Cheer's straight, hard-stopped arm positions — high V, low V, T, clean, touchdown. They are the alphabet every routine is built from.
Motions are judged on two things: angular precision and team synchronicity. That is why the most common fault is not the wrong position but a soft one: the arm bounces at the end or swings past the stop, and the whole line looks sloppy and out of sync even though the timing was right. The fix is the stop — lock in on the count, hold the end position briefly, wrists straight, fists blocked. What people underestimate: motions are not a warm-up before the “real” cheer. They are where you learn the eight-count that every later stunt depends on, and the effort lives in the final tension, not in the swing.