![]() Have your child lift their arms with tight fists, palms facing each other, and arms right beside their ears. Touchdown: Bring in the excitement of a football score (with a slightly different motion than a referee makes after a touchdown). Fingers of their fists should be facing the floor. Arms should straight and slightly in front of your child’s body. ![]() Have them start with their arms at their sides and then raise them straight up so that they are parallel with the floor. T Motion: Think of this movement as having your kids make a letter T with their arms. Right and left diagonals: For this move, have your child raise their right arm into a High V, and their left arm into a Low V. (Pretend they’re carrying two bags of groceries). For a Low V, arms are in a V formation facing down, with palms facing behind them. Low V: Just as with the High V, have your child keep their arms straight. (Remember that their hands should always be in fists with flat wrists.) Their arms should be slightly in front of their body with their palms facing forwards. ![]() High V: Have your child keep their arms straight and lift them into a V formation. This video shows High V, Low V, right and left diagonals, and T Motion. Once your kid has mastered these, they can mix them in different combinations to make up their own routines. For each of the motions, hands should be in fists (thumbs outside of clenched fingers) and wrists should be flat. No video to follow.) Basic cheer motionsĪrm motions are the first actions to learn in cheerleading. (Full disclosure: While researching this piece, I may or may not have put together my own little routine. Once your child learns the basic motions and jumps, they can put them together with chants and make their own routines. Learning the moves without pom-poms is best, and though pom-poms aren’t necessary at all, once your child is comfortable with the actions, it might just be fun to add them! Take them to a local high school game to see cheerleaders in action or show them some cheer videos on YouTube. ![]() It’s dance, jumps, and tumbling, mixed with chants and a whole lot of smiles. It’s a sport that includes boys, girls, and kids with disabilities. And now that it’s gotten recognition from the International Olympic Committee, it could be in the Olympics by 2028.Ĭheerleaders can be on the sidelines at a game, cheering on teams and entertaining fans, they can be on teams that compete in cheerleading tournaments, or they can be backyard cheerleaders learning and practicing moves.Īnd it’s a sport which your kids just might love. In a lot of people’s minds, cheerleading is the sport in which a group of high-spirited individuals cheer on a team from the sidelines. And it is this. ![]()
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