Cheerleading: Is it a sport?

[Axel]

ok, is dance a sport, how about stagework

we do a hell of a better workout than the football team

Iv'e done both
some of us sprint faster than 75% of the track team
the main actor this musical is the fastest guy in our school, save marque who won't join any team

Performing arts (cheerleading included) are the #1 sport

No offense, but I'm sure you do. Considering that only about 15% of a track team is sprinters. I would expect you to be able to sprint faster than the jumpers and throwers. As well as the distance runners.

 

[Fatphil32]

ok, is dance a sport, how about stagework

we do a hell of a better workout than the football team

Iv'e done both
some of us sprint faster than 75% of the track team
the main actor this musical is the fastest guy in our school, save marque who won't join any team

Performing arts (cheerleading included) are the #1 sport

Stagework a sport? Now we're getting ridiculous.

And sprinting isn't always about who works out. There are tons of people who don't play any sports that can sprint faster than me, even though I play football and am a spritner in track.

Preforming arts is in its own category. It's not in the same category as sports.

 

[Fatphil32]

But its true!

No, it's not. Some of my best friends that are girls are cheerleaders. One was on a team that finished 3rd in the nation two years ago. Yet, she's not stuck up or snobby at all. It's just the sterotype they receive from ignorant people who don't actually know them.

 

[Fatphil32]

some of us sprint faster than 75% of the track team

Not to mention, you may be able to sprint faster than us once, but I'm pretty sure someone who doesn't workout like a track team does could survive a track workout. I'd love to see a stageworker who doesn't play any sports try to run a mile, then 2x500, then 3x200, then 4x150, then weight lift the amount of weight we do.

 

[pigletgirl]

No, it's not. Some of my best friends that are girls are cheerleaders. One was on a team that finished 3rd in the nation two years ago. Yet, she's not stuck up or snobby at all. It's just the sterotype they receive from ignorant people who don't actually know them.

I know plenty of them. I was even friends with them many years ago.

Yes, there exceptions, but the majority rules.

 

[Axel]

Not to mention, you may be able to sprint faster than us once, but I'm pretty sure someone who doesn't workout like a track team does could survive a track workout. I'd love to see a stageworker who doesn't play any sports try to run a mile, then 2x500, then 3x200, then 4x150, then weight lift the amount of weight we do.

My track team does our toughest workout in the first two weeks of the season to weed out people who aren't willing to do the necessary work. We start off easy- two miles for days 1, 3, 5 and 7 with sprint work-outs on days 2, 4, and 6. We weight train after runs on days 2, 5, and 7. For the second week, we do event trials. So, we have broad/long jump and high jump on day 8, discus shot put and javelin on day 9, 100 and 200 m on day 10 etc. It's amazingly effective for weeding out people with no will power.

 

[Fatphil32]

I know plenty of them. I was even friends with them many years ago.

Yes, there exceptions, but the majority rules.

I'm pretty sure majority would say that they're actually pretty nice and that the sterotypical kind are the exceptions. If you think that the majority are stuck-up, then I'd suggest you bring that up to the many cheerleaders posting on these boards and see what they say.

 

[::Snow_White::]

I guess we have different definitions of sideline cheering, then. At my school all the sideline cheerleaders do is wave pompoms and spell out the school name. There's not much movement at all (well, they jump up and down...I guess).

Whereas our competitive cheer/dance team (they're pretty much combined) is much more...active.

ITA.
We don't have competitive cheer, but we have dance team.
The sideline cheerleaders here don't move, they just jump up and down and wave their arms. No stunts or anything.

 

[pigletgirl]

I'm pretty sure majority would say that they're actually pretty nice and that the sterotypical kind are the exceptions. If you think that the majority are stuck-up, then I'd suggest you bring that up to the many cheerleaders posting on these boards and see what they say.

Nobody is going to admit being stuck up.

The fact of the matter is that I haven't met any 'nice' cheerleaders. Obviously you havent met any of the other kind. I understand that they can be nice. I just have yet to meet one.

