So the majority of my posts so far have been pretty serious so i thought it was time for a fun post! we all have our celebrity idols and you probably dont think much about their life before the fame. So here is a list of some celebrities that were cheerleaders some of them may surprise you.Christina Anguilera cheered at North Allegheny Intermediate High School, Sandra Bullock cheered at Washington-Lee High School, Jessica Simpson cheered at Richardson North Junior High School, Reese Witherspoon cheered at Montgomery Bell Academy, Madonna cheered at Rochester Adams High School. Some others include Alicia Silverstone, Jimmy Stewart, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Samuel L. Jackson, Steve Martin and many many more.

During the basket toss, the flyer can do a tuck. But, while upside down in the tuck, the flyer needs to perform the jump "spread eagle". This will make the body look like an X. Then return to the pencil or clean positions to end the basket.

While doing the basket toss, when in the air, the flyer will keep her legs like she would in a liberty and put one hand on her waist, while she keeps one behind her head while laying down. Watch the video below to see the final product.

During the basket toss, when the flyer is thrown into the air, she needs to stay in the "pencil" position. Once she starts to fall, she does the toe-touch jump, quickly pops back into pencil and then, finally into the cradle.

Basket tosses are a core part of stunting in cheerelading, but they are the most unique the approach for a basket toss is totally different from anything else we have discussed.A basket toss is an advanced stunt. In which, the bases propel the flyer
upwards by more than 10-30 feet from the loading position. It is a toss by a maximum of four bases, of a top girl, straight up in the air, so the flyer can perform a trick like a toe touch, ball-out, kiss-out, pretty girl, twist, tuck, kick twist down or a pike, etc and then, land back in a cradle position. The basket is assembled by each one of the bases, grabbing their own right wrist
with their left hand and then using their right hand to grab each others' left wrist. The flyer, with some help from the back spot, places her feet on the square created to minimize pressure. Finally, the bases dip, then stand up, again dip and then trow using all their power. All basket tosses are amazing to watch and in my persoanl opinion are the most thrilling to perform. Below are some pictures of the differnt basket tosses discussed above.

Now that we have talked about many different ways to stand in the air lets talk about a few different ways to get down. There are two basic ways to dismount and those are to cradle and to bump out of your stunts. Both of these are very simple and are a clean way to get your flyer out of the air ( much better than falling). In the a cradle, the flyer's legs are forced into a pike position. This is done by the back spot grabbing hold of the flyer's ankles and pushing them forward with all of her strength.the same time, the two bases whip their hands sideways, which is the opposite direction of the back. This causes the flyer's feet to go in that direction. Then as your flyer is coming down both bases and the backspot hold their arms up to catch the flyer. Then you have the bump, in the a bump, the flyer's feet are forced together and the back spot holds onto the flyers ankles until she can reach the the flyers seat. the bases will bring their arms down into a sponge position. Even in dismounts there are variations such as twisting out of your stunt instead of just a simple cradle.

There are several variations of your basic liberty you can pull things such as scales, heel strecth, needles, scorpions and arebesques. Not all of these will be explained in detail but i will include pictures of them all and if you can see the picture it is basically self explaintory the only thing that changes is the body position of the flyer other than that every thing is exactly the same as a simple liberty. First i will talk about a scale which is one or my favorites it is a liberty variation, facing the side. In this stunt, one or more of the bases extend one of the flyer's feet. The flyer's other leg is held by the flyer in her hand to the side and the leg is fully. Then you have a arebesque in which the flyer pulls her free leg up traight behind her making it parallel with the ground keep your chest up. Like i said these stunts are self explainitory with a visual but are all very dangerous so it is a good idea to use a front spot and have extra spotters around just in case.

Your Prep and the Extension are some of the most basic stunts. All the advanced stunts (also known as variations) are mostly done on the basis of these two. After you master these two stunts you can move on to one legged stunts and more such as a liberty. No, you don't pose like the statue of liberty in this one. In this stunt, one or more bases holds up the flyer by the foot. The flyer balances weight on the one straight leg. The flyer's other leg is bent and the foot is positioned at about the knee level of the flyer, keeping it alongside the standing leg's knee the back spot standing behind the stunting pulling up on either the flyers ankle or bases wrists. Also as always you can have a front spot for extra support pulling up on the bases wrists.

Two more basic stunts are your prep and a full. Each of these stunts requires four people two bases a backspot and your flyer, and you can have a front spot if you would like. Again safety is very important so do not try either of these if you are not prepared to do so and if you do not have a coach or responsible adult around. A basic prep or prep extension  is a two leg stunt. In this stunt the flyer stands on the hands of two bases facing each other. The bases hold the feet of the flyer at collar - bone level. The flyer is in control of the stunt. She has the option to move the bases closer together or farther apart by, simply, moving her legs. The back spot will stand behind the stunt hold the flyers ankles and pulling up to assit the bases. A full or extension is also This is a two leg stunt as well, in this stunt, the flyer stands with each foot in the hands of a base. The bases arms are in an extended overhead position. The backspot can either choose to hold the ankles of the flyer or support the wrists of the bases. In case it is a single based stunt, the base can hold both the flyer's feet above her head with her arms locked.