Cheerleading is full of tough competitions. While it would be nice to find world-class choreographers to work with your team in developing a cheerleading routine or dance that is not always possible. There are very few choreographers to work with and so they can be unaffordable or just plain unavailable to many teams. However, you can use cheerleading routine videos to help you achieve championship form just as well.



Cheerleading routine videos are a great resource for learning new techniques, improving cheerleading skills, and creating new cheerleading dances. Videos often come with helpful narratives that inform you about different moves. They also include a wide variety of camera angles so you can see how each technique is performed over and over again.

Many cheerleading videos include tips on jumps, cheers and chants. Jump exercise videos provide drills that will improve your jumping skills as well as tips to make your jumps higher. They can teach you the dos and don’ts of many jumps as well as the basics of jumps like Tuck Jumps, Spread Eagles, Double Hooks, Side Hurdles, and Toe Touches.

Cheer and chant cheerleading videos will go over their routines from different angles so that you can learn them easily. Not only will you be able to hear the cheer, often they will be written over the screen as well so you can read along while you practice. These videos should cover things like the proper way to make a fist, as well as, the T-motion, high V, low V, half T, tabletop, low touchdown, and high touchdown motions. When you think of the ability to pause and rewind these helpful items, cheerleading videos are easy to follow and extremely helpful, especially if you can’t go to a camp or clinic.

Cheerleaders need a lot of discipline, motivation, flexibility and strength to be successful. Dance videos can help a cheerleader develop the strength and moves needed. Additionally, members of a cheer squad can each buy their own copy of a dance or cheerleading video to take home and practice with. Or the girls on a squad can use one and share it amongst themselves to prepare a routine.

Cheerleading competitions are often very focused on dramatic and energetic movements that are time perfectly. With a routine video you can pay attention to the timing of each move as well as which movements add or distract from the overall effect of a routine.

Finally, you can also benefit from cheerleading videos even if you aren’t yet a cheerleader. There are plenty of videos that address how to safely perform stunts such as walk up prep, squished prep, water pump, hitch to extension, prep cradle, stair step to extension, water pump hitch, press extension, ground-up liberty and up and over to prep, hitch liberty, and half up prep. And you can even find tips on the actual tryout including step-by-step demonstration of the essential keys to a successful try-out performance including counts most on score sheets, specifics about jumps, tumbling, and motion techniques; as well as tips on your appearance, memory, and voice/projection.

Cheerleading routine videos are a great investment no matter where you are on the path of a cheerleader. You can find a wide variety online at sites such as Active Videos to get you started or perk up your performance.