Cheerleading can be a dangerous sport if you don’t follow the proper rules and it is important to know what you are doing someone gets injured. If you try to do a stunt that is difficult you need to have the proper practice and training. Cheerleading can be a safe sport only if you have done it correctly. Some of the stunt in cheerleading can be dangerous if you do not perform them correctly like the shoulder sit. A shoulder sit is when the front spot reaches up and back and joins hands with the
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Cheerleading- Past Time or Sport? “While cheerleading evokes images of pompoms and pleated skirts‚ it has relied on increasingly athletic feats of grace and strength in recent years. As participants have perfected their basket tosses and pyramids‚ and mounted ambitious floor routines‚ a complicated and emotional question has arisen: has cheerleading become a true sport?” (Thomas). The simple answer is no‚ cheerleading is not a sport. According to the NCAA‚ cheerleading cannot be considered a sport
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Cheerleading; a competitive sport based on organized routines of two and a half minutes‚ which include tumbling‚ dance‚ jumps‚ cheers‚ and stunting. No. Cheerleading does not consist of preppy girls from the movies who wear short skirts and who barely cheer at their highschool’s football games. It’s a lot more than that. Cheerleading consists of hardwork‚ detemination‚ athleticism‚ agility‚ and teamwork just like every other sport. Whether it’s throwing their flyer ten feet into the air without
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The unrecognized sport of Today One of the biggest controversies in sports today is the question of should cheerleading be considered a sport? While many critics would argue that cheerleading is not a sport at all as a competitive cheerleader I would disagree. The definition of a sport is an activity involving physical exertion and skill in which an individual or team competes against another or others for entertainment. According to this definition critics are in fact wrong! Many have the stereotype
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Cheerleading‚ if you’re not associated with the sport‚ then you probably have a different perspective on cheer. Cheer is nowhere near the stereotypical image of the mean girls in movies‚ who are ambitious to be popular and bully their classmates. When in reality it’s the complete opposite‚ cheerleaders are known to represent their school and have an outgoing personality with a confident attitude. Every cheerleader has to be physically in shape to enjoy the activity with a sociable smile that stands
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Introduction Do you know a NCAA sport that requires its participants to be as strong as football players‚ as flexible and skillful as gymnasts‚ and as graceful as dancers‚ all with a 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
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The Controversial Sport of Cheerleading Nikki Johnson Cheerleading is just one of those activities‚ which cause many controversial upheavals. Whether it is the outfits they are wearing or the moves they are doing‚ there is always a problem it seems like. I mean just think about how many times you may have seen something you don’t like or agree with cheerleaders doing. Well I guess that’s just the wonderful world of cheerleading. Cheerleading can be a great sport to become involved in‚ but
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Should Video Games be Considered a Sport? I think they should.Here are some of the reasons I think video games should be considered a sport. 1.Video games are more popular than actual sports‚ 2. There can be physical movement in the games‚ 3. handicap/obese teens can do a sport‚ 4. Stretches the mind’s ability to create tactics. First‚ over 40‚000 people piled into a soccer stadium to watch the tournament on league of legends‚ and over 27 million people watched this tournament worldwide! That’s
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people should start doing Parkour. Parkour is a training discipline using movement that developed from military obstacle course training. The question we are all wondering is if Parkour should be considered a sport at the same level of other individual sports? In this essay‚ I will argue that Parkour is a sport such as any individual sport for multiple reasons. For me‚ I also consider it a form of art because it’s very fluid and done in the city while learning the culture. First‚ Parkour should be known
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Many consider cheerleading not a sport‚ but the New York Times states‚ one of the quickest growing sports for girls in our country today is cheerleading. Additionally‚ the New York Times doesn’t differentiate between sideline and competition cheerleaders. Sideline cheerleaders are on the sideline cheering on the football team and getting the crowd pumped for the football game. A competition cheerleader competes against other schools or teams in competitions that last two minutes and thirty seconds
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