GOOD DAY

STUDENTS
SIR GILBERT N. LAJARA

PHYSICAL EDUCATION
AND HEALTH 12
Cheer Dancing/
Cheerleading
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
1. Identify the nature and background of
Cheerdance
2. Explain the different elements of
Cheerdance
3. Perform a cheer dance routine
applying the essential skills in Cheer
dancing
Is it Cheerdancing? Or
Cheerleading?
 The difference between
Cheerleading and Cheerdancing is
that cheerleading has its foundation
in Gymnastics. And as for
Cheerdance, it's foundation lies in
the Choreography where Ballet
seems to be its foundation.
 Cheer Dancing/ Cheerleading

• In almost all sports activities, you can see beautiful girls

and a handful of guys who dress colorfully and do
amazing routines to encourage the crowd to cheer for
their favorite team. Today, this activity is even considered
as a separate competitive sport and there are various
organizations across the globe that regularly hold
competitions and exhibitions for cheerleaders.
What is Cheerleading
Cheerleading is an event
consist of cheers and
organized routines for
sports team motivation,
audience entertainment,
or competition.
 Cheer Dancing/ Cheerleading
• In almost all sports activities, you can
see beautiful girls and a handful of guys
who dress colorfully and do amazing
routines to encourage the crowd to
cheer for their favorite team. Today,
this activity is even considered as a
separate competitive sport and there
are various organizations across the
globe that regularly hold competitions
and exhibitions for cheerleaders.
 Cheer Dancing/ Cheerleading

• It is no secret that cheerleading originated in

the United States, with an estimated 1.5
million Americans participating in high-profile
competitions. Although the sport is mostly
dominated by females, did you know that it
started out as an all-male activity in the late
1800s? With most teams featuring female
members today, you cannot quite imagine
that men during those times were interested
in such an activity.
Cheer Dancing/ Cheerleading

• It all began in Princetown

University. Records show that as
early as 1877, there were organized
crowds of students who yell from
the stands using chants and cheers
they created themselves to
encourage players at football,
rugby, and basketball games.
Cheer Dancing/ Cheerleading

• Princeton alumnus Thomas Peebles

moved to Minnesota in 1884 and
brought the idea of organized
crowd cheering to the University of
Minnesota. However, it wasn't until
the 1890s that the first of the
world's cheerleaders was known.
Cheer Dancing/ Cheerleading
• Johnny Campbell was recognized as such
on November 2, 1898 when he directed a
crowd in cheering for the University of
Minnesota's football squad. That day was
also the official birth date of organized
cheerleading. Then, the University of
Minnesota decided to organize a "yell
leader" squad that was composed of six
male students who used Campbell's
original cheer.
So how did women get involved in
this physical activity?
How did they get into
cheerdancing/cheerleading?
 Perhaps due to the lack of collegiate
sports for women during those times
(since sporting events were limited to
male athletes), many female students
were encouraged to join cheering
squads. But for the first 25 years of this
sport, male students were the only ones
who were allowed to join cheering
teams and pep squads.
Women began to dominate
cheerleading during the
1920s up to World War II,
when most men were sent to
serve the army.
 During this period, cheerleading became
something more than chanting and
cheering. Cheers became more elaborate
and pep squad members introduced
various athletic moves, acrobatics, and
fight song team dances to further increase
crowd participation during sporting
events. Also, various training camps were
also organized for those who want to
improve their cheering and athletic skills.
 Today, this fun yet challenging
activity is no longer limited to the
US. In many parts of the world,
including Australia, there are dozens
of squads, teams, and dance clubs
that regularly participate in various
local and international events.
 In the early 1980s,
cheerleading squads not
associated with a schools
or sports leagues, whose
main objective was
competition, began to
emerge.
 The first organization to call
themselves all stars and go to
competitions were the Q94
Rockers from Richmond,
Virginia, founded in 1982.
Elements of
cheer Dance
Routine
 Dance technique
• Depending on the competition requirements,
various dance techniques maybe use in cheer
dance competition. Some squads prefer
contemporary dance techniques, while others
incorporate several techniques such as jazz,
hiphop, modern dance, contemporary ballet
and ethnic or folk dance.
 Elements of cheer
• Cheers are coordination of organized
words and movements relating to an
athletic event.
• These are use during sport events when
play has been stopped on the field or
court.
• The purpose is to draw a unified
response from the crowd to highlight
their support for the playing team.
 Basic Gymnastic skills
•Cheer dance incorporates
gymnastic skills such as
jumps and tumbling to add
to the thrill of the game and
the effect of the routine.
 BASIC CHEER MOTION

BEGINNING
STANCE CHEER STANCE CLASP CLAP HIGH V
Feet together, Feet more than Hands Hands in blades, Arms extended
hands down by shoulder, hands clasped, at the at the chin, up forming a “V”
the side in down by the chin level, elbows in relax the
blades side in blades elbows in shoulder
 BOW AND OVERHEAD
LOW
TOUCHDOWN ARROW CLASP
TOUCHDOWN
LOW V Arms extended One arm Arms are
Arms extended
Arms extended straight and extended to straight above
straight down
down forming parallel to each side with other the head in a
and parallel to
a “V” other, fist arm bent at clasp and
each other, fist
facing in elbow in a haft slightly in front
facing in
T motion of the face.
THANK YOU FOR
WATCHING!
 EVALUATE
You are going to perform a Cheer dance routine using the essential
skills and basic cheer motion. Your performance should be minimum
of 2 minutes and maximum of 5 minutes. Your performance will be
graded using the criteria below.
• Execution of skills 40
• Poise and projection 20
• Choreography and Creativity 20
• Overall presentation 20
• TOTAL 100