What is cheer dance?

• Cheer dance is a recreational activity and

competitive of an organized routine.
• It includes required performance elements
and skills like dance and gymnastics.
• Cheer dance, when not competing, help in
encouraging the crowds to cheer in team
sports event.
• Some of the advantages of cheer dancing
include:
– strengthening of the heart and lungs and
reducing the risks of heart attack,
– stroke,
– high blood pressure,
– type 2 diabetes
What are the terminologies used in cheer
dance?
1. Flyers – these are the
cheerleaders who are
held and thrown into the
air and are doing the
stunts.
2. Bases or Mounts –
these are the persons in
charge of holding and
controlling the throw of
the flyers.
3. Spots – front spot and
back spot members are
those who stand behind or
in front of the flyers and
support the flyers to
prevent them from falling.
They help the bases when
lifting the flyers.
 What are the performance elements in
cheer dancing?
1. Motions – this element includes arm motions
like high V, low V, half-high and half-low Vs,
diagonals, K’s, L’s, and T’s, and touchdowns.
2. Jumps – these are feet movements through
jumping moves like toe-touch, hurdler, and
pike jumps.
3. Stunts – are mostly those that can be seen
from the flyers or selected cheer dancers like
bow and arrow, liberties, scorpions, and basket
tosses.
4. Tumbling – cartwheel and round off are basic
tumbling movements in cheer dance.
5. Cheers, Chants, and Dance Routine – cheers
and chants incorporate stunts, jumps, and
tumbling and are used to lead the crowd.
What are the techniques in
executing the motions?
1. High V
2. Low V
 3. Low
Touchdown
4. Torch/
Punch
5. T Motion
6. K Motion
7. Clap
8. Clasp
 What are the different
jumps and stunts in cheer
dance?
HERKIE
Toe Touch
Pike
 What are the different
tumbling skills used in cheer
dance?
Forward
Roll
Cartwheel
Backbend