When & Where Stomp & Shake Cheerleading Began (Some History Of This Style Of Cheerleading)

Edited by Azizi Powell

Latest Revision- March 7, 2024

This is Part III of a three part series that compares three different but closely related African American originated performance movement arts: historically Black fraternities & sororities steppin (stepping); foot stomping [cheers]; and stomp & shake cheerleading.

This post provides a history and an overview of stomp & shake cheerleading.

Part I provides an overview of historically Black (African American) Greek lettered fraternities & sororities. Click http://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2013/05/an-overview-of-black-greek-letter.html for Part I of this series.

Part II provides an overview of foot stomping cheers. Click http://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2014/11/an-overview-of-foot-stomping-cheers.html for this information and examples of foot stomping cheers.

The content of this post is presented for folkloric, cultural, entertainment, and aesthetic purposes.

All copyrights remain with their owners.

Thanks to all those who are quoted in this post and thanks to all those who are featured in these embedded videos. Thanks also to publishers of these videos on YouTube.
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Update June 9, 2023: The term "stomp and shake" appears to be the most often used way of referring to this style of cheerleading. The spelling "stomp and shake" replaces "stomp n shake" and "stomp & shake".

Most of this pancocojams post was written in 2013 and contains older versions of that referent.   

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DISCLAIMER:
I am an African American who describes myself as a "community folklorist". Almost all the information that is found in this post was gleaned from online sources.

I have never been a member of any cheerleading squad and I have never seen any stomp and shake cheerleading performed in person, except for very modified versions of stomp and shake cheerleading that was performed by high school cheerleaders in my adopted hometown of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

.Everything that I know or conjecture about stomp and shake cheerleading is what I've gathered from the internet- mostly from watching YouTube videos and reading those videos' discussion threads. In addition, I had some informative online comment exchanges with one former stomp and shake cheerleader in 2011, but I regret that I lost contact with him after that year.

For the historical and cultural record, please add additions and corrections to this post and other pancocojams posts on stomp and shake cheerleading. Thanks in advance!

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WHAT IS STOMP AND SHAKE CHEERLEADING AND WHERE & WHEN DID IT BEGIN?
By Azizi Powell,March 7, 2025

Stomp and  Shake cheerleading is a form of cheerleading that originated among African Americans in the mid to late 1970s. Stomp and shake cheerleading combines elements of African American culture with elements of traditional cheerleading i.e. school cheerleading, (also known as "sideline cheering") and "stunt cheering" (also referred to as "All-Star" or "competitive cheerleading").

The African American cultural elements of stomp and shake cheerleading that help originate that style of cheerleading include but aren't limited to an aesthetic preference for rhythm and syncopated movement and dance, call & response communication patterns, and percussive sounds. Stomp and shake cheerleading also borrows and expresses elements of the dozens and rapping (particularly in the stomp and shake cheerleading performances known as "cheer battles"), and the movement arts known as "fraternity and sorority stepping" and the informal (not longer performed) activity of girls' recreational foot stomping cheers. 

The traditional cheerleading elements of stomp and shake cheerleading include but aren't limited to the group performance of rhyming cheers or short chants, and sometimes the performance of stunts such as toe touches and flips. The custom of traditional cheerleading fans seated in bleachers (stands) and yelling their own created cheers or joining into cheerleaders' directed cheers and chants during athletic games probably contributed to the stomp and shake custom of "bleacher cheers". "Bleacher cheers" are performed by middle school and high school stomp and shake cheerleader squads standing or seated in the gyms' bleachers during their athletic teams' basketball games. Cheer battles can and often do occur  throughout the entire game with the two rival cheerleading squads seated or standing in sections of bleachers that are apart from each other simultaneously or alternately chanting confrontational and/or bragging cheers. 

The custom of traditional sideline cheerleaders performing "hello" cheers with their rival cheerleading squad before their athletic teams' competitive game probably is one influence on the stomp and shake custom of battling (having battle cheers). 

With regard to the types of cheers and chants that traditional cheerleaders and that stomp and shake cheerleaders perform, it can be documented that a number of past and present day examples of traditional school (sideline) cheers come from African American sources and were/are used as is or were/are modified forms of those African American sources . This use of  usually modified African American cheers and chants occurred before African Americans created stomp and shake cheerleading and continues to this day, almost always without any acknowledgement of the original sources for those cheers and chants or their African American origins. 

