Important Positions for Cheerleading Stunts

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Hi my name is Lucy Spain on behalf of Expert Village here to talk about cheerleading stunts. Now that you know how to get in your stunt with your stunt partners, what do we do once we get in the air? Well, the most basic, we're going to stand in elevator position, up in the air, it's definitely appropriate to hit a high V if that's as high as you're going to go. The next step up will be called the full, so instead of the bases holding you here at chest level, the bases are going to press you all the way up above their heads like this. Now if you're going to go for a full, when you're at mid level you want to keep your arms down, and when you go all the way up to your full you want to hit your high V. Now that we've gone over that, we're going to go over the next series of stunts is when the bases are holding you by one foot. So after you've entered into the air, usually we're going to start just by holding our extra foot out to the side, keep it tight, but it's not going to have any hands below it, so make sure you stay balanced on the ball of your foot. Don't stunt flat footed because you're not going to be able to carry yourself. The most basic one foot stunt that we can do is the liberty. The liberty, we're going to lock the side of the foot into the kneecap and hit a high V. Now this is a straight on liberty, we can also cock the foot out to the side a little bit and give it a little twist. Now that we've gone over the liberty, you can take it to the next level, which is going to be a heel stretch. Now a heel stretch we can take from the down position that we discussed earlier. You can build it from a liberty position. You want to grab the inside of your foot, pull it up and hit your high V with the other hand. It's really important to keep your arm and your foot together. Another way to get into your heel stretch is to go straight from your preparation all the way up and just kick it. Now that one's a little bit harder, so if you're starting out, you might want to start with the liberty before going up. Some girls will choose to hold it by their ankle if that's an easier reach. Some people's arms are all different lengths. So whatever's most comfortable for you. These stunts can be performed with both right foot and left foot. It's really nice to be able to know how to do both, because if you're going to into a pyramid, you never know what side you're going to be on, so just always practice with your flexibility on both sides. Now that we've learned the heel stretch, another step up of difficulty is going to be our scorpion. Now the scorpion, you can't go straight into it, you're going to have to build it from either your flat footed position or build it from your liberty. Now, how we're going to get into a scorpion, first and foremost, this kind of confuses people so watch closely. We're going to take the hand and lay the back of it on our foot. Once you do that, you want to curl it around, grab by your toes, flip it over and then you want to grab your elbow for support. It's really nice if you can keep this looking forward and then pop out of it. Sometimes if you can turn your head toward the crowd it's nice. We always want to perform the scorpion sideways, because it's got more aesthetics than if you do it facing forward.

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