[Pirate Pal]

I know that there are cheerleaders ranging from several different generations on this site so..

Let's discuss how cheerleading was/is during your "GLORY DAYS" cheering in high school....


I cheered for Belfry High School from 1985 -1989. There were no fulls being thrown ....a standing back tuck, back handspring back tuck, roundoff tuck, roundoff hand tuck was the 4 killer tumbling passes. Extended libs were the new "big thing". We competed WITHOUT MATS! There was no such thing as 2 1/2 minute routines in KAPOS. We had to perform a gymnastics cheer (tumbling/mounts included), a non-gymnastics cheer (jumps/motions only), and a 2 minute pom routine (you HAD to use the poms in 85% of the routine). We didn't use spots for basket tosses, we could do knee drops (my knees are still angry about that and remind me on a daily basis by hurting), we had "falling pyramids", toe-pitches, and only 16 girls could compete.

There was no cheer curls!. (of course with the big permed 80's hair who needed them)

And I wouldn't trade one day of it for anything!!:Cheerlead