As an American competitive cheerleader I will lay those horrible clichés and stereotypes to rest. Cheerleading may look like a sport for sluts but that's because that's how movies brand it. It is definitely a sport. Cheerleading is much harder than it may seem. Competitive cheerleading is much harder than regular football/basketball cheerleading. Competitive cheer involves extreme flexibility, tumbling, stunting, and dance. We wake up very early to do drills and workouts just like any other sport. Cheerleading is not just an American sport. I've competed against teams from China, Jamaica, Brazil, New Zealand. Look it up.
Women's sports aren't frowned upon in America, and with all do respect, cheerleading itself is not as easy as it looks, and could very well be considered a sport of it's own. How many people do you know can do backflips and throw each other in the air? Lol. If they are happy doing it they don't need other women saying it's wrong - equality isn't doing everything that the boys do, it's having the ability to choose if you WANT to.
I'd say like 9/10 times its to be cool and not to cheer on their team itself lol plus they go along with all the (American) football players so both are just trying to be cool most the time
First off, cheer leaders are athletes as well. They do a combination of dance, gymnastics and still have to be able to be be loud and heard and understood. In addition they have competitions, nationals and all that other stuff as well. They also get to be the hot girls that all the guys in school want.
Now, if that isn't what you want to do, don't do it, play your sport. Because playing Rugby was a huge highlight in my educational career, and most of my best friends i met in my sport. Be yourself, and be happy with being yourself.
Maybe YOU prefer to play a sport, while THEY prefer to be a cheerleader? Just because you do one thing doesn't mean it's the best thing and what everyone should do.
Women's sports are more popular in the US than anywhere else in the world, so no, they're not frowned upon, it's just that THOSE girls prefer to do cheerleading.
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Here's a funny a little story about this I'm trying to finish up high school and each year I've been a part of the swimming club and I wanted to kind of switch it up by joining two clubs. I choose gymnastics to try and help with the swimming. I don't take the gymnastics seriously whatsoever I'm just trying to learn different stuff to be more flexible I guess. I didn't realize that gymnastics was also the cheerleader type thing. Top of that I thought there would be other guys there is no dudes anywhere in sight so it's kind of awkward. The funniest thing about this is the French teacher is the gymnastics teacher me and the French teacher actually get along she's one of my favorite teachers cuz she actually helps me with stuff during class. Fast forward to the end of last semester the final stuff was going on along with the gymnastics tournament or competition or whatever for the region I was in. I told the teacher sure I'll go and it's the weirdest thing because the female and male stuff is on different days and I'm the only male out of my school looks so weird cuz it's just me and my teacher sitting on the bleacher planning our routine. Meanwhile for some reason all these other schools have at least like six to like maybe 10 people. I don't take it seriously at my gym teacher knows that we're expecting to lose we've came to terms with that. We were just using it as an excuse to like get out of the school I think. But the weirdest shit happens cuz at the end I decided to do a kick up like a ninja I expected to get disqualified so that way I could go back to swimming this semester. Unfortunately I did not get disqualified for some reason I got first place for adding that kick up. I think my teacher tricked me because she knew I could do that but she told me not to do it until doing the routine for the judges and I listened. And then I seen other students once I finished my routine trying to add it to their routine. word spread in the school that I got first place first and now my teacher wants to keep me in gymnastics for the cheerleading thing because for some reason people think first place equals safe person I have no confidence in my ability to catch somebody falling back down towards me and now she's trying to teach me cheerleader routines. My end goal is to get back into swimming it's what I'm used to and I love. Let alone the gymnastics outfits are like embarrassing and cold for swimming I have to wax my body which is weird I will admit I understand that but I do it anyway cuz it's recommended by teacher. But when you have a waxed body doing gymnastics you get cold easily because of the outfit and swimming you don't even though there is like less clothing I guess but you're in the water most the time I don't know what to do. But yeah the cheerleaders after learning the routine that stuff is not easy it has to be very precise otherwise you're going to get really messed up.
Also I don't blame you if you don't want to read all this I was just going with it remembering stuff cuz this was fun but also kind of funny
I consider cheerleading to be a sport. They put just as much dedication and practice into their sport as any other athlete does, and they should be afforded just as much respect as any other athlete. Maybe a better question would be why don't they play other sports in addition to being a cheerleader? And maybe the answer to that is that wih all the practice time that they must put in, maybe they don't have time to play any other sport. (Although with some schools, there are separate squads for football and basketball, so maybe a girl could cheerlead during football season, and then maybe return to play girls' basketball during basketball season. Obviously impossible to play basketball and cheerlead at the same games!
because they chose to be cheerleader,
the ones who do wanna play sports, actually do play sports.
and according to my knowledge cheering is now considered a sport too.
so it all boils down to this
the cheerleaders aren't forced to quit playing and start cheerleading, but they choose whatever they have an inclination towards.
Those ones that get flipped through the air come down and break their necks all the damn time.
For something that's not a sport, it has a much higher injury profile than some of the sports they're "cheering on."
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Cheerleading can be considered a sport. They do have competitions that involve performing a set of routines.
Women's sports have no end game. The best they can get is a second seat to men's sports even at the professional level. There's very few female superstars that transcend their gender. The Williams Sisters and Mia Ham are the only ones I can think of that have obtained superstar status.
a I see they train as hard as any sportsmen, but most of the girls see this as a stepping stone for their career.
could be not a lot of acrobatic sports as alternatives. or feeling cool
First off, cheerleading is a sport. I do agree that some teams such as the ones with NFL do take it to far with the clothing, and they are the reason that cheerleaders aren’t respected. However, the amount of work and effort that goes into being a cheerleader such as stunting, tumbling, dancing, cheering and much more. It requires time, dedication, perseverance and time. Whether they are cheering on the sidelines or at a competition cheerleading is a sport.
Each to their own. Don't see why someone making a different choice is such a big deal.
As for reasons why someone might pick cheerleading. The social side, frustrated dancer or gymnast, performing in front of bigger crowds or they just prefer it to competing and being judged.
If you ignored for a moment the fact that cheerleading supports men's sports and looked just at the cheerleading you would know it is itself a sport, and often a competitive one. I think women like you just can't seem to get past the fact that it happens at men's sporting activities. How feminist of you.
What's wrong with cheerleading? It's cool. If I was American I would have been a cheerleader, they have cute clothes and do cool stuff.
Cheerleading is like a mix of sport dance and acrobatic gymnastics which is very cool.
There is girl sports at every high school some girls rather be a cheerleader than a basket ball player, volleyball, softball , soccer and many other sports the girls even cheer at girls basket ball games so I don't know what your talking about
Girls love to show off. They can play sports but that tends to get in the way of looking pretty.
Just depends on her. Some women enjoy it some don't.
Cheering for your school team doesn't sound bad.
These girls don't want to be athletes they like dancing.
because they wanted to be cheerleaders more than they wanted to compete in a sport.
I guess I am the exception to the rule. I was a cheerleader in high school but I also played basketball, volleyball, softball and track.
All the hot ones go there lol
More girls more fans xD
they wanna be hot, and want the dudes, but there's sports for chicks too, but that doesn't mean they wanna do it.
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