| Stunts are probablly the most exciting part of cheerleading. Nothing beats the feeling of hitting a perfect and solid stunt. Games are much more interesting for the crowd when they can watch cheerleaders throwing high basket tosses and building three person high pyramids. |  |
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There are all differant types of stunts, such as single and multiple base stunts, basket tosses and pyramids. In single base stunting there is only one base and a flyer. Most important in single base stunting is that the flyer stays tight whenever she is directy over top of the base being careful not to lean too much on her heals, so the base can dismount her safely. Some single base stunts are shoulder stands, cupies, libertys, and chairs. |
| Multiple base stunts are probablly the most used stunt in cheerleading. For a multiple base stunt there are two bases, a flyer, and a back spot. The two bases hold the bottom of the flyers feet, and the backspot holds the flyers waist going into the stunt and her ankles while in the stunt. The flyer should always be in the "Chicken position" before loading a stunt and her seat should never drop below 90°. |
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There are also many differant tyes of multiple base stunts, such as, elavators, extensions, hitches, libertys, leap frogs, double takes, and twist ups, just to name a few. To the many differant types of stunts there are also many differant ways to dismount. They can cradle, pop off, full or double full twist, or assisted front tuck. |
| Another type of stunt is the basket toss, it also has two bases, a flyer, a back spot, and a front spot help push the flyer up. In a basket toss the flyer truely does fly. There are two differant loads for the basket, one foot and two foot. Then the flyer remains tight as the bases sink the basket and then explodes upward at the last second to reach their highest possible hight. Some types of baskets are layout, toetouch, bottle rockets,front stalls, and back tucks. |
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Two stunts are always better than one, and five conjoined stunts are always better than two. This is a pyramid, one big maga stunt where the possibilities of loads, transitions and dismounts are endless. |
