Jumps are a very important part of cheerleading. Wether it's its youth, middle school, high school, college or allstar cheerleading, they play a very very big role. There are 5 main jumps. The toe-touch, pike, herkie, tuck, and hurdler. The picture shown above is a Toe-touch. Below are tutorials and article about these specific jumps.
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This is a list of cheerleading jumps.
- Toe-Touch
- In this jump, the legs are straddled and straight, parallel to the ground, toes pointed, knees are back, and your hands are in daggers and arms are straight in front of you. Despite its name, you do not touch your toes during a toe touch, you reach out farther in front of your legs. keep your back straight and bring your legs up to you. This is the most common jump.
- Tuck
- A jump in which the cheerleader uses stomach muscles to pull the legs up with thighs as close to the chest as possible, knees facing upward as if in a tucked position.
- Hurdler
- The straight leg is either forward (a front hurdler) with arms in a touchdown, or out to the side (a side hurdler) with arms in a T. The bent knee faces the crowd in a side hurdler and the ground in a front hurdler.
- Pike
- This jump is among the most difficult of jumps. Both legs are straight out, knees locked. Arms are in a touchdown motion out in front to create a folded position in the air, this motion is also called "candlesticks". This is often performed at a ninety-degree angle to the audience in order to show off the air position.
- Herkie
- Named for Lawrence R. Herkimer, the founder of the National Cheerleader's Association, this jump is similar to a side-hurdler, except that instead of both arms being in a "T" motion, both arms are opposite of what the leg beneath them is doing. Example of this would be the straight arm would be on the side of the bent leg, and the bent arm is on the side of the straight leg. One other variation of this includes the bent leg is pointing straight down, instead of out like the side-hurdler. The jump is speculated to have been invented because Herkie was not able to do an actual side-hurdler.
Left Side: the leg to the audience is tucked in while the other is out. Right side: same as left also turn the left/right while appraoching the jump!!
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And here are step by step tutorials again if you need a little more information.
