How Do You Become A Cheerleader Without Knowing Gymnastics?
It’s not always necessary to have gymnastic skills to be a cheerleader. Being exceptional at all your jumps, splits, kicks and having strong memorization skills can sometimes be enough. Learn other ways to become a cheerleader without knowing anything about gymnastics. Step 1 Know the requirements of the team before trying out. Some teams may have restrictions that tell you whether they explicitly need cheerleaders with gymnastic skills. If this is the case don’t worry, you can get around this as well, which will be shared later. However, some teams have more relaxed requirements in which members can be taught gymnastics if they are good in all other areas. Be advised that teams with more prestige may have stricter requirements and less give when it comes to gymnastic abilities. Step 2 Try to see how the coaches are scoring cheerleaders at tryouts. Most coaches run tryouts on a point system. They give each requirement a point value. On the first day or the beginning of tryouts, the coa