Cheerleading Hair Style: The Poof

If you're like my squad then you "dress out" whenever there is a away game for football or basketball or even volleyball, tennis, and soccer. So how does the captains come up with a bunch of different hair styles for the week? Here's one very cool look!

 

1. Poof It Up

 

 

You can never go wrong with the traditional cheer poof whether you're dressing this with your uniform at a game or in some camp wear for an away game. Here's the simple steps to get these looks:

 

-Curl your hair, not bangs (I recommend using a wand)

-pull bangs back and bobby pin

-rearrange poof to get the right size

-pin bow over bobby pins

-*if you're going the pony tail pull curled hair in pony tail,

so you won't want to curl your hair up very high or

it might have a ratty look

 



High School or All Stars?

Deciding what type of cheerleading to do can be hard but by listing your pros and cons for both you can narrow down what's right for you.

 

 

All Star Cheerleading

 

 

-daily time commitment

-price ranges from $2,000-$4,500 a season

-more tumbling involved

-cropped uniforms

-traveling

-traveling expenses

-level teams

-bigger bows

-glitzy make up

 

High School Cheerleading

 

-late night games

-price ranges from $500-$1,500

-local competitions

-school year season

-freshman, JV, and varsity teams

-school spirit

 

 

These are just a few little facts about both high school and all star cheerleading. Whichever one you choose it will be fantastic. Both types of cheerleading are amazing! Have fun, and love cheer!

 

Love,

A Cheerleader

 



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How to Make Up Cheers

Making up a cheer is a process but first you have to start by gathering the lyrics before you put it to motions. Here's how to do it!

 

1. What Rhymes

 

Figure out what rhymes with your school's colors or mascots. For examples: White rhymes with fight. Green rhymes with mean. Lion rhymes with tryin')

 

2. What Goes with Winning?

 

Add something about standing up, cheering, clapping, stomp, yelling, you know whatever the crowd would do to get loud and cheer on their team in order to win.

(For example: Let's go blue and white, get on your feet and fight, fight, fight)

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3.  Add A Move

You can add a stomp clap in a certain order so it sounds like a beat.
(For example: stomp, clap, stomp, stomp, clap)
You can do these in between lyrics after giving and order.

 

 

Cheer Examples:

 

 

Hey Hey it's time to fight
Everybody yell blue and white(or any colors)
BLUE AND WHITE!
Hey hey let's do it again
Everybody yell GO FIGHT WIN
Go, Fight, Win!
Go, Fight, Win!

 

 

 

Let's get fired up
Get rough, get tough, get mean
Let's get fired up
and roll right over that team!
(repeat 3 times)

 

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Hope this helps and gets you inspired to create your own cheers for your team!

 

Love,

A Cheerleader

Best Places To Buy Cheer Bows

Here are a few website links to the best places to buy cheerleading bows! By clicking on each title you're taken to the website. It's a quick and easy way to shop for your bows!
(This entry in NO way is sponsored these are just a few of my favorite bow shops and
I want to share them with you.)

-Campus Teamwear

 

-Team Cheer

 

-Bows By Samantha

 

-Cheerleading.com

 

-Power Bows

 

-Sparkle Bows

 

-Live to Cheer Bows

 

-The Ultimate Bow

 

-Cheer Bows Etc.

 

 

I love all of these websites! I myself love, love, love cheer bows they're like the cherry on top of a perfect cheer look so I try to gather as many as possible. Hope you add to your collections with some of these shops!

 

Love,

A Cheerleader

 

Dealing with a Dropped Stunt

Stunting is difficult. You have a flyer flying through the air. A back spot catching the weight. Two bases being the stability of the stunt and with one minor tweek the stunt can come crashing down. How do you deal with a falling stunt not only in practice but during a performance? Coaches take these things to heart when a stunt falls and in most cases there's a consequence for a falling stunt or a flyer hitting the floor. Here're how to recover!

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1. Performance Fail

Your whole school is watching and suddenly the bases' hands slip, the flyer's leg isn't locked, the back spot didn't make the catch. There's that awkward silence until it's recovered. Just make sure to make sure everyone is okay and not hurt, then get up and wait until your cue for the next stunt which can be a sound in the music or simply by counting. If you're 1 of 3 stunts and yours is the only one that falls wait for the next stunt to come down before you try to go up.

2. Practice Fail

With these types of mess ups it's easy to recover. This is the best time to figure out where the stunt went wrong and make sure that this fumble doesn't happen during a performance.


Remember of course to always have a certified coach with you at all times when stunting. Hoped this helped in any way possible.

