Free Cheerleading Dance Moves

If you’re in a creative rut for your squad’s routine, looking up some free cheerleading dance moves may help inspire your choreographic instincts. It’s always useful to learn about how other cheerleaders do the moves that drive the crowd wild.

Aspiring cheerleaders can become more prepared for tryouts by taking advantage of the many resources online offering various ways of doing cheerleading dance moves. For example, ExpertVillage on YouTube has a series of very informative videos on everything from toe touches to aerial stunts, taught by actual cheer coaches and cheerleaders.

There are many professionals online offering free coaching - another YouTube source is Rosalyn Jones, a former National Cheerleading Association coach and owner of Cheers Cheerleading in San Antonio Texas. One of the extra benefits of her videos is the professional titling that provide extra information about things like shoes, outfits, and other details that can get lost in just watching.

These videos can be especially useful for people without any prior experience in cheerleading. They will give a clear, step by step breakdown of the dance moves used in routines, as well as familiarizing you with the vocabulary used to describe these kinds of dance moves. It’s possible to go from the most basic moves all the way to learning entire routines using these videos. They often aren’t as professionally produced as videos that are sold at sites such as The Hip Hop Dance Spot, but they are a good beginning to dance training.

While you can learn a lot from videos, they should not be considered a replacement for a qualified coach. Anyone can put up a video; however, if they don’t have cheerleading credentials, you may be watching someone teaching you something wrong or just plain dangerous. In addition, when you try and duplicate the dance moves, a video can’t offer the constructive criticism and verbal feedback that helps cheerleaders improve.

If you find a video of a dance move that you’d like to learn or incorporate into your routine, make sure you run it by a qualified coach or experienced cheerleader to find out what the hidden parts, not shown by the video, might be.

Don’t fall into the trap that was dramatized in the first Bring It On movie: seeing a dance routine by another squad and then copying it exactly for your team. While it’s fine to be inspired by others, it is uncool and illegal (in competition) to steal choreography. A much better tactic is to watch and learn the moves, and then explore what you can do with them that is different - what may end up happening is that they come back, see you, and build on that. This kind of synergy is what keeps cheerleading dance moves exciting and growing.

Another common aspect of putting together new cheerleading moves was in one of the Bring It On sequels, Bring It On All or Nothing, which taught the lesson that you can put more than just cheerleading moves into a winning routine. The squad in the movie took ideas from the various dancers in the group, using street dance styles such as “Crunking” to spice up the traditional moves you see at competitions. While it is a movie, and of course is staged, it is a valuable concept: draw from the strengths and experiences of your squad to develop your original routine. That way you both will be performing to your top capacity but also with moves that are completely unique.

Unless you’ve hired a choreographer, in the end all the dance moves you use should be free, because they come from one inexhaustible and priceless resource: yourself.

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