Cheerleading!!!!

[StitchfansJr]

I think cheer leading is degrading towards all women.
All cheer leaders do is cheer on the men and wear short skirts.

I agree with you.

I don't want to be a cheerleader either because I'm too shy to be one. And I'm not preppy enough.

 

[AngelInDisguise]

I would love to be a cheerleader! I can't right now because of 1. I would be too short
2. They don't offer it to people in middle school

 

[minnie_2006]

seriously, why are people being so rude about cheerleaders? everyone's entitled to their own opinion, fair enough, but it's a bit rude to be saying mean things about them right in their face - but yeah, it's not nice to two-faced. there are plenty of DISers who are cheerleaders and i think we should have more respect for them!
sorry rant over!

 

[StephaBabe50]

Stephanie, your team looked really good!
And are all the anti-cheerleading people that posted against marching bands, too?
Essentially, they do the same thing- support the team.

I seriously have no idea why everyone seems so against cheerleaders.
I'm not a cheerleader, but I wouldn't disrespect something that people love to do and then call them rude for trying to defend it.

Thank you

 

[Pirate Me]

I'm guessing he wore pants and a sweater .

I hope.
Nah, I'm kidding. I guess he wore what a man *should typically* wear.

 

[2HOT2touch]

Wow. The amount of times that I have seen people complain about stereotyping on this board is tramendous(sp?) yet here every one is stereotyping cheerleaders. Being a cheerleader isn't about the 'cute outfits' and you don't just do it to cheer on the boys. They compete and they work hard, sometimes harder than other sports. I mean if you can call ultimate frisbee a sport then you can deffinately call cheerleading a sport. And Gymnastics is considered a sport, cheering is the same thing only with a little dancing and some shouting. I don't cheer anymore, mostly because my high school doesn't have cheerleaders, but I used to and it bothers me when one people tell me that it's not a sport anyone can do that, and two when people contradict themselves, like when yall complain about stereotyping yet you do too.

 

[CheerExtreme]

excuse me?
anyone can post on this thread wether you like it or not.

I didn't mean it like that. Sorry it came out wrong. It was supposed to be that don't criticize it if you haven't ever done it.

Personally, I think that that post was extremely rude. Just because you're a cheerleader doesn't give you the right to talk down to people like that.

I wasn't talking anybody down that I realised? I was saying that the people that are on the T.V. have usually never cheered before and that they are usually just actors. I am kinda confused?

Stupid question, but if your team is soooo good (25th in the world) and the people on TV suck, then why isn't your team on TV? What makes your team 25th in the world? Have you ever gone anywhere outside of the US to compete? How far are people traveling to practice for your team? If you're 25th best in the world, I find it hard to believe everyone is from the same town. Where can i see that your team is ranked 25th in the world? Sorry if this seems rude, I'm just curious.

Well I will answer your questions in order to how you answered them. We were on T.V. ESPN in fact. No I haven't gone out of the US to compete besides Canada. The farthest that one person travels to compete with us is 3 hours. That is because we have like 4 BIG cheerleading gyms in Oklahoma and cheerleaders just go to whichever is closest. Oh, we arn't all from the same town also. You can see that my team is ranked 25th in the world at many places. We were supposed to get 5th except for one mistake. One of the girls didn't get thrown to the other stunt hard enough and hit the floor. She got up but it was major deductions. It was called the Worlds Competition. In which the best teams in the world came and competed. It wasn't rude you were just wondering!

You can't blame her for sounding a little bit rude, the majority of the people on here were attacking what she loves to do.
You would probably get a little bit flustered in her situation, too.

amen to that!

I totally agree with you. People steryotype cheerleaders so much. It isn't fair. All Star cheerleading is a hard sport. School cheerleaders cheer for games and do a couple competitions a year, thats what most of you are talking about. All star cheerleading is not cheering for a team. It's competing to be the best and believe me, its hard work and very dangerouse.

