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I'll film my old team this weekend if you promise not to pick them apart. what are you looking to learn?
During timeouts, cheerleaders perform partner stunts (rewinds and one-arm stunts other than cupies with an additional spotter are prohibited), two-high pyramids (various stretch pyramids, various stag pyramids, two high table top pyramids, two high wolf wall pyramids, diamond heads, and the Wildcat Pyramid), and tumbling (twisting discounts, layouts, whips, and fulls are prohibited).
Basketball cheering is different than football cheering considering that 2 1/2 high pyramids and basket tosses are prohibited.
WE had a pretty good layout at Clemson... as soon as the time out started and the music started playing we'd tumble out to our dance formation clapping and spiriting, do a band dace, move into a pyramid or a line of stunts (where we'd ripple going up and ripple coming down), then go back to dancing, if we did a cheer we'd tumble out to our cheer sports (normally elavators with signs around the court), get the crowd to yell, then music played and we'd do a stunt/pyramid or a band dance or a combo of both. As soon as the buzzer went off, we'd tumble back to the sidelines. A couple time outs we'd have people throw out free stuff while others tumbled out to their spots then did the standard stunting/dancing. .
Fairly standard timeouts. I'd imagine GT does things pretty similar to Clemson.
It really is tough to find the perfect balance of performance and crowd leading at basketball games, without dead time.
The requirements changed every year. The spirit squads stand on three rows of risers at games (you can see in the picture we are in the bottom right corner) One year we had 12 at womens games and 12 at mens games since the dancers shares the risers with us at mens games. Last year there had to be 20 cheerleaders + dancers at every game during the school year (it was different for holiday games). Now its back to 12 ish a game. The number of cheerleaders didn't really change what we did, we would just have more people on the court at a time.Tech, back when I was here, was all business no crowd leading. This was before all the rules cracking down. So we would go out there and do a 2 1/2 high pyramid from our nationals routine, through some double full baskets, then maybe to corners and do ripple awesomes. Fast forward 10 years and we do the same thing but the skills aren't near as hard that we are allowed to do. So it's not bad, but we can do things a lot more effectively. Couple questions for you:
Did you bring poms out? If you tumbled did you have someone cary them for you (a sloppy process for us now that never looks great). I feel like we would bring out poms more often for women's games because they aren't as hard core and our coach wouldn't make us tumble as much. If people still wanted to tumble, they would just have someone bring them out. But for the most part, unless it was a strictly crowd leading/dance time out, we wouldn't bring out our poms. We would do signs more than poms and only a couple people would carry them out and the rest would tumble.
I am considering having dance line up around the court while we do a timeout so while we do skills in the middle the dance team is providing some nice decoration all around. Ever do that?
For women's games it was just the cheerleaders, but at Men's games the dancers and cheerleaders would just alternate going out for time outs. For pregame and the final timeout of the game, both cheerleaders and dancers are on the floor doing the fight song lined up both ways, and we would run the flags in between them. However, I'm a big fan of cheerleaders doing skills while dancers dance. Best of both worlds.
Also how many cheerleaders did you have at your games? Our new place it is really nice that we are right on the floor, but we are limited to how many people we can aesthetically place there (it is 12 ish).
The requirements changed every year. The spirit squads stand on three rows of risers at games (you can see in the picture we are in the bottom right corner) One year we had 12 at womens games and 12 at mens games since the dancers shares the risers with us at mens games. Last year there had to be 20 cheerleaders + dancers at every game during the school year (it was different for holiday games). Now its back to 12 ish a game. The number of cheerleaders didn't really change what we did, we would just have more people on the court at a time.
Tech, back when I was here, was all business no crowd leading. This was before all the rules cracking down. So we would go out there and do a 2 1/2 high pyramid from our nationals routine, through some double full baskets, then maybe to corners and do ripple awesomes. Fast forward 10 years and we do the same thing but the skills aren't near as hard that we are allowed to do. So it's not bad, but we can do things a lot more effectively. Couple questions for you:
Did you bring poms out? If you tumbled did you have someone cary them for you (a sloppy process for us now that never looks great).
I am considering having dance line up around the court while we do a timeout so while we do skills in the middle the dance team is providing some nice decoration all around. Ever do that?
Also how many cheerleaders did you have at your games? Our new place it is really nice that we are right on the floor, but we are limited to how many people we can aesthetically place there (it is 12 ish).