The STUST's competitive cheerleading team recently invited the Teikyo University Competitive Cheerleading Team to STUST for an exchange activity. The teams participating in this exchange activity include the Teikyo University Competitive Cheerleading Team (BUFFALOS), the STUST Competitive Cheerleading team (JACKALS), and the Tainan Social Team Pharaohs Competitive Cheerleading Team. In addition to PHARAOH, STUST also invited competitive cheerleading students from many neighboring schools to jointly conduct competitive cheerleading technical exchanges in the Sanlian Hall of STUST. The international and inter-school exchange activities were fruitful for everyone and preserved precious memories.

【STUST Competitive Cheerleading Club organized a group photo with the Teikyo University Competitive Cheerleading Team in Japan.】

The Teikyo University Competitive Cheerleading Team (BUFFALOS) is the champion team of the 11th World Championships in 2023. The day before the exchange activity, the team also won the 2024 Ocean Cheerleading Team organized by the Cheerleading Federation of the Republic of China at the National Sun Yat-sen University Gymnasium, City Cheerleading Invitational Competition, and the third level of the all-female cheerleading team, followed by its winning the second place in the third level of the mixed cheerleading team. In 2014, Kaohsiung City's "Rock Bears Cheerleaders" held the 2014 International Cheerleaders Exchange Event and invited the Japanese Teddy Bear Family Cheerleaders to perform and exchange in Kaohsiung. At that time, the Japanese Teddy Bear Family Cheerleaders, Sekikawa Anzu, was only 11 years old. Now she is the captain of the university cheerleading team. Many alumni of STUST also participated in the exchange activity. They met at STUST a decade later, which shows their precious friendship.

【Teikyo University and students from other teams were practicing with an exciting sense of ritual.】

The Teikyo University Competitive Cheerleading Team has conducted three exchange activities in Taiwan. STUST was the first stop in the south, allowing students of the STUST Competitive Cheerleading Team to further improve their professional skills through this exchange activity. The technical movements of the Teikyo University Competitive Cheerleading Team in Japan have always focused on showing a stable, clean, and uniform process. This team is an all-female team, but it can show such a stunning and breathtakingly difficult process. Therefore, the focus of the exchange activity was to perform within the limited training time, show the advantages of the Japanese team, and achieve the same training intensity and team management as the Japanese team with limited human resources.

【STUST Competitive Cheerleading Club held an exchange activity with the Teikyo University Competitive Cheerleading Team in Japan.】

Shu-zhen Zheng, Dean of the STUST Student Affairs, expressed her gratitude to President Yu-chun Huang of the Cheerleading Federation of the Republic of China for his dedicated assistance and help. Teikyo University brought a series of competitive cheerleading technical courses: from multi-base skills, air throws, pyramids, and finally to somersault courses, Teikyo University brought the basics to advanced training modes, and gradually started with frontal skills and action demonstrations, technical key points, mixed training of students from each team, review of the practice status of each group one by one. It also pointed out the advantages and disadvantages of skills, display of skill results, and conduct various courses in an orderly manner. During the process, coaches from Teikyo University and STUST also exchanged each other’s team leadership models, technical essentials, and training methods. During the exchange exercises, Teikyo University will not have all cadres perform the explanation tasks. The senior students will lead the junior students to give speeches and explanations. When the grouping skills are successful, they will be highly encouraged so that the training atmosphere of each group can reach the best state. Through this this activity, they showed that sports have no borders and that students from different countries and schools can communicate technically in simple foreign languages.

【STUST Competitive Cheerleading Club held an exchange activity with the Teikyo University Competitive Cheerleading Team in Japan.】

【Students of Teikyo University dressed in traditional Japanese festival costumes, were leading everyone to warm up with music and dynamic body dance movements.】

【President Yu-chun Huang of the Cheerleading Association of the Republic of China (middle) and Coach Yi-ting Huang of STUST (left) were encouraging students.】

【Teikyo University students were demonstrating the uniformity of many underlying techniques.】

【STUST competitive cheerleaders were practicing the process of the air toss course (the picture shows the all-female group).】

【STUST competitive cheerleaders were practicing the process of pyramid skills course for students (one-one-one pyramid).】

【Teikyo University returned with a load of delicious food and happily said goodbye to STUST students.】

【Students from STUST were presenting souvenirs and cards to show the friendship between the two universities, and the event was a complete success.】