This is my team; Celebrity Large Juniors level 5. This was at The Cheerleading Worlds. We got second place.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=OOnO5a_sxvY

I was waiting for you to get here! I knew that you were at the competition! WE were in a different division then you though. We were in that division all season long, then my coach wanted us to try to get 2 teams to worlds so we made my team into a Small Senior team! The bad part was that we only had 4 weeks to put our team together! I saw you all compete though and yall were really good!

There is a competition in Disney World every year in April, The Cheerleading Worlds. There are teams there from all over the world. Its an honor to even make it to Worlds. Her team got 25th, and that is really good. And Worlds was already on TV, I think what she is talking about are TV shows.

Congrats CheerExtreme btw

Thanks! Yall were awesome!

we don't really have cheerleaders in the UK, all we know about it is from what we see on TV shows and they normally show them to be snobby, mean and rude. But I suppose in real life they're not like that! And I really don't know how you can say it's not a sport!! I just watched that youtube video - and woah!! That must take a lot of practising!

Where in the UK do you live? There were a couple of teams that were from the UK but I don't remember where.

I would love to be a cheerleader! I can't right now because of 1. I would be too short
2. They don't offer it to people in middle school

You are never to short! I am 4'11 and am a cheerleader!

Wow. The amount of times that I have seen people complain about stereotyping on this board is tramendous(sp?) yet here every one is stereotyping cheerleaders. Being a cheerleader isn't about the 'cute outfits' and you don't just do it to cheer on the boys. They compete and they work hard, sometimes harder than other sports. I mean if you can call ultimate frisbee a sport then you can deffinately call cheerleading a sport. And Gymnastics is considered a sport, cheering is the same thing only with a little dancing and some shouting. I don't cheer anymore, mostly because my high school doesn't have cheerleaders, but I used to and it bothers me when one people tell me that it's not a sport anyone can do that, and two when people contradict themselves, like when yall complain about stereotyping yet you do too.

Thank you!

 

[Axel]

I'm not big on cheerleading. I really hate to agree to the stereotypes because I am so sick of people being stereotyped, but I'm going to say that the one about cheerleading fits all the cheerleaders I've ever known- school team and competitive. I've tried, really tried to be friends with some of the cheerleaders at my school but they just tend to look at my like I'm a freak and walk off. They're also really loud and obnoxious in the halls. The cheerleading captain actually got busted the last week of school lighting bras on fire in the girls bathroom because she thought it would be funny. It wasn't because ALL of the bathrooms in my school, except for one, had already been closed due to fires, bras, human feces, and bomb threats. So she would have gotten that one closed, too, if it hadn't been the last one open.

I was also "friends" with a cheer captain in elementary school. She went to competitions and everything, just like you. She went to some big regional competition once and all she did was complain when she came back and her team had taken second. She also took every opportunity to stab me in the back.

As for cheerleaders that I haven't gone to school with, I was in WDW last year during the Pop Warner football championships. The teams brought their cheerleaders with them (and I'm sure that some of them must have competed nationally) and all they did was run through the parks screaming, not paying attention to where they were going, who they were running into, who they were stepping one, or who they were cutting in front of. We saw one group take up one entire side of the staircase to the train station in the Magic Kingdom (the one you see at the entrance in Main Street USA) for about 15 minutes, just to take pictures. There were people clearly annoyed and a cast member was called over. Then they just walked over and stood in a gigantic line in front of people already lined up for the nighttime parade. A lady that had been there as long as we had (maybe longer) asked them to move because she had a young kid and he couldn't see. One girl just glared at her and turned back to the street. The cast member had to come back and ask them to move elsewhere.

They were also, what I would consider, VERY inappropriately dressed for a day at Disney. I could see some of the girls' underwear when they sat down.

That's why I have a general dislike for cheerleaders, because I've never met one that felt like they could be nice to me just because- they were all nice to me to get me to do their homework so they could run off with their boyfriends.

