Have you ever had a feeling that you were meant to do something ? That you couldn’t have been made for any other purpose in this world... For me ‚ that was cheerleading. It was my second year at rochester and I had been in dance but quit when school came around. I felt a little out of place‚ or maybe more than a little but my cousins went there so I had someone at least. My mom had talked to my aunt and she said that Courtney was starting cheer and I could be on the older girls team as well
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past 20 years‚ the athleticism involved in cheerleading has increased dramatically. Cheerleading in the United States is a year round competitive activity. Cheerleaders are asked to perform through 3 seasons‚ peak for national competitions‚ and attend cheerleading-training camps in the summer. Cheerleading begins at an early age and is estimated to include over a million participants between elementary school and the professional sports levels. Cheerleading is a kind of sports which combines music
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through your body and settling in the bottom of your stomach. That is the feeling that anyone and almost everyone feels as they wait there turn to perform. The 2011 Lanier cheerleading squad try-out process started in late January with lots of paper work and meetings‚ and ends on march 12 with the announcement of the full cheerleading squad. Throughout that time stress and nerves are what you go through for all candidates. “ I was very nervous‚ I actually didn’t think I was going to make it
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peppy attitude accompanied by a smile? Competitive Cheerleading incorporates all of these components‚ but it isn’t recognized by the NCAA as a sport. So‚ should the NCAA recognize Competitive Cheerleading as an official sport? Some may say that cheerleaders exists primarily as entertainment at male-dominated sporting events and fail to recognize it as a legitimate athletic sport‚ which is inaccurate and unfair. Recognizing Competitive Cheerleading would ensure gender equality and equal rights for
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Hi‚ my name is Siobhan Pharaoh and I do gymnastics and I’m going to talk to you about why gymnastics is a dangerous sport. Gymnastics is a sport involving the performance of skills requiring physical strength‚ flexibility‚ power‚ coordination‚ balance and control. In this speech I will talk to you about the health issues included in gymnastics and injuries that come with doing this sport. Some people think gymnastics is all about having fun and learning extra ordinary skills‚ but when a person does
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parent happy? This ad by United Sports Academy shows that it is to see their kids smile or happy. From my experience in coaching gymnastics‚ this “smiling all the time” attitude is not always the case. You have cases where kids are very unhappy‚ which this ad seems to skip over. This advertisement is very engaging‚ and shows us that your kid will be happy if they are in gymnastics. To start of the ad‚ you see a mom gardening in her backyard and smiling as she watches her daughter hanging upside down on
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Most children have experienced the joy of jumping on a trampoline. They even have trampoline parks for all to enjoy. However‚ trampolines are a part of the gymnastics sport. Over time trampolines have improved from safety to bounciness. Trampolines are a stretchy piece of Jumpy Pad held together by springs and a metal frame that makes it bouncey. The springs have to be tight but loose because loose springs will just sink and to tight will make no bounce because it is like a floor.. “Those
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Is Cheerleading a Sport? Cheerleading was first introduced at Princeton University in 1884. There at Princeton University the audience that attended the football games came up with a cheer that involved yelling and chanting to encourage their team. The initial stages of cheerleading were simply just crowd involvement. Over 100 years later‚ skills have progressed and become extremely complex‚ cheerleading is now a form of entertainment that uses organized routines. These routines are made up from
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“Gymnastics taught me everything - life lessons‚ responsibility and discipline and respect.” Shawn Johnson was my idol while I was doing gymnastics. She motivated me to work harder on every event and one day be able to compete. I first started off by doing basic tumbling on the floor. My coaches would teach me new skills and spot me on them. They introduced me to floor‚ bars‚ beam‚ and vault. I thought that going to gymnastics a couple times a week would make me achieve new skills. First starting
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Emily Pascavis Karl Bakkum English Comp. Gymnastics Long ago‚ gymnastics was very different from what we know today. Gymnastics comes from the Greek prefix “gymno- or gymn-” which means‚ “to be naked”. The Greeks used gymnastics for entertainment‚ performing naked. When the Romans conquered Greece‚ they took over the sport. They used it for its functional uses. The used the wooden horses to practice the quick mounting and dismounting of their actual horses during battle. Which later became
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