Partner Stunting allocation for upcoming performance

Kahau + Nellie

Harry + Simin

Gary + elephant

Ken + Fat bird

Ochi + Jasmine (pair the one who cannot toss with the one who can jump -.- )

Vince + Retarded/ skinny legs

Richard + 脚短短

Isaac + KKK

without flyers: Weihao, Jayson, S.gary, teddytubbs, ZL

Note: Please start to familarise yourselves with your respective partners, especially those doing the toss shoulder stands.

Cheerobics partner allocation will commence once we finalise our competition squad.

More crazy ideas



This is an old video, but still one of my all time favourites. It is not just daring to dream or daring to try. It is also about having the ability to do so. And ability comes with a lot of hard work.

BEARS!!


last call for bears!! this coming sat 31/10/09


with jiggles,
bears-shark ochi
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HI PPLE!!
pls remember to bring the Ulu Pandan bear this coming sat (24/10/2009)!

pple with the bear:

Joline (kkk)
Harry
Small Gary
Big Gary (bloated)
Wilson
Kahau
Jasmine
Simin
Hui Ting (retarded)
Zhi Cheng
Geraldine
Jaslyn
Ken
Nellie
Huishan (cute elephant)
Zhiliang
Chaang (hahahaa old)
Isaac
Ochi
Candy (jiao duan duan)
Weihoe

Thanks!!

XOXO,
the very cute/kawaii elephant:)

DIY

DIY training on 28/10/2009 was way fun!!!
Just too bad if u never had the chance to go down =PPP

Kentucky @ BBM 2009 (full version)



Background: No event epitomizes the passion and dedication of the UK fan base better than Big Blue Madness. More than 24,000 fans annually pack Rupp Arena for the first open practice opportunity for Kentucky's 2009-10 men's and women's basketball teams. Amid the pyrotechnics, high-flying dunks, celebrity guests and more, it's quickly become of the biggest spectacles in all of college sports.

Source: http://www.ukathletics.com/sports/m-baskbl/recaps/101609aaa.html

jaslyn layout

Was working out on some music making so decided to make this video...

AACCA Online safety cheerleading course

AACCA opens first ever online safety cheerleading course! The American Association of Cheerleading Coaches and Administrators (AACCA) has opened the first ever online cheerleading safety course. After several months of development, the course is now ...available online, now making safety courses more accessible and consistent.

Coaches can register for the course through the National Federation of State High Schools http://www.nfhslearn.com/sportDetail.aspx?courseID=10000 and complete the course at their convenience. If the course is stopped at any point, it will pick back up where the coach left off when he or she logs back on. The course includes exam questions with wrong answers driving the coach back to the proper section of the course to review the relevant material. Audio and video presentations of skill progressions and proper spotting techniques are shown throughout the course as well.

Kentucky @ BBM

I see 2 of our good friends from UK. Go Cats!!!

Flyers: This is why it is important to keep your hands by your side when you fall -justshutupandlock.

*credits to weihao for sharing the video.

Impt note: While it is your body's natural instinct to reach out for the ground to break your fall, cheerleading teaches you to lock when you fall: the complete opposite of what a non-cheerleader would do instinctively. Over-coming your instincts takes a lot of discipline. Do not take things for granted.



And for the boys: Follow your coach's instructions. Don't gei kiang.

where are you going this halloween?

Howl-O-Scream Fright Night 2009


Babes and Dudes!

The Colosseum will be having the first ever Halloween LAN Party on 31st October 2009 (Saturday). Come prepared for a night that will blow you away with amazing performances by Singapore’s Kumar, premier local R&B talent Mark Bonafide and SHINYA lead by ex-singer of Lucify from Channel U’s Superband Season 1. Witness the Femme Fatal Fashion Show and test your fate at our Deal or No Deal-styled lucky draw, where you will have to decide to either walk the true path of the righteous, or stray off to temptation where exciting prizes worth over $4000 lie in wait for the taking.

