Looking for the perfect way to bond with new cheer team members this season? How about getting together and making this DIY Cheer Cooler that’s packed with team spirit! I mean come on, what an adorable place to keep your drinks during practice, games, or for everyday use. You already have matching cheer uniforms, warmups, and hair bows. Why not add a team cooler to the mix? DIY coolers are super fun to create, and the best part is that they are super easy. Actually, the best part is that you can make them as custom as you want, which is just perfect for showing off your team colors and spirit ..read more

When cheer takes over your daily routine, you can really use a small series of hacks just to function through everyday life. With all the hours of practice and what goes into performances, hello people, we need some life cheer hacks. Here we’ve gathered up seven of our favorite and most useful cheer hacks. Hairspray Hack Hairspray rules, and whoever invented it, we thank you. But forget about using it just on your hair. Use it on your shoelaces! A loose shoelace is a cheerleading nightmare waiting to happen. We can literally see the slow-motion fall now. So, spray those laces down in hairspray ..read more

Let’s make some DIY hair scrunchies! If you’re looking for a fun and totally cool activity to do at home, look no further. Who doesn’t love a hair accessory? Correction. What cheerleader doesn’t love a fun hair accessory? After all, we are the queens of bows! The scrunchie is the comeback hair accessory that has become every cheerleader’s new BFF. With our hair always needing to be out of our face, scrunchies have quickly become a new favorite. But in true cheerleader form, we want a scrunchie to match our uniforms, spirit days, and let’s be honest every day. Well, you’re in luck because we’re ..read more

Cheerleaders wouldn’t be quite as cheerful without their trademark smiles. Cheer facials are an important part of any competition routine or game night. Sometimes we feel a little silly making faces at the crowd, but big grins make a big difference in how audiences perceive our routines. Plenty of articles have been written about how smiling improves our moods. That goes double for cheering! A crowd of spectators can’t get hyped if the squad is full of sour faces. It’s a cheerleader’s responsibility to keep the mood as upbeat as possible, to get the crowd energized, and—of course—to have ..read more

Being a cheerleader is more than just wearing a uniform, looking pretty and being loud. Part of a cheerleader’s skill set includes being able to hit very precise motions and cheerleading stances, and knowing when to use each one. Each member of a cheerleading team must perfect their stances so that their team operates as a unit and receives the maximum number of cheers from the audience and points from the judges. While a cheerleader’s basic motions are the backbone of her ability, her stances are the support system. A motion will miss the mark completely without the body being in a ..read more

Your team looks incredible in their new uniforms and you can’t wait to share their photos with everyone! Here are some tips from our catalog staff on how to take the perfect cheer team photo. And when you do capture that perfect shot, submit it to our Catalog Team Photo Contest for a chance to be featured in the next Omni Cheer catalog and win $100.  Start snapping! Take Perfect Cheer Photos Use a newer iPhone, camera or other device to get those high quality/high resolution photos. The higher the resolution, the crisper the photo, especially if you plan on printing your pics. Avoid crop ..read more

Want stunting advice and tips for cheerleading or gymnastics? Then you’ve come to the right place! Check out all of Cheerleading Blog’s how-to articles on stunts and tumbling. We’ll walk you through the basics, from simple cheerleading jumps and motions, like scorpions, to advanced tumbling, like aerials. Tumbling: The Basics Tumbling is a form of gymnastics that requires athletes to use their bodies to flip, twist, roll and jump. Tumbling is most often used at cheerleading competitions and during gymnastics routines at the Olympics, but dancers and other stage performers also tap tumblin ..read more

What does it mean to be a cheerleader? In a word, everything, but it’s more fun to list all the great qualities that describe cheerleaders and set them apart from other athletes! Cheerleading has a unique skill set, as we were reminded recently when a heated debate broke out in the comments of an article about pro fighters saying cheerleading was the hardest sport they have ever done. While there is definitely some overlap among all athletes, cheerleaders have to do some things that a lot of other athletes don’t. Being a cheerleader means you are these 18 things: Focused. While performing ..read more

Whether you are looking to start a co-ed cheerleading teams at your school or you are joining a co-ed team, here is a review of some of the pros and cons that cheerleaders, coaches and parents might face: #1 Stunting Options PROS: Having a co-ed cheerleading squad means your cheerleading squad will have more stunting options ““ and will be able to push high stunts and throw higher baskets. Males can also help take your team’s tumbling level from impressive, to extreme. CONS: The coach will need to have advanced co-ed stunting training. Co-ed stunting is very different from all-female stun ..read more

Looking for the perfect way to bond with new cheer team members this season? How about getting together and making this DIY Cheer Cooler that’s packed with team spirit! I mean come on, what an adorable place to keep your drinks during practice, games, or for everyday use. You already have matching cheer uniforms, warmups, and hair bows. Why not add a team cooler to the mix? DIY coolers are super fun to create, and the best part is that they are super easy. Actually, the best part is that you can make them as custom as you want, which is just perfect for showing off your team colors and spirit ..read more