The state of full-body tension that makes a flyer feel like one rigid object to the bases. The opposite gets called a “noodle” in the gym.
“Tight!” is the most shouted word in any cheer gym and the least explained. The reason is physical: a braced flyer behaves like one rigid object to the bases and can be balanced as a single unit. Let the middle give way and you get uncontrolled load spikes, and the stunt tips over even though nobody made a visible mistake. The classic beginner error is confusing tension with being light, and holding your breath while trying. What you want is tension from fingertips to toes with calm breathing; the hollow-body position on the floor is the drill that builds it. One limit that often gets missed: tightness makes a properly trained stunt stable — it does not make an unsupervised one safe.