“Cheer is your pulse, heartbeat, your breathing. It’s rhythm of your life. It’s the expression and movement, in happiness, joy, sadness and envy.” –Jaques D’Amboise. Every since I was a little child, I would be astonished and mesmerized by how cheerleaders could captivate your attention on their movements. One simple technique could keep you wondering all night. Questions you would ask yourself would be; how did she do that or how much practice did it take her just to perfect that one single move? I’ve had this urge, ever since I was 4 years old, to be able to entertain thousands of millions of people on the competition dance floor. I’ve always thought that life is about leaving your mark in the world. I feel that …show more content…
Another person who inspired me even more to cheer was my cousin Stephanie. I remember the way she danced was amazing and I could feel her commitment to the cheer routine. I don’t know how, but that’s just the magic of cheerleading. Throughout this journey, I have been exposed to various cheerleading styles. For example: stunting and jumping. Stunting is all about using various people to lift another person into the air. They all work together as a group. The term jumping is just using flexibility to your best ability and just flying the air. I personally like stunting better because the audience gets more entertained more. I mostly like doing stuff that shocks the audience with questions. My favorite stint is the “Liberty”. I love doing this stunt because it always leaves the audience fascinated. All my focus is towards my performance on the dance floor and how I captivate my viewers’ heedfulness. Now that I’m older I’ve decided that the best thing for me to do was just to continue my cheerleading and venture off doing others things. I decided to try-out for my high school cheerleading team and even though I was sure that I didn’t have enough skills to be accepted on the team because of all of their further skills than I. I realized that I really did have the skills to be successful on the high school cheerleading team and I made it during