Cheer Evo: My new team!
I recently joined a new all-star cheerleading team! (Well, new to me — not actually new.) It’s called Cheer Evo, it’s an 18 and up, level six team. I attended tryouts this past Sunday, Aug. 11. I have to say, I was nervous. But, it was all for nothing because I had the best tryout … Continue reading
STUNT
Michigan State University Competitive Cheer Team might be competing in STUNT competitions this year. Personally, I’m not super excited about the prospect. There are the practical issues: 24 (I think) routines to learn we only practice twice a week we don’t have all the skills required for the routines (doing lower level skills will lower … Continue reading
Stunting: Do your job.
My coach gave the whole team this very useful handout on what each persons job is in a stunt. And, as she always says, “If everyone does their job every time, it will hit every time.” Flyer pull up in every stunt – think about sucking your stomach up under your ribs push off your … Continue reading
Tryouts are over, the team is finalized!
Tryouts were a couple weeks ago and we gained a lot of talent. We now have 38 team members, 16 newbies and 22 vets. I’ve gotta say, it’s super nice to have majority returners, we’re going to have a lot of experience on the floor this year. I think our lack of experience was one … Continue reading
RUNNING Tumbling
I had a revelation tonight at Michigan State University All-Girl Cheer practice: If you want to have success with your running tumbling, RUN. Don’t just take STEPS. RUN. You have to use those two or three steps to get POWER, so the harder you run the more power you’ll have, more power means more SPEED … Continue reading
Back Handspring: The Pop
The shoulder pop in a back handspring is something that I have been struggling with since the beginning of the summer after taking two months off cheer. But, I seem to have found the solution to put the pop back in my spring. At my first summer practice I struggled to do a back handspring … Continue reading
NCA Camp Day 2
Day two was a whole of stunting in the morning and a whole lot of game day routine in the afternoon. We started with group stunts and most of our groups worked on rewinds, tick at the top and power press full ups. My groups did a pretty good job with the second two but epically … Continue reading
NCA Camp Day 1
We’re halfway done with NCA camp and already have a new spirit stick! Woohoo! Because we’re awesome. We got to work tosses, pyramids, group stunts and our ‘game day’ routine today. Tosses were really good, I felt like the staff had good advice for the flyers for a variety of tosses. Pyramids, in my opinion, … Continue reading
We Made it to Camp!
We got through our practices today and made it all the way to Romeoville, Ill. It’s almost time for bed and we’ll be going to Lewis University tomorrow for our first day of NCA Camp. I was super proud of my team today, we all worked really hard and got a lot accomplished in the … Continue reading
‘Hell Week’
This week is what I am calling “Hell Week.” We have had tumbling Wednesday, practice Thursday and then Friday we have two practices followed by a five hour drive to NCA Camp in Romeoville, Ill. We’ll be at camp all day Saturday and Sunday and will be back in East Lansing on Sunday around 9 … Continue reading
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