Love,
A Cheerleader

Designing Your Cheer Box

Designing your first cheer box can be a lot of fun, and it can also involve a lot of thought. You get to pick a design for one side of your box that includes your name and anything else you want! Once you paint it on it's there for all of football season so you want to make it good! Here's a few thoughts to consider when trying to figure out your perfect design.

1. Think Outside of the Box

You don't want a design like everyone else you know your name and a little cheerleader painted next to it. You want something original that you can look back on. If you want to put a sunflower on the side then maybe outline it in glitter, or if you want to put your name in block letters maybe put rhinestones inside the letters for an extra pop.

2. Unique and Meaningful

If you're like me, you want whatever is on your box to have a meaning not just some random duck painted on it. Say your family symbol is a cow because of whatever reason, you could put your name in blue (or any color that involves your school colors) and make the background a cow print.

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3. Friendship Boxes

Maybe your best friend is on the squad and you want to match your boxes with hers. You can make half of a heart on one box and the other half on the other. That way when you put them together it makes a whole heart and your guy's names on the sides.

4. Progressing

I really love this idea because it's so unique and will be really cool if you stay on cheer for all 4 years, the 1st year you put a caterpillar the next year is a cocoon, your junior year is a breaking cocoon with one wing coming out and your senior year is a beautiful butterfly. If you take pictures of it each year and put them together it'll make a really cute collage.

5. Traditional

Since it is your first year you can always just go simple and paint your name in a cool font and maybe your mascot or school symbol next to it. Remember you hopefully have 3 more years after your 1st to step it up a notch!

Designing your box should be super fun not stressful. Most squads have a team bonding when doing this and you all come together at one house to make them, so if you're not the best drawer or painter you can ask a friend to maybe paint it for you. It still has the same thought and meaning but hey it may look nicer. I hope all of these tips helped you out. Always remember to think outside "the box."

Love,
A Cheerleader

How to Ask Your Parents If You Can Join Cheerleading

The sport of cheerleading can be expensive and when high school tryouts are usually around March-May the expenses can hit you hard. Then there's always those parents who believe everything they see in the movies and go by the cheerleading stereotype and refuse to allow their child to be a part of it. Here's a few tips on how to get your parents to allow you to join your school or gym's cheerleading squad!

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1. Give Info

Gather all of the information needed, and answer their unanswered questions before hand. Call the cheer coach and ask things like the commitment level (which is always very high). Get the following questions, and answers and put them on a piece of paper or in a power point and show your parents.

-Cost
-Commitment
-Practice Times
-How many squad
-Tryout dates & times
-Game times
-Coaches email and phone number
-Summer practices
-Uniform Fittings
-Tryout requirements

2. Save A Little

If money is an issue then you should meet your parents half way. Do some work around your house or neighborhood or if you're old enough get a job and pay for the majority of the season.

3. Grades

Make sure to let them know that you'll keep up your grades the whole season and remain a student athlete. If your parents are worried cheer will get in the way of your school work then set up a G.P.A goal that you have to maintain. To be on a sport you have to have at least a 2.0 to get a Varsity School Athlete patch you need a 3.5.

4. Requirements

Make sure to meet all of the requirements. For more information on this visit the page Cheer FUNdaments.

Just remember that no one knows your parents like you do, and if you get involved in something you need to stick to it. Hope this helps with you following yours dreams!

Love,
A Cheerleader

Team Bonding Ideas

Getting to know your team is key especially since you just meant all of these people that you'll be spending a whole season with! Here's a few ideas on what to do with your squad this season!

1. Sleepover

The most cliché and common team bonding. It's really fun though, hanging out with all of your teammates, watching movies, and working on cheer motions and dances with each. Just remember to never gossip as hard as it is. It just leads to so much trouble especially since you don't know who's friends with who. Just eat, have fun, and get to know each other.

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2. Amusement Parks/Areas

Although expensive these places can be fun, but when I mean amusement parks I don't just mean Disneyland, Knott's, Six Flags, or Universal Studios, it could also be Mini Golf, or Laser Tag.

3. Mall

Go to the mall, and hang out. You can get something to eat and shop around. It's always fun just trying on cute dresses even if you don't have money. Instagram pictures are a must!

4. BBQ/Pot Luck

This is great during the summer, because you can have everyone bring a certain food and eat as a "family." It's best if you do it at a house with a pool so everyone can swim and be outside. Pool parties with BBQ's are fun and get the parents involved too!

5. Charity

Charity is great to do and even better to when you're with your squad. With more people the job gets done faster and you're doing a great thing together. Somethings you can volunteer for are Walks for a cause, toy donations like making stuffed animals together and donating them, or having a food drive.

