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Competitive cheerleading is a combined sport of dance, gymnastics, and cheerleading. The heavy schedule of a competition cheerleader is having practice 2 to 3 days of week and each practice is for two in a half hours. Practice involves stretching, warm-up, workout, stunt practice, tumbling warm-up, and more conditioning. These practices aren't easy. The gym that I was a part of had absolutely no air conditioning and it was humid. Working out in that exhausting kind of environment works off by putting your body in a well shape to compete!
Competing requires so much dedication and practice. Our routines are two minutes and thirty seconds. Some of you probably think that’s nothing. Yeah you know because throwing bodies, running, tumbling, dancing, jumping, more tumbling, more stunting in two minutes and thirty seconds sounds like nothing right? You’re wrong once again. You would definitely be out of breath! Think about the hard work to but a into, stunts, tumbling sequence, standing tumbling, basket tosses, a cheer and a dance all into that small amount of time. You better believe we work hard to win! Watch this 40-second video, Top Gun does the basket tosses and pyramid all in 40-seconds.This was the world winning team of 2010 and I know for a fact they are tired after this section. Who wouldn’t be tired after just this? Throwing bodies as fast as they are and as many times as they do, is so much work. If you say, you wouldn’t be tired we all know your lying. No one is really Macho Man. VIDEO-Baskets into Pyramid
Cheerleading is definitely not a cake-walk. I am friends with Nicole Ungar and she has told me about all of the work and time she puts in. The very means of the moves being crisp take effort and practice but to have the moves synchronized with the other cheerleaders on the squad is quite impressive. I hope you good luck, and it would be pretty awesome if you posted some video of you guys either doing some really advanced routines or some footage from your squad cheering at the game.
ReplyDeletePeople think that cheerleading isn't a sport. when I was little i did gymnastics for 6 years and its nothing that comes natural to you. Its does take alot of practice to be the best. It must be difficult to fit everyting into a time spand for only 2 mins and 30 sec.
ReplyDeleteI agree with you. Cheerleading is a tough thing to do. I know as a dancer 2 minutes and 30 seconds of a hard fast routine takes your breath away. I think that showing people your videos, and teaching them more will definitely help people understand how tough it really is. I think you're doing a good job of convincing people so far. One thing I am curious about is how Cheerleading is judged, and what is the difference between cheering in or outside of school.
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