Do the Best Toe Touch, Herkie, and Hurdle
This is how you do a perfect toe touch, Herkie, and hurdle to get Ready for Cheerleading Tryouts or competitions.
Steps
- Do the toe touch:
- Teach People to Clap All at Once Clap in front of your chest. This is directly under your chin. Don't interlock your fingers, you should clap " the oven mitt way" or "with oven mitts." Keeping your arms as high as you can.
- Keeping your hands together from your clap, bring your arms directly down so they're almost at a 90 degree angle facing up.This is called a cone. Your arms should be squeezing into your temples that are right next to your eyes.
- Keep your legs bent and your back straight. You bent legs will give you enough momentum so you can jump high enough. Be sure to bend your legs alot as you bring your arms down. The force and power of your jump all comes from your legs. (point your toes when in the air. Keep your legs and arms straight.) Also, try to roll your hips under making your knees face the ceiling. Snap your legs down as hard as you can and stand up sharp! Slap your arms together squeezing your fingers, and arms into your body for 3 seconds then you can relax.
- Here are is a stretch to help:
- Practice your straddle everyday to be higher in your jump
- Do the Hurdle:
- Notice it's almost the same as the toe touch with the arm movements. Jump so that your more dominant leg Find Your Dominant Leg goes out as far as it can and your less dominant leg goes out bent behind you. Imagine you are trying to kick your behind. Make sure when performing the hurdle that your are turned to a diagonally to the right if your doing a right hurdle, and same with the left. Snap your legs down as hard as you can and stand up sharp and then slap your legs and squeeze your arm to your sides, this is also known as clean.
- A hurdle is the same as a herkie. What you call it depends where you are doing cheer. Most competitive cheer teams call them hurdlers. School or game cheerleaders call it a herkie. It doesn't matter what you call it, all what matters is that you can do one.
Tips
- The counts are as follows:
- clap -1
- hold cone-2
- Bend knees and hold arm down, chest up, chin up-3
- Swing arms to a T/candlesticks motion and bring your legs to a straddle/hurdle motion...IN FRONT OF YOU-4 (for a straddle it's in front os you, for hurdle its under you and your front leg parallel to the floor.)
- Land legs bent, arms still in T motion, butt stuck out behind you.-5
- Legs still bent, arm also still in T motion butt still stuck out-6
- Pop chest up and clean, hands squeezing hands to legs, thumbs - 7
- Keep your chest up when you jump! It makes your jumps look higher.
- Don't forget to smile the whole time, it makes you look sharper and cleaner, and also prettier!
- Be tight the whole time and squeeze every muscle in your body, especially your abs, this will make your jumps alot higher!
- When you clean, keep your thumbs squeezed into the rest of your hand and legs.
- When you clean, make sure you don't jump slap your legs and let your arms come off your legs. That mean your not squeezing properly.
- Before you do the counts to the jumps (if your saying them yourself) stand clean. Keep your hands FLAT against your legs. THUMBS IN!!! And don't forget to smile!!!
Warnings
- Make sure you stretch before you perform any skills. Besides, they're higher after you stretch anyway!
