Tumbling

Cheerleading isn't all just about looking cute and screaming go fight win, theres more to it. We cheer, dance, stunt, and most of all we tumble! No we arent like gymnastics but we just do the tumbling part and that is really hard at times. Tumbling causes a lot of injuries to cheerleaders. Most of our injuries is becasue of tumbling, it looks really cool to watch but it takes a lot of hard work in the gym to get to where we are. First there is your back hand spring and then your flip flop, then multiple flip flops, back tuck, lay-out, finally you got your full! Tumbling is all upper body strength and strength in your legs. Learning how to tumble at an older age is a lot harder than it is when your younger. I promise! Tumbling never use to be a big part of cheerleading till about 4 years ago (not for high school at least). Now your whole varisty cheer squad needs to have tumbling more than flip flops in order to make it to state! It gets very competitive now. There is more to cheerleading than you think and a lot of this requires a lot of muscle! Most sports your running back and forth... but this one we lift eachother and ourselves.