Abstract: The paper researches top 8 teams at the 2012 Cheerleading World Championships and domestic competitions, with the result showing that there are obvious gaps between Chinese teams and foreign teams, especially in their knowledge of the event, movement design, cheerleaders’ ability and difficult movements, etc. Innovation should the future focus so as to improve the overall performance of the Chinese cheerleaders.

Key words: Chinese and foreign teams, competitive cheerleading, set movements choreography, comparative analysis