Video: Full Twist Practice Drills for Cheerleaders

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The superman drill can help cheerleaders learn how to do a full twist. Watch and learn how to do a superman drill and get tips on the correct body position for tumbling in this free advanced cheerleading video lesson.

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Hi my name is Hung. I am the tumbling coach and the coach for the Cheer Odyssey Rockets Team. I'm going to be explaining body position as far as tumbling in advanced cheerleading. 5,6,7,8,1,2,3,4,5,6,Stay back to layouts. This is going to be a layout. Alley is going to jump straight to a candle position. Go straight in to a candle. Nice and tight all the way through. Okay I'm going to spot her here by her hips and shoulders. When she flips around she is going to pull the arms down by her chest. Holding her tight placing her down. That will be a layout position. Going into the full twist. Once you get your cheerleader to preform a layout nice and consistently getting it high and landing it all the time with a good rotation and body line all the way through you can move on to a full twist with the cheerleader. We are going to do what is called a superman drill. Alley is going to jump. Jump through she going to pull her body into a candle position. Once she fills a nice candle position she is look over to the side that she is going to twist through and she is going to land on her belly. It is just like if she was flying. Here we go 1,2 good back down. You want to do a full twist. Just jump into a candle to me.1,2 spin up,, pull her arms into her chest and I spot her through. Let's do it on more time. Let's do it a little faster this time without stopping. 1,2 full twist and a layout position. Once again you spot the back. One two do a full twist.

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Full Twist Practice Drills for Cheerleaders

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