Cheaper tickets if you get it now*

Moonlight Pass
Early Bird $32
Door Price $38
(2 drinks** + 3 hrs of gaming + uber cool performances)

Cauldron Pass
Early Bird $22
Door Price $28
(1 drink** + uber cool performances)

If you order more than 10 tickets at 1 go, I could give you better rate. =D
Dress up for that day and you can get 1 more free drinks**!
Simple dress up will do too. Etc.. devil horn, cat ear, blood on face....toilet paper around ur body! and my fellow cheerleaders, just come in your cheerleading costumes, la! hehe.. then we can have some fun stunting at the halloween party! i miss cheer!

*before 26th Oct 2oo9

email me at thisstarisverybright@yahoo.com to book your tickets now yay~!

So you think you can dance?




And have you ever thought how fortunate it is for you to be able to cheer and dance normally?



There are tonns of ppl that are more unfortunate than you. Be thankful that you are able to go places that many will never be able to reach.

http://www.facebook.com/home.php#/video/video.php?v=1082563870403&ref=mf

How Badly Do You Want It?

How Badly Do You Want it?


A senior quarterback asked a retired old coach why his team could not win. He told him no matter how hard they worked, whatever sacrifices they had made, what more could they do, why could they not win.

The old coach simply said “Follow me” and walked the quarterback down to the edge of the lake, and then forcefully immersed the young man’s head into water. After several seconds, the quarterback began to fight for air, the coach removed his head from the water and allowed him to breath.

The quarterback regained his composure and the old coach replied, “Young man, when you and your teammates want to win as badly as you wanted that next breath of air, that’s when you will win!”

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No matter how strong you are, no matter how capable you can be, you have a breaking point. All we can do is extend the limit of that breaking point; bit by bit. Ask yourself. Are you, as a flyer, tired while executing the stunts? Well, the bases are. Are you, as a base, losing your strength and no giving your all during a stunt execution? Well, the flyers are.

Everyone, in the 16 man routine is tired. But you can’t give up, because I know I won’t. Everyone has worked so hard for it. The scolding we received, the injures that were caused as well as the mental weakness we overcome. Is it fair for anyone to give up just like that? It has all come down to the point to how bad do you want it.

Seriously, how bad do you want to win? 2009 Cheerobics. We lose to no one but ourselves. We have a winning routine but we did not execute it. Why is that? Self destruction; that’s it. This year, we are confident. But how far can confidence get you? I want to win real bad, so bad that I can taste it. I don’t want to walk home empty-handed again.

I ensure I will go all out in the routine. But everyone has to as well. We must head towards a same common goal; to become the best in whatever we do. Pyramids, partner stunts, gymnastics, cheer, dance, transitions. That is the ability of a champion. To cover the every aspect that will ensure our victory. Do you have what it takes?

Keep fighting, keep chasing whoever’s back you are staring down at and aim to catch up; aim to surpass. Fight to breathe like the quarterback and his team. As long as everyone keep wanting to win as badly as they wanted that next breathe of air, we will win. As long as everyone wants to win more badly that the other teams, we will win.

Now ask yourself “How bad do you want to win?”

Part of being in a team requires all of us to have a key word: TEAMWORK. From dictionary.com, it is the "cooperative or coordinated effort on the part of a group of persons acting together as a team or in the interests of a common cause".

There are many key aspects in team work as well. One of which is COMMUNICATION. If all of us do not talk out our feeling on certain aspects, misunderstandings almost always occur. And it will be like termites, slowly eating away the good wood which is teamwork, one which is the core framework of being in a team.

I am pleased that our team gels well together (amidst the lame jokes, Och-lets and working hard for one another). Let's continue to keep this spirit going in Wildcards. Outside cheer, please do also think of your family who had supported you throughout up till today. The song and lyrics below will sum up the importance of COMMUNICATION.

