Category Archives: Cheerleading

Today I got slammed back into doing shoulder stands at CheerGym’s practice. This is a relatively simple stunt where you take a girl throw her up in the air and catch her on your shoulders. I got to do this with my good friend Chaz, and while it didn’t really hurt, I do have some [...]

Its that time of year again, MLK weekend and that means UCA nationals. It’s one of two college nationals. The other NCA, which is held usually in early April. To keep it short, my favorite is UCA, though I’ve been to both. Anyway, I have a bunch of friends competing and I would like to [...]

As competition season is fast approaching and my front through to layout still needing work, I decided to start re-working my Roundoff handspring full again, to make sure I had at least something to throw for our first competition. Well, I started a few weeks ago with throwing layouts, but to no real success. The [...]

The best feeling as a coach is when one of your students has a great day. Yesterday evening was one of those days, and it means enough for me to be slightly late to work in order to write about it. There are three major components in cheerleading for a guy, throwing people around, throwing [...]

When I went to UCA camp last weekend there were two new dances being pushed around: aka, the Soulja Boy. And: Check them out. They are fun.

Its official, I’m now a volenteer assistant coach for the St. John’s Cheerleading program. I’m very excited to be working with such a wonderful program and team. I have been helping out a few practices prior to camp and I will be going to visit them (and my college program, Villanova) at UCA camp tomorrow.

Just want to post a note that I am doing better with my ankle. It is starting to move again. i did a *little* bit of cheerleading this weekend. Through a few girls around; did a cartwheel or two. That is a good thing since I’m competing on the leg next weekend , but I [...]