These are photos of me and my stunt group from Musical theater, performing and practicing. We have been practicing twice a week, since October. Most of the people that are in the stunt team (including me) have zero experience in doing cheer. We all had to learn how to cheer from scratch. There are different roles that are played within the stunt groups, there are the 2 bases, the back, the front, and the flyer. The bases are the people are holding the flyers feet and lifting them up. The back and the front are doing the same except they are not holding the feet, its either the ankles, knees, or the thighs. The flyer is the one who is being thrown. I play the role of the flyer. It is very thrilling/exciting to be launched and thrown through the air.

There are many different kinds of tricks that we have learned through out the many months. For example, smush-prep, smush-spin prep, cradle, basket, and torch. Smush-prep starts off at smush. Smush is the starting position where the whole group is squatting (either then the flyer) and are wating for the flyer to put their feet in their hands. Once that happens, I am able to be lifted and stand on the bases hands and and do a high B (my fist up), in the photos above you can see me in prep and in smush. Spin prep is the same thing, however when I am lifted up I am spun around and brought into a normal prep. Cradle is when I am thrown in a prep and I am caught by the bases, back, and front. Basket is when I am thrown without being in prep. Lastly torch, torch is the same thing as prep, however I am standing on one foot. Torch is the hardest stunt to do because it is very difficult to balance on one foot, while I am being lifted in the air. There are many other stunts that we can do and are planning to add to the show.

In Musical Theater we are practicing these stunts to do a musical called “Bring It On!”. Bring it on is all about cheer leading nationals and teenage drama. This allowed us to have the opportunity to learn how to do cheer stunts. In order to learn them we had to be taught by a cheer instructor. It was a Saturday evening and everybody who was willing to do cheer stunts came. We learned a lot of cool stunts that day, and found out the roles we would have. That was when I was given the role of a flyer which was very exciting because I wanted to be a flyer. After that we practiced and practiced, until we had actual performances. The performances were for the girls basketball team, the grade 8 tour, and the performing arts night.

We have been working very hard each week, during our lunches and we have been getting better and better. We started off in the mat room practicing, and now we are in the actual theater doing our routines. Soon we will be able to put them in the show and leave the audience in awe.

Thanks for reading!