Is Cheerleading: A Sport?
Is Cheerleading A Sport ?
Did you know according to the New York Times cheerleading is the fastest growing girl sport? Each year females prepare themselves for cheerleading tryouts practicing and working on their jumps, paying around $300 monthly for gymnastics, physicals , uniforms etc. Cheerleaders put hard work and dedication into what they sign up and tried out to do. Although some people believe it is not a sport because of its relative inactiveness, cheerleading is a sport because they prepare and compete and are injured like athletes in other recognized sports. Some people argue that cheerleading isn’t a sport. For example most definitions of sport part of the definition is focus on competition, A real sport exists to compete not …show more content…
The number of cheer injuries has been rising over the past 30 years, according to a new report in the journal Pediatrics. This is partly because there are far more cheerleaders today (about 3.6 million over the age of 6).LEWIS, KRISTIN. "Dazzle And Danger." Scholastic Scope 61.6 (2013): 4. Primary Search. Web. 26 Oct. 2016. Many cheerleaders that are flyers sometimes often cheerleaders get thrown into the air the wrong way and fall. They either break a bone, concussion. From previous experiences in cheerleading a flyer was landed the wrong way and fell on her elbow and ended in the hospital. In stunts special moves are performed where the flyer flips in the air by the bases and would flip two times then land in the arms of the bases, In these cases when it happened many people feel sharp arm pains which not doing something about it and repeatedly letting it happen and hit your arm messes with a nerve which causes paralyzation In The arm during the aftermath it’s an increasingly sharp pain it almost feels like needles are being poked in your skin LEWIS, KRISTIN. "Dazzle And Danger." Scholastic Scope 61.6 (2013): 4. Primary Search. Web. 26 Oct. 2016.Being in cheerleading requires you to be fit as well, For example me being an x-cheerleader we ran miles, ran up and down bleachers, push ups, as well as many other suicides as
Did you know according to the New York Times cheerleading is the fastest growing girl sport? Each year females prepare themselves for cheerleading tryouts practicing and working on their jumps, paying around $300 monthly for gymnastics, physicals , uniforms etc. Cheerleaders put hard work and dedication into what they sign up and tried out to do. Although some people believe it is not a sport because of its relative inactiveness, cheerleading is a sport because they prepare and compete and are injured like athletes in other recognized sports. Some people argue that cheerleading isn’t a sport. For example most definitions of sport part of the definition is focus on competition, A real sport exists to compete not …show more content…
The number of cheer injuries has been rising over the past 30 years, according to a new report in the journal Pediatrics. This is partly because there are far more cheerleaders today (about 3.6 million over the age of 6).LEWIS, KRISTIN. "Dazzle And Danger." Scholastic Scope 61.6 (2013): 4. Primary Search. Web. 26 Oct. 2016. Many cheerleaders that are flyers sometimes often cheerleaders get thrown into the air the wrong way and fall. They either break a bone, concussion. From previous experiences in cheerleading a flyer was landed the wrong way and fell on her elbow and ended in the hospital. In stunts special moves are performed where the flyer flips in the air by the bases and would flip two times then land in the arms of the bases, In these cases when it happened many people feel sharp arm pains which not doing something about it and repeatedly letting it happen and hit your arm messes with a nerve which causes paralyzation In The arm during the aftermath it’s an increasingly sharp pain it almost feels like needles are being poked in your skin LEWIS, KRISTIN. "Dazzle And Danger." Scholastic Scope 61.6 (2013): 4. Primary Search. Web. 26 Oct. 2016.Being in cheerleading requires you to be fit as well, For example me being an x-cheerleader we ran miles, ran up and down bleachers, push ups, as well as many other suicides as