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.
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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
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- 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
College cheerleaders doing as flipping transition
- 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
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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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