CHEERDANCE

CHEERDANCE
CHEERDANCE
- is coined from the words, Cheer and Dance.
- To cheer is to shout out words or phrases that

may help motivate and boost the morale of a
playing team and perform better during a game.
- Dance, on the other hand, is a physical activity

where one expresses emotions or gestures while
performing bodily movements usually in time with
rhythm.
Cheerdancing rooted from
cheerleading
Cheerleading is the performance of a
routine, usually dominated by
gymnastic skills such as jumps,
tumbling skills, lifts and tosses
combined with shouting of cheers and
yells to lead the crowd to cheer for a
certain team during a game or sport.
Cheerleading History
• Cheerleading is an organized sports activity

involving short routines that combine dance,
gymnastics, and stunt elements to cheer on
teams, most commonly football. Performers of
these one to three-minute routines are called
"cheerleaders". Cheerleading originated in Britain
and spread to the United States where it remains
most common, but has also become popular in
other parts of the world, such as Europe, Central
America, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, and
Asia.
• Cheerleading dates to the 1860s, in
Great Britain, and entered the US in
the 1880s.
• Although women currently dominate

the field, cheerleading was begun by
men.
• In the 1920s women became involved in cheerleading.
And that's because there weren't many intercollegiate
sports available to them at the time. The lady yellers
sported ankle-length skirts and varsity sweaters.
Minnesota continued to lead the sport of cheer into
widespread popularity. Female cheer squads began to
include gymnastics, dance and other showy stunts into
routines, and in the 1930s cheers were aided by the use
of paper pom-poms (the first vinyl pom-poms weren't
manufactured until 1965). By the1940s women were
mainly leading the cheers, and routines took on a voice
their own.
• Modern cheerleading as we know it today
began in the 1980s with flashy dance
routines and gymnastics stunts. By 1997
cheerleading was recognized as an
independent sport, attracting national
attention. It wasn't until 1999 that the sport
of cheerleading was met with official
approval. And with the onset cable sports
TV, ESPN, cheerleading was on the map.
Lawrence Herkimer, "Grandfather of
Cheerleading"
Lawrence "Herkie" Herkimer is a legend and
innovator in the field of cheerleading. He founded
the National Cheerleaders Association at Southern
Methodist University, holding cheerleading camps
since 1948. His first camp drew 52 girls and one
boy. His camps have since grown to more than
twenty thousand attendees. He founded the
Cheerleading Supply Company in 1953, patenting
the first pompoms, or pom-pons.
Lawrence Herkimer, "Grandfather of
Cheerleading"
Herkimer chose to call them "Pom-pon"
when he learned that the word "pom-pom" in
other languages contained vulgar meanings.
His pom-pon with the hidden handle was
patented in 1971. Herkimer created the
"Herkie" cheerleading jump by accident
when he intended to perform a split jump.
• Cheerleading in the Philippines officially
emerged in 1993 when the Cheerleading
Philippines Federation (CPF) was officially
founded. The CPF is the “is the national
confederation of Cheerleading
organizations. It is the national governing
body of Cheerleading and Cheer Dance in
the country
• Due to Filipinos love for dancing, they
added more dance routines to their
cheers and came up with the term
cheer dance wherein it is a routine
composed of yells and cheers,
gymnastic skills pyramids and tosses,
stunts, tumbling skills, arm and hand
positions and jumps, and dance fusion
of different dance genres.
• Today, cheer dancing is identified
as one of the most spectacular
events in one of the biggest
collegiate sports events in the
country, the UAAP University
Athletic Association of the
Philippines.
Roles in cheerleading
• The three main positions of

cheerleading are the base, bakspot,
and flyer. Although there are only
three main positions in cheer, there
are many cheerleaders that take on
these positions during a routine; More
than one cheerleader on a squad can
be a flyer, backspot, or base.
3 elements in cheer dance routine
•The main parts of

cheerleading include
jumps, stunting, and
tumbling.
BASIC CHEERLEADING MOTION

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- To cheer is to shout out words or phrases that

- Dance, on the other hand, is a physical activity

• Cheerleading is an organized sports activity

• Although women currently dominate

• The three main positions of

•The main parts of

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