The earliest university based stomp and shake squads appears to be Virginia State University's cheerleaders (1974) and Winston Salem State University's cheerleaders (1976). Both Virginia State University (VSU) and Winston-Salem State University (WSSU) are designated Historically Black Colleges And Universities (HBCU). 

It is important to realize that stomp and shake cheerleading may not be familiar to, popular with, widely performed at the same rate, or performed at all by cheerleaders on all HBCUs, particularly among all HBCUs in the deep South (such as Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Texas, and Florida). Stomp and shake cheerleading may not be familiar to, popular with, widely performed at the same rate, or performed at all by African Americans throughout the United States. Furthermore, some African Americans who are familiar with stomp and shake cheerleading may not like it and (along with some other people) may vehemently reject it being considered a form of cheerleading.,

However, some other Black people and some non-Black people prefer stomp and shake cheerleading to traditional styles of cheerleading because of its creativity, innovation, swag, and skill as well as because of stomp and shake cheerleading's welcoming of females who are "thick" i.e. don't meet the standard body image of traditional cheerleaders,  

Further comments and noted about stomp and shake cheerleading is given in other sections of this post.

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A DESCRIPTION OF STOMP AND SHAKE CHEERLEADING SQUADS AND THE PURPOSES OF STOMP AND SHAKE CHEERLEADING

Most stomp and shake cheerleader squads (teams) are auxiliaries of a school (elementary, middle school, or college/university) athletic team or teams (football and/or basketball). More recently, around 2022, a few stomp and shake cheerleader squads are community based non-profit groups that are affiliated with that same community based athletic team or teams (football and/or basketball) or are community based non-profit groups that aren't affiliated with any athletic team but perform stomp and shake cheerleading for cultural and/or competitive reasons.

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Most stomp and shake cheerleaders are Black Americans. However, it's been common since at least the early 2000s for some non-Black Americans to be members of stomp and shake cheerleading squads. It is also possible that there are now or will be stomp and shake cheerleader squads that have no Black American members or no Black members from any other nation.

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Most stomp and shake cheerleaders are females, but it is common since at least the early 2000s for some males to be members of some stomp and shake cheerleading squads. As of 2025, I'm not aware of any stomp and shake cheerleading squad that is composed of all males. However, it's possible that there are now or will be stomp and shake cheerleading squads that have no female members. 

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With the exception of the last group of community based cheerleaders mentioned above, like traditional cheerleaders, the primary purpose of most stomp and shake cheerleaders is to support the athletes whose teams they are affiliated with and to help raise the enthusiasm of people attending or otherwise watching their team's athletic game. The purpose of the last group of community based stomp and shake cheerleaders who are mentioned above is to develop and increase their cheerleader skills while demonstrating the aesthetic and cultural artistry of that form of cheering. This also is the purpose of all cheerleaders whether they are traditional cheerleaders or stomp and shake cheerleaders.

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For the historical record, I/m documenting that the current Wikipedia page about cheerleading https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheerleading (as of March 6, 2025) has no mention whatsoever about stomp and shake cheerleading. Also, stomp and shake cheerleading isn't mentioned in most other general online pages about cheerleading as of that date.

However, Google search provides the following results in response to my question on March 6, 2025 "What is stomp and shake cheerleading?" I consider these results to be somewhat on point but also misleading and incomplete particularly regarding its description of stomp and shake cheerleading and where it originated. Also, I'm not sure why the last two problematic sentences in that result are given in past tense since stomp and shake cheerleading is still alive and flourishing. 

*Stomp and shake cheer is a high-energy cheer style that combines traditional cheer with rhythmic stomping, shaking, and arm movements. It originated at historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) in the South.

Characteristics

Stomping: Fast-paced, rhythmic foot stomps

Shaking: Powerful body shakes

Arm movements: Sharp arm movements

Flowing movement: Fluid, energetic movements

Cheers: Vocal cheers

History

Stomp and shake cheer has been around for decades, but became especially popular in the early 2000s.

Winston-Salem State University is credited with popularizing the style.

Stomp and shake cheer is non-traditional, with less focus on tumbling or flying in the air.

Performance

Stomp and shake cheer combines athleticism with crowd engagement.

Cheerleaders perform complex routines that require flexibility and strength training.

Other information

Stomp and shake cheer is deeply rooted in Black culture.

Some people viewed stomp and shake cheer as aggressive, but others saw it as a way to yell and dance."

