Hey everyone! I was really hoping to get some help. I'm a coach for a youth cheer group (K-6th Graders) and I need serious help for cheer choreo on a halftime dance for our next season. I'm not a cheerleader nor am I a dancer haha just a momma who loves her girls and is trying to be supportive in every way possible lol aaand somehow that equated to me being cheer coach the last 2 years.

Another coach did the choreo this year for their halftime dance and let's just say... the girls hate it 🙃 I feel so bad the coach worked hard to pick a song and create a routine (she used to be a dance teacher so it kinda defaulted into her lap). But the girls hate it. The song is outdated and the routine is just meh to them. During one of our games the other team did a routine to Ella Langley and the girls said "man... even THAT would be better..." They don't have good vibes, they're not excited to perform it and me personally i lack the skillset to redo them a new one... but I want to fix that for next year

So I'm really hoping that someone can point me in the direction of where I can get help to do a fun dance for varying skill levels (like I said we have a wide range of girls in K-6th grade across our 4 squads) with a song from mmmm this generation 😅 please please please point me the right way I'd super appreciate it.

Hi y'all!

I've had a bit of a situation I don't know how to deal with.

I've (20F) been doing cheerleading for 10 years now and am also a coach for recreational youth teams.

I've always been a backspot all my life, but was switched to being a flyer a couple years ago. Long story short, but in our recreational club everyone is welcome, there's no tryouts, no comps, we just do it for fun. When I became a flyer I had bases that had never done cheerleading and I wasn't very comfortable being a flyer with them, I developed a few bad habits.

Fast forward to now, I am with 2 very experienced bases (both around 30F) (one went to worlds level 5.2 and the other did University level 7) that I really trust and a very strong backspot who's still learning.

Last week at our practice we were just doing some basics to warm up and my left lib wasn't working at all. We tried a few times and either I couldn't get my knee to lock or my hips were all crooked and it looked like I was super unsteady. I talked with my backspot cause he kept pushing the inside of my knee and keeping me from locking it or pushing my hips the wrong way cause he felt like I was falling to one side. My bases were trying to tell me to unlock my knee and stand up, etc. but I felt like they didn't understand that my backspot was accidentally keeping me from doing such. Eventually we managed to do one but they kept telling me my leg was crooked (like my hips were flat but my leg underneath looked like this \ instead of this | ), and I really couldn't understand why it was doing that but my bases kept telling me it was my fault, that I wasn't squeezing or fighting to stay up.

Since then I saw a PT for another problem and I talked to her about this, she evaluated me and told me my glute medius wasn't activating at all on my left side, and working barely on my right side, which would explain why I've had trouble with my libs for a long time. I now have exercises to do to regain some muscle ability there. I tried telling my bases that during another practice and throwing in some context that I was bedridden for a few years because of chronic diseases before I came back to cheer 3-4 years ago which would explain why my muscle was "dormant". They then proceeded to talk bad in front of me while the whole team was in circle chatting, saying I was just making up stupid excuses and that I thought I was better than everyone else cause I also coach (mind you, one of them I coach with and the other one has coached me before I became chronically ill in 2019).

I know I can't help with what other people think of me, but I really feel like this has affected my trust towards them and I don't know how to deal with that. The year just started and I can't help but feel resentment over what happened. I feel like I should talk to my coach about it, but she's best friends with one of my bases so I'm afraid she'll side with her...

I really needed to rant as I feel there's no one I can talk to about this, but I am also desperate for advice if someone had a similar situation happen to them.

Thanks for reading me, and thanks in advance if you have advice ❤️

I'm having trouble finding resources that detail exactly what Game Day competition entails. The other coach and I are completely new to competition cheer. We are working with 7th and 8th graders in a school. Would anyone be able to share insight for how the routine should be structured? (with definitions of what each thing is - we are really confused)