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Okay, so I cheer. I believe it's a sport. What is your take. I do not see why people believe it's not. Like honestly, we throw people in the hair, flip around, etc. And we recieve no credit. I would like to know what people think, and why they think it. Please support your anwser: I will rate based on how well you support yourself.
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Cheerleading is a sport! I play softball, basketball, and tennis as well. I'd have to say that in the athletic parts of cheerleading, it is one of the toughest sports. Studies have proven that you are more likely to get hurt in cheerleading than football... You gotta go with the old saying:
Athletes lift weights, Cheerleaders lift people..
BUT, that is wrong as well. Cheerleaders are athletes! So, it is questionable among different people!!!
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Okay, so I think I can offer a pretty unbiased answer. I cheered for five years, and just stopped last year because I was gonna try to get a job instead.
Personally, I think cheering should be considered a sport in the competitive sense. However, I understand why people don't believe it's a sport. Most people know cheerleaders as the people at sports games/pep rallys who just kind of chant and maybe do some stunting/gymnastics. To them, it just seems like a form of entertainment. This is all they really know of us. Most people don't go to competitions for fun, which is why they don't know how much cheerleaders REALLY do. How much work it is, or anything. No one really knows how much cheerleaders do in practice, because if you're doing the job right, everything looks pretty effortless when performing.
By technicality, cheering for a sport isn't actually a sport. A 'sport' would be two teams competing for a goal. Technically, cheering for games DOSEN'T count as a sport. However, when you look at UCA/UDA/Competitions in general, it defintiely is! Just because it's not two teams, it's still teams competing for the winning position. If anyone tries to speak against this, think about this: What are tournaments? Many teams competing. It's the same thing with cheering, just much much more diverse.
It's definitely not fair that cheerleaders don't get any credit. I'm friends with mostly guys, but when I cheered, they thought it was just jumping around and yelling. However, things should get better over the next few years. Cheerleading's becoming even more popular, and while people will joke about it, they'll see how well known it's becoming.
The issue people have is probably that cheerleaders are so instantly defensive about their SPORT. They definitely have the right to be, but the people they're defending themselves to dosen't believe it.
Hopefully the stereotype of the 'ditzy' do-nothing cheerleader will be broken, so people can finally see how much cheerleaders really do.
XOXO
KAT.
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I beleive cheerleading isn't a sport. It's a bunch of girlies who scream their head off just to annoy the crowd. They really don't have a point when they play during football games. They just say the same words over and over. Also the girls that do cheerleading are annoying and Hollywood always pictures cheerleaders with jocks which is retarded. If cheerleadings didn't take the field every football game and just worked on their routines and had competitions with other teams, I would be fine and consider it a sport.
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hello i was a cheerleader as well till i moved but i know why some people dont give them any credit is becasue they belieave then can do it just as well asyou can but it's actually really hard they dont understand it though guys belieave its not a sport becuase theres no talckling no fights justs really cute girls or hot depending so thats why they think its not a real sport girls on the other hand i'm not sure like everyone says gymnastics a real sport and cheerleadings like the same thinke except gfor the perimaids and there's more dancing and no bars and beams thats what i think
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i think that cheerleading is a sport may it be competitive or school cheerleading. i myself am a cheerleader so i know what's like when people say cheerleading isn't a sport. first of all we do work out as much as the rest of the other sports going on. we might not be running as much but we do lift 110 pound girls into the air and manage to catch them. and make it look effort less. also we have to be tight to make our motions look good. i bet anyone who thinks cheerleading isn't a sport wouldn't last a week actually doing it. it takes a lot of hard work and dedication to do cheerleadering. they're not just girls in short skirts jumping around.
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I think it's a sport. You should definitely get athletic credits for it at school if you don't already. At my school, you have to have like 1.5 athletic credits to graduate... even marching band counts as athletics.
However, the cheerleaders at my school aren't gymnasts or athletes. They have no gymnastic or athletic background... at pep rallies and football games they just stand there and most of the time they don't even cheer or get the crowd pumped up. It's basically just a bunch of girls standing there in uniforms. Their coach can't even get them to show up to practice. So I wouldn't call what they do a sport (standing around), but if you are an actual cheerleader and you actually work hard at it, then yes, it's definitely a sport.
I think that especially with cheerleading/gymnastic movies, people are beginning to see that it really is a sport. Dancing is a sport too.
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I think it IS a sport, because:
- you are on a team.
- you compete.
- it takes a lot of effort.
When you think about it, it's just like all of the other sports out there [and maybe even tougher than some]. I believe the reason some don't consider it a sport, as terrible as this sounds, is because it's mainly a female sport.
-Laura. (16-f)
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I believe that competitive cheer is a sport, but not sideline cheer. Let me explain.
Competitive cheer is where you do most of the stunting and such, which requires hours of hard work, and maybe even more than some other sports. My sister was a cheerleader all through middle school and high school, and with all the gymnastics and such that she had to do, it would be insane to NOT think it was a sport.
Sideline cheer, where the team is just cheering on another sports team really isn't a sport as much because it doesn't feature nearly as much stunting and such as competitive cheer. Yes, you do minimal stunting, but competitive inarguably has more.
--Jack
(16/m)
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I think cheerleading is a sport because you do a lot of hard work. My friend is a cheerleader and she always says she is sore from working out and i know she gets mad at people when they say cheerleading is not a sport. I can see why. I mean you go to the gym and workout and run. You twist your body in all sorts of ways and you do a lot of muscle activity. When you lift people up in the air you are lifting another person's body weight which is heavy. You also do a lot of running around cheering and your job is to get everyone pepped up. It is a sport. I don't know if i explained it very good but i know why you get mad when people say it's not a sport. Hope this helps!
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