coinedfrom the

words CHEER and

DANCE
isto shout out words or
phrase that may help
motivate and boost the
morale of a playing team
itis a physical activity that
ones expresses emotions
and gestures while
performing bodily
movements with rhythm.
Cheerdancing
rooted from
cheerleading.
 Crowds have been
cheering since the
advent of sports, but
it wasn’t until the late
1800’s that organized
cheering came to be.
 In 1883, Great Britain
started the trend of
cheering and chanting at
sports games, but the first
official cheer wasn’t
performed until 1884 at
Princeton University in
Princeton, New Jersey.
 One member of the
Princeton audience, Mark
Peebles, brought
cheerleading with him to
University of Minnesota
and created a specific set
of cheers for each different
game.
 Peebles tool it upon himself
to lead the UOM crowd
during football games, but
another UOM student,
named Johnny Campbell,
took organized cheering
even further by coordinating
an entire team to the lead
the crowd.
 From that day-
November 2, 1898-
forward, Campbell
was known as the
world’s first official
cheerleader.
 In the 1920’s, drums and
noisemakers were used by
the yell leaders. Moreover,
for the first few decades of
its history, cheerleading
was an all-male activity,
but by this time, women
also became active.
 In the 1930’s,
universities and high
schools began
performing pom-pon
routines and using
paper poms.
 In the early 1940's, when
men went to war, women
not only went to work, but
also on to cheerleading
squads. Cheerleading then
became more as a female
sport.
 When the men returned
from war, new twists and
turns were added.
Gymnastics were always
done by men, while the
girls danced. This gave rise
to dance teams.
 In 1948, Laurence "Hurkie"
Hurkimer (founder of the
spirit industry) formed the
National Cheerleaders
Association (NCA) as a
way to hold cheerleading
clinics.
 In the 1950’s, as collegiate
sports grew in popularity,
so did cheerleading.

 Cheerleaders were a
common sight on the
basketball court as well as
the football field.
 In the 1960’s, the
cheerleaders began using
pom poms, as its most
widely recognized prop at
present.
 In the 1980’s, cheerleading
competitions, organized
by the National
Cheerleaders Association
and other groups, started
to grow in popularity.
 At present, the sport has
spread from the U.S. to
many other countries,
making its way to our
country, the Philippines.
 Any cheer dance lesson
must begin with the basic
arm motions. These set
the stage for everything
else.
 Ready Position - This is a basic
starting position for almost
every routine. Feet are
shoulder width apart and both
hands are in fists resting just
where the hips begin. Elbows
should be straight out to the
sides and not pointed to the
front.
 Clasp: A clap where
you connect palms
and wrap your
fingers around the
outside of your
hands
T: Arms
stretched out
to the sides at
shoulder level
 Broken T: Elbows stretched
out to the sides at shoulder
level, with hands at the
edge of your chest
 Touchdown:
Arms extended
straight up, hands
shoulder width
apart
 Low V: Arms extended
straight down and out to
the sides at a 45-degree
angle
 High V: Arms extended up
and out to the sides at a
45-degree angle
 Right Punch: Place your left
hand on your hip with your
elbow straight out to your side.
The right arm should be straight
up beside your ear.
 Left Punch: Reverse the motion
and put your right hand on your
hip and your left arm straight up
in the air.
 Daggers: Elbows tucked
tightly into your ribcage
with your hands facing one
another at shoulder level
 Clean: Arms drawn
straight down and pulled
tightly to the sides of your
body.
 Right High and Left High V
 Right and Left K
 Right and Left Punch. To perform a
right punch, as shown above, place
your left hand on your hip with your
elbow straight out to your side. The
right arm should be straight up
beside your ear. To perform a left
punch, reverse the motion and put
your right hand on your hip and
your left arm straight up in the air.
 Cheerleading in the
Philippines officially
emerged in 1993 when the
Cheerleading Philippines
Federation (CPF) was
officially founded.
 The CPF is the “is the
national confederation
of Cheerleading
organizations. It is the
national governing body of
Cheerleading and Cheer
Dance in the country.
 Cheerleading in the Philippines has
three major competitions. These
three competitions are the
University Athletic Association of
the Philippines (UAAP) Cheerdance
Competition, National Collegiate
Athletic Association (NCAA)
Cheerleading Competition and the
National Cheerleading
Championships (NCC).
 The UAAP Cheerdance
Competition, founded in 1994, is an
annual one-day event of the
University Athletic Association of
the Philippines for cheerleading,
usually held at the Araneta
Coliseum.
 The National Cheerleading
Chamionship (NCC) was recently
founded in 2006.