YMCA Cheer Classes Plan

YMCA Cheerleading:
Ages: 6-18

• Must have multiples of 4 for each team

• No more than 20 on each team

• Request gymnastics coach (Because I do not have a background in tumbling or gymnastics)

Each member will wear white, non-marking shoes, above the knee athletic shorts (ex: soffe, Nike Pro), tight fitting T-shirt or tank top

• Youth---Ages 5-9

- Basic cheer motions
- Jumps
- Beginner tumbling
- Chants for football and basketball
- Basic cheer dancing
- Beginner stunting
- Beginner conditioning to promote health and increase stamina
- Introduce cheer stretches for flexibility

Practice once a week
1 1/2 hour

At end of course perform all dances, chants, jumps, stunts, and tumbling for parents

• Junior---Ages 10-14

- Emphasize importance of staying tight
- Perfect jumps
- Increase tumbling abilities
- Learn chants and sidelines for basketball and football
- Learn multiple cheer dances and band dances
- Continue to further stunting ability
- Increased conditioning to promote health and increase stamina
- Continue stretching techniques for flexibility

Practice twice a week
2 hours each practice

At end of course perform an competition-like routine that showcases the material learned

• Senior---Ages 14-18

(for students wishing to make a high school or college team)
- Help learn tryout material
- Learn school song
- Emphasize importance of staying tight
- Perfect jumps
- Increase tumbling abilities
- Increase ability to learn material quickly and correctly
- Continue to further stunting ability
- Intense conditioning to promote health and increase stamina
- Continue stretching techniques for flexibility
- Participate in mock tryout situations

Practice 3-4 times a week
3 hours each practice

At end of course know all material necessary for tryouts

• Stunt Class---Ages 10-18

- Learn proper stunt technique
- Improve upon current stunting abilities
- Learn stunt progression
- Use strength staining to build muscles necessary for stunting

Practice once a week
2 hours

At end of course perform all known stunts in sequence from easiest to hardest to show progression

• Flexibility and Balance Class---All ages

(for flyers)
- Learn proper stretch technique to avoid pulling muscles while stretching
- Learn new stretches to pull body positions and to gain flexibility in other muscles that help with other aspects in cheer, such as hip flexors and shoulders
- Learn proper technique to pull body positions
- Learn tricks to keeping balance in a stunt
- Practice pulling body positions on ground, in a simulated flying situation, and in the air

Practice once a week

1 hour

At end of course, with significant outside work, be significantly more flexible and have better balance in stunts






In a few weeks I'm going to post exactly what we will be doing each class, but I've been hyping this up for so long that I decided that I would just make it a separate post.