I did 4 years of cheering in my K-8 school. When I was there it was only offered 5th-8th grade, today it's offerd for the younger students. In High School I did 4 years. 4 seasons of Football cheering and 3 seasons of bacsketball cheering throughout my high school career. My fist year in high school as well as my first year participating in Football cheering our team when to the championship and won for football. That is an experience I will never forget. Our record was 12-0.
Here are some reasons why cheerleading is consider a sport. You may not belive that it is but after reading this I hope you change your mind about cheerleading or shut up about it ( if you can't back up your reasons, don't voice them).
- Stragegy is a big thing in cheering. You have to position the girls/boys according to height but also to ability. that is sometimes difficult because you may have really tall people that are good but short people that are not great, but not horrible. That person should be in back so you have the best out front but she is short and then no one will see her. yo have to play around with formations to decide what is best for the complexity of your squad. Also you have to know the right chant to say at the right moment in the game. So the motto is: Always be prepard and know your stuff!
- Trash talking is a thing that we see alot in sports. We have to be sportmans like at all times on the playing field but that is never true. Until cheerleading. Cheerleaders are one of the few that doesn't trash talk other team members, opposing teams, coaches, school officals. We are there because we want to be and we want to give it are all to win. In my 8 years of cheering we schools combined won the Sportsmanship Award 6 times. For me that was 6 out of 8 years. thats pretty impressive. How did we do that. One goal: Winning but never belittleing the others or we won't win.
- Guys love the uniforms that cheerleaders wear. they love them because they are short, very short. they do not match dress code standards but that is okay. Why are the skirts short? Well, the main reason the skirt is short is because we do movements and bend in ways that a short skirt allows us the ability to do so. A longer skirt only provides a small range of flexablity. That would not be good to have if you want a great routine. CHEERLEADING is ALL about the MOVEMENT!
- The jocks are one of the most populars in schools. I can't say that that statement is wrong because it's true. We all know it, why try hiding it. But there is a twist in the popular group: cheerleaders. They are among the populars. I don't know why but it is. People say that cheerleading is not a sport so why are we among the popular group? That I have no answer to, so I will let you ponder that.
- Like anyother telovised competition out there: Superbowl, NBA Championships, NASCAR Championships, Golf Tournaments, Cheerleading is telovised as well. They are an awesome event to watch. If you don't beive cheerleading is a sport, then watch one of these broadcasts and I promise you will change your mind.
In conclusion, you put in the same amount of practice time as anyother sport (maybe more when championships come around), you have to trust your teammates 100% if you want to pull off the routines or put up stunts. Stunting can be very dangerous if you don't have the training or the skills. You also have to be together on timing or the flyer can get hurt, and you have to beable to trust that when a stunt goes up you have to talent to not let it fall.
SO REMEMBER THAT CHEERING IS A SPORT AND IF YOU DON'T HAVE ANYTHING NICE TO SAY ABOUT IT: DON'T SAY ANYTHING AT ALL!
This is great for week 10--this is your real opinion piece! It's written with as much energy and excitement as a state-championship winning stunt! You've found a topic you know about, care about, that's close to home...and one that doesn't require any research. At least I don't think, it did--did it?
ReplyDeleteSo, what about week 14? Do you want me to accept this?
can you except it for week 10 and I can try week 14 again? If that's ok, will you give me a little more info to help we comeup with Week 14 details to help me write it?
ReplyDeleteSure, I'll happily take this as is for week 10--it's an opinion piece and a good one.
ReplyDeleteFor week 14--it really depends on your topic how to research it but even for this, you could have gone into national numbers of cheerleaders, researched arguments on both sides, found out whether schools treated it as a sport or as a club-type activity, when it really became a sport etc.
Stuff like that depends on the writer. But generally you need a topic where there are at least a few things you need to look up as you are writing.