Higher toe touches. Sharper arms. Stuck landings.
Film one jump at practice and get coach-level feedback on height, hip flexion, chest and timing. Jumps and flexibility only — we don't coach tumbling or stunts.
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What the coach measures
One clip, one angle — here's what each angle can read. Film the other angle another day for the rest.
How high your hips traveled, measured in your own torso-lengths - the honest altitude gauge from a phone camera. More is always fine; this only scores up.
How much you sank into your set before takeoff. A real sit loads your legs where a quick dip doesn't - but how DEEP to sit is mostly your own preference, and depth on its own buys far less height than it feels like it should.
How evenly your jumps repeat when you do more than one. Same set, same height, every time. Athletes repeat a jump more closely than this window asks - it is deliberately loose, because reading height off a phone adds scatter of its own.
Where your best leg's ankle sits compared to your HIPS at the very top - zero means hip height. Judged against your hips on purpose: your legs earn their own credit, no matter what your chest is doing. In a pike we skip this read entirely: your legs go straight out toward the camera, so from the front their height flattens in the picture however high you really got them.
How closely your two legs match at the top. In a toe touch or pike they should mirror; in a hurdler we skip this read entirely - that shape is meant to be uneven.
Whether your chest stayed tall at the top, read from how your torso projects to the camera. Near 1.0 is proud; well under means the chest dove to meet the legs.
How high your hips traveled, measured in your own torso-lengths - the honest altitude gauge from a phone camera. More is always fine; this only scores up.
How much you sank into your set before takeoff. A real sit loads your legs where a quick dip doesn't - but how DEEP to sit is mostly your own preference, and depth on its own buys far less height than it feels like it should.
Your deepest knee bend in the set - around ninety to one-ten is a loaded spring; a bend that never really happens is a hop.
How evenly your jumps repeat when you do more than one. Same set, same height, every time. Athletes repeat a jump more closely than this window asks - it is deliberately loose, because reading height off a phone adds scatter of its own.
How far your chest leans from tall at the very top, from the side camera. A little forward presence is normal - diving toward your legs is the fault we watch.
How much your chest angle changed between takeoff and the top. Holding or rising means your legs came up to YOU; a big forward change means the chest went down to them.
Cheer's reference windows were set from a single athlete's jump — not from judges' standards. Two of the nineteen have since been re-set from published research: the landing knee angle, from drop-landing studies that measured trained and untrained athletes separately, and jump evenness, from published jump-to-jump variation. The other seventeen — every leg, chest and arm shape — have no published comparator anywhere, and no second athlete has moved a number. Until athletes of known level have set them, this sport shows your measurements against those windows and no 0–100.
A category the clip can't show clearly comes back blank rather than guessed — and if too much of the movement is unreadable, we hold the overall score back instead of averaging what is left.
The report, start to finish
Explore it — this is the layout you get. The numbers below are a worked example, not a recording of someone's clip.
Drills the coach prescribes
Sit in your straddle with your back flat against a wall, hands off the floor. Lift one leg a few inches, hold two counts, lower slow. The wall keeps your chest tall, so the lift has to come from your hip flexors - exactly the muscles that put your toes up in the air.
Sit tall, legs together in front, chest proud. On a count, snap your legs out into your toe-touch shape, then snap back together. It's your air position rehearsed on the floor, where you can feel every inch of it.
One hand lightly on a wall: kick front, then to each corner, chest staying tall the whole time. If your chest dips to buy the kick height, the kick doesn't count - the rule in the air starts on the ground.
Sit with your hands pressed into the floor beside your hips. Push down hard and lift your heels an inch off the ground - knees bent to start, straighter as you get stronger. This builds the hip-flexor strength that turns a flexible straddle into a HIGH straddle.
How to film it
- ✓ Film at the gym on a sprung floor or mats - not concrete, grass or a trampoline
- ✓ Phone fixed on a tripod or ledge, portrait - you should stand about a third of the frame tall, head to feet. Below about a sixth the clip is usually rejected, and a hand-held phone drops jump height, set depth, landing absorb and landing travel
- ✓ Whole body in frame, head to feet, the entire time - leave headroom for the peak
- ✓ Keep your approach and your landing in frame - that's where the story is
- ✓ One jump per clip - flexibility holds are coming later
- ✓ 60fps if your phone has it - the snap happens fast
- ✓ Fitted practice wear tracks better than loose clothing
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- Do You Need to Be Flexible for Cheer Jumps? Yes — and It's Half the Story
- Flexible on the Floor, Low in the Air — the Strength Gap
- Front View or Side View? What Each Camera Angle Reveals About Your Jump
- Hip Flexors — the Quiet Muscles That Put Your Toes in the Air
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