Should i cheer or not

While cheerleaders still wear glittery uniforms and giant bows when they compete or perform, they appear like any other athlete when they practice and view their competition attire as part of their image as entertainers. As interesting as the cheerleading aspect may be, the show really revolves around head coach Monica Aldama, and how she acts as a role model and mother figure for team members who have struggled to feel a sense of belonging in the past.

Whether it be living without parents and struggling to find food each day or being bullied by family members after deciding to do cheerleading as a boy, each team member has a unique story to tell. Aldama is one of the most intriguing characters in the show — despite her outward tough and competitive demeanor, she is a constant mentor to her athletes, and chooses Navarro team members not only by talent, but also by long-term potential.

But in All Star cheer, these skills must be mastered at the highest level. All Star cheerleaders must be gymnasts, too, capable of pulling off advanced stunts with impeccable flexibility, balance, and synchronization. All Star teams have two to three practices a week, each lasting up to three hours, according to Sampson.

Some young women have three to five additional hours of classes to build their stunting and tumbling skills. Not so with All Star cheer. Peyton Mabry, a year-old student at Texas Christian University, cheered as a flyer with Cheer Athletics, probably the best All Star program in the country. It has won 20 gold medals at Cheerleading Worlds competitions, the most of any gym; this year it won the silver medal in the senior large co-ed division.

Like many of her All Star peers, Mabry is a social-media celebrity: She has more than , combined followers on Instagram and Twitter. Competitions consist of different teams performing rehearsed routines usually lasting two minutes and 30 seconds before a panel of judges—similar to, say, a gymnastics event.

The first part of the definition was "an athletic activity requiring skill or prowess". I don't know how many of you had actually paid attention to the cheerleaders besides just looking at them based off their looks, but their formations, flips, tumbles and tosses are kind of difficult to pull off. I don't know if you and one of your friends have ever tried to chuck a hundred pound or more person in the air and catch him or her before, but it doesn't seem very easy to me.

On to the next part, "requiring skill or prowess. This is pretty straight forward. The basic purpose of a cheerleader is to either spur on competitiveness or to express it themselves. If you have ever seen a cheer competition, then you know how competitive these girls and sometimes guys can be. They get very into their routine and can get as into it as somebody could get into a football game.

This however, may be a bad example of a sport because I know that people can get really into anything and be competitive over something that isn't a sport. Now that we're done picking apart the official definition of a sport, let's compare it to other things that are recognized as sports that are remarkably similar to cheerleading.

In each quarter of the game, the team of cheerleaders is assessed on its difficulty level and performing skills. If a team performs its best routine will get the points. Stunt expanding its horizon and more than , high school cheerleaders are actively participating to represent the United States of America in international cheer competitions.

My daughters team cheers on the football players and performs against other cheer squads at the state, regional and national level. Well, as you know there is a large debate on cheerleading to consider a sport or not. Yes, I agree with your comment that some cheer teams compete, but not all do.

Supporters consider cheerleading a sport that involves the heavy use of athletic talents. We practice just like football and basketball players. So next time you want to say something stupid think about how cheerleaders get hurt and injured just like the football and basketball players.

Cheering for another team is basically just showing off that you can do flips and tricks, cheer is NOT required for Basketball to be Basketball or Football to be Football, the crowd does just fine cheering on their own!

Take a look into competitive cheer. Although there is the glittery uniforms and makeup, there are new rules starting in a few years that the athletes have to dress more collegiate with minimal makeup, straight slicked back ponytail, and no more gemstones on the uniforms. This is because cheerleading might be in the Olympics in Tokyo. They are placed in teams and you are in certain levels to your extent of how good you are at the SPORT.

They earn points and they either win in first, second or third place depending on what you cheer for. Yes, as you are younger, cheering for high school or middle school sports, it is not exactly a sport because of the reason you applied.

They run against other people in races it is the same concept except no one is really caring about that debate because everyone bashes cheerleaders. Go see an all star cheer team, then you can talk.

Thanks bye. If yo get hurt you have to keep going. Other sports are not needed also, such as track, basketball, football etc. The Sideline portion maybe not, but there is miscommunication because cheer leading also has its own competitive portion and its own branch CIF sport called stunt where two teams go head to head.