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THE EARLIEST DOCUMENTATION OF STOMP AND SHAKE CHEERLEADING 
Here are some quotes that I've found about the early history of stomp & shake cheerleading:

Numbers added for referencing purposes only

Excerpt #1 
 From http://www.motherjones.com/media/2014/12/cheerleader-history-timeline
A Not-So-Brief and Extremely Sordid History of Cheerleading —By Julia Lurie
Mon Dec. 15, 2014 6:15 AM EST
..."As schools continue to integrate, one factor adding to tension is the difference in cheerleading styles between black and white schools: As Lou Lillard, a black cheerleader named All-American in 1972, explained, "The type of cheering at black high schools is…more of a stomp-clap, soul-swing...At [white] schools, the traditional cheers are straight-arm motions."

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Excerpt #2
From http://hbcuconnect.com/content/180466/dr-paulette-walker-johnson-retires-as-coach-of-virginia-state-university-woo-woos 

summarized: Dr. Paulette Johnson began coaching for Virginia State University's Woo Woos cheerleaders in 1974, and coached that squad for 35 1/2 years.

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Excerpt #3

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L-FTXteCp1E&t=18s "Virginia State University Woo Woos Homecoming Performance", published by Hbcugrad, Jan 13, 2021
[summary statement] - "The Virginia State Woo Woos were founded in 1974. Everybody can cheer but can you Woo?!"

https://www.hbcugraduates.com/

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Excerpt #4
From https://winstonsalem.prestosports.com/about/hall_of_fame/Hall_of_Fame_Bios/Debra_Rivers_Johnson_Bio?view=bio. 
summarized: Debra [Deborah] L. Rivers initiated the stomp & shake style of cheerleading at Winston Salem State University when she began coaching that cheerleading squad in 1976. She was WSSU's cheerleading coach for 17 years. 

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Excerpt #5
From http://thesocietypages.org/socimages/2011/07/21/race-and-the-changing-shape-of-cheerleading/ "Race and the Changing Shape of Cheerleading by Guest Blogger Azizi Powell, Jul 21, 2011, at 10:00 am
[Numbers given for referencing purposes only]

1. Bananadrama, 2011

..."I went to high school in the 80s and the cheerleaders were already doing this, but it was a little more clap-and-leap. There was also a pom team, which did more of the dance moves to music and didn't lead vocal cheers. But pop music has changed and there's more rap that's popular, and dance moves from rap videos, instead of Def Leppard. :D"

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2. Sule reply to Bananadrama, 2011

"Hey, there. This kind of cheering was coming in when I went to Rabaut Junior High School in DC--graduated in 1972. We also had a girl's drill team. Does this come from then, or Wilson High: "We bad; we know it! We kick your ass and show it!"? "

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Except #6
From http://www.motherjones.com/media/2014/12/cheerleader-history-timeline "A Not-So-Brief and Extremely Sordid History of Cheerleading" —By Julia Lurie, Mon Dec. 15, 2014 6:15 AM EST
...."1967: Seventeen football players at Madison High School in Illinois are barred from the team for boycotting a practice after only one black cheerleader is picked for the varsity squad. Following the dismissal of the football players, nearly all of the school district's 1,300 black students boycott classes for a week. As schools continue to integrate, one factor adding to tension is the difference in cheerleading styles between black and white schools: As Lou Lillard, a black cheerleader named All-American in 1972, explained, "The type of cheering at black high schools is...more of a stomp-clap, soul-swing…At [white] schools, the traditional cheers are straight-arm motions."

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Excerpt #7
From http://grfx.cstv.com/photos/schools/wssu/sports/c-cheer/auto_pdf/WSSUCheerleadingPhilosophy.pdf The Winston-Salem State University Cheerleading Team
"The Winston-Salem State University Cheerleaders exemplify a distinctive style that has molded its programs tradition since the early 1980’s."

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Excerpt #8
From https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hag7M9EgGZA  Cute Stomp and Shake cheers for sideline!!!! | Upload #2, published by meleah moon on Jun 12, 2018 [This video and its discussion thread are no longer available.] 

1. Belinda Suggs, September 2018 [discussion thread]
"this is exactly the way I remember cheering in the 70's. deep voice and all. I love it! cheering style started changing in the 80's. they took rhythm out of cheering. now it's back!"

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2. Belinda Suggs, September 2018 [discussion threads]
"back in the 70's we didn't call it stomp and cheer but it sure feels like the old school style of cheering is coming back. so refreshing!"

