Stunting

Another way of being a good cheerleader is stunting. Stunting is a huge part of cheerleading, and helps keep the crowd entertained. Stunting is when your backspot and bases up the flyer up in the air and the flyer does really cool things. There are many different kinds of stunts like doing a half, extension, liberty, heal stretch, aerobesque, ram, scale, scorpion, bow and arrow, quepie, chin-chin, there are also pyramids that look soooo cool! It is when all stunt groups come together and the flyers connect and they do some crazy things like throw the flyer to a different stunt group and have her twist a certain way or lift other flyers up with other flyers under her as the base. Stunting is all about what you make it to be and how creative you can get with pyramids and in the end all the hard work pays off because everything looks perfect and neat. You also have basket tosses (my personal favorite). The bases put their hands together holding each others wrists to form a square and the flyer steps on the top of their hands with the balls of her feet... being VERY light weight holding herself up and keeping her chest up and then the bases throw her with everything they have and the flyer will either do a toe touch or something really cool in the air for example, a kick double or single. Basket tosses are very dangerous and it is really important to catch your flyer even if she's flying the other way! Any kind of stunts are really dangerous and it is always important you practice them because you do not want to go out looking like an idiot and falling in front of everyone.