The Living Years

Every generation
Blames the one before
And all of their frustrations
Come beating on your door

I know that Im a prisoner
To all my father held so dear
I know that Im a hostage
To all his hopes and fears
I just wish I could have told him in the living years

Crumpled bits of paper
Filled with imperfect thought
Stilted conversations
Im afraid thats all weve got

You say you just dont see it
He says its perfect sense
You just cant get agreement
In this present tense
We all talk a different language
Talking in defence

Say it loud, say it clear
You can listen as well as you hear
Its too late when we die
To admit we dont see eye to eye

So we open up a quarrel
Between the present and the past
We only sacrifice the future
Its the bitterness that lasts

So dont yield to the fortunes
You sometimes see as fate
It may have a new perspective
On a different day
And if you dont give up, and dont give in
You may just be o.k.

Say it loud, say it clear
You can listen as well as you hear
Its too late when we die
To admit we dont see eye to eye

I wasnt there that morning
When my father passed away
I didnt get to tell him
All the things I had to say

I think I caught his spirit
Later that same year
Im sure I heard his echo
In my babys new born tears
I just wish I could have told him in the living years

Say it loud, say it clear
You can listen as well as you hear
Its too late when we die
To admit we dont see eye to eye

Wildcards Flyers' Special !



Watch out for jo's ''special'' stunt at the end!
Special thanks to Ochi for recording the videos!

Bangkok University Cheerleading Rehearsing for TV Show.



Flyers: Study how the double full dismounts are done.

Something for all of us to think about

Once upon a time a tortoise and a hare had an argument about who was faster and decided on a race. We know that the tortoise later emerged as the champion because the hare became complacent and fell asleep under a tree. The moral of the story is that slow and steady wins the race. This is the version of the story that we've all grown up with. But then recently, someone told me a more interesting version of this story. It continues as such...

The hare was disappointed at losing the race and he did some Defect Prevention (Root Cause Analysis). He realized that he'd lost the race only because he had been overconfident, careless and lax. If he had not taken things for granted, there's no way the tortoise could have beaten him. So he challenged the tortoise to another race. The tortoise agreed. This time, the hare went all out and ran without stopping from start to finish. He won by several miles. The moral of the story It's better to be fast and reliable, consistently.

But the story doesn't end here. The tortoise did some thinking and realized

that there's no way he can beat the hare in a race based on the way it was currently formatted. He thought for a while, and then challenged the hare to another race, but on a slightly different route. The hare agreed. They started off. In keeping with his selfmade commitment to be consistently fast, the hare took off and ran at top speed until he came to a broad river. The finishing line was a couple of kilometers on the other side of the river. The hare sat there wondering what to do. In the meantime the tortoise trundled along, got into the river, swam to the opposite bank, continued walking and finished the race.

The moral of the story? First identify your core competencies and then change the playing field to suit your core competencies.

The story still hasn't ended. The hare and the tortoise, by this time, had become pretty good friends and they did some thinking together. Both realized that the last race could have been run much better. So they decided to do the last race as a team this time. They started off, and this time the hare carried the tortoise till the riverbank. There, the tortoise took over and swam across with the hare on his back. On the opposite bank, the hare again carried the tortoise and they reached the finishing line together. They both felt a greater sense of achievement than they'd felt earlier.

The moral of the story? It's good to be individually brilliant and to have strong core competencies; but unless you're able to work in a team and harness each other's core competencies, you'll always perform below par because there will always be situations at which you'll do poorly and someone else does well.

Teamwork is mainly about situational leadership, letting the person with the relevant core competencies for a situation take leadership.

There are more lessons to be learnt from this story. Neither the hare nor the tortoise gave up after their failures. The hare decided to work harder and put in more effort. The tortoise changed his strategy because he was already working as hard as he could. In life, when faced with failure, sometimes it is appropriate to work harder and put in more effort. Sometimes it is appropriate to change strategy and try something different. And sometimes it is appropriate to do both. The hare and the tortoise also learnt another vital lesson. When we stop competing against a rival and instead start competing against the situation, we perform far better.