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UPDATE: Click https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rrdXwXTd67Q for a March 22,2023 YouTube video entitled How "Virginia State's Woo Woos were created and changed HBCU cheerleading forever".

That video includes vintage clips of Virginia State University's stomp and shake cheerleading squad the "Woo Woo" and interview clips with Paulette Walker-Johnson, founder of The Woo Woos (in the early 1970s). Retired coach Walker-Johnson talks about her career and carving out a legacy in the world of HBCU Cheerleading and beyond.

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SOME AFRICAN AMERICAN INFLUENCES ON STOMP AND SHAKE CHEERLEADING
African American dancing in general particularly syncopation, individual hand claps, body pats, foot stomping and moving one's body to the beat

-High kicks from various Jazz dances. The drum major's high kicks in African American marching bands and Black (African American) drill teams also influenced the performance of stomp and shake cheerleading

-According to this video: http://websites.one.jsums.edu/sonicboom/?page_id=522 "The Prancing J-Settes: “Origin and Development of the Prancing J-Settes”, majorette dance lines (j-setting) started in Jackson, Mississippi in 1971. One element that j-setting and stomp and shake cheerleading have in common is the way that the captain or another member of the dance line announces the routine and performs a few short moves while announcing the name of the routine. That member of the dance team usually stands in the front row or slightly in front of the other members of the group. 

A member of a stomp and shake squad usually announces a cheer and may do a movement from that cheer. That squad member usually stands in the first row or slightly in front of other members of the squad.  

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THE SIGNIFICANCE OF THE EARLY TO MID 1970S DATE FOR THE BEGINNING OF STOMP AND SHAKE CHEERLEADING AND ITS BIRTH PLACE IN THE VIRGINIA/NORTH CAROLINA AREA 

I believe that it's significant that similar forms of foot stomping and hand clapping cheers are documented as originating around this same time period (the early to mid 1970s and the early 1980) in the Washington D.C., in a geographical area that is close to Virginia/North Carolina area. Although historically Black Greek letter fraternities and sororities were formed as early as 1906, the early 1970s was when historically Black university's Greek letter fraternity and sorority stepping started to become more well known in African American communities. Howard University, located in Washington D.C. area, is the "birth place" of four of the "Divine Nine" historically Black Greek letter fraternities and sororities*, and it's likely that public steppin performances occurred at that university prior to their public performances elsewhere.  

*Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Founded 1908, Omega Psi Phi Fraternity, Founded 1911,  Delta Sigma Theta Sorority,  Howard University, and Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity, Founded 1914. Because of those organizations, and others, Howard University in Washington, D.C. is also the geographical location and the earliest documentation that I've found for the  the African American originated sub-set of cheerleading that I refer to as "foot stomping cheers". (specifically: The cheers entitled "Cheerleading: Think, Your Left; Cheering Is My Game; Hollywood Now Swingin'/Dynomite" in the 1977 record "Old Mother Hippletoe: Rural And Urban Children's Songs https://www.newworldrecords.org/products/old-mother-hippletoe-rural-and-urban-childrens-songs

Ironically, the earliest dated example of a "foot stomping cheer" that I've collected, was from an online communication with an unknown White woman who resided/resides in my former hometown of Atlantic City, New Jersey (early 1970s, from her memory of her classmates who were White, Black, and Latina high school girls). 

These early references to "foot stomping cheers" shouldn't be read as impling that foot stomping cheers that were performed in the 1980s through the early 2000s* were performed the same way. *(Writing in April 2022, it appears that foot stomping cheers are no longer performed.)    

I also believe that it's significant that the Washington D. C. area in the early 1970s/mid 1970s was the birth place and birth time for the dance music genre known as "Go Go" music:
From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Go-go
"Go-go is a popular music subgenre associated with funk originating in the Washington, D.C., area during the late-60s to late-70s which remains popular in the Washington metropolitan area as a uniquely regional music style. It became the official music of the city in 2020.[1] Some early bands credited with having developed the style are the Young Senators, funk band Black Heat, and singer-guitarist Chuck Brown.[2] Go-go is primarily a dance hall music with an emphasis on live audience call and response."

Washington D.C.'s call & response "Go Go" music probably had more influence upon African American girls' foot stomping cheers than on stomp and shake cheerleading. However, as I have suggested in this post, how foot stomping cheer were performed (and the words and "attitudes" of some foot stomping cheers themselves  influenced stomp and shake cheerleading.

