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Hi! I'm Mandy Butler on behalf of Expert Village and I'm going to talk to you today about cheerleading
motions. Now I'm going to show you the dagger position. If I'm to start in a touchdown position
and bend my elbow, breaking that touchdown, that takes me to a dagger position. I can
also get here from a low touchdown by breaking my arms upward. I can get here from candlesticks
bringing my arms in, or I can get here from a broken T, bringing my elbows down. Now I
have daggers. That's DAGGERS, daggers, as if you're holding 2 knives. A lot of people
mispronounce that or they don't know what you're saying when you're in the dagger position.
If I'm extending that, that takes me back to candlestick. Notice that my arms, again,
are in front just ever so slightly to make them nice and tight. I don't have my wrists
up against my shoulders, and my elbows aren't upward. I'm nice and tight in a dagger position.