The girls who were on pom and cheer at my highschool fit the steriotypical mold of being a cheerleader.

 

[CastawayJ]

I did try for track this year

it's boring
and I didn't include the field part of track
I kept pace with mike for most of the distance thing we did tuesday
came in 8th out of over 100

I don't so sports

it might just be our school sucks/good stage program

 

[HSMndLKfan92]

I'm pretty sure majority would say that they're actually pretty nice and that the sterotypical kind are the exceptions. If you think that the majority are stuck-up, then I'd suggest you bring that up to the many cheerleaders posting on these boards and see what they say.

The majority makes a stereotype.

 

[CastawayJ]

The majority makes a stereotype.

no, media make a steriotype

 

[MrsSparrow..]

Okay..

Well, we don't get cheerleading where I'm from at all. But from what I've gathered, I think it is kind of a sport when your competing, but when your doing it at a game with no like object of competition then there is no point.

It's never really taken off that much all over Britain..

 

[Fatphil32]

Nobody is going to admit being stuck up.

The fact of the matter is that I haven't met any 'nice' cheerleaders. Obviously you havent met any of the other kind. I understand that they can be nice. I just have yet to meet one.

The girls who were on pom and cheer at my highschool fit the steriotypical mold of being a cheerleader.

I've met the kind you mention, but the majority of them are pretty nice.

And did you even know the girls on your poms team? Ever give them a chance to show they're not stuck-up? I'm quite sure you didn't.

 

[life of the party]

I think that cheerleading is a sport. And if we're going to qualify cheerleading as a sport, you've got to make marching band a sport as well. They fit the same categories: both compete against other schools, both are physically demanding (yes marching band is very physical), and they both are governed by rules. It all comes down to your personal definition of a sport.

i dont think marching band is a sport
but it IS very physical

but cheerleading is much more qualified to be a sport

Nope. I don't think so. If cheerleaders weren't so full of themselves, maybe I'd change my mind. But most of them are total ******* so its hard for me to think of it as a sport.

Yes, football players can act the same way, but its different when they are playing down on the field. The cheerleaders bring it where ever they go.

Just do gymnastics!

cheerleading isnt JUST gymnastics
not JUST dancing
its a combo of stunting, gymnastics, and dancing.
which makes it so demanding and hard

my after i complete my 2 minute 30 second routine im out of breath.

and thats pretty steriotypical, and not fair AT ALL

 

[andy.b]

My rule is that if it isn't on ESPN, it isn't a sport... I haven't seen cheerleading on ESPN.

 

[metsluva57]

My rule is that if it isn't on ESPN, it isn't a sport... I haven't seen cheerleading on ESPN.

Yes,actually,it has been on ESPN. The Disney World Cheerleading Competition is on ESPN.

 

[minniemouse440044]

i dont think marching band is a sport
but it IS very physical

but cheerleading is much more qualified to be a sport




cheerleading isnt JUST gymnastics
not JUST dancing
its a combo of stunting, gymnastics, and dancing.
which makes it so demanding and hard

my after i complete my 2 minute 30 second routine im out of breath.

and thats pretty steriotypical, and not fair AT ALL

you go girll!
your my cheerleader!

and the only cheerleaders ive seen that are B*tch*s are the ones in moveiss. my opinion!

 

[andy.b]

Yes,actually,it has been on ESPN. The Disney World Cheerleading Competition is on ESPN.

Ok, then it's a sport. But I don't believe it is a contact sport. There was just a Supreme Court case saying cheerleading is a contact sport, but I disagree. I think of football and hockey to be contact sports.

 

[Fatphil32]

Ok, then it's a sport. But I don't believe it is a contact sport. There was just a Supreme Court case saying cheerleading is a contact sport, but I disagree. I think of football and hockey to be contact sports.

I've seen it live at Disney, and tons get injured all the time from contact. It may not be all crazy hits and stuff like hockey and football, but there's contact.