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From Quick Guide: High School Cheerleading Basics

Summary: The most important part of learning the splits for cheerleading is stretching properly. Practice the splits for cheerleading with tips from an experienced cheerleader in this free video on cheerleading stunts.

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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

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"Hi, I'm Lucy Spain here to show you how to do splits in cheerleading. Cheerleading splits are a commonly used pose to do when you're doing a cheerleading formation. You can also use these splits in your stunts as well, once the fliers have gotten good at them. It's important to make sure you stretch out when doing a cheerleading split. We're going to concentrate on the left and right splits. This is going to be a right split with your right leg out forward. First we want to start out with our right leg forward. We're going to stretch forward. Make sure your knee is at a ninety-degree angle. We don't want our knee to go past our toe. So we're going to stretch forward into it. After you do this stretch for about fifteen seconds, you want to lean back and stretch the underneath of the leg. Stay back in this stretch for about fifteen minutes. You can lean your chest forward on this one as well. After that, you can simply slide into your split. A common pose you can use is the high V once you're in your split. That's the right split. The left split is going to be the exact same thing to the other side. Ninety degree angle. Make sure we get a nice stretch on the inside of your thigh, lean back and stretch the underneath of our leg, and we're going to slide into our left split and hit our high V. The last split is going to be a middle split. That's going to be when you're facing forward. This is the most difficult and will take the most prep to get into. You can stretch for this one by simply going down over both legs. You can do a squat stretch and then into your middle split. And that is how you do a cheerleading split."

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