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 *  __How does a cheerleader fly high into the air with a mounting group?__ **

There are many impressive stunts that cheerleaders can do. The most pleasing stunt is called the “basket toss”. This is where a flyer gets into a mounting group with four other cheerleaders called the bases, back spots, and front spots. Each person takes a certain position in a diamond shape and they use their arms and leg to throw the flyer into the air as high as they can. To get the most momentum that they need they have got to use their legs to push the flyer up. When the flyer is in the air she has to stiffen her body and as they call it, “ride it” until she feels that she has reached her highest point. After she feels the highest point she can arch her back and she can do a toe touch or any other trick she would like to do like a back-flip for instance. Physics plays a very large role in cheerleading. The bases can use an upward force onto the flyers forcing the up and the flyers give the same exact force but pushing downward to the bases to push off of them. The force of gravity forces the bases and the flyer both while they are doing this stunt because of gravity pulling the bases to the ground. When the bases let go of the flyer, gravity pulls the flyer to the ground. This is a picture of a flyer with her bases front spot and back spot loading up to get ready to throw the flyer into the air.

 This is a picture of the mounting group of how they push up the flyer as she pushes down towards them and as she reaches her highest point she does a toe-touch. Stunts in cheerleading are used for performances showing a squads skill and ability and school spirit. All stunts in cheerleading are very dangerous and are very hard to achieve. __Works Cited: __ 1. http://www.uta.fi/FAST/GC/cheerglo.html 2. http://library.thinkquest.org/CR0214222/CHEER3.html 3. http://www.absoluteastronomy.com/topics/List_of_cheerleading_stunts

[|Basket-toss] ** This is a video of a group of girls doing a cheerleading stunt called the Hurkey Basket toss. You will see how these girls manage to do this stunt. ** [|Pike Basket-Toss]
 * Here is another video of some cheerleaders doing a stunt called the pike basket toss. You can see how much momentum the entire group will get to push their flyer higher. **