All About the Chants for Cheerleading

Video Transcript

"Hi! I'm Lucy Spain on behalf of Expert Village. I'm going to show you some cheerleading squad cheers today. We're going to talk about chants and I'm going to demonstrate some that you can take to your squad. Another thing you can do besides cheers at a game are chants. Chants are going to be shorter simplified versions of cheers and a really great way to get your crowd involved in what you're doing. The basis of a chant is going to be usually 5 words or less of a statement you can repeat 3 times. After 3 times, it usually is enough and you're going to want to stop it. However, if it's a defense or offense or crowd rally cheer, you can keep going as many times as you feel appropriate. An example of a chant that we would do on the sidelines would be go team go team go. We're going to repeat that 3 times and then we're going to stop. A really great prop you can use when you're doing chants are poster boards that we can use to get the crowd involved in. You can write whatever you want on the front and also the back. It's really nice to be able to say go, go, give your crowd a chance, green, green, and give them a chance to read it back to you. It's a really nice way to get the crowd involved. The repetition is simple. You're not going to throw people off with the words and they're really going to feel like they're part of the cheering as well."