Base: The person in the stunt who remains in contact with the floor, lifting a flyer into a stunt.
Basket-toss: Toss of a flyer into the air involving 3-4 tossers, 2 of which have their hands interlocked.
Chant: A short repetitive yell.
Cheer: A longer yell using motions and stunts.
Cradle: The ending move of a stunt where 2 bases and a separate head and shoulder spotter catches
a flyer after they toss her into the air.
Dismount: A way to return the flyer to the floor at the end of a stunt.
Flyer: The person that is elevated into the air by her base(s) to perform a mount.
Mount: Any skill in which one or more persons is supported in the air. Another word used is stunt.
Pyramid: Multiple mounts or stunts connected together.
Spotter: A person who's direct contact with the performing surface and may help control the building of,or dismounting from a mount. This person may not provide primary support, meaning the mount or pyramid would remain stable without the spotter. The primary responsibility of the spotter is to the safety of the flyer.
Stunt: Any tumbling skill, toss, mount or pyramid.- Prep, Elevator, Halves: A mount where the flyer is at shoulder level
Extention, Full: A mount where the flyer is fully extended above the bases.
Transitional Stunts:A stunt that nvolves a top person moving from one stunt to another.
The transtional stunt may involve changing bases.
Vault: A stunt in which the hands of the top person are used to assist in clearing a base(s) or prop(s).
Toss: A throwing motion by the base(s) to increase the heigh of the top person with the top person becoming free of contact with the base(s).
- Tumbling: A gymnastic skill such as forward or backward rolls, inverted skills and flips.
Extended Stunt: One in which the supporting arms(s) of the base(s) is fully extended above the head.
Stunts such as chairs, russian lifts, T-lifts, full extensions, awesomes, liberties.
Jumps: A move where both feet leave the ground. Examples of jumps are toe-touches, side hurdlers,
front hundlers, pikes, around-the-worlds, double nines.
Liberty: A stunt where the base holds one foot of the flyer. Variations on this are arabesque, scorpion, heel stretch, torch, scale.
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