Positions

Flyer: the person who is lifted/tossed and performs tricks

Bases: main weightbearers and always in contact with the floor – holds/tosses/lifts the flyer into the stunt

Back: provides support from the back – usually the tallest of the group to ensure a high firm grip

Front: can also be a base – provides support from the front to stop the flyer falling forward 

 

General Terms​

Clean: position in which the person stays tight with arms by the sides

Pop: a shrug/small throw from the bases in which the flyers feet leave their hands

Cradle: a pop from the bases in which the flyer flattens out and is caught lying down by the bases, back and front

Smush: flyer hangs on bases shoulders and feet are loosely held in their hands – flyer should be able to hold their own weight up

Reload: the transition from cradle to smush – bases bounce and throw upwards while the flyer whips their feet in to the bases' hands 

Stick: if a stunt sticks it means the trick/mount and ultimate stunt is stable and does not fall.  Coaches will shout 'Stick It'.

Extended position: bases arms are locked out straight and bearing weight above their heads (relevant for extension, libs and transitioning through the extended position)

 

Two-Legged Stunts

Prep: when the flyer is held at shoulder level by the bases resting their feet on the chest – weight is equally balanced

Show and go: transitional stunt which moves from smush all the way through the extended position landing back in smush/back up to prep

Extension: when the flyer is held at extended arm level by the bases

Hands: the single base variation of prep

Extended Hands: the single base variation of extension

 

One-Legged Stunts​

Lib: can be held at prep or extended level – flyer centres their weight on one leg and pulls shapes in the air with the other

Yoyo: flyer starts in lib-load position and inverts hips over head, splitting legs in the air – front then catches the free leg and throws it back to the load position

 

Lib Stretches

Lib: Foot pulled to knee

Hitch: Leg bent at knee and lifted to 90*

Arabesque: Leg straight back parralell to the floor

Scale: Leg held with one hand and pulled up and back

Scorpion: Foot held with both hands up behind the back

Heel Stretch: Straight leg held in front but the heel

 

Mounts

1/4 up: where the flyer will rotate 1/4 during the load-in

1/2 up: where the flyer will rotate 180* during the load-in

full up: where the flyer will rotate 360* during the load-in

 

Dismounts

Set Out: from a cradle, the bases tip the flyer up into a standing position on the floor

Trick cradle: as the flyer is popped from a stunt they hit a position/trick before ending in the cradle position – this is usually a full twist

Suspended forward roll: flyer makes hand to hand contact with front or bases and forward rolls out, landing either on standing on the floor or, if the bases move, in a cradle position

Flip Out dismount: flyer takes hand to hand contact with the back in the smush position – as the bases throw them up they perform a tucked forward roll opening out to land in the cradle position

Flat back/Superman: the bases release the flyers feet as the back maintains contain and pulls them out, the flyer then lands in a prone position – a twist can be added so the flyer then lands in a cradle position facing the other way

 

Release Moves

Ball-up: starting in smush the bases release the flyers feet going up the prep to then catch them again at prep

Tick-tock: in a one-legged stunt the bases throw the foot to then catch the other as the flyer switches from one to the other

Switch-up: flyer sets a lib on one foot, then as it goes up swaps feet to land in lib on the other

Barrel-roll: flyer is in cradle position and is thrown upwards by the bases whilst  performing a full twist

 

​Basket Tosses

Basket: bases act as a platform for the flyer's feet in an interlocked position (right hand grips left wrist and left hand grips base partner's right wrist) and throw the flyer straight up releasing each other to prepare to catch.

Flyer maintains a straight ride to the height and can perform various tricks at the top. Common tricks are pike, toe-touch, twist, ball out – more advance tricks include kick-twist, back-tuck and switch-kick