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Hi, I'm Lucy Spain here to tell you how to perform cheerleading pyramids. Now a basic
pyramid is going to be a collection of the stunts that your squad should already have.
Whether these stunts be a half, a full, the liberty, the heel stretch, and the scorpion,
you're going to want to make sure you have these basic stunts mastered before you move
on to pyramid work. The reason this is important is because a pyramid is usually going to consist
of about six or more people. And in this pyramid, if one part of the pyramid falls, the other
part is most likely to go down as well. So you want to make sure you're not putting your
other squad members at risk. It's also very important to make sure that you have spotters
around when you're doing your pyramids. For every girl in the air, she should have her
own spotter. There are also rules and regulations that go from state to state as far as how
pyramids can be built, how many levels high they can be, and different ways to dismount.
So you want to make sure you're following your state's rules when it comes to putting
your pyramids together. Now, the most interesting thing about pyramids are the creative ways
you can link them together. Say your squad has a couple of liberty groups. You can bring
these groups together and link them with your arms. You can do different levels, different
ways of reaching and different motions while you're in the air with your liberties. You
can have an outside girl do a right liberty, and a girl next to her do a left liberty and
simply join them with opposing arm motions. That's going to turn out to be a nice looking
pyramid. Another way to make your pyramids creative is different dismounts. The most
common dismount would be a step out where you simply would grab the shoulders of the
person in front of you, and step out of your pyramid. Another step up from that is going
to be the cradle where your bases will give you a pop and the flier will simply ride the
cradle up and land within her two bases and her back spot. If you want to do a variation
on the cradle after you get that down, you can do a twisting cradle which is also referred
to as a three sixty. When the flier is riding her pop, she will simply ride up and twist
down into her cradle. That is going to be the most advanced way to get out of a pyramid.
Now that you've got the tools to get started, go ahead and get creative and start putting
your individual stunts into a pyramid. And that's how you create a cheerleading pyramid.