Becoming A Cheerleader

“A cheerleader is like an elastic, their flexible, they stretch and spring, they get snapped into the air, they do hair, but with too much stress they can break,” stated by Sara Alberta. Cheer is life; Cheer is everything, Eat, Sleep, and Breath Cheer. The thoughts that goes through the brain of being a cheerleader each second of the day. I hope I can hit each toe touch that is needed to be done. I can’t miss not one beat of this routine, if so its all on me the reason we may lose. Until a person comes up to you and says cheerleading is not a sport. How is cheerleading a sport you may wonder, well allow me to elaborate on the topic. Growing up as a child, having a mother who put some much pressure of you being a cheerleader because you’re flexible was hard. To begin cheerleading wasn’t even consider a sport at the time. However, when the process began I started to realize how much actually went into being a cheerleader. To begin with they don’t get straight into the cheers. Before you can even be consider a cheerleader you have to go through conditioning. Basically all about getting your body in shape, and being able to maintain cheering through a whole game or maybe even two. …show more content…
Such as high V, low v, daggers, low daggers, a T, a right and left L, and a K. Not only that but making sure when you hit your cheer positions that you do them sharply. Each motion that you make must be right on point and nothing less. After you learn the cheer motions you go through the jumps. They may seem easy but their far from that. You have a toe touch; tuck jump, side hurdle, front hurdle, pike, and etc. While doing any cheer motion or jump your fist must maintain in a donut at all time. If you don’t keep your fist and a donut you can cause major problems to