Cheerleading?

Question

Do you Think Cheerleading Is a Sport? I do but im not gonna argue just want to see what other people think guys and girls

Answer 1

Yes. I have done it and I now coach it. I know what goes into it. Plus, our state has sanctioned it as a school sport.

Answer 2

i am a cheerleader and take it from a cheerleader it is so a sport i is so hard on your body it takes a lot out of you. but don't get me wrong it is a lot of fun. her is my favorer quote

Simply because we do not run across goal lines, slam dunk basketballs, or hit home runs, doesn't mean we can't change the score.
Hands on your hips, a smile on your lips, spirit in your heart, we're ready to start!

Answer 3

Definitely. I am a cheerleader and it requires soo much strength. We have daily practice that includes running four miles, other excercises for cardio, an hour of toning, and an hour of strength training. It's difficult at times but extremely worth it! i mean.. everybody wants a nice toned body ;)

xo

Answer 4

I'm a cheerleader and i think its a sideline sport. its not really a sport. I think competition cheerleading is considered a sport.

Answer 5

cheerleading is definetly a sport!! yes it combines other sports but that dosn't mean enything. that dosn't change the fact that it's one of the hardest sports. there are more injuries in cheerleading than alot of other sports. do people think that that happens because we where on some sideline of some sport screeming at the top of our lungs "go team go" no i have never herd of eny one breaking their leg from screeming. NO injuries like that come from falling off a pryimid or even a small stunt. or landing wrong doing a flip! because we,CHEERLEADERS that is, must jump and no im not talking a bout a simple jump no i am talking jumps like herles toetuches for any one that dosn't know what that is it is a straddle split in the air where we must aclualy tuch our teo not bending our nees oh yah did i mention that gravity never stops so we must get into the splits touch our toes before gravity brings us down to earth and when we land we have to land on our feet legs together and then just keep going on as if nothing happened oh yah we have to make every thing look efortless so we have to do that smile the whole way throuhg and make it look like it was the simplest thing in the world. thats the easy part!! we still have to be able to lift people in the air as if it was nothing. the person might even be twise your size. and alot of the time you will have to lift them above your head with one or two other people. and that is just the lifting part. the person in the air will not just be standing their no they might be doing eny number of things. imagine being held in the air by one foot your hand is holding your other foot by the ankle it by your side you are holding it in a side kick with your other hand doing somthing elce not to mention you are trying to keep your balence. plus it has to look efort less and you and every other cheerleader has to have a smile on their face the whole time nomater how you are feeling at that perticular moment. oh yah geting down cant forget about that you have to make geting down look easy to. you could be coming from a 3 level perimid or a five level perimid but no mater how high it is you have to get down so one way to get down is you fall back and a few like 3 mabey 4 people hold their arms out to make a basket like thing for you to fall into and you have to trust them to catch you. oh ya and you still have to do the cheer and so you might be in the middle of a cheer and have to do a toe tuch so you do the jump or what ever you are doing during the cheer and the cheer keeps going while you are doing whatever you are doing and sometimes after you are finished with the perticular thing you where doing. that part of it you still have to do the dances!!!!!ya and you are in a mini skirt so you don't have to wory about steping on your clothes cause if you did you could ceriosly hurt yourself and mabey even others!!!!!!!!
if you say its not a sport because its not difficult you are clearly wrong
if you say it's not a sport because judges judge you whel then that must mean boxing is not a sport cause there are judges there too!
if you say it's not a sport cause their are no inteligent people you are sadly mistaken there are pleanty of people that are inteligent in cheerleading.and even if there whern't intelegence wouldn't matter because if is did it would be discrimination so lets drop the whole cheerleading can't be a sport because there are no smart people in it right know.
people may whant to say it isn't a sport but they only say it because they know that is is a sport and they are to hard headed to admit it. so they come up with all kinds of excuses to try to keep themselves and others from thinking its a sport. but when it comes down to it we know that cheerleading is a sport and it is a realy hard and fun, well fun for some people, sport. and their is no way to change that cheerleading IS a SPORT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Answer 6

One of the toughest ones!! yet the most unrecognized. It makes me so mad that they play poker all over ESPN but never show any cheerleading

Answer 7

nope not a sport. It requires another sport to even exist. you are just cheering on other athletes.

I won't take anything away from the individuals that participate in it though. Perhaps they could go compete in a real sport for themselves.

Cheerleading, like figure skating, gymnastics, diving, and any other SCORED event can never be a sport it is you against a biased panel of judges who interpret the movements you make. I will retract these statements and consider all of those sports only on the day the NHL realizes that Bobby Orr "did not stick the landing" and count "The Goal" as 2/3s of a point instead of one.

Answer 8

Yes. Its good exercise.
I can't do the splits or anything for my life.
They work hard.
Although its sometimes annoying and kinda pointless. They work hard and its probably fun.
Its too bad you can't do it when your old.

Answer 9

No, but dancing and gymnastics are. Cheerleading is silly, that's what pep band is for.

Answer 10

yea
it is a sport
you can tell
cheerleading is like gymnastics