Tumbling is important to cheerleading in a few differant ways, tumbling passes can make a routine in a competion look much more exciting, it gives the crowd more to look at at games if the cheerleaders are doing gymnastics.  Also tucks, layouts, and twists may look better and sharper in basket tosses if a gymnast flyer alredy knows how to do them.

Trying out for a cheerleading squad with tumbling gives you a much greater chance of making it as opposed to someone who can't tumble, because f more people who made it who cna tumble it would allow for gymnastics to be put into routines and stunts.  The dances would look look better and more creative, and squads would be awarded more points at competitions.
The tumbling done in cheerleading is always running round-off and then either a back handspring/back handsprings, back handspring tuck, layout, back aerial, full of double full twist.

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