When Roberto Goizueta took over as CEO of Coca-Cola in the 1980s, he was faced with intense competition from Pepsi that was eating into Coke's growth. His executives were Pepsi-focused and intent on increasing market share 0.1 per cent a time. Goizueta decided to stop competing against Pepsi and instead compete against the situation of 0.1 per cent growth. He asked his executives what was the average fluid intake of an American per day? The answer was 14 ounces. What was Coke's share of that? Two ounces. Goizueta said Coke needed a larger share of that market. The competition wasn't Pepsi. It was the water, tea, coffee, milk and fruit juices that went into the remaining 12 ounces! The public should reach for a Coke whenever they felt like drinking something. To this end, Coke put up vending machines at every street corner. Sales took a quantum jump and Pepsi has never quite caught up since.

To sum up, the story of the hare and tortoise teaches us many things. Chief among them are that:

1. fast and consistent will always beat slow and steady;

2. work to your competencies;

3. pooling resources and working as a team will always beat individual performers;

4. never give up when faced with failure; and finally,

5. compete against the situation rather than rivals

*photo added by chaang*

Boys just wanna have fun -.-




Boys who never grow up featuring KKK. -.-

Hello Peeps, It's me, (your naggy coach) and i wanna ink this down:

Ask yourself......
What is it that we should do in order to achieve our goals?
Where are we now?
Where do we want to be?
And how are we to get there?

Training is beginning to get edgy... Even I am feeling the heat & pressure to perform. As a member, and as a coach.

As a member, it is good competition to see your peers achieve new heights in each training, and that motivates me to improve. Some may take a longer time to reach there, some maybe just a few tries. Take Ochi as an example. He talks.. A LOT. And very TUA KANG. But I admire his attitude and spirit. Though VERY IRRITATING, he is persistent in seeking advise and practise as much as he could. (As usual, irritiating me along the way.. =_=") But he does not feel embarassed that people boo or tease him.

As a coach, besides the team direction, we have to keep ourselves sharp and active whilst balancing the members' commitment. The cheer scene in SG is advancing in leap & bounds. Stunts are becoming more technical than visually appealing. But sometimes, there are dry spells with creativity. :(

Let's talk about the Learning Curve (from Wiki ... :))
The learning curve refers to a graphical representation of the changing rate of learning (in the average person) for a given activity or tool. Typically, the increase in retention of information is sharpest after the initial attempts, and then gradually evens out, meaning that less and less new information is retained after each repetition.
The learning curve can also represent at a glance the initial difficulty of learning something and, to an extent, how much there is to learn after initial familiarity. For example, step up stunts are simple to learn, but offers little after this. On the other hand, toss up stunts which are harder to learn, but once mastered, allows you to progress to various permutations. It is possible for something to be easy to learn, but difficult to master or hard to learn with little beyond this.

Frequently a "learning curve" is used to describe the effort required to acquire a new skill (e.g., expertise with a new tool) over a specific period of time. If it's a complex task requiring you to reorient your way of thinking as with learning new software, what makes it a "steep learning curve" in the mental strain of comprehending a new language rather than the time or physical effort involved. The effort to achieve significant progress and sufficient skill to start using a tool may be fairly predictable, but achieving real mastery requiring much more time, effort and making original discoveries about its use. Often learning brings one to an "impasse", only resolved by a seemingly radical intuitive change in direction, an "ah-ha moment" or "breakthrough" representing "S" curve learning of a different kind and on a different scale.

In short, some stunts are easy to learn, some complex. But to perfect it takes more than just time and energy. Especially in pyramids, the team synergy has to be there, and this is something coaches cannot purge outta you.

With more DEDICATED AND STRATEGIC practices, you will require less conscious effort to execute your craft, but using your muscle memory and subconscious guide you through. With that, you minimise other obstacles like fear and uncertainty. What do you do with your conscious state when stunting?
> (Don't underestimate this.)
:)


So have you asked yourself the above questions?
It's only with the collective effort towards a goal then we can call ourselves a family. Even if you have the most enthusiastic/ hardworking member; the team is as driven as the unmotivated member. We move as a team. If you can, do help those lagging behind. (Don't take my kindness for granted.)

