Need an American to ID a cheerleading move.

[TheRedChamber]

Simple question. How would you objectively and respectfully call this move if you were a cheerleading coach.

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“I tell you what I’m going to do,” said Felicity. She reached over to her desk and pulled out a check book. It had been literally years since Sylvia had seen one. It had a little stand with a holder for a gold fountain pen. “I’m going to write you out a check for a thousand dollars, and another one for you Sylvia. All you need to do is perform a [MOVE NAME] right now. Just do one and hold it there for thirty seconds.”

Felicity reached over the table with a check in both hands. The girls both hesitated.

“Why not?” said Felicity. “Right, because I’ve made it clear. You’d be doing something sexual for me and that makes you uncomfortable. But do the same in front of a crowd of thousands...”

 

[StillStunned]

Simple question. How would you objectively and respectfully call this move if you were a cheerleading coach.

The "audition"? Oh wait, you said "respectfully"...

 

[Erozetta]

I'd call it a forward fold.

 

[TheRedChamber]

I'd call it a forward fold.

That sounds like a plausible name for it.

 

[Deadfreak]

Since they look like professional not scholastic I'll watch intently as they perform the popular
Cheek peek

 

[TarnishedPenny]

Inventing a name, how about 'Peekaboo Bend'?

 

[yowser]

Hike!

 

[SimonDoom]

Full moon.

 

[MrPixel]

Simple question.

Not so simple. This move isn't in the standard cheer positions guides geared for high-schoolers. Overtly sexual is a no-no in that age bracket, so it has to be either college or pro.

It's called a "standing pike stretch", but with legs spread. Textbook version of this position has the legs straight, originally a gymnastics exercise for hamstring stretching.

 

[TarnishedPenny]

Day-um, Mr P! Is there anything you don’t know?

 

[Britva415]

Simple question. How would you objectively and respectfully call this move if you were a cheerleading coach.

I don't think it will work to simply drop the name of a move in there. I don't think most readers would be able to picture it, and, you would be trying to imply even more than that.

Before the applicants react apprehensively, Felicity would have to make real clear that she expects them to show her their crotches from behind by bending over, ass-up.

The stakes just aren't there, if all you do is name the move and expect that to convey what's being proposed.

I get that you do in fact go on to do exactly that, in the following paragraph, but, the image of the move and the exposure it yields is still missing.

Let me put it this way: The only reason I know what the stakes are is because there is a picture.

 

[ShelbyDawn57]

Simple question. How would you objectively and respectfully call this move if you were a cheerleading coach.

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Don't know the move, but black and gold, that's the New Orleans Saints.

 

[pink_silk_glove]

I don't think it will work to simply drop the name of a move in there. I don't think most readers would be able to picture it, and, you would be trying to imply even more than that.

What I would do then is have the instructor ask for the move by name and then describe the actual move as the girl bends over and then the reader can learn what a forward fold or pike stretch (or whatever we call it) actually is, which will immerse someone not familiar with cheering into the world of the sport and setting.

 

[MrPixel]

Day-um, Mr P! Is there anything you don’t know?

I just know how to research efficiently. In this case, I sorta kinda knew of the basic moves from having dated cheerleaders (...naturally...), and from there found the more advanced material. In this case they probably have a unique euphemistic name within the team - "crowd pleaser" comes to mind.