How Do You Do Splits For Cheerleading?
“Hi, I’m Lucy Spain here to show you how to do splits in cheerleading. Cheerleading splits are a commonly used pose to do when you’re doing a cheerleading formation. You can also use these splits in your stunts as well, once the fliers have gotten good at them. It’s important to make sure you stretch out when doing a cheerleading split. We’re going to concentrate on the left and right splits. This is going to be a right split with your right leg out forward. First we want to start out with our right leg forward. We’re going to stretch forward. Make sure your knee is at a ninety-degree angle. We don’t want our knee to go past our toe. So we’re going to stretch forward into it. After you do this stretch for about fifteen seconds, you want to lean back and stretch the underneath of the leg. Stay back in this stretch for about fifteen minutes. You can lean your chest forward on this one as well. After that, you can simply slide into your split. A common pose you can use is the high V once
