Learn communication skills for managing and resolving conflict among coaches, parents and athletes in this candid DVD from veteran cheer coach Jennifer Uselton.

Drawing on real-life issues from her 16-year coaching career, Uselton shares tips and techniques for creating an environment of compassionate understanding that will open pathways to creative problem solving, team building and improved relationships.

Uselton opens with a brief overview of the four main stages of group development, emphasizing the second or "storming" stage where most conflict occurs. She applies a unique interpretation of Dale Carnegie's highly successful "feel, felt and forward" method to six different scenarios. Each scenario shows how to diffuse emotionally charged situations to create positive results that respect different, often opposing viewpoints.

Viewers who practice Uselton's easy-to-follow advice will become competent, confident communicators.

Part 2 of the DVD addresses two critical and timely topics: effective social media networking and cyber-bullying.

Uselton discusses developing and protecting team reputations in the highly pervasive and accessible environments of social networks like Facebook and Twitter. She also gives pointers for protecting individuals from negative activities like cyber bullying and shares 10 cyber-bullying facts that every coach (and parent) needs to know in order to protect teens from embarrassing, hurtful behaviors.

Her presentation concludes with three tips for using the Internet to achieve positive results.

Effective conflict resolution requires specific communication skills. Uselton provides these tools plus important strategies for maintaining reputations and ensuring personal safety in an Internet-based age-all in less than 30 minutes. Every coach, athlete and parent can learn something from this presentation.

28 minutes. 2011.

Veteran cheer coach Jennifer Useltonpresents an instructional video that will help cheer squads learn newconditioning skills or improve existing ones.

Utilizing all four corners of apractice mat, Uselton takes viewers step-by-step through a uniquesystem of skill-specific activities, synchronization drills,transitions and other strategies for developing strength andflexibility. She also shares a number of straightforward coachingtips designed to maximize the effectiveness of various exercises.

Here are just a few of the techniquesUselton shares as she walks viewers through her one-of-a-kind,four-corner program:

• Corner 1 - In the toe-touch corner, Uselton works the lower half of the body using 30-second jump-training drills to increase flexibility, height and strength.
• Corner 2 - Tumbling is the focus of this corner. Uselton offers skill- and confidence-building drills for inexperienced tumblers along with strategies for synchronizing tumbling routines.
• Corner 3 - The drills presented in the "Lemon Squeezer" corner are designed to build overall endurance and develop stronger breathing techniques that will help squad members yell louder.
• Corner 4 - Drawing on techniques presented earlier in the video, the dance/motion corner introduces a higher level of synchronization for stunting, tumbling and dance routines.

This detailed, easy-to-follow video ispacked with drills and tips presented by one of the nation'sleading cheer coaches is a must-have for all cheer squads.

27 minutes. 2011.

Get expert advice and instruction from Pop Warner Cheerleading Coach Jen Schower with demonstrations from Championship cheerleaders from Jersey Shore Pop Warner!

With a focus on building stunts through the proper progressions, Coach Schower shows you how to perfect each element of stunting as you create more complex stunts. Her basic stunts include thigh stands, shoulder stands, extension preps and basic dismounts. Coach Schower next demonstrates extended stunts and straddle sits then shows you several more difficult stunts wherein she incorporates one leg extended stunt variations such as liberties, heel stretch cradle, arabesque straight cradle, scorpion, bow and arrow and the scale.

To make your routine look more original, Coach Schower shows you creative Ins, Outs and Transitions to give you additional flair and also demonstrates how to execute creative dismounts and basket tosses. By building off the basic elements, you will be able to create rock solid stunts and earn extra style points for your squad!

Filmed on site at an Eastern Region Pop Warner Coaches' Clinic and at the Pop Warner National Championship venue in Orlando, FL.

60 minutes. 2009.

This DVD is recommended for Pop Warner Cheerleading Skill Levels: Novice and Intermediate.

This Pop Warner Cheerleading presentation is designed to help cheer coaches and squads leave no stone unturned detailing all things game day! What makes this DVD unique is that it follows Gina Medlock's Pop Warner cheer squad though an actual Pop Warner game day.

Coach Medlock begins with the administrative perspective, which includes a 10-item checklist of Pop Warner's "best policies" for the managing your team on game day. These policies make up the highest of standards for the safety and fun of cheerleaders and coaches.

What follows next is an actual sequence of events to help coaches plan and execute a successful game day experience. Each sequence is detailed in terms of administrative responsibilities, as well as responsibilities and functions for the squad and includes:

• Site arrival and site evaluation protocol
• Warm-up and stretching: 9 exercises for your squad
• Jumps: A 3-jump demonstration with tips for eye catching jump execution
• Halftime routines: Features cheers, stunts, and dances with instructional components and hello chants
• Cheers for the Offense
• Cheers for the Defense
• Engaging the Crowd
• Sideline Stunts: Prep extension, full extension and stunting with signs for crowd participation
• Opening and Team Entrance Cheers and Formations
• National Anthem Protocol
• Kick-off Cheers
• Game Time Outs
• Protocol for welcoming visiting squads
• Post game protocol including warm down and game review
• Team dismissal focusing on participant safety

This DVD is the perfect guide to a safe, fun, energy filled, and successful game day cheerleading experience.

Recommended for Pop Warner Novice and Intermediate Cheer Skill Levels.

Filmed on site at the Pop Warner Southeast Regional Championships in Orlando, FL December 2009.

35 minutes. 2010.

Take your squad to new heights with these intermediate and advance stunts from premier cheer coach and choreographer Mark Coleman! Learn the how and the why of each skill and what it takes to make each stunt successful.

Coleman presents each skill in progression from easiest to hardest. He thoroughly teaches each stunt using the whole-part-whole method:

• The stunt is performed in its entirety.
• The stunt is broken down position by position: Top girl, main base, secondary base and back spot.
• Stunt is again shown in its entirety.

Coleman discusses how to create a disciplined commitment to safety with your squad as well as providing specific instruction on effective spotting techniques.

INTERMEDIATE STUNTS
10 intermediate stunts
3 intermediate transitions

Activity (Category)

• Hop up to shoulder straddle (Intermediate stunt)
• Pick up to shoulder straddle (Intermediate stunt)
• Half up to elevator half (Intermediate stunt)
• Half up to extension (Intermediate stunt)
• Heel stretch tap down (Intermediate stunt)
• Heel stretch from platform twist cradle (Intermediate stunt)
• 3/4 up to extension (Intermediate stunt)
• Pony up to half (Intermediate stunt)
• Pony up to extension (Intermediate stunt)
• Single base extension tap down (Intermediate stunt)
• Hydraulic retake (Intermediate transition)
• Liberty to half rewind down (Intermediate transition)
• 360 to squish (Intermediate transition)

ADVANCED STUNTS
9 advanced stunts
2 advanced transitions

Activity (Category)

• Single bast to liberty tap down (Advanced stunt)
• Single bast liberty twist cradle (Advanced stunt)
• Pony 3/4 up to 1/2 double down (Advanced stunt)
• Cradle double down (Advanced stunt)
• Pony 3/4 up to extension (Advanced stunt)
• 3/4 up to arabesque double down (Advanced stunt)
• Full up to half double down (Advanced stunt)
• Full up to extension (Advanced stunt)
• Full up to liberty (Advanced stunt)
• Back handspring to liberty (Advanced transition)
• Cradle out to pony up (Advanced transition)

Your search for the ultimate in stunt instruction ends here!

86 minutes. 2010.