How to Practice Material for Cheerleading Tryouts

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"Hi, my name is Lucy Spain on behalf of Expert Village here to talk about an introduction to cheerleading. Now that we have the learning part of our tryouts, you are usually going to be given about 30 minutes to spread out on your own in your school area or either the community center area, wherever you are trying out and practice and master these skills by yourself. First and foremost, I would say go ahead and tackle your cheer. You are going to want to do that with a group just to make sure you have your motions right. You might of learned in your cheer you might of seen this when really the motion is this so you just want to make sure you get with a couple of other girls. It's best to have 3 or 4 people not too many cause that can get a little bit too talkie so you are basically there to learn. So it's good to have other girls once you have practiced in a group, your cheer I would go ahead and go over your dance. Now you are not going to be able to practice with the music cause it's impossible for 150 girls to be practicing with the music all at once. You are going to want to make sure we use the counts that we talked about earlier for each beat in the music there is going to be a count. It really helps to do that out loud even if you seem silly you are still going to want to do 1 2 3 4 don't be afraid same goes with your cheer. When you are doing your cheer in your corner, you don't want to be going "here we go team this is what I remember from the cheer", go ahead and be voicetrous "go team go team", do what you learned in the cheer. Cause that's going to help you do a better performance in the end. Definitely stunt that is something you need to practice with your group of girls so you are going to have to coordinate and get together. Tumbling and jumping I would practice alone for some girls will form a jump circle go around one at a time and get feedback on how you can improve your jumps. Now that you have practiced, you are ready to go so you need to take a seat and take a deep breath and get ready to perform these awesome material we just mastered."