Need a great Pep Rally idea? Well here it is! This is great if you need to take up time at a school function. Pick a few well known crowd cheers, some easy and some hard. Then call up fellow school mates and teachers to do the cheers with you. Its great fun to see them attempt to get the moves and words right!
Try and think of little ways to support the boys on the team that you cheer for. One of the things my squad does is EVERY game we stand out in front of their bench in two lines and scream and yell for them as their number is being called. You can also mix it up. If you have more then 7 girls, make some kind of mount or pyramid for them to run through. If you have 12 or more girls attempt the double pyramids (you can find that picture under the category of mounts). Don’t forget your pom poms!
Having Trust Issues?
This is a good drill to practice if you have a cheerleader who is afraid to fall in a basket toss. Trust is the key. Normally on our squad it’s the brand new 7th grader that ends up being our flyer. Her weight is normally the only factor involved. So us older girls on the squad have to work on their trust issues. Sometimes it comes easy and sometimes not. But once they know that they can do it they normally turn out to be wonderful at it.
You can split into groups for this one, there isn’t a certain number you need to have, but six works very well.
To start off have all the girls stand in two lines facing each other. Have them link arms where one girl’s hands are holding onto the other’s elbow. Go out in a yard and have one girl stand in front of the “tunnel” of girls with her back facing them. The girl in front says “Catcher’s ready?” If they are they respond “Catcher’s ready, fall when ready.” The front girl says “Falling” and the catcher’s respond “Fall.” With this the girl falls back into the other’s arms, much like a cradle or basket-toss.
Make sure every girl takes a turn. After the last person has gone on ground level keep move onto something higher up (i.e. tree stumps, chairs, tables, porches, etc). Keep moving the fall point higher until you are the faller is high as she would be in an extension.
This is a good timeout cheer!
I don’t know what you’ve been told
(I don’t know what you’ve been told)
Cougars are as good as gold
(Cougars are as good as gold)
If you heard what I just said
(If you heard what I just said)
Get on your feet and do our beat!
(Get on your feet and do our beat!)
Beat – s.s.c.s(pause)s.c.s.s.c (do this beat twice through)
Stand up,
it’s time to shout
Come on fans,
Yell it out
Say it loud
Say it proud
Come on Cougars!
Go! Go! Go!
(have the crowd repeat the last 2 lines back to you)
Getting a sweet spot
A good stunt or mount will be safe at all times. Never never go into a lift with a basket toss or some kind of drop where the flyer does not have a spotter behind her. You could have performed this stunt 100 time perfect in practice, but remember at anytime something unexpected could happen when you get out there to perform it. Keep your squad safe at all times. Here are some good tips for the spotter.
- Hands Up! Reaction time can be wasted moving your hands. Keep your hands at an appropriate level, at least chest high.
- Keep your eyes on the flyer. A spotter must not be distracted by anything. However, use peripheral vision to make sure that nothing (like a ball or a mascot) will interfere with a stunt.
- If you are not familiar with a stunt or don’t feel you can adequately spot a stunt, just say no!
- Use hands-on spotting for inexperienced stunters or groups trying new stunts.
This is what we call our double lift. You can also put one in front of the other so that it has a tier effect.
These are some great rules…….
…that I think EVERY cheerleader should follow. I found a great website that I am borrowing them from:)http//www.geocities.com/aicmzine/cheer_rules.htm
Here are some of the Basic Rules of Cheerleading, each squad has it’s own style and rules, but these are the understood rules each individual cheerleader should follow- the unspoken rules.’
Great Pep Rally Game
First you need to get a paper bag (a grocery bag works well). Then, figure out the order of girls from heaviest to lightest. The heaviest girl goes first. All the other squad members grab a hold of her and pick her up, then they lower her down towards the bag. The girl has to grab the bag in her mouth and is not allowed to move by herself. Once she gets the bag in her mouth she is put back on her feet. Cut off the top part of the bag. The more girls you have on your squad, cut off less of the bag so everyone has a chance to go.
Keep working your way down until you get to the smallest girl. By the time it is her turn there should only be about an inch left to the bag then have the last girl pick it up with her teeth and keep it.