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For the folkloric record, please add to this section by adding information, memories and/or links about early stomp and shake cheerleading (with demographics, i.e. dates, school/university names, and descriptions). Thanks!

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STOMP AND SHAKE CHEER BATTLES
[This section is a reprint from this pancocojams post "Stomp And Shake Cheerleading: Basic Terms" (latest revision March 7, 2025)
https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2023/06/stomp-and-shake-cheerleading-basic-terms.html  ]

"cheer battle -(previously also known as "cheer offs") - a competition between two stomp and shake cheerleading squads (teams) in which the squads alternate in performing one cheer each for a pre-announced period of time. The cheers that are performed in e cheer battles are usually confrontational (dissing/ insulting) or mocking the opposite cheerleading squad or its school/group and/or cheers that brag about that cheerleading squad or its school/group.

Most YouTube videos that I have found of stomp and shake cheer battles are between high school stomp and shake cheerleading squads. The earliest YouTube video of stomp and shake cheer battles that I've come across occurred and was published on YouTube in 2012. However, it's probably that stomp and shake cheer battles had occurred in that two squads facing each other formation since the late 1990s-early 2000s if not even earlier.

Cheer battle between the two opposing cheerleader squads may occur during a designated time (such as during half-time of their team's basketball game). The formation for these cheer battles is for the two cheerleading squads to stand facing each other with members of either squads not allowed to cross a certain (usually undrawn) line.

Cheer battles may also occur throughout the basketball game with the two opposing cheerleader squads chanting while standing or seated in the gym's bleachers. These cheers may alternate between the two squads or may occur relatively simultaneously..

The standard formation for stomp and shake cheer battles if for two squads compete against each other to determine which squad won. The criteria includes which one performed their cheers the best (which xheers/cheerleading performance was the most hyped, had the most attitude, were most memorable, and whose moves [routines] wee the best (the cleanest [not sloppy], sharpest, most in sync (performing the moves together) etc.

No official winner of a cheer battle is never announced. The winner is determined by the opinions of those in attendance at that cheer battle or those who view that cheer battle online. Usually, there is some disagreement regarding which cheerleading squad won a particular cheer battle. 

 

Update -March 5, 2025- Most YouTube videos of stomp and shake cheer battles are of two predominately Black high school female cheerleading squads battling facing each other outdoors. 

In my opinion, the "spirit" of many of the cheer battles that have occurred between  elementary, middle, and high school age stomp and shake cheerleading squads since around 2021 that I have watched on YouTube appear to me to be are overly confrontational and aggressive. What I consider to be that virulent, overly mean confrontational spirit doesn't seem to be the case in university level stomp and shake cheerleader videos prior to and included that time period.

That focus on what I consider to be an overly aggressive, anti-rival meanness instead of other elements of stomp and shake cheerleading-such as braggadocio words and the skillful performance of their cheer routines is demonstrated by the confrontational words of diss (insult) cheers, the cheers and the "grit face" (smearing/snarling facial expressions while they perform those cheers. What I consider to be an overemphasis on confrontation in many contemporary stomp and shake cheers is also exhibited by many of the movements those cheerleaders perform, including such body gestures while performing those cheers such as turning their backs on their rivals and insultingly shaking their butts in those cheerleaders faces. Other examples of other confrontational and/or dissing body language and/or threatening body gestures that I believe are overused by many contemporary stomp and shake cheerleader are the cheer squads leaning into the rival squads' "personal" space,  head bobbing in a threatening manner, and the cheerleaders turning their backs to the rival time & dismissively waving them off while they walk away from then at the end of specific cheers. I also believe the onlookers' enthusiastic responses to these dissing chants and behaviors is problematic as it greatly supports and encourages those types of words and behaviors.    

I believe that there needs to be an extensive reimagining and revamping of cheer battles to remove or at least lessen the meanness and aggression of those battles and focus (refocus?) the attention of the cheerleaders and their onlookers where it should be-on creative, clever, and skillful word play with some attitude (swag, hype) and energetic & skillful (sharp, well coordinated, clean, on point) rhythmical stomp and shake movement routines." 

