Cheerleaders In Rochester NY

Challenge Athletics offers a variety of classes that will all benefit cheerleaders in Rochester NY.  Our classes for children start as young as one year old. You can register for a weekly class or a camp during a day off from school.  These tumbling, dance, and karate activities all offer things that will help cheerleaders in Rochester to be more successful in the future.

Let’s start with the most important class for cheerleaders in Rochester, tumbling!  As cheerleaders get older and the teams become more competitive, tumbling becomes essential to being a member of a cheerleading team.  While in being judged in competition, tumbling is a large category on the score sheets. Tumbling is judged on difficulty and execution. In order for a skill to count towards the team's difficulty score, the majority of the team must be able to perform that skill.  This places a lot of emphasis on each cheerleader in Rochester NY to learn these difficult skills. Along with learning the tumbling skills performed in routines, there are other benefits to cheerleaders in Rochester taking tumbling classes at Challenge Athletics.  These tumbling classes will also strengthen the body in ways that will make each cheerleader stronger in their jumps and stunting skills.  

Challenge Athletics also offers dance classes for ages 3 ½ and up.  A large majority of a cheerleader's routine and score sheet, is the dance portion.  While performing, each team member must be perfectly in sync in their dance motions to receive a high score.  Taking these dance classes at a young age, will increase muscle memory for cheerleaders in Rochester NY , that will help them succeed as they grow.  Cheerleaders need to perform these high intensity performances for 2 ½ minutes, which requires endurance. Taking dance classes at Challenge Athletics will help cheerleaders in Rochester gain that much needed endurance.  Dance classes also can increase a student's flexibility. This can be very beneficial for cheerleaders in Rochester since many of the skills performed by flyers require extreme flexibility.

Even though martial arts is not a category judged in a cheerleading routine, the classes still have benefits for cheerleaders in Rochester NY.  Similar to dance classes, martial arts classes provide growth in muscle memory for students. The benefits of that martial arts provides that will help its students in life and any other sport is focus and discipline.  While practicing before a cheerleading competition, cheerleaders must have a lot of focus in order to learn the skills and time them perfectly.  

The skills performed by cheerleaders in Rochester NY take many years of practice.  To be successful in cheerleading, you should start your child in these classes at a young age.  Call Challenge Athletics today to register for classes and camps!