Edited by Azizi Powell
This is Part II of a three part pancocojams series about the stomp and shake cheerleading custom of performing basketball cheers in gym bleachers.
Part II of this series showcases some YouTube video examples of stomp and shake basketball cheerleading in bleachers. Two of these chants are transcribed in this post.
Click https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2018/10/stomp-and-shake-cheerleaders-performing.html for Part I of this series. Part I presents information and commentary about this custom and customs that probably influenced it. I'm interested in sussing out what influenced the custom of performing basketball stomp and shake cheers in bleachers and when this custom may have begun. I'm also interested in documenting information about and comments that I've found online about this custom.
Click https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2018/10/a-video-of-2018-stomp-and-shake-cheer.html for Part III of this series [Added October 14, 2018]. Part III showcases a video of a cheer battle in the bleachers between two North Carolina High Schools. Selected comments from the Video given as #4 are also included in this post. Most of these comments are about "cheer battles in general and this cheer battle in particular.
This post is part of an ongoing pancocojams series on stomp and shake cheerleading. Click the "stomp and shake cheerleading" tag for other posts in this series.
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Thanks to all those who are quoted in this post. Thanks also to all those who are featured in these videos and thanks to t he publishers of these videos on YouTube.
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DEFINITION OF STOMP AND SHAKE BLEACHER CHANTS (CHEERS)
"Bleacher chants" ("Bleacher cheers) is a term that is used for chants/cheers that pre-college/university stomp and shake cheerleader squads perform while standing or sitting in the bleachers during basketball games. A chant is shorter and more repetitive than a cheer.
Stomp and shake cheerleaders perform these chants/cheers while doing rhythmic individual hand claps, alternating with bass sounding foot stomps on the floor of the bleachers, banging their hands on the bleachers themselves, and other characteristic stomp and shake cheerleader moves.
As far as I've been able to determine, college/university stomp and shake cheerleaders don't perform chants/cheers in the bleachers.
In one comment (given below after Video #__), "bleach banging" is a term that is used for cheerleaders performing cheers while standing or sitting in the bleachers. I don't know how widely that term is used.
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SHOWCASE VIDEOS
These videos are presented in chronological order based on their publishing date on YouTube, with the oldest dated video given first.
Video #1: EOE Bleacher Chant "WorkOut"
crfairbanks4712, Published on Nov 25, 2014
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Here's the words to that chant:
Work out. Work out.
Work out. Work out.
[repeat several more times]
Give it up. Give it up. Give it up.
[repeat entire chant]
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Video #2: Cheer Battle!!!
Two Sockz, Published on Dec 17, 2016
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Here's the words for the bleacher chant beginning at 4:20:
"we want a basket
a what ?
a basket
we want a basket
a what ?
a basket
for who ?
HU 222222"
-posted by nazielyrics, September 2018.
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Other bleacher chant occurs in this video at 7:13, 7:41; 8:03 [by an alumni of that cheerleading squad [?], 8:16; 9:12 and at other times throughout this video.
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"HU" is the initials for that high school: Harding University High School (Charlotte, North Carolina)
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The other cheerleading squad (from Dudley High School, Greensboro, North Carolina) chanted the same cheer at 6:36 in this video.
Note that there happens to be one male in each of these cheerleading squads.
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Video #3: Cute Stomp and Shake cheers for sideline!!!! | Upload #2
meleah moon, Published on Jun 12, 2018
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Bleacher chants are performed at .036-1.16 and 2:10-2:24 of this video.
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Here are two comments from this video's discussion thread:
She Got Next, September 2018
"i dunno im in a white school they think “bleach banging” is ghetto😰😢honestly an embarrassment."
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REPLY
16. She Got Next, September 2018
"i hml i wanna move a black person should never be this uncomfortable about their skin color."
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"hml"= hate my life
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This concludes Part II of this three part series.
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