 
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DESCRIPTIONS OF TWO STOMP & SHAKE MOVES: "UPSTOMPS" AND "JIGGLE POPS" 
"Upstomps" is a signature movement that is performed by female and male members of some stomp and shake squads where the cheerleaders stomp two times with their left foot and perform a high knee lift (raise the right leg bent at the knee). In the videos I've watched of upstomping, the toes are usually pointed to the ground. In some stomp and shake squads the knee is bent at a slight angle toward the right.

It's likely that this stomp and shake movement came from the African American originated high step marching of show style marching bands. High step marching also includes knee lifts.

Another stomp & shake movement that female cheerleaders perform is called "jiggle pops". "Jigglepops" are a rhythmical, fast double shake of their hips. 

That term is a combination of the movement words "jiggle" and "pop". https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/english/jiggle gives this definition for "jiggle"- "to move from side to side or up and down with quick short movements, or to make something do this".

One definition for the noun "pop" given at https://www.dictionary.com/browse/popping is "a short, quick, explosive sound.". A combination of these two definition give a description of the stomp and shake "jigglepop" movement.

Most stomp and shake squads are females only. When males are also members of those squads, they don't shake as much as the females. The jiggle pops movements are best shown off when the cheerleaders wear pleated cheerleader skirts. 

Here's a quote from a 2014 version of a CIAA page that refers to "upstomps", "jiggle pops", and some other stomp and shake movements:
"The CIAA cheering squads practice Stomp 'N Shake that incorporates voice, gymnastics, and dance. Over the past few decades, S-N-S has evolved into a more technical style, priding itself on precision, accuracy, and creativity. Included in this style are the techniques of up-stomp, up-step, down-stomp, kick, side-kick, roll, roll-break, power-arms, slpaz-hand, clasp, blade, and the shakes (car-wash shake, single shake, double shake, hit-shake, and jiggle-pop). CIAA Cheerleading is most known for its cheer battles. This is where squads battle each other during games verbally with chants. It provides a heightened level of excitement and competition to the sports they are cheering for. It showcases cheerleading in a different dimension. Only in this style can you excite the crowd, rally them to cheer on the team, cheer on the team and slay your opponent all at the same time."
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* I retrieved this on February 5, 2014. This paragraph isn’t included in that CIAA page as of 9/14/2016. No descriptions of those movements were given on that page.

Update: November 23, 2020 
I've read references to "upstomp" in a few comments in discussion threads of some YouTube videos of stomp and shake cheerleading. However, I can't recall reading any references to these other stomp and shake techniques, except for the echsbasketballcheer.com cheer page which is quoted later in this post.

Update: June 8, 2023 -It appears that the term "high step" has replaced the term "upstomp". 

The term "jiggle pop" doesn't appear to be used anymore (based on my reading YouTube discussion thread. I think that the term "double shake" has replaced the term "jiggle pop". However, that 2014 CIAA page that is quoted above differentiates between a "double shake" and a jiggle pop". 

  
Update: Nov 23, 2020- CIAA has a new format of multiple articles. I haven't found any information about cheerleading on these CIAA pages.

Here's an explanation about how to do "upstomp" that was written by a former WSSU cheerleader in a YouTube video about Southern University's new stomp & shake cheerleading squad: 
CheerPhi93, 2022
"… With the upstomp, leg placement (the leg coming up) should be close to a 90 degree as possible with the upstomp foot POINTING downwards and beside the opposite knee as if you are in a (lib)....
Click https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2022/05/correcting-mistaken-belief-that-stomp_25.html for this entire comment. (Discussion thread #1, comment #31)

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Here's information about the CIAA that I retrieved on Wikipedia on Nov. 23, 2020:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_Intercollegiate_Athletic_Association
"The Central Intercollegiate Athletic Association (CIAA) is a collegiate athletic conference, mostly consisting of historically black colleges and universities. CIAA institutions are affiliated at the Division II level of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA).

Conference members are primarily located in North Carolina (eight) and Virginia (two). There is also one school from Maryland and another from Pennsylvania"...
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Stomp & shake cheer routines may also include some body patting and body slapping.

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In some YouTube videos of high school stomp and shake squads, the squad members perform the entire cheer while seated or standing in gym bleachers. 

The movements that are mentioned above are done while the squad chant cheers in unison. These cheers are usually introduced by one squad member standing in the front line, who says the name of the cheer and may do a brief cheer motion. 

Many stomp & shake cheers are similar in tone-but not in structure-to the insult/bragging foot stomping cheers. However, unlike foot stomping cheers, stomp & shake cheerleaders may  perform some of their routines to the band's instrumental music or to recorded music.

