Rachel's House of Cheer

Rachel's House of Cheer started with my son Ryder and 1 mat in our front yard. My son Ryder started showing an interest in tumbling from an early age.  We tried all different sports like soccer, t-ball, taekquondo (he loved the tumbling, hated the sparring), and gymnastics at a local gymnastics gym.  Again he loved the tumbling aspect, but didn't quite care for the other events.  He also has loved to dance since he was able to walk.  When he was in pre-school he did tap and ballet and pretty much stole the show at the recital.  I knew he had a gift for dance, something he definitely inherited from my granny.  She owned her own dance studio in Brooklyn New York in her younger days and was always the performer.  I clearly got all my talent from her and she was always our biggest cheerleader.  Ryder wanted to tumble and dance so we got him on a competitive dance team and at the first competition he watched the cheerleaders perform and he said that's what he wanted to do.  Naturally I was thrilled at the opportunity to re-live my cheerleading dreams.  That Christmas Ryder got an inflatable tumble mat and we started practicing in the yard.  He quickly starting picking up the skills needed to make a level one team at the cheer gym and at evaluation time he was selected for one of the level one mini teams.  Being a first timer on the mat we were receiving quite a few compliments on how well he was doing with his skills and when I told people I had pulled him out of gymnastics and had been working with him in our yard it sparked some interest among some of the other moms and friends of mine who started asking if I would be willing to help some of their younger kids that were also new to cheer.  I started working with a handful of little cheerleaders working on the basic cheerleading skills, jumps, and tumbling.  These littles started showing progress fairly quickly and were having so much fun that other moms started inquiring about my lessons for their kids that were a little older.  So we got some more mats and more cheerleaders to work with.  I realized that this was truly what I was put on this earth to do and decided I would do whatever it took to make this dream of teaching cheer a career. Fast forward about 6 months, I left my full time personal training job and started devoting more time to teaching my private lessons. I now had a few older kids I was working with and now not just cheerleaders, but also dancers wanting to learn acro (tumbling) skills, gymnasts, and kids that really just wanted to get stronger and learn some tumbling skills. I decided this business needed a name.  My granny's dance studio was named the Barbara Joy Dance Studio so I knew it had to be named after me and I do the lessons at my house, so Rachel's House of Cheer, LLC was founded.  This business has grown totally organically by word of mouth from all the parents of the kids that have loved their lessons.  It's not just about getting a specific skill or perfecting a jump, it's also about building confidence. I take great pride in what I do and my goal for every lesson is to bring fun energy and excitement to help create a love for the sport.