Building a Cheerleading Team

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" On behalf of expertvillage.com my name is Hung. I am a coach for the Cheer Odyssey Rockets team. I'm talking a little bit about advanced cheerleadering here. You can have a maximum of 35 kids in a squad. Your main goal is to make it to nationals, and what they have new over the past couple of years is what they call a worlds. It is the best of the best of cheerleadering. They all gather in Florida to compete. As far as team wise if your are a advance team you have tryouts and you pretty much groom them to where you want them to be. Level 5 is all star it is as high as you can go for the advance level. Level 6 that is going into a open teams or college teams. As for as routine wise music selection you can pick a variety of music selection. What I did this year I picked a theme. What you do is you go through and pick the music that has the words or your theme in it. A routine consists of 2 minutes and 30 seconds you can not go over that time limit. Choreography and process of the routine like I said you have to make a routine that is 2 minutes and 30 seconds long. You must pick out your music, and mix it. Music has sound effects to it just like in your routine when you hitting your stunts action or when you are tumbling you hit your landing there is what you call a sound effect that goes with each motion of the tumbling. In over all routine process it takes about a good 2 to 3 months to get a team that knows each other very well to preform with each other. To preform these difficult skills. My group started in May, and after nationals we trained all the way through August. As far as tumbling goes and after tumbling we started the routine in August, and that normally goes into the end of October. "