You're sitting on your box and the crowd is chanting and yelling at the players. They may be good things. They could be bad things. Either way it's your job to start up the spirit and get the crowd roaring. But when do you call it? What do you call? How can you tell?
You always want to call a cheer within the first ten minutes of being set up and on your boxes. Most squads do the same cheer each game as a bit of a warm up or intro. After that whenever you get the chance you should call a cheer. General/basic cheers are always the safe way to go especially if the team is switching back and forth from offense to defense and you can't keep up. You can call general or basic cheers during time outs, gaps between changes, good and bad calls, and touch downs of course!
Make sure that when you call the cheer you're loud and everyone can hear you. Most squad's captains yell "SET" and everyone gets ready. Make sure to yell it loud so no one is left confused on their box. When you call the cheer or yell last time make sure that's loud also so that the cheer doesn't drag on longer than it should.
What cheers do you call when?
Opening-Cheer with school name/getting fired up
Good Call- victory cheer
Bad Call- a it's okay, or pump it up cheer
Touch Down- touch down or victory cheer
Remember to always rally after every cheer then set back on your box.
Hope all of these tips helped, have fun learning and calling all the cheers!
Love,
A Cheerleader
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