Cheerleading involves encouraging sports teams through cheers, chants, and routines that include tumbling, dance, jumps, and stunts. It brings joy and energy to games by motivating players and entertaining audiences. Learning the basic motions, jumps, tumbling, and stunts is important for making a cheerleading squad. Motions include hand gestures like high V's and claps. Common jumps are toe touches, pikes, and hurdles. Stunts require bases to hold and lift flyers. Tumbling adds excitement with skills like cartwheels and roundoffs. Interpretive dance, the origin of cheerleading dance, seeks to translate emotions into dramatic movement.

1. CHEERLEADING
COM 3A1
Avila, Janiel Angelica J.
Taleon, Karlou AngeloT.

2. LEARNING OBJECTIVES
A – Value the importance of cheerleading
dance
S – Demonstrate the basic steps in cheer
leading dance
K – Explain the literature of origin of the
interpretative dance

3. What is Cheerleading?
 is an activity in which the participants (called
cheerleaders) cheer for their team as a form of
encouragement. It can range from chanting
slogans to intense physical activity. It can be
performed to motivate sports teams, to
entertain the audience, or for competition.
Cheerleading routines typically range
anywhere from one to three minutes, and
contain components of tumbling, dance,
jumps, cheers, and stunting.

4. Cheerleading bring out the joy, emotion, and
electricity, that ultimately impacts the players
field. They are acknowledged for bringing the
community together both physically and
emotionally while improving games for an
energized atmosphere. It makes the field a more
pleasant place in which both the athletes and the
audience can have an enjoyable experience.

5. Below is a list of things that you need to accomplish to get on your cheerleading
squad.
• Learn basic motions.
• Learn basic jumps.
• Learn basic tumbling.
• Learn basic stunts.

6. MOTION
Basic Hand-body Movements
• BEGINNING STANCE - Feet together, hands
down by the side in blades
• CHEER STANCE - Feet more than shoulder
width apart , hands down by the side in blade.
• CLASP - Hands clasped, at the chin, elbows in
• CLAP - Hands in blades, at the chin, elbows in
• HIGH V - Arms extended up forming a “V”,
• relax the shoulders

7. • LOW V - Arms extended down forming a “V”
• GOALPOST (or TOUCHDOWN) - Arms
extended straight and parallel to each other, fist
facing in
• LOW CONE - Arms extended straight down,
in a clasp and slightly in front of the body
• PUNCH - One arm extended straight up, one
arm on hip, in a fist
• L MOTION - One arm extended to the side
with other arm extended in a punch motion,
(Left L shown)

8. • DIAGONAL - One arm extended in a high
“V” and the other arm extended in a low “V”
(Right Diagonal shown)
• T MOTION - Both arms extended straight out
to the side and parallel to the ground, relax the
shoulders
• HALF T - Both arms parallel to the ground and
bent at the elbows, fists into shoulders
• SIDE LUNGE - Lead leg bent with the knee
over the ankle, back leg straight, feet
perpendicular to each other.

9. • FRONT LUNGE - Lead leg bent with the
knee over the ankle, back leg straight, feet
perpendicular to each other
 JUMPS
Basic Types of Jumps:
• Spread Eagle – simply swing and jump with
arms of doing high “V” figure and legs apart.
• Tuck Jump – Legs in front while knees tucked
to the chest. Closed fist and arms spreading
forming “T” or “V” figure.

10. • Toe Touch – one of the most common jumps
used in cheerleading.
• Pike - Legs are straight, together, and parallel
to the ground. Toes are pointed, arms are
straight reaching the front while hands are in
closed fist
• Hurdle - One leg is straight facing forward
(fronthurdle) or facing outward (side hurdle)
with arms forming “T” figure. The other leg is
bent, knees facing the ground(front hurdle) or
facing forward (side hurdle)

11. STUNTS - It is essential to know the proper
execution of the stunts to secure the safety of
both flyers and lifters.
• BASES - Bases must be strong an alert at all
times.
• FLYERS - Flyers are the athletes being held,
lifted, and tossed up to perform certain stunts
in height or in the air.
• TUMBLE - is an excellent way to add
extreme, thrill and excitement.

12. Types of tumbling skills:
Standing – completing tumble in a stationary
position.
Running – completing a tumble from a
running start.
Cartwheel – A type of tumble in which the
body moves sideways imitating a wheel.
Round off – this tumble is similar to
cartwheel but the difference is, landing must
be in both feet together.

13. Interpretive dance
is a family of modern dance styles that
began around 1900 with Isadora Duncan. It
used classical concert music but marked a
departure from traditional concert dance.
It seeks to translate human emotions,
conditions, situations or fantasies into
movement and dramatic expression, or else
adapts traditional ethnic movements into
more modern expressions.

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