How To Do Basic Gymnastic Skills In Cheerleading Video

Incorporating some basic gymnastics will inspire any fan to cheer. Learn some basic gymnastic skills for cheerleading in this video.

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Face direction you want to go
Keep toes pointed
Make rebound jump

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Lauren has been cheerleading since she was thirteen years old and coaching since she was eighteen. She is now the director of cheerleading at Orlando Gymnastics and Cheerleading. She founded the Orlando Storm All Star Cheerleading Organization with which she has won a national championship. She is also a member of the USASF and is safety certified by the American Association of Cheerleading Coaches and Advisors.

LAUREN MUTTY: Our next segment is going to be some basic gymnastic skills which in recent years have been incorporated into cheerleading. So we're going to start off with our basic cartwheel. We've got Cara here to demonstrate. She is going to put her arms up close to her ears. Her toes are going to be pointed in the front with her lead leg, and she's going to cartwheel. When she does it, she's going to put her--I'm sorry, her hands are going to go down. It's going to go hand, hand, foot, foot. So it's going to be her right leg is forward, so her right hand is going to go in the ground first then her left hand will follow that. Her left leg is going to go over her head and it's going to land first and then her right foot is going to land after that. So it's hand, hand, foot, foot. Okay. And she's going to be facing the direction that she's going in in order to do this. Instead of facing this way, she's going to face this way because she's going that way. Are you ready, Cara? Go when you're ready. Beautiful. Thank you. And now, the next thing that comes after a cartwheel is a round-off. She is going to go up into the cartwheel, go up into it in the same exact way as a cartwheel. But once she hits that hand stand area in the top, she's going to be turning her body a quarter of a turn and landing with both feet together on this side. Now, when she did a cartwheel, she put her hands on the ground next to each other. For this one, she's actually going to be putting her hands so that they're a quarter turn to each other. So one is facing this way; the other is facing this way. So, Cara, if you could do a round-off? Beautiful. Thank you. And those are your basics of cartwheels and round-offs. One more time. Do a cartwheel. Pretty pointed toes, nice and clean. And a round-off. And she does what we call a rebound at the end of that where she bounces up in the air. Okay. Thank you very much.

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