Becoming An Excellent Cheerleader

Being successful doesn't always come easy. I have learned that to be successful I have work hard and have a positive mind. Failure isn't something that makes me feel successful but in reality, I almost always fail before I succeed. However, I have realized that in order to be an excellent cheerleader, I fail before I succeed. One part of cheerleading that requires a tremendous amount of technique is tumbling. Tumbling always came fairly easy to me but when I started working on a double full I began to doubt my ability to tumble easily. My first time doing a double full, at my tumbling gym called Flipout, I was very confident that I would land the trick. With little teaching, I went for the trick and ended up over rotating and fell flat on my back. I was really discouraged when I didn't land the trick but I got back up and tried again. I continued to fail, but I wasn't going to give up. One day, I told myself that I could do this trick and that fear is just in my head. So I tried again, and I landed it. This experience helped me realize that if I fall, I just need to get back up and try again. …show more content…
In stunting, if the three bases don't have good technique and don't work together, the stunt won't hit. My first year on the state cheerleading team, my stunt group started working on full-ups. This stunt is very elite, and it takes a lot of strength and power. I was a backspot, the person who controls the stunt. My group was having trouble hitting the stunt a couple days before the state competition. We fell what seemed to be a million times. We almost gave up but then we decided to switch the two bases and the stunt hit. I couldn't believe how easy the stunt became. This experience taught me that if I try new things I will