Jumps
This is the most common jump performed.
What is a Toe touch?
This tumbling skill is often performed by children that have no formal tumbling training.
What is a somersault/forward roll? (will accept cartwheel or handstand as well)
This position is the first position to be met in a two-legged load-in.
What is a hang drill/squish/smoosh/sponge?
This man is considered the father of cheerleading.
Who is Lawrence “Herkie” Herkimer?
This is the anatomical term for your knee bone.
What is the patella?
This jump involves one leg coming up in front of the body with the other leg pointing straight down, bent at a 90 degree angle.
What is a front hurdler?
A toe touch back handspring/tuck is considered this type of skill (running/standing) by regular Varsity competition standards.
What is standing?
Bracing groups in pyramids are most commonly at this level/height.
What is prep level?
This woman coached the Navarro College cheer team throughout the Netflix documentary entitled, “CHEER”.
Who is Monica Aldama?
This is the most electronegative element on the periodic table
What is Fluorine?
This jump was pioneered by the man who built the first cheerleading supply company.
What is a Herkie/side hurdler?
This standing tumbling skill involves the athlete jumping backward, creating an arch-like pattern, before splitting the legs and landing one foot at a time.
What is a back handspring step out? (will also accept back aerial)
This skill-level is below prep level but is not a hang drill/sponge.
What is a thigh stand/thigh cake?
This team won Worlds in Large Senior All Girl Level 6 in 2022.
Who is Stingray Allstars Orange?
This individual founded an online video channel that breaks down complex topics learned in all levels of school to 10-20 minute summary videos; also the author of bestselling novel The Fault in Our Stars.
Who is John Green?
Name two jumps in which the legs do not separate from one another.
What is a pike/T-jump/tuck jump?
This no-handed skill has become a popular trend on TikTok with the name of the skill replaced in the song lyrics from a Disney movie with a video of the skill being performed.
What is an Arabian?
A flip skill involves the athlete a pyramid where the trick flyer’s foot is the only part of the body being braced while flipping forward to land with one leg up in a heel-stretch position while in a cradle.
What is a waterfall?
A cheer team in New Zealand set the Guinness World Record for the largest pyramid performed with this many athletes involved.
What is 60 athletes?
This actress has done multiple romantic-comedy movies in tandem with Adam Sandler; she also has her own talk show, kitchen line, and makeup line.
Who is Drew Barrymore?
Given that the prep for the jump is completed on the counts 3-4, a double jump will hit on these two counts.
What are 6 and 8?
This running skill is performed in a sequence; the first skill performed is similar to a cartwheel but lands with feet together, the second creates the same visual line as a back handspring but without hands, the third is a backward skill that involves both hands and both feet, and the final skill is a no-handed skill involving the body being entirely straight throughout the entire skill.
What is a round off-whip-back handspring-layout?
Name one of the criteria for a pyramid to score in the high range NCA Division II All-Girl Intermediate.
“2 high pyramids incorporating MULTIPLE 2 1/2 high transitions and MULTIPLE inverting and twisting and unique mounts and dismounts.
Skills must EXECUTE through 2 1/2 high to be considered 2 1/2 high.”
In 2012, this individual became the first individual cheerleader to sign a sports management contract.
Who is Maddie Gardner?
The National Corvette Museum, which had a large sinkhole open up beneath it in 2014 that caused several cars to be damaged or destroyed, resides in this state.
What is Kentucky?