Complete cheerleading : [over 100 jumps, stunts, tosses, and other skills for events and competitions

Fire up the fans, inspire the team, and win cheer competitions with the help of __Complete Cheerleading__! This guide is your all-in-one source for mastering the increasingly challenging individual and team techniques of cheering. Packed with jumps, stunts, tosses, and more, this comprehensive book includes more than 100 skills that are essential to clean routines and crowd-pleasing stunts. Almost 200 great photographs show the proper execution of the skills, and two of cheerleading's top coaches provide helpful coaching points throughout the book. Chapters on choreography, competition, and conditioning make this an essential tool for improving both individually and as a squad. Perform with precision and flair. Whether you cheer on a supportive or competitive squad, __Complete Cheerleading__ will make your next event your best yet! In the past decade, cheerleading has lit up the sidelines and become an activity all its own. Attendance at summer camps has grown to more than 500,000 participants annually, and tens of thousands train for regional and national competitions each year, with championships and even college scholarships on the line. As cheerleading continues to grow, so too does the need for a source of information that covers the range of skills, stunts, and moves. Complete Cheerleading provides all the information participants need in order to excel in this highly athletic and increasingly competitive activity. Top cheerleading coaches and judges lend their expert instruction on such crucial topics as body position and movement, voice control, jumps and tumbling, stunt technique, and choreography. There are chapters dedicated solely to games and pep rallies, camps and competition, and practices and conditioning, in addition to XX stunts for all levels of cheer squads. Teaming Justin Carrier, National Cheerleading Association (NCA) director of curriculum, and Donna McKay, cheer coach in Iowa and national judge, this book combines success at the national level, long-term coaching expertise at the high school level, and judging experience at every level. Complete Cheerleading is the all-in-one authoritative source that cheerleaders, coaches, and advisors will turn to from one spirited season to the next. Step-by-step instructions explain how to perform more than one hundred jumps, stunts, tosses, and other skills for cheerleading events and competitions Discusses all aspects of cheerleading, including techniques, choreography, competitions, and training.