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Communication
I do not have a “number 1″ rule of safety because there are several components of safety that I would consider indespensible. But one of those big ones is absolutely communication. When teaching...
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Training Barefoot?
The question is whether of not it is okay to let your cheerleaders practice tumbling with their shoes off. The reason this comes up is that a lot of cheerleaders are stronger tumblers, for a variety...
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Standing Tucks are Simple
No offense to everyone out there paying $30/hour for private lessons on their standing tucks, but standing tucks are simple. In fact, they are the simplest tumbling skill in cheerleading, other than a...
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Accelerating Back Handsprings
As I mentioned in a previous article, fast tumbling is good tumbling. Here’s something I haven’t told you, unless you’re tumbling on a trampoline, most advanced and elite tumbling tricks are thrown...
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Back Head Springs
This article might repeat some of the advice in earlier tumbling articles. You might want to go back and take a look at them for additional suggestions about tumbling and hand springs, specifically....
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Handstand Snap-Downs
Handstand snap-downs are one of the best, all-purpose tumbling drills to do practice if you want to improve your tumbling. You don’t need a spotter. You don’t need mats or equipment. You don’t even...
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Following Through
Cheerleading skills are vast and highly varied. They include complex, synchronized techniques involved in group stunts, and simple but confident straight-armed punch motions on the sideline. Whether...
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Mental Blocks – Standing Tucks
As requested from one of our readers, this article is going to deal with mental blocks related to standing tucks. Please keep the suggestions coming. They are most appreciated! Standing tucks seem to...
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Hardest Standing Tumbling
I’ve had a lot of readers writing it to ask about standing tumbling. The most common request is to hear about what tricks are the hardest and/or score the highest. I can’t do anything the easy way...
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Cheerleading Rule Changes, March 2012
This article is about the sweeping rule changes that were recently implemented affecting both high school and all star competitive cheerleading. I’m going to address the situation in general terms,...
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