newton's third law in cheer

In cheerleading a stunt that can be done is called a basket toss. This is where the bases join there hands together to create a flat surface in which the flyer will load in and place her feet on there hands. The bases will exert a great amount of force on to the girl in order to throw her as high as possible in the air. Due to Newton's third law of motion, it is proven that the flyer exerts the same amount of force on the bases hands in the opposite direction. This explains why throwing the girl can be difficult and the bases are tired afterwards. Also in cheerleading we do many different kinds of jumps. Jumping begins with the approach and this is where a cheerleader obtains their momentum to kick their legs as high as they possibly can. It seems as if we are pushing up because that is the direction we are trying to go, however that is not the case. To go up, we push with our legs downwar against the ground and the ground pushes the same amount of force up on our feet allowing us to get off the ground.