The fun things!

               
            Cheering is definitely a hard working sport, but it's not all work and no fun. The fun things about cheering would be the stunting and the tumbling, but they are the scariest at the same time. The stunting is so fun, because there is so many different stunts that you can do, and they can be really complex, or fairly simple. The most common type of advanced stunting is the pyramid. When people think of these, they think of when the girls get on their knees and stack on top of each other, and that used to be the case but now it's girls being chucked up. My other favorite part of cheering is the tumbling. I love the power and force that you have to put into tumbling, and the accomplishment you feel when you come out of it. There are so many different tumbling passes, but the most "basic" passes you'll see are a back handspring, tuck, layout, layout full (full). A back handspring is where you jump backwards to your hands into a handstand then spring yourself up. The rest of the passes come after a round off back handspring, and a tuck is where you jump up and drive your knees into your chest and go backwards, and a layout is the same thing except you are laying out flat. Then the hardest is the layout full, which is just a layout but while doing that you do a full turn also. These are fun, but in order to learn them you have to have a trainer, so it takes a lot of work and dedication.