Did You Cheer?

Date: Thu May 29 10:16 AM, 2008

Did You Cheer?

NOSEBAG · Senior Member

Yes

Date: Thu May 29 10:31 AM, 2008

I didn't cheer, but I was a Letter Girl for football and basketball games. We wore uniforms and the each girls tops had a different letter and we spelled out the schools name. We yelled the cheers and did arm movements. We were cool....

Date: Thu May 29 10:50 AM, 2008

I cheered for my school but we did competitions too.....however, it was NOTHING like all-star cheer!!!!!

Date: Thu May 29 11:08 AM, 2008

Yes as a matter of fact I was a...
Toe Touchin, Power Punchin
Back Flippin, Stunt Stickin
Loud Yellin, High Flyin,
Spirit Spreadin, Crowd Pleasin
Big Time, Bona Fide
CHEERLEADER
and proud of it!!!

Date: Thu May 29 11:27 AM, 2008

Anonymous wrote:

I cheered for my school but we did competitions too.....however, it was NOTHING like all-star cheer!!!!!

Ditto! Although, that didn't stop me from thinkin I was the ish back when...LOL

Tamara · cheergyms.com Master Poster

I was a cheerleader in junior high and as a freshman when I lived in Missouri. We didn't do ANYTHING! like you all do now...we had ONE girl who was a gymnast previously so she did the backhandsprings and stuff - looking back we weren't very impressive.

Then moved out here to California and the cheerleaders were hated and horrible (this coming from a girl who came from a school where only ONE girl tumbled...gives you an idea how bad it was :) ), so I didn't even consider trying out.

Now remember this was...uugghhh...a long time ago and I realize that not all California high school teams are horrible...just this one was (it may not be anymore...dunno).

Date: Thu May 29 11:35 AM, 2008

Yes I cheered. We did competitions (no music), just told some story or had a theme (Star Wars) LOL. I still remember the one line in our cheer "Our Empire Strikes Back"

And our pyramid was 3 high, where the flyer climbed up the back (pretty scary), and we wore saddle shoes that were slippery on the bottom (but they made a lot of noise when we stomped on the gym floor). The most tumbling we had were the splits and diving forward rolls.

COmomof2 · Senior Member

Yep HS cheer, no comps, nothing like AS at all!
I look back and say why to myself now LOL weirdface

NOSEBAG · Senior Member

Back when I did cheer we did performance cheers (no music) and we would do a sideline dance that was really stupid. My favorite cheer was the one when everybody would introduce themselves by name and you got to do a little jig when it was your turn. like the spilts,high kick,or a jump. evileye

Date: Thu May 29 11:52 AM, 2008

NOSEBAG wrote:

Back when I did cheer we did performance cheers (no music) and we would do a sideline dance that was really stupid. My favorite cheer was the one when everybody would introduce themselves by name and you got to do a little jig when it was your turn. like the spilts,high kick,or a jump.

way back in the days weirdface

NOSEBAG · Senior Member

Anonymous wrote:

NOSEBAG wrote:

Back when I did cheer we did performance cheers (no music) and we would do a sideline dance that was really stupid. My favorite cheer was the one when everybody would introduce themselves by name and you got to do a little jig when it was your turn. like the spilts,high kick,or a jump.

way back in the days

Poopie head

Date: Thu May 29 12:10 PM, 2008

NOSEBAG wrote:

Back when I did cheer we did performance cheers (no music) and we would do a sideline dance that was really stupid. My favorite cheer was the one when everybody would introduce themselves by name and you got to do a little jig when it was your turn. like the spilts,high kick,or a jump.

Those were the best!!

Date: Thu May 29 12:58 PM, 2008

Anonymous wrote:

Yes I cheered. We did competitions (no music), just told some story or had a theme (Star Wars) LOL. I still remember the one line in our cheer "Our Empire Strikes Back"

And our pyramid was 3 high, where the flyer climbed up the back (pretty scary), and we wore saddle shoes that were slippery on the bottom (but they made a lot of noise when we stomped on the gym floor). The most tumbling we had were the splits and diving forward rolls.

HI-LAAAAAR-IOUS! AHAHAHAA OMG I remember those days too.

Date: Thu May 29 12:59 PM, 2008

Anonymous wrote:

NOSEBAG wrote:

Back when I did cheer we did performance cheers (no music) and we would do a sideline dance that was really stupid. My favorite cheer was the one when everybody would introduce themselves by name and you got to do a little jig when it was your turn. like the spilts,high kick,or a jump.

Those were the best!!

Kinda like the SHABOOYA cheer in Bring It On....hahahaha

Date: Thu May 29 1:23 PM, 2008

Oh the memories...
Push em back push em back way baaack....
Lean to the left lean to the right stand up sit down fight fight fight!
Dance done to the theme of Hawaii Five O...

Date: Thu May 29 2:42 PM, 2008

I was on pom pons when I was in high school and returned to coach my high school team a few years later. We competed and won a couple of state championhips. I also, was a cheerleader in college. It was a small college. I even directed a program a few years ago. My oldest daughter was an allstar cheerleader for 7 years who took a break last year. She is going to return to cheer on an open team this next season.

What is funny is that I never even suggested cheerleading to my daughter. She came home one day when she was in sixth grade saying her friends wanted to be on a small all star team that had just started in our town. That was seven years ago.

I have a younger daughter who right now has no interest in cheerleading and loves softball and basketball. You never know, she might get the bug to do it. I am surprised she hasn't with her older sister doing it.

I am curious how many younger sisters or brothers have been inspired to cheer because of their older sibling.

Date: Thu May 29 5:56 PM, 2008

High school and college so long ago noone had ever heard of a cheerleading competition.

Date: Thu May 29 8:44 PM, 2008

We had cheerleaders and song leaders (dancers)

We had to go to every football game, basketball game, rally, everything! We had to wear our cheer uniform all day on fridays.. (spirit days)

And it was a huge uniform then, you had your shell, you had your turtle neck, you had your spankies and your skirt.

I hated it all, but it's what you did.

I would never wish that on my daughter hahahaha

pkb · Veteran Member

Nope, I didn't cheer. My parents refused to let me do it.....I was a "wanna be!"