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Hi my name is Lucy Spain on behalf of Expert Village here to talk about an introduction
to cheerleading. Now we're ready to go ahead and give our best at the tryout. Now you're
usually only going to be in the room for about five minutes so you have to make sure to give
it your all. Once you're ready to go in you'll be given a number by the judges. You need
to make sure you have this number tightly secured, it also needs to be visible. Safety
pins are an OK way to get it on. So it tape. You just don't want it to fall off, because
this is how the judges are going to be able to give you your score. You're usually going
to be put in a group of about three girls. You're going to do the cheer together. You're
going to do your stunts together, jump separate and tumble separate. Usually you're going
to start out with the cheer. When you go into the room, you need to be prepared to answer
questions. Things we talked about earlier, your coach may ask you, why are you here?
Why do want to cheer? You need to be confident. You need to be able to deliver your answer.
You also just need to make sure that you're friendly because you're going to be spending
a lot of time with these coaches, these captains. And you just want to be a person that other
people want to be around. You're also going to be an active role model for your school.
So they may look into your grades beforehand, your other extracurricular activities. So
just be prepared to answer questions. Now that we're going to start performing the material,
we need to make sure that we deliver all of our material with eye contact. You're going
to want to have to keep a big smile on your face the whole time. Show off your pearly
whites. It's also important to be loud. Project. And also, we're going to want to make sure
we've got lots of space from the other girls that are in so every movement we need to do,
we can be seen, we can be as big as we want to, show all the spirit. When it comes to
tumbling, if you need to ask for a spot, that's OK. Make sure you wrote that down on your
form that we talked about filling out earlier. Jumping you need to be able to perform by
yourself however. So if you need a spot on some of your more advanced tumbles, that's
OK. It's better to go ahead and show the coach that you can do them than not to try it at
all. So now that we've performed, we definitely want to say thank you on our way out, our
time it up, and clear the floor for someone else's turn to go ahead.