Motions
Your arms are straight up pulled close to the ears
What is a Touch down
When you jump backwards, hands down, then feet snap down.
What is a back hand spring.
When you have arms in the high V position, standing on one leg with the other leg pulled up, foot flush with the opposite knee
What is a liberty
Most used jump in cheer
What is a Toe Touch
Connected stunts named after triangle shaped structures in Egypt
What is a pyramid
When one arm is up in the high V position, and the opposite arm is down in the low V position
What is a diagonal
When you are perfectly straight with no hands touching the ground
What is a layout
When both hands grab the foot and pull the leg up as high as possible
What is a needle
bending your body forward at your waist while bringing both legs up to your chest
What is a pike
a large round cluster of brightly colored streamers most commonly waved in pairs
What is Pom Poms
When your arms are straight out like a helicopter
What is a T motion
When you are in a ball position driving your knees over to complete the landing
What is a back tuck
When chest is forward with leg straight out behind the body
What is an arabesque
One leg is front and foward and your back leg is bent behind you
What is a herdler
an event before a school sports event that is meant to get students excited and to encourage the team to win
What is a pep rally
Left arm is up in high v position and right arm is lowered and comes across your chest and to the left side.
What is a K
When you hit the layout position then look over your shoulder and pul your arms to one side.
What is a full
When your leg is behind you and you use your hands to pull your leg up
What is a scorpion
One leg is out to the side and the other is bent behind you out to the other side
What is a Herkie
Used to inspire enthusiasm from the crowd usually during an athletic competition. Specific to every school, and is usually a decades old tradition.
What is a fight song
You hit this after you land a jump
What is a clean
When you rotate twice in the tucked position
What is a double back tuck
When one arm is in a high V and the other is grabbing the foot, pulling it up towards the head; leg pointed to the side
What is a heal stretch
Who is the Herkie named after?
Who is Lawrence Herkimer
Name one president who was a cheerleader
Franklin D. Roosevelt (Harvard College), Dwight D. Eisenhower (West Point), Ronald Reagan (Eureka College) and George W. Bush (Phillips Academy)