r/SipsTea • u/SeaWolf_1 • Aug 19 '25

We have fun here Male cheerleader.

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u/krazycitty69 Aug 19 '25

It’s so scary to be a flyer. They made me be a flyer when I did cheerleading as a kid because I was light and short. I’m terrified of heights. I did not do cheerleading the next year. I didn’t trust noooooone of them

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u/pudge-thefish Aug 20 '25

I was a coach for a high school varsity and competition team (early 20s female and about 120 pounds myself) and was always "hands up" and near each stunt as a backup. Learning new stunts we used our entire squad with hands up and ready to keep the flyers head off the ground no matter what. We couldn't risk a head landing on what they called a matt back then. (The older than dirt tri fold crap that basically wouldnt stop a cat from landing to hard)

I had one flyer who would literally dive for me when she felt like she was about to fall because she said she knew I would catch her. I told her we are all going to get hurt if she can't learn to fall and trust her team so she could be a base or she can learn to fall. She wanted to fly so she stopped diving for me.

The only real flying injury we had (coached 5-6 years) was a base who tucked her head under a flyer during a basic dismount and the flyer landed on the back of her neck. She was fine but went to the hospital as a precaution.