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What really is the definition of a sport?
an active diversion requiring physical exertion and competition
Cheerleaders have elements, tumble, stunt, dance, jumps ,and motions.
To tumble, you must practice, just like a gymnast, which is considered a sport.
Then you have stunting, which is dangerous and is required to have skill. The bases (2 of them) lift a flyer into the air, hold her up, then have to catch her when she comes down, twisting bending, or craddling down. The flyers go up on both legs or one, and with the other ( if one leg stunt) and have to stretch it into a postition of some sort, while balancing, still not a sport?
Dancing is a sport. Cheerleaders dance just like they do, but unlike them, we have a 2 minute and 30 second routine with stunts tumble and jumps before we dance, add the sport intake up!
Motions and Jumps take flexiblity. Can you lift your legs spread apart up to your face? Well thats a jump all cheerleaders must do as a basic. Then you add that jump with a back tuck ( gymnastic flip) WE stretch we condition we lift wieghts (other cheerleaders)
Still not convinced that cheerleading is and should be recognized as a real sport?
The IHSA believes that its a sport. Cheerleaders compete for titles like every sport.
Allstar Cheer teams compete and Regionals, Nationals, & Worlds
High School Teams compete and Regionals Sectionals and State.
Cheerleading is as much as a sport as dancing, gymnastics, and every other sport on the earth! We (cheerleaders) deserve the recognition as a Sports Team!
» left by elizabeth (1 year 224 days ago.)
i agree sooo much! I am a cheerleader and some of my friends have tried to agrue with me about it... and it makes me so mad. We do have competitions, it is just taht no one cares anough to notice. thanks for writing this article!
-elizabeth [a proud cheerleader!!] Respond to this comment
» left by Lauren Harper(6) (1 year 224 days ago.)
Thanks for the Article comment! Yea i love cheerleading and everyone always says its not a sport.. Are you on a cheer team? i was on an allstar team for a long time and now im on my high schools varsity team. Respond to this comment
» left by jovana lopez (1 year 218 days ago.)
i am a senior at norwalk high school in california. i joined cheerleading last year thinking it was going to be easy and i'd look cute on my last year. reality hit me when i was a flier. i was terrified because im scared of heights. but i did it anyway i had an incident were my teammates dropped me. it hurt like hell to fall from such a high distance but that didnt stop me. now i am doing my senior project on how cheerleading should be recognized as a sport. it meets all the elements of what a sport is. i agree that it should be recognized as a sport and people shouldnt speak of what they dont know for a fact. Respond to this comment
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