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Here's the quote from that I retrieved https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_Intercollegiate_Athletic_Association#CIAA_cheerleading   on November 23, 2020 :

CIAA cheerleading

One of the signature events of "Super Saturday" at the CIAA Basketball Tournament is the Cheer Exhibition. At the exhibition, CIAA cheer squads showcase elaborate routines to entertain spectators and display their talents.^[13][14] Every cheerleading team in the CIAA is a "Stomp-N-Shake" squad which is a unique style of cheer that is most common among predominately African-American schools and colleges located in the East Coast region.

The CIAA is one of the only conferences in the country that has an annual All-Conference Cheerleading Team. The All-Conference Cheerleading Team is a recognition bestowed on select cheerleaders in the conference that exemplify the epitome of school spirit, leadership, athleticism, and academic excellence.^[15]

Institution	Squad name
Bowie State University	The "Golden Girls"
Claflin University	The "Panther Dolls"
Elizabeth City State University	The "D'Lytes"
Fayetteville State University	"Cheer Phi Smoov"
Johnson C. Smith University	The "Luv-A-Bulls"
Lincoln University	The "Fe Fe's"
Livingstone College	The "La La's"
Saint Augustine's University	The "Bluechips"
Shaw University	The "Chi Chi's"
Virginia State University	The "Woo Woo's"
Virginia Union University	The "Rah Rah's"
Winston-Salem State University	The "Powerhouse of Red and White"

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Winston-Salem State University's cheerleading squad/s is (are) also known as "Cheer Phi". I've also seen "The Rams" used as a name for that squad or squads.

Notice how many of these names are "reduplications"- a repetition of one word. Here's an article about reduplication: https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/172083/what-is-a-word-called-that-consists-of-a-repetition-of-one-word

Here's information about the term "East coast" that I retrieved from on Nov. 13, 2020: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_Coast_of_the_United_States
"Regionally, the term refers to the coastal states and area east of the Appalachian Mountains that have shoreline on the Atlantic Ocean, from north to south, Maine, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, and Florida."

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MORE ON STOMP AND SHAKE CHEERLEADER TECHNIQUES (added November 23, 2020)
From https://www.echsbasketballcheer.com/jv-cheers.html 
This website is from East Coweta High School Basketball Cheer Program (located in Sharpsburg, GA). That website includes hyperlinks to videos of various stomp and shake cheers performed by that school's cheerleaders. That website also links to demonstrations of the following stomp and shake techniques: "downstomp", "upstomp", "jiggle pop", and "shakes".

Unfortunately, that website doesn't include any written descriptions of those techniques. 

The "downstomp" movement is the same as the "upstomp" except that the cheerleader doesn't raise her (or his) knee high when doing that stomping movement.

The "shake" movement is one in which the cheerleaders shake their hips from right to left to the beat. This movement differs from jiggle pop in that these aren't fast, repetitive shakes.  

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SHOWCASE VIDEOS
Here's a video of a widely replicated "battle cheer":

Howard University Bison Cheerleaders 2



CoachSpence, Uploaded on Oct 19, 2006

Howard University Battle Cheer "Sit Back Down"

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ADDITIONAL SHOWCASE VIDEOS 

Example #1: The World Renown Woo Woos of  Virginia State University



GoTrojans·Uploaded on Sep 30, 2010

2009 Freedom Classic
January 2009
Richmond, VA

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Example #2: WSSU Red Team Cheerleaders NC Stomp & Shake Competition



Kiaerica Krishelle, Published on Feb 23, 2013

WSSU opening up the show at the FIRST annual Stomp n Shake cheerleading competition on Saturday 2/23/2013
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The way the cheerleaders held their hands when they eentered the gym reminds me of the way that the Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc step teams perform their signature cheer "It's A Serious Matter". That post and other sorority & fraternity posts can be found on pancocojams by clicking the "steppin" or "fraternity and sorority chants" tags.

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VIDEO OF A HIGH SCHOOL STOMP & SHAKE CHEERLEADING SQUAD

SASSY (We Shake The Best)



woowooworkit·Uploaded on Feb 17, 2007

JV And Varsity SASSY cheerleaders cheer at the last game against bluestone

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RELATED LINK
Click http://thesocietypages.org/socimages/2011/07/21/race-and-the-changing-shape-of-cheerleading/ for a post on stomp & shake cheerleading that I wrote which was published on the sociological images blog.

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