6. Team Building

You don't have to spend a ton of money to get to know your team, just go to a shady park and do some team bonding games you can look up like the rope game where you make a bunch of squares in a rope and have to get through it without touching it, or play the human pretzel and hold hands and untangled.

These are a few team bonding events you can have with your squad, I hope you get to know your squad and start bonding and building friendships with them!

Love,
A Cheerleader

 

Answering Your Questions

So I recently added a Question box at the bottom right of the Home page and I got a few good questions I'd like to answer for you guys! (names and emails are not released; I respect my bloggers privacy, thanks for asking)

 

 

1. I'm going to be a cheerleader this upcoming school year when I'm a freshman and I'm nervous the older girls will be mean. will they? will they help me out or just make fun of me?

There's always gonna be those girls who think they're better than everyone else. Sometimes they're seniors and sometimes they're the same age as you. I'm sure there's gonna be at least one nice senior who is willing to help you out when you need help all you have to do is ask and have a good judgment of character. These girls are usually the captains.

2. im supeeerr forgetful and im scared im gonna loose a part of my uniform or the uniform itself! help!
Don't worry. Once you get your uniform you are protective over it as stupid as it sounds. You know that your parents paid a lot for it and you can't cheer without it, so trust me when I say you won't lose your uniform, as for your other camp wear, shoes or poms just make sure to keep track of your stuff by putting it away when you change.

3. I don't even know how I got hear but I love how you did a entry about boy cheerleaders. mad respect!

Not really a question, but okay! Thank you!

4. Cheerlebrity Chat is cute you should do it on Erica Englebert from CEA

I agree! Erica is great I'll try to get on that soon. I have a lot of entries I'd like to do, and Ill add that to my list.

5. I read disagreements with your coach and it is so right I have this girl who is always running her mouth and trying to change things, it's so annoying. Do you have a gurl like that

I think we all have a girl like that but yours sounds a little worse. If there's a problem ask your coach about it.

6. I've been reading your blog and it's really great it reminds me of the youtube channels people have. you really helped me decide cheerleading is for me even if im starting at 16
I love Youtube cheer channel especially cheeradvice4you and hdbug. I'm really touched that I helped you! Thanks for your support and good luck in cheer.

7. Don't waste your time with this shit no one cares, deuces

Well some people are mean...

8. im in love with Robert!

HE'S AWESOME!

Well thanks to all of you that sent these questions, I hope you recognize them and get the answer you were looking for. If you have a question you can use the Contact box on the home page! Thanks guys!

Love,
A Cheerleader

Cheer Practice Snacks

Going to practice in the morning can be tiring and that's usually why you skip breakfast and show up to practice hungry. Not good! Here's a few nutritious snacks you can take on the go to cheer practice.

 

So those are the drinks and snacks I recommend to you in order to stay healthy and keep it cool in those hot summer practices.

 

Love,

A Cheerleader

Uniform Fitting Tips

Uniform Fittings are usually around this time of the year. They're rushed orders for cheer camp and it's probably really crazy. How do fittings work? For my squad we go in the gym and there's tables with tons of skirts, shells, liners, jackets, camp wear, etc. all over. You just start changing into whatever you have to and have the VARSITY rep write down your sizes and then take your form. Here's a few tips when getting fitted!

1. Don't Be Shy

Sure you're undressing in front of people you barely know but it's just like P.E in middle school. Just do what you have to do and get out of there.

2. Don't Wear A Thong

If you have to change in the open (like my squad) then you shouldn't have your cheeks exposed. If you wear thongs on a daily basis I'm sure skipping one day won't kill you. It might also make other people uncomfortable even if you're not.

3. Size It Right

Make sure to try EVERYTHING on! Even if you know your shorts and shirt size try it on any ways because it will really suck when it's time to wear your clothes and nothing fits. Don't be embarrassed then try it all on.

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4. If the Shoe Fits
 
Try on all pairs of the shoes. If you have a new brand this year maybe the sizes are different so make sure you get the right size. What I like to do is do a toe touch or two to see if you're loose. I also walk around in them for a minute just to test them out.

 

 

What's usually included in your uniform?
It depends on your squad's supplier. My squad is supplied by Varsity like most here's what it usually covered in your cost.

-Shell (the top)
-Skirt
-Liner (the removable long sleeve part)
-bloomers (for under the skirt)
-Cheer Shoes (nike)
-Warm-Up Jacket
-Sweatpants
-3 Camp wear shirts
-2 Camp wear bottoms
-1 hair bow
-2 pom-poms

Hope all of these short tips help you with your fittings. Have a great season in your uniform!

Love,
A Cheerleader