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The Sport Of Cheerleading

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In the last ten years, cheerleading has grown so much. People are starting to recognize for what it is: a sport. Cheerleading can be harsh and tough but fun at the same time. In the routine there is a variety of things cheerleaders do in it. Usually people who are not familiar with cheer think it’s effortless to do a two minute and thirty second routine but in reality it’s a lot more. In cheerleading, the routine almost always consists of tumbling, dance, and stunts.

The first part of cheer that takes time, patience, and energy is tumbling. The tumbling section is divided into two parts standing and running tumbling. Tumbling is a hit or miss because you can have really good days or really bad days, but getting lots of practice in can affect your practices. Not only can you have crummy days, but tumbling takes time to get and isn’t always easy to get. It requires stamina and repetition of doing the skill whereas if you throw the skill one practice you might not able to do it for the next practice. For favorable and fast tumbling it requires a great amount of strength so it’s helpful to have to have strength in arms and even strength in the shoulders. …show more content…

The dance is the last part of the routine or one of the last parts. It involves the whole team participating and trying their best to look good as a whole. Having high energy makes the dance a lot better so being sync with each other makes a dance look so much cleaner. If you want to be put in the front of the dance then you should try being “extra” in the motions. As coaches say, “If you feel like you look stupid in the dance, then you’re doing it

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