All-Star The Best Cheer Advice...

[ChristyCheers]

Hi Ya’ll,

Looking for your input again!

For many cheerleading programs, we are coming up to the start of a new season. Some have just had try-outs; some will have try-outs this month. I recently wrote an article called 5 Tips for Try-Out Success to help those athletes trying out, especially first-timers.

Now, I want to follow that article with a list of the best advice you have received for cheer—school, rec, all star, whatever! Maybe someone gave you some really great advice when you were a newbie to the sport, or maybe you have gotten some recently. Maybe you wish someone had told you something or maybe you even have some advice of your own for those new to the sport.

If you would like to get involved (I will quote your Fierce Board name unless you tell me not to), let me know what you think is the best advice for new cheerleaders below.

Cheers!

Christy

 

[oncecoolcoachnowmom]

Don't compare your skills to anyone else's.

It is very easy to come into the sport as (for example) a 12-year-old senior athlete with a shaky BHS and get discouraged when you go to open gym, face plant twice, look up, and see a kid your age who is on a Worlds team and throwing standing fulls left and right.

Don't get caught up in chasing the skills that everyone else has and getting to their level as quickly as possible. You'll only end up frustrated and burned out.

Recognize that that girl has probably been cheering longer than you and that you can't realistically expect to do what she's doing.

Instead, focus on you and commit to doing YOUR BEST tumbling. If that's a BHS right now, so be it. Make it the best BHS that anyone has ever seen.

 

[MzLyn23]

Have fun!!! Thats the most important part of the sport... yes its competitive, yes its exhilarating to perform and even more so to win or even place high in a large competition, etc... but in the end you want to have fun, you want to enjoy and love the sport you're in. If it becomes all about winning, you're taking away the fun and there will be a point where you will dread going to practice or be completely engulfed in nerves when you compete. Remember that a cheerleader who is no longer having fun and is out there just for the win sticks out during a performance especially if it ends up being a bad one. But the cheerleader that loves the sport, is competitive but is having fun while they're doing it, can touch down, fall from a stunt, or even face plant on the mat and still get up with a smile and finish they're routine stronger than ever!! Those are the memorable ones!!! Those are cheerleaders that future cheerleaders look up to!!!