eHow launches Android app: Get the best of eHow on the go.

Cheerleading Cheers: Defense

Video Preview

Summary: In cheerleading, encourage a team to play defensively by spelling out D-E-F-E-N-S-E with the cheerleader's arms. Find out how to do a defense cheer with tips from an experienced cheerleader in this free video about cheerleading stunts and chants.

Views:
1,462
Presenter
By Lucy Spain
eHow Presenter

Lucy Spain has been cheerleading and cheer stunting for more than 10 years. She has trained with the Impact Athletics & Fitness Center. Spain also cheered for four years at Lees-McRae...read more

Click Here

Post a Comment

Post a Comment

Video Transcript

"The next cheer we are going to learn is going to be a defense or offense cheer. Make sure you know which direction your team is going. If your team switches directions during the middle of the cheer you can feel free to switch the words over. This is what the cheer is going to look like. DEFENSE defense Bobcats let's go. So we are going to start out with our right arm in a high V and our left arm is going to be in a broken low V so this is going to be D for E F we are going to switch it down like so so basically we start it out DEF now we are going to take our left arm and completely switch it over, EN and so it is the same motion just pulled over. So far we have DEF and then we're going to go EN and you just pulled it down and basically you are just switching the motions back and forth. DEF now for EN we are going to go EN and we have our right hand on our hip and our left arm is out in a low V. So from the top, DEFENS we are just going to switch the motion so the right arm is in a high V. Take that from the top, DEFENS for E you are just going to pop that left arm up into the high V position and next we have got claps DEFENSE Bobcats lets go. So this is what we call a right punch. On the let's go we are going to come out of our clasp put your left arm on your hip, step forward, punch that right arm up and keep your elbow close to your ear and you have just completed the defense cheer. From the back it is going to look like this, DEFENSE, Defense Bobcats lets go. And you just completed your defense or offense cheer."

eHow Article: Cheerleading Cheers: Defense

Related Ads

  • Have you done this? Click here to let us know.
Get Free Sports & Fitness Newsletters

Copyright © 1999-2009 eHow, Inc. Use of this web site constitutes acceptance of the eHow Terms of Use and Privacy Policy.   en-US Portions of this page are modifications based on work created and shared by Google and used according to terms described in the Creative Commons 3.0 Attribution License.

eHow Sports and Fitness
eHow_eHow Sports and Fitness