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
‘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
MSU All-Girl: 2012-2013 Season Outlook
The 2012-2013 Michigan State All-Girl Competitive Cheer Team consists of 43 members, 31 of them are veterans. Sixteen of the returners were Green Team – level 6 – for the 2011-2012 season, 15 finished out the season on White Team – level 5 – (two White Team members started the season on Green Team). It … Continue reading
We’re coming up on NCA Nationals!
The team ships out for Daytona, Fla. in nine days to compete at NCA collegiate cheerleading nationals. Both MSU teams have have been working hard and have high hopes for nationals but there have been many bumps on the way. For example, one team member broke her fibula climbing down from her loft last week. The day … Continue reading
Cheersport Nationals
Last Sunday afternoon Michigan State All-Girl Competitive Cheerleading Teams got on a bus and headed back to Michigan after taking third and sixth at Cheersport Nationals in Atlanta, Georgia. Forty-one cheerleaders, two coaches, and a few relatives took the 14 hour bus ride to the competition. On Friday, both Green and White had a 36 minute … Continue reading
Practicing All-Out!
Last night was my first all-out practice since Nov. 29, the night I broke my hand. I did running and standing tumbling on the hard mat! I still have my round-off spring tuck and my round-off spring spring tuck. For standing tumbling I was only able to do spring spring. It didn’t hurt, but there is a serious lack of … Continue reading
Club 10 Invitational
Yesterday’s meet was pretty much a disappointment to both MSU Green and MSU White teams. Green Team went up against Ohio State, Illinois and Davenport. In the individual stunt and tumbling competitions we didn’t do too bad. We won tumbling and came in third for stunting. White Team competed against Penn State. White won stunting, … Continue reading
The Comeback Kid (MSU Cheer Style)
If you read my posts on a regular then you know that about eight weeks ago I broke my hand, and a couple weeks ago my doctor approved me to start cheering (stunting, tumbling, anything) again starting on Jan. 21. On Jan. 21 I went to a back handspring clinic and tuck clinic at Mid-Michigan All-Stars, both of … Continue reading
The State of the Team
Sometimes I just hate cheerleading. There’s a team with girls who have specific talents, but in this it is demanded that everyone has all the talents because we do everything all in one routine, we substitute people in and out. Then people get hurt trying to do things that they really never should be doing. … Continue reading
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