 

[CheezDoodle]

Though I'm not a cheerleader and never really want to be, I really respect those who cheerlead. I do think of it as a sport, and a very hard one at that. Most cheerleaders work very hard and practice quite a lot to get good at what they do, and they have to be really flexible and muscular.

And yeah, I'm sure some of them do fit into the snobby stereotypes, but a lot of them are really nice.

And I also have to say how mad it makes me when people will go on a thread that, for example, says 'Hey I love ((enter something here))! This thread is for people who like ((enter something here)) to talk about it!!' and say 'oh I can't believe you like people who do/like that are ((enter rude stereotype here))'. Because that's what a lot of you guys are doing here and it's quite rude. Yeah, I know you can post whatever you want, but there is a matter of politeness.

So, to end my post, I applaud the hard work you cheerleaders do. (And cheerleading, IMO, is way more of a sport than football or something like that where all you do is hit a ball and run. And it's wrong that people think that to be a sport there has to be a ball).

 

[Pirate Me]

I'm not a fan of cheerleading (I don't really care, do whatever you want to do) but man, I wish I was flexible.

 

[Axel]

Though I'm not a cheerleader and never really want to be, I really respect those who cheerlead. I do think of it as a sport, and a very hard one at that. Most cheerleaders work very hard and practice quite a lot to get good at what they do, and they have to be really flexible and muscular.

And yeah, I'm sure some of them do fit into the snobby stereotypes, but a lot of them are really nice.

And I also have to say how mad it makes me when people will go on a thread that, for example, says 'Hey I love ((enter something here))! This thread is for people who like ((enter something here)) to talk about it!!' and say 'oh I can't believe you like people who do/like that are ((enter rude stereotype here))'. Because that's what a lot of you guys are doing here and it's quite rude. Yeah, I know you can post whatever you want, but there is a matter of politeness.

So, to end my post, I applaud the hard work you cheerleaders do. (And cheerleading, IMO, is way more of a sport than football or something like that where all you do is hit a ball and run. And it's wrong that people think that to be a sport there has to be a ball).

I don't think that way. I consider Ultimate Frisbee, Curling, Diving, Swimming, Archery, Running, any sort of event ending in -athon or -athalon, gymnastics, figure skating, and ice hockey (among others) to be sports. None of those involve balls (unless you want to count a puck as a false ball). I was just stating that I've never had any sort of really positive experience with a cheerleader of any sort. I also stated that all of the cheerleaders that I've ever met or seen fit the stereotype. I wasn't trying to be impolite, just stating a fact. Cheerleading (at least the competitive type) is growing on me- albeit slowly. Who knows, maybe the people on this thread can change my mind about my views on cheerleading and those who participate in it.

 

[2HOT2touch]

I don't think that way. I consider Ultimate Frisbee, Curling, Diving, Swimming, Archery, Running, any sort of event ending in -athon or -athalon, gymnastics, figure skating, and ice hockey (among others) to be sports. None of those involve balls (unless you want to count a puck as a false ball). I was just stating that I've never had any sort of really positive experience with a cheerleader of any sort. I also stated that all of the cheerleaders that I've ever met or seen fit the stereotype. I wasn't trying to be impolite, just stating a fact. Cheerleading (at least the competitive type) is growing on me- albeit slowly. Who knows, maybe the people on this thread can change my mind about my views on cheerleading and those who participate in it.

okay, well what about the cheerleaders you have met on the dis? They seem perfectly nice to me. When I cheered I wasn't a snob, I was friends with everyone, and I'm not exaderating, I had alot of friends in every 'group' of my school. I know there are chearleaders that do fit the snobby stuck up stereotype. But don't judge them all on a couple people. and some just do that, but are really nice people if you get to know them.

 

[MadameLeota]

Every group, no matter who they may be, is going to be stereotyped...that's just the way it is...

 

[dancergirlsasha]

CheerExtreme, I said that because you said that you weren't rude and that people couldn't post on this board just because they haven't cheered before in the same post. What you said in that post seemed very offensive to me. Thats pretty much saying I can't state my opinion on George Bush because I've never been involved in politics before. People are going to have their own opinions on cheerleading, they might be good, and they might be bad. However, that doesn't give you the right to tell people that just because they don't feel the same way about something as you do, they can't post their view.