Your dear coach,
Vinc-E

"Attitute" VS "Comfort Zone"

"Attitute" VS "Comfort Zone"

This is something that Chaang has been saying to all of us; Improve on your attitude on the stunts; Get out of your comfort zone! I am just gonna talk more about it. Since all of us already know what attitude is, let's talk about comfort zone

Comfort zone is the mental place surrounded by borders in our mind where we feel secure. Even though this comfort area and its boundaries are just a state of mind that has nothing to do with reality, it plays a huge role in the progress of our development. Since the comfort zone is limited, there is not much benefit for you inside your comfort zone, but what you already are and have. Nothing new will happen until you open yourself and leave your comfort zone. Allow me to remind you that this is extremely important ESSPECIALLY for cheerleading. Think about it; what have you guys been doing that is even in your comfort zone?

As long as you still are having the same beliefs, you cannot grow and you cannot expect new things in your cheerleading career. When you change your beliefs you will change your thoughts, feelings and actions and then, and only then you can expand and grow in all aspects of your life.

Even though your background may be affecting your present situation, what really matters is not where you were born, your skin color, race, age, gender, religion, government, or even the poor environment in which you have been living for so many years, but what really matters and makes a big difference in your life is your attitude, to understand your comfort zone, how you limit yourself within it, who you are, why you behave the way you do it, and mainly where you are going.

Sadly many people don't go anywhere because they stay within their comfort zone. They accept defeat after defeat before even trying or knowing how capable or valuable they really are. These circumstances are not the cause of our actual situation but the conformism and the poverty of our thoughts and therefore the weakness of our broken spirit. Leave whatever past you have behind, get over it, and move on to become better. Your past within this comfort zone is nothing but a wasted load that you don't need to carry, at all.

Take constant action as many times as it is required and never, ever quit. As Napoleon Hill said, "a quitter never wins and a winner never quits. Defeat is never a failure; no circumstance ever is failure until it is accepted by the individual as a failure". Whatever you are thinking, you are feeling, and therefore what you feel is the way you are acting, and this action is what will determine how far you will go and how your future will be.

Nothing is impossible for an optimist attitude; everything is possible when we start blindly trusting ourselves, when we have a burning desire to succeed and a blind determination to make our dreams come true; everything is possible when we don't take a NO for an answer.

As cheerleaders, we acknowledge cheerleading as a sport. Cheerleading is for athletes. But in this community, I daresay less than half of us show it. We need to grow stronger as a team because we cannot move as long as we are not moving together. Whatever habits you have, get rid of it. If your mind can’t get rid of it, then train your body until it memorizes not to do it again. If you learn something new, burn it hard into your skull so you don’t forget it. Now is the time to move out of your comfort zone or even more injuries will to be foresee; both flyers and bases. Higher stunt levels, excessive cheer, repetitive dance, they are seriously on the way. If one wants to cope for the training, one needs to be both mentally strong and psychically tough to endure it all the way to Nationals. Remember what we are aiming for. The 2 words “National Champions” don’t come cheap. Trust me; coming from a dragon-boater. Blood, sweat and tears will indefinitely flow, but as long as we have that very aim to drive us to win, we will never crumble and we will come out strong.

We are WILDCARDS!

Announcement from CAS

Cheerleading Association (Singapore) understands that there has been recent concerns about the rules and scoring methods for Cheerobics 2010 i.e. whether CAS will continue to use IFC's standard set of rules and scoring methods, or switch to ICU's standard set. CAS wishes to reassure all S'pore cheerleaders and teams that for Cheerobics 2010, CAS will continue to use IFC's standard set of rules and scoring methods. However, for Cheerobics 2011, CAS will be using ICU's standard set. This will grant 18 months for all S'pore cheerleaders and teams to make the transition - as both organizations' standard set of rules have substantially different restrictions, and the scoring methods tend to provide different focuses and weightages.

