How Do You Get Ready For Cheerleading Tryouts?
• Practice every day! This is crucial when trying to make the squad. If you won’t practice then you won’t make the team. • Make sure that you can do the dance and cheer perfectly. If you see any problems with any motions do them until you can get them right. • Stretch! And stretch again! The judges will be impressed if you can do some tumbling moves, and the key to that is to be flexible and stretch. • Work out at least every other day and try to break a sweat for at least 1 hour. • Talk yourself into realistic success. Visualize succeeding and seeing yourself through to the team. But if you feel nervous, say to yourself: “Hey, if I make it – wonderful! But if I don’t make then that is OK because I can just try harder next year and I will already have experience.” • Tumbling. make sure at tryouts you show the judges that you can at least do a little bit of tumbling. • Steel yourself. Not only do you need to be physically ready, but mentally ready too. Psyche yourself up with positive t
