Spirit Time!

[button boy 1100]

hey all you guys and gals i gotta know how to get my team to cheer and be loud any sugestions?!? oh and what type of thing should i do if i get a seperate group of the team just for spirit!?!?!?!? please help im desperate!!! my team has a cheering deficiancy!!!

[Koko Ed]

Originally Posted by button boy 1100

hey all you guys and gals i gotta know how to get my team to cheer and be loud any sugestions?!? oh and what type of thing should i do if i get a seperate group of the team just for spirit!?!?!?!? please help im desperate!!! my team has a cheering deficiancy!!!

One thing we do is practice cheering every meeting.
It helps gets the team motivated to cheer. Be creative, be crazy. Design noismakers and come up with all sorts of crazy type of cheers (just keep them in good taste). Just have fun with it and spread it to the others.

[Billfred]

Originally Posted by Koko Ed

One thing we do is practice cheering every meeting.
It helps gets the team motivated to cheer. Be creative, be crazy. Design noismakers and come up with all sorts of crazy type of cheers (just keep them in good taste). Just have fun with it and spread it to the others.

And if the aforementioned others don't catch what you're spreading, don't let it stop you, either.

[Koko Ed]

Originally Posted by Billfred

And if the aforementioned others don't catch what you're spreading, don't let it stop you, either.

We have spirit leaders (aka Cheer Nazis) who will not let that happen.
If the kids don't cheer the spirit leaders will track them down and make them cheer! That's their job and they take it very seriously. If you want your team to be spirited don't discount team spirit as unimportant but make it a priority.

[Rohan_DHS]

At the 2005 GTA regional, a team (I think Theory 6) bussed a huge group of people....(about 200, from what I heard) so you might be able to get a bunch of students to come in and cheer in the competetions.

Another idea might be to bring your school's cheerleading team, if you have 1.

[Koko Ed]

Originally Posted by Rohan_DHS

At the 2005 GTA regional, a team (I think Theory 6) bussed a huge group of people....(about 200, from what I heard) so you might be able to get a bunch of students to come in and cheer in the competetions.

Another idea might be to bring your school's cheerleading team, if you have 1.

It was 700 I heard.

[JoeXIII'007]

Probably the biggest thing that can improve team spirit is to have 1 or 2 people on the team who are willing to risk their reputation, go out in front of the team, and start different spirit acts. Whether that means they yell something and the team yells something back, etc. Also, it is an even better idea to have a good dancer on the team to encourage more from the rest of the team.

Other than that, be sure to summon the spirit of team spirit. That may help.

-Joe

[MChapman]

Well my team has a seperate group for a spirit team. They come up with ideas such as dances, posters, noisemakers, anything you can think of to get a team going at a competition. They teach dances to the rest of the team, an get the others involved after everything is done they have come up with. It's definently an expierence. Go crazy an shout any cheer u can, an do fun team stuff such as: hair dye, mascots, make your clothes match...anything u can come up with. Good Luck!!

[BandChick]

We've basically had to push our team to have spirit, though now we're getting a lot better.
For us, doing things that people think are fun is what gets people involved.
We have sound cannons (thick cardboard garbage cans we painted silver) that the guys on our team LOVE.
We use glow sticks which everyone has a great time with.

You have to remember that going crazy is great. Everyone is just as crazy as you are when it comes to FIRST competitions.

This year we're writing cheers and holding a meeting to teach them to the whole team.
We're going to have glow stick routines and things like that.

Just explain to your team how much your dedication to FIRST should be reflected in your team spirit.

[sanddrag]

Spirit is a good thing to have but hard to find reason to put effort into. Especially when it seems like sometimes the reason a team receives an award is because their number is drawn from a hat

[Koko Ed]

Originally Posted by sanddrag

Spirit is a good thing to have but hard to find reason to put effort into. Especially when it seems like sometimes the reason a team receives an award is because their number is drawn from a hat

I don't think it's luck that we have won team spirit 3 out of the last four years at the regional level.
That would be some luck.
Besides which spirit is a good thing for the other kids to do than just sit there and stare like they've been hypnotised.

[Laura 1547]

Trafalgar is a very spirited school so we're just spirited by nature. I think you could try getting your school involved with robotics to pump up the spirit throughout the whole school - not just the team. Also think up cheers during meetings to have them prepared for during the competitions. When you're at a competition, get somebody to stand up in front of your team and get everybody to yell them as loud as you can...try those they should help

[button boy 1100]

there is a really bad problem with cheering not only on my team but in my school... the guy who got the 'most spirited' supulaitive in my senior class was all like 'do i really have to go to this stupid game? our school is gonna suck anyway...' so im workin with a really tough group here!!! i need more ideas!!!!

[aaron341]

well im kinda the "unofficial spirit leader" on my team along with a couple of other kids, we dont have a seperate group for being spirited what we do is we have a bunch of cheers that we do and that everyone knows and when we are in a match we like to be head so we yell the cheers and before everymatch we have our game time huddle which gets everyone pumped to cheer. You can't force a good cheer or a spirited bunch the enthusiasm has to be ther initially and the rest will follow

[Koko Ed]

Originally Posted by button boy 1100

there is a really bad problem with cheering not only on my team but in my school... the guy who got the 'most spirited' supulaitive in my senior class was all like 'do i really have to go to this stupid game? our school is gonna suck anyway...' so im workin with a really tough group here!!! i need more ideas!!!!

Well there lies the rub.
You can't make them cheer you can only encourage them.
If they don't respond then just keep trying. That's all you can do.