How to Do Standing Round Offs in Cheerleading

Video Transcript

"I'm Mandy Butler on behalf of Expert Village and we're going to talk about tumble track warm ups today. Now we're going to do a standing round off rather than round off from the knee, which we just did. It's the same concept, just your back leg is not on the ground. The reason I'm having you do it from a standing position before I take you to a running position is so you have the correct round off technique before you try to run into it. A lot of people teach running round offs before they teach standing round offs. Then by the time they've gotten enough energy and enough momentum to run across the floor, they don't have the correct body position and they're a little too sloppy. What you're going to do is get in a nice lunge just as you did in a standing cartwheel position. Again, notice how wide my lunge is. I'm going to lean forward in my round off. I'm reaching forward because just like my cartwheel, my round off should be as long as my body. No wider than my hips and my shoulders, which means I'm not reaching to the side of my body, but reaching between my shoulders, turning my hands. My arms are up above my head, I'm driving by lifting my back leg. This is a standing round off."