How To Lead Cheers

Many sports would simply not be complete without peppy, cute, and talented girls leading cheers along the side lines. Their cheers are intended to rev up the crowd, which brings increased energy to the sporting event and hopefully better play from the home team. But, what might seem a simple job is actually one that requires lots of practice and a fair amount of skill. Leading cheers for a squad requires a certain attitude and personality - here's how to pull it off and do it well.

Cheer routines can consist of a variety of stunts and moves and can be both gymnastic and dance-like. If you're learning how to lead cheer routines for sporting events, be sure your team has a coach who can properly teach you various moves. At times, cheerleading can be a very dangerous sport, so it is important that techniques and skills are learned safely and correctly to prevent injury. Because cheer routines are often full of jumps, twists, turns, and dance moves, it is important for anyone leading cheers to be energetic and in shape. If you live on the couch and eat nothing but potato chips or you're just not into being loud and exciting, cheerleading is probably not the best thing to head into.

Another aspect of being a cheerleader is that of being bubbly and personable. You've got to wear a smile and be excited when you're leading cheers no matter how you might feel. The crowd isn't going to get into the cheers or the game if you aren't. Cheerleaders are there to lead the crowd in cheers, both in words, actions, and attitude!

When leading cheers, smile! Get the team to be creative and bold. You want to be boisterous without being obnoxious. Make your routines exciting to get people's attention, and face the crowd while performing. Eye contact is an important part of leading cheers as well. Cheerleaders should not be looking at their feet or off into space.

The point of leading cheers is to get other people to join in with you. With this reality in mind, keep the cheers simple and to the point. You can have places where you want the crowd to repeat after you or lines that they should say along with you. You can offer instructions like, "when I say this, you say this", or "when I jump, everyone shouts".

The main idea of leading cheers is to keep cheers exciting and engaging while being concise, easy-to-follow, and directly rooting for the home team.