlds...let's Take A Look Back :-)

[cheermommaRN]

I found this on my late night/early morning trolling of Youtube....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5vLCI6DVQak&feature=fvwrel

But wait! There's a part II!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-xvH29Aj5_A&feature=related

Half this stuff isn't even legal anymore! lol

 

[keepdreamin]

WOW! I'm glad most of this isn't legal anymore. It looks so scary, I can't believe people actually did this stuff. Really cool though.

 

[imrichhowboutu]

i liked the dancers hopping on one foot! haha
i would love competing on a mat over a lake.... Not.
It would be interesting to see how many people would fall in now-a-days.

 

[ibcnu]

that three high pyramid where they just fell to the floor. SCARY!! No wonder they have rules now.

I noticed not one cheerleader had a cheer hairbow. Did the bow become the rage in the 90s??

 

[keepdreamin]

We had a competition over a lake- ish thing about 2 years ago, but the floor had a fence around it so nobody fell in haha.

 

[Nikaa]

Wow at that back tuck from a pyramid. At part 2. ( 0.58)

 

[ibcnu]

more "illegal" stunting, lol

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o1HWeFGhS1s&feature=related

History of the 70s

 

[ctgatormom]

This is so great! My cp was like "why in the world are the competing over a lake and if someone fell or tumbled in was it a deduction?"...haha

 

[hopskipandjump]

I used to do those tension rolls in high school a long long long time ago. They are not as difficult to perform as they look but the crowd reaction to them was fantastic....I don't really understand why they became illegal to perform. We also used to toss people over other people all the time; as were the knee drops to the wood floor. (OWwww.
Perhaps someone in the know can explain why the tension rolls were banned?

 

[SandeRae]

Wow they were amazing! If only that were legal now, it would be really interesting to see what teams now a days came up with if a lot of this was leagal! I must say though, those girls really knew how to shimmy and shake, they would give some girls today a run for their money

 

[KRECCheer]

I always have to hear @hopskipandjump go crazy over how brave and stong everyone was in the 70's and how not many kids do that what they did these days. Then I have to remind her: "Ma, if I was taught to stunt like that, Im sure I could handle it. But since our rules are different I had to learn to stunt with another base and back spot." Just taking a lod off my back.

 

[cheeromgbre]

gotta love the dancing

 

[WHOAitsjesss]

whoaa....that was cool.

 

[kristenthegreat]

That 80s stuffed was AWESOME..I could never imagine practicing that stuff, I'd be terrified. They were really interesting...the dancing was hilarious.

 

[Wheelchair Partner Stunt]

We do similar stuff to this in the Circus troop i train with! when i first started to train with them and put someone into an extension to hear them say to the flyer, now tuck off that, i gotta tell you i was shocked! but when practiced in the right environment with the right equipment all totally possible. It's a shame that more technique isn't taken from the acro gymnastic side/circus of stunting because they've got a couple of hundred years more development than cheer does and have ways to make everything so much easier. Stunting from my wheelchair I often find it hard to press to extension and things dynamically because i'm basically dead lifting with just my back and shoulder muscles and don't have the capability to "pop" with my legs but when I do stuff at circus and the flyer instead of stying tight for the lift also does a "tempo" (type of jumping of popping movement initiated by both parties instead of just one) suddenly i can lift much heavier people and with a lot more ease and dynamic.