Murray-Latta

February 9th, 2010

Murray-Latta

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The Murray-Latta Machine Company is a British Columbian machine manufacturing and steel fabrication company. In the 1960s and 1970s, they built a number of chairlifts, mainly in British Columbia. Although they no longer design or fabricate chairlifts, they still provide parts and act as contractors for constructing new lifts designed by other manufacturers.

Murray-Latta lift in operation.

The main reason Murray-Latta entered the skilift market in the first place can be attributed to Premier W. A. C. Bennett, who promoted British Columbian business. Using a British Columbian company to construct chairlifts at the government-owned ski areas at Cypress Mountain, Mount Seymour, and Manning Park (Gibson Pass) was a natural choice.

The company also built lifts outside British Columbia at the Mount Baker Ski Area (WA), Hyak ski area (now known as Summit East) on Snoqualmie Pass, Washington, and Jackson Hole, Wyoming.

The most notable design aspect of Murray-Latta chairlifts is the way the cable carrying the loaded chairs can sometimes sag as much as 10 feet below the unloaded cable during long gaps between support towers.

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List of cheerleading stunts

February 8th, 2010

List of cheerleading stunts

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U of S Husky cheerleader stunt

Stunts are defined as building performances displaying a person’s skill or dexterity. Stunting in cheerleading has been previously referred to as building pyramids. Stunts range from basic two-legged stunts to one-legged extended stunts and high flying basket tosses. There are numerous variations of each basic stunt.

A stunt group usually involves up to four bases holding or tossing another cheerleader in the air. In general, all-girl cheerleading stunts usually involve up to four other bases while co-ed (”partner”) stunts have only one base (usually male) and his partner (the flyer, usually female). Pyramids are multiple groups of stunts connected aerially by the flyers. This connection may be made in a variety of ways, from a simple linking of hands to having a multi-level pyramid, with the flyers already in the air acting as primary bases for another flyer or flyers on top of them.

1 Athletes involved
2 Two leg stunts
3 Variations
4 Transitions, Tosses, and Dismounts
5 Two-and-a-half High Stunts
6 References

Athletes involved

Bases

Main Base

Side Base

Flyer/Tops

Flyers are commonly extremely flexible and needs to be tight. The weight and height do not matter in most cases you just have to be tight so your bases can lift you.

Back Spot (Back Base, Third or Back in some regions)

Front Spot (Front in some regions)

Additional (hands-off) Spotter

Two leg stunts

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Prep or Extension Prep

Prep or Extension Prep

Cupie, or Awesome

Extension

Split-lift

Thigh stand

Variations

All of the variations can be done at prep or extension level.

Liberty

Scorpion

Scorpions at extension level.

Scale

Prep level Scale

Crazy Eight

Torch

Heel Stretch

Front Stretch

Bow and Arrow

Needle

Arabesque

Hitch

Transitions, Tosses, and Dismounts

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A flyer coming out of a pike flipping basket toss

Basket toss

Toe Touch basket toss – During the basket toss, when the flyer is thrown into the air she stays in the “pencil” position. once starting to fall, she does the toetouch jump, quickly pops back into pencil, and then into the cradle.
Pretty Girl/Show off basket toss – When in the air, the flyer will do her legs like in a lib and put one hand on her waist and one behind her head, laying down.
Kick twist basket toss – When starting to fall, the flyer will kick one leg up then twist her body into a cradle. The flyer may twist however many times she wishes, the more the more advanced.
Tuck basket toss – while in the air the flyer will perform a tuck (front or back) then pop into cradle.
X-out basket toss/X-Full – same as tuck basket toss, but while upside down in the tuck the flyer will perform the jump “spread eagle” which will make the body look like a X.
Pike basket toss – same as toetouch basket toss but the flyer will perform a pike.
Star basket toss – in the air, once sarting to fall, the flyer with put a leg up like in a scale, and the other will be straight facing diagonally downward. the hands will be in a high V, then she’ll pop back into pencil. In some variations, the flyer will spin while in the Star jump.
Simple Ride-Up basket toss – usually the first bascket toss ever practiced. The flyer’s legs remain together like in a cradle, but the arms can go anyway such as in a “touch down” motion, pointing up/at the crowd, or blowing a kiss.

Launch

Pop Cradle or Cradle Out or Cradle Down

Teddy Sit/Teddy Bear

Dismount

Squish (or Sponge)

Retake or DoubleTake

Show and Go

Tick-Tock

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Full Down (Twist Cradle)

Double Down (Double Twist Cradle)

Leap Frog or popcorn

Reload

Barrel Roll

360 up

Rewind

Deadman

Swedish Falls/Fish

Two-and-a-half High Stunts

A 2 1/2 high pyramid

21/2 people high is defined as 2.5 body-lengths, not the number of people stacked. An example of 2.5 high is one person held at extended level, and another held at waist level. The various 21/2 high stunts include but are not limited to:

The A-Frame
Swedish Fall
2-2-1
2-1-1 (Technically a 3 high pyramid if the top flier is in an extended stunt but still considered legal)
Table Top
Wolf Wall
High Split
High Chair (also high hands, lib, cupie, etc.)

References

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k Safety – Cheer Glossary. U.S. All Star Federation.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h http://www.aacca.org/content.aspx?item=Safety/09-10-High-School-Cheerleading-Rules.xml
^ “2007-08 USASF Glossary”. http://www.usasf.net/Documents/Rules/07-08/USASFGlossary0708.pdf. Retrieved 2007-08-06.
^ Cheerleading Glossary Term – Deadman

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