TEAM SKILLS

▶️ 1. Watch Video & Listen: "Learn Cheerleading: Cheer Arm Motions"

💡IMPORTANT INFO! Hand formation = blades, fists, big swirl, little swirl

💡IMPORTANT INFO! The 5 P's: punch, power, pathway, position, posture

▶️ 2. Watch Video & Practice in the Mirror: "Cheerleading Motions & Basics" (🛑stop at 7:18)

💡IMPORTANT INFO! Be sharp, not sloppy

💡IMPORTANT INFO! Motions: clean ~ clap ~ clasp ~ high-v ~ low-v ~ right/left high-v ~ right/left low-v ~ table top/daggers ~ T ~ broken T ~ right/left T ~ right/left punch ~ step clap

🚧 3. Practice ALL the motions in the mirror until they look perfect! Pay attention to the 5 P's.

🚨 Make sure you're NOT making these mistakes: "Common Cheer Motion Mistakes | Cheer HQ"

▶️ 4. Watch Video & Learn: "Cheerleading Motion Drill | Cheer HQ"

📄 Use the Google Doc to help you memorize & practice the Motion Drill.

📢PART A: ARMS

    ⏯️ Watch Video & Learn: "How to do a Cheer Jump | Cheer HQ"

    💡IMPORTANT INFO: high-v jump vs. a whip jump

🚨👮🏻‍♂️⚠️NEVER do jumps without a proper warm up!!🚨👮🏻‍♂️⚠️

📢PART B: WARM UP

    •25 jumping jacks

    •25 bunny hops

    •15 high knees

    •15 butt kicks

    •frog pose (60 sec)

    •half splits (30 sec each side)

    •pancake fold (60 sec)

    •butterfly (60 sec)

    •pigeon pose (30 sec each side)

    •wall straddle (60 sec)

📢PART C: TOE TOUCHES 

    ⏯️ Watch Video & Learn: "How to DO/IMPROVE your toe touch!- "cheer jump" tutorial"

    🚨 Do 10 reps of each exercise then practice 5-10 toe touches

📢PART D: HURDLERS

    ⏯️ Watch Video & Learn: "HURDLER JUMP DRILLS!"

    💡Right Hurdler = right leg straight, left leg bent, and facing 45° right

    💡Left Hurdler = left leg straight, right leg bent, and facing 45° left

    🚨 Do 10 reps of each exercise then practice 5 right hurdlers and 5 left hurdlers

📢PART E: PIKES

    ⏯️ Watch Video & Learn: "How to Do Pike Jumps in Cheerleading"

    ⏯️ Watch Video & Do: "Cheer Jump Drills for Pike Jumps - Improve your Jumps - How to jump higher | The Pro Cheerleader"

    🚨 Do 10 reps of each exercise then practice 5-10 pikes

🚧Practice jumps ALL WEEK in the mirror until they look perfect!

     🚨 Make sure you're NOT making these mistakes: "Common Cheer Jump Mistakes | Cheer HQ"

📢PART F: VIDEO

    🚨 Practice until you feel sharp and powerful!

    🎥 When you feel your BEST, video yourself doing 1 toe touch, 1 hurdler, and 1 pike. Upload the video to this assignment.

🎵 Listen to the music until you memorize it: "1999 IUP Marching Band - Cherokee"

🚨Watch the video at 0.8x speed! IUP plays faster than our band! 

⏯️ STEP 1 WATCH: "Cherokee Intro"

🫵You are responsible for perfecting this dance on your own time.

      😭 High schoolers, PLEASE review the counts from the videos!

💃 STEP 2 WATCH & DANCE:

"Cherokee Part 1: L's"

"Cherokee Part 2: Diagnonals"

"Cherokee Part 3: Claps"

"Cherokee Part 4: Dips"

🌟These are BRAND NEW for 2026!🌟

🚨Practice at home every day! (don't forget jumps, too)

🗓️ Tryouts will be the week of July 13. Specific times and dates will release soon!

Dance (Back)

Dance (Front)

Dance Counts (Back)

Dance Counts (Front)

Cheer Part 1: Words

Cheer Part 2: Motions

🗣️CHEER:

Indiana , with all your might 

yell our colors , get loud and fight 

Yell red and white 

(Yell it!) red and white

Indiana , with all your might 

yell our letters , shout out, unite 

Yell I-H-S 

(Yell it!) I-H-S

Indiana , together now 

(Colors) red and white 

(Letters) I-H-S 

(2 more) red and white 

(Louder) I-H-S 

(Last time) red and white 

(C'mon) I-H-S