how should i spirt in for cheerleading tryouts?

Question

Okay so cheerleading tryouts is in 5 days and i dont know what to say or do when i spirit in and out. I was thinking about saying "Go Tigers, Let's win" and doing a herkie or a toe touch, but the thing is that in my cheer i do a toe touch and for my best jump i will do a herkie i thought about doing a kick but my kicks suck, if you tried out before can you please tell my everthing you did.

P.S.
I cant do a round off or cartwheel

Answer 1

As a current high school cheer coach, I can tell you what we expect from our girls.

First and foremost we stress academics. Being a good cheerleader requires a great deal of practice, and this can sometimes hurt your grade point average. We always stress that you can't go on in life to make a living at cheerleading....you have to have an education to do that. Girls must maintain a 2.5 or better grade point average or risk being dropped from the squad for a season. If the grade point average is not raised, she is dropped for the year.

As for the actual requirements:

Knowledge of routines, cheers and chants: Know them backwards and forwards....well enough to begin them anywhere in the middle of the cheer. I have seen many good candidates dropped due to the inability to start a cheer at any point in the routine. We teach one cheer, one chant and a pretty complex 1 minute dance routine. The girls are given 3 days to learn this with tryouts on day 4.

Tumbling/Gymnastics to include cartwheel, roundoff, and back hand spring. Girls who can do a tuck usually get extra points. If you are not able to do any of these...then give them your best kick and show as much enthusiasm as you can!

Flexibility and Posture: Be able to do splits and heal stretch. In a Liberty or heal stretch position, hold your balance for 20 seconds. Extra points are given for girls who can do arabesques or scorpions.

Judges always look for personality and smiles as well as how well the contender keeps their movements sharp and in proper form! No sloppy arms, wrists etc. You can lose lots of points in this area.

The girls must do 3 jumps: herkie, toe touch, 1 other. You can work on these first on the floor....stretching yourself just a little bit more everyday until you have proper form. Then work on taking it to the air. When you have your prep and jump perfected, put 1 pound weights on each ankle and jump with them on from that point on. When it comes time for tryouts, take the weights off...you'll jump higher than ever because you have become used to jumping with more weight!

Most of all, the judges are looking for girls who have the ability to work as a team and engage the crowd to cheer on their school! make the judges feel like cheering with you by engaging them every time you get a chance.

On tryout day, wear your hair in a ponytail off of your face, little or no make-up and no jewelry. You want them to know that you are a serious contender and not there for a beauty contest.

For pics, help and cheers that you can learn, go to
cheerleading.about.com

hope that helps!

Answer 2

you should take some tumbling classes.. i do and now i can do a roundoff backhandspring series