How to Prepare for a Jump in Cheerleading

Video Transcript

"Hi! I'm Lucy Spain on behalf of Expert Village here to talk about cheerleading jumps and tumbling. Before we can begin to jump, we need to know the proper preparation for our jumps. First and foremost, our arms are where we're going to get most of our momentum for our jumps. We want to make sure that our arms are properly stretched out. You want to make sure you get a wide rang of motion, because that's how you're going to get your best lift. For most squads, your coach is going to dictate your starting position. This is going to be the most common. We've got our feet touching nice and straight together, our hands on our hips. We always want to make sure our chest stays up. It's really important to keep your chest up. Once you're at this position, the second position you're going to go to is here. This is called the high V in cheerleading. We're going to make sure we hit this next. After that, we start the bending of the knees where we're going to pull our momentum from. Once we start bending at the knees, our arms are going to simultaneously cross in front of us. This right here is going to be the lowest point of your jump. From here, we take all of our momentum from our knees and our arms, swing up into our jump, and land. It's really important that everyone on the squad does the same preparation. When it's fast, this is what it's going to look like. Ready. That's the preparation."