 

[StephaBabe50]

You are never to short! I am 4'11 and am a cheerleader!

Yeah, I'm 15 and I'm only 4'10. I'm wicked short too

 

[cheerchick]

I'm a cheerleader at my school and i'm not snobby at all. The majority of our cheerleaders seem to be and I can't even stand them but I do try to tolerate them when needed. I'm on of the few none snobby ones on our squad and I'm friends w/ mostly a lot of people that are in a lot of different groups.

 

[Sparx]

I'm not big on cheerleading. I really hate to agree to the stereotypes because I am so sick of people being stereotyped, but I'm going to say that the one about cheerleading fits all the cheerleaders I've ever known- school team and competitive. I've tried, really tried to be friends with some of the cheerleaders at my school but they just tend to look at my like I'm a freak and walk off. They're also really loud and obnoxious in the halls. The cheerleading captain actually got busted the last week of school lighting bras on fire in the girls bathroom because she thought it would be funny. It wasn't because ALL of the bathrooms in my school, except for one, had already been closed due to fires, bras, human feces, and bomb threats. So she would have gotten that one closed, too, if it hadn't been the last one open.

I was also "friends" with a cheer captain in elementary school. She went to competitions and everything, just like you. She went to some big regional competition once and all she did was complain when she came back and her team had taken second. She also took every opportunity to stab me in the back.

As for cheerleaders that I haven't gone to school with, I was in WDW last year during the Pop Warner football championships. The teams brought their cheerleaders with them (and I'm sure that some of them must have competed nationally) and all they did was run through the parks screaming, not paying attention to where they were going, who they were running into, who they were stepping one, or who they were cutting in front of. We saw one group take up one entire side of the staircase to the train station in the Magic Kingdom (the one you see at the entrance in Main Street USA) for about 15 minutes, just to take pictures. There were people clearly annoyed and a cast member was called over. Then they just walked over and stood in a gigantic line in front of people already lined up for the nighttime parade. A lady that had been there as long as we had (maybe longer) asked them to move because she had a young kid and he couldn't see. One girl just glared at her and turned back to the street. The cast member had to come back and ask them to move elsewhere.

They were also, what I would consider, VERY inappropriately dressed for a day at Disney. I could see some of the girls' underwear when they sat down.

That's why I have a general dislike for cheerleaders, because I've never met one that felt like they could be nice to me just because- they were all nice to me to get me to do their homework so they could run off with their boyfriends.

Thats (TYPICALLY) not underwear. Its hotpants. they wear it so they can do flips and all that fun stuff without people actually seeing their underwear.

 

[tinkerbell_girly_96]

I use to be a cheerleader and I loved it!! It was such a fun sport and got you really pumped up! I tryed out for my middle school team and made it, after a couple of months 1 of the coachs quit, all the girls on the team would act like 2 year olds and never stopped fighting, I got fed up with it and decided to quit because we weren't even a team anymore, never practised and it was not fun at all, a week after I quit the principal ended the team, I really miss it. The one thing that really bugs me that people always say is that cheerleading is not a sport, well it is!, after having a 3 hour practise with none stop excercise people would probaly change their minds on thinking its not a ''sport'' cool1

 

[Axel]

Thats (TYPICALLY) not underwear. Its hotpants. they wear it so they can do flips and all that fun stuff without people actually seeing their underwear.

Unless their hotpants came with pretty little flowers and thong like jewlery, I'm not sure. They weren't in competition attire, they were just dressed in very little clothing.

 

[GirlWithSpunk]

I have nothing against cheerleaders or the sport.
It takes alot of work to become one and not all cheerleaders are the same way. Movies make them out as *****y and stuck-up, but I have alot of friends that arent like that and act as everyone else.

I would like to see someone else do all those flips and turns in the air without falling.