We’re back with 2 more tips to help your cheerleading team be the best it can possible be! A cheerleading team that works together is a strong team and now, at the beginning of the season it is more important than ever to get the season started of right and started off strong.

A cheerleading team is a lot like a puzzle; it takes every single piece to make it complete. For that reason, it is important that every single cheerleader on your team works together to reach your common goal.


The 4 tips in Make Your Cheerleading Team Strong will help you and your team mates succeed.

In Part 1, we talked about working hard for your team’s goal and putting your team first. These are only the first two steps in creating a strong cheerleading team. Check out the last 2 tips below.

 

Tip #3    Stay Positive

Everyone has a bad day from time to time, and likewise, every team has a bad practice every now and then. The important thing is not to let that derail your team’s overall progress or dampen your team’s morale.

Just because your team is having a bad practice doesn’t mean they won’t be fully back to normal by the next practice. Remember when you were first learning to back handspring? Some practices you could do it with almost no effort at all and then there were the odd practices in between when you could barely cartwheel, let alone handspring. It might have been weeks, even months, before you were able to back handspring properly every time.

When your cheerleading team learns skills, it is almost the same.

The only difference is that instead of just you having an off day, anyone on your team could be having an off day and even just one cheerleader having an off day can throw off the entire team’s practice. If it’s you, give yourself a break; if it’s another member of your cheerleading team, smile and try to help them. Either way, it is important to stay positive and trust that things will get better with time and training.

 

Tip #4    Be a Good Team Mate

In order to work as a team, it is important that all of the cheerleaders on your team get along—at least while at practice or events. It may not be possible for everyone on your team to be best friends and as with any large group of people working together, there are bound to be personality clashes, but at the very least, you must all be able to work together for the best of the team.

What is important is that the little, or even no-so-little, differences don’t cause so much trouble on your cheerleading team that you risk achieving your team’s goal. If someone on your cheerleading team has upset you, it is up to you how to handle it. You can refuse to work with them and hold your entire team back or you can leave your differences at the door to the gym and get to work. Chances are whatever you disagreed on outside of the gym won’t mean a thing when you walk off of the competition mats together—as a champion.

Remember in Tip 1 when we talked about figuring out what your team’s goal is? Don’t lose sight of that goal. Work hard to win nationals, advance to USASF Level 3, get full steam standing back tucks, or whatever the goal. Follow the 4 tips in this series to help your cheerleading team become the strongest it can possible be.