I sure don't but I keep on hearing this. I'm sick of these cheerleaders saying their typical thing "Oh cheerleading is not as easy as it looks, we lift people up do back flips and yata yata yata" " we work just as hard if not a whole lot harder than other sports". Wells for one I most certainly do not consider cheerleading a sport. Yes I will admit it does take energy and talent, but I just cant ever find myself to see it as a sport. I mean your getting judged/critiqued.. its basically like dancing plus a bit more added to it and dancing is not a sport. Yes, I do feel it is right to call theme athletes because I'm sure they do work hard, but nothing more than that. Cheerleading is an athletic activity not a sport, there is a difference between the two. Also like I said before it pisses me off when they try to say they work harder. Please tell me how doing a hmm maybe 5 minuet performance of back flips and lifting compares to running up and down a basketball court, or a football field, or maybe jumping some hurdles on a track field? I play football(soccer), track, and basketball and you better believe we are well over worked. My daily practice of basketball consist of running 2 1/2 miles everyday, some time in the weight room, bench jumps( works your lower body strength), we have something we call the killer which is very deadly, it is very cardio active, etc I could go on. We work until we are throwing up, until we cant take anymore. Then go and work our butts of at games&tournaments and to hear some cheer leaders say they work harder than other athletes. PLEASE.
and if our coach feels like it she bumbs it up to 3 - 3 1/2 miles, which has happened several times.
hey the way I see it. Anything that is in the Olympics is a SPORT and has a reason for being there. Cheer leading is not in the olympics and probably never will be. Though there are false rumors that it was going to be in the 2012 olympics. Just because something involves hard work and injuries does not make it a sport. Hell you can get injured from slipping on some water! Does that make it a sport? Building houses I'm sure is VERY hard, tiring, requires strength, and large amounts of skill does that make building houses a sport? no. and don't be ridiculous dance is NOT a sport, i'm sorry lol.
cheer leading is way more underdeveloped than actual sports. Also cheer leading has never been actually classified as a true sport in the book. When I get my athletics sheet to fill put before school year starts you have SPORTS: basketball, soccer, track, volleyball, football, tennis. no cheerleading.
If cheerleading is a sport, then so is chess, robotics, building houses, weight lifiting, etc.
My basketball practices are normally 3 1/2 hours long. Longest was 4 hours, but that was only for three days. I still don't think cheerleaders use as much energy as basketball, football, soccer, and most deinintly not track.
and if our coach feels like it she bumbs it up to 3 - 3 1/2 miles, which has happened several times.
hey the way I see it. Anything that is in the Olympics is a SPORT and has a reason for being there. Cheer leading is not in the olympics and probably never will be. Though there are false rumors that it was going to be in the 2012 olympics. Just because something involves hard work and injuries does not make it a sport. Hell you can get injured from slipping on some water! Does that make it a sport? Building houses I'm sure is VERY hard, tiring, requires strength, and large amounts of skill does that make building houses a sport? no. and don't be ridiculous dance is NOT a sport, i'm sorry lol.
cheer leading is way more underdeveloped than actual sports. Also cheer leading has never been actually classified as a true sport in the book. When I get my athletics sheet to fill put before school year starts you have SPORTS: basketball, soccer, track, volleyball, football, tennis. no cheerleading.
If cheerleading is a sport, then so is chess, robotics, building houses, weight lifiting, etc.
My basketball practices are normally 3 1/2 hours long. Longest was 4 hours, but that was only for three days. I still don't think cheerleaders use as much energy as basketball, football, soccer, and most deinintly not track.