In the meantime, CAS would like to encourage all S'pore cheerleaders and teams to attend the ICU coach credentialing course. Please visit http://cheerleading.com.sg/home/2009/10/update-3-usasf-iasf-coach-credentialing-level-1-2/ for more information.

As for date of Cheerobics 2010, CAS would still like to keep to its annual target of holding Cheerobics in March each year. CAS will announce the exact date of Cheerobics 2010 closer to the end of 2009.

Check out IMPACT episode 36 by USC Annenberg:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c-m7K2HvSfc&feature=related

How do you go the extra mile?



Sometimes in practice, we find that we are suffering from a ''cheerleader's burn out'', ie: finding it hard to progress because there is a lack of motivation to do so.

There are many theories when it comes to movitation, yet such theories are not one-fit-all solutions. Setting a target of a specific stunt you wish to execute properly within a certain time frame is one method. Aiming to surpass a certain somebody is another method.

But like i mentioned, certain methods are only relevant within certain timeframes. We need to constantly review such motivational ideologies to ensure that we remain in line with the existing environment.

To date, we have been ''customising motivations'' to respective individuals. Are we able to set a ''team movitation'' as well for everybody to move forward together?

Suggestions anybody?

heyo wildcards peeps!:D
first post, i dont know what to say.



it kinda amazing and interesting to know more about cheers,joining such a strong team, having no experience or any background. i still can remember the first day since i came to wildcards, jia hao was there to guide me, and i wanna thanks kahau. for teaching me , advice and motivate me to do even better.thanks zhi liang too!, i always go sort him for help. thanks chaang for always kan us, thanks.i will try to get used to it.HAHA:X and of cos, other members too, thanks for your motivations , advice and teaching. i will try to improve more asap. its real nice knowing all of you, okay enough talking.

thanks all of u.

Hello Wildcards,

Its been 2 months i think since i joined

I want to thank u all, the coaches and the members for the chance to be involved in your team

i felt very welcome since the first day and i am glad to know friends like you all

i look forward to future trainings and i hope to improve faster

thanks wild cards =]

What is effort?



God knows how much blood, sweat, and tears were put into this routine. Awesome!

MADE (Season 10) | Ep. 3 | Cheerleaders

MADE (Season 10) | Ep. 3 | Cheerleaders: "The cheerleaders of North Iberia Senior High School take their squad from the school wide joke to performing in front of thousands of fans at a college bowl game."

CLICK ON THE LINK TO WATCH IT.. :)

Asian-Thailand Cheerleading Invitational 09

Part 2:



NTU ACES, 2nd runner-up, International Category.

You can view other videos from my previous post ---> here

4 Oct external assignment.

Hi Wildcards, please take note of the following:

1. Venue: NTUC Center Tanjong Pagar
2. Reporting time: 12pm

Directions to this location can be found ---> here

Bases: Wildcards T-shirt and black shorts
Flyers: Full uniform

Good luck peeps!

ANNOUNCEMENT

Hi all, due to last minute notice, we are required to attend a dialog by Minister Lim Swee Say tml. Details are as follows:

Date: 3 Oct 2009
Time: 1500-1600hrs
Venue: Ulu Pandan CC Auditorium

The 8 personel who have volunteered for the cheerleading event on sunday 4 Oct, please make effort to reach training on time so that we can maximise time efficiently.

As for the rest, we will have trainings as usual from 1pm- 3pm, and commence training once the dialog ends.

With the exception of Isaac and Ochi who have classes, jasmine, kahau, s.gary richard who are coming from work (and myself included) the rest of you should reach training on time.

In view of this last minute arrangement, we might have to end trainings slightly later depending on whether we are able to finish our stuff.

DO NOT BE LATE!

Wildcards 1st year Anniversary revisted.

Finally got it uploaded on an external server! KH, please add to our video list. thanks!

Saw this particular reality tv episode from Team Spectrum's blog and found it really interesting. Do watch the video! ---> here