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A flyer, also known as the top girl, is the girl that is known for being thrown in the air. The flyer has many responsibilities while she’s in the air. The top girl needs to have flexibility, balance, and strength. The bases do a lot of the work getting the flyer up but once the flyer has hit the maximum height the bases can go the job is all hers. Flyers never stand in the air and do nothing; they always pull some sort of flexibility stretch. Common ones are a heel stretch, scorpion and an arabesque. While holding these positions the weight of the flyer shifts and that's where balance and strength comes in. The fly needs to stay tight so the bases can hold her. The number of spotters under the flyer can change; there could be four cheerleaders, three cheerleaders, two cheerleaders, or one.
My favorite stunt is with is one cheerleader underneath me and it’s usually a strong guy. With my experience I don’t like having to have so many arms catch me when I come down, I'd rather focus on one to grab and that one base will only be focused on me. In my other post I mentioned that I want to fly in college and when I fly in college I will be trying out for a one man group which is obviously one guy underneath the fly. One mans are very cute and they just look so cool in my opinion.
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I just saw your video, and I am sincerely impressed. It's not easy doing a backflip and landing on the palm of someone's hand 7 feet off the ground. It made me want to try it the stunt with someone, I'm probably going to hurt myself and my partner if I do, so do you have any advice to avoid injury and do it correctly?
ReplyDeleteI think it is very interesting and very dangerous how people can do that. It must take skills to have so much balance And btw the video was very entertaining to watch :D
ReplyDeleteI have seen cheerleaders fly before but they usually had four spotters and they were girls not guys. If I had to fly I would want a guy to hold me because they are stronger. I have to say that the video your posted made my jaw drop. I was impressed, awesome post!
ReplyDeleteI think this is really cool and it looks really hard! It cant be easy for the guy to be carrying the girl above his head it must be extremely heavy even if the person is light. It must also be extremely difficult for the girl because she has to do moves and lands in such a small area, his hands.
ReplyDeleteYour video is really cool! I can't even imagine getting thrown around like that, I'd be so freaked out! Flying looks fun, but really tough.
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