“There are now “cheer gyms,” where kids go to learn to throw each other around like Frisbees.” These words stated by Rick Reilly in the article “Sis! Boom! Bah! Humbug!” are words describing on how dangerous and how dumb the sport of cheerleading is. Cheerleading is performed in front of crowds at events people pay money for. They perform life threatening stunts that most people wouldn’t dare to try. Cheerleading can be for guys to but it’s mostly for girls. Even though it’s another activity for girls to join, cheerleading is a dumb activity because it’s one of the most dangerous activities, and cheerleading can lead to death or paralysis.
Right up front, cheerleading is a dumb sport to join. Like Reilly said “The velcroed-on smiles. The bizarre arm movements stolen from the navy signalmen’s handbook. The same cheers done by every troupe in every state.” Cheerleading is nothing but fake cheering and fake smiles that has no impact on how any event will turn out. If anything they are a distraction to the players and the fans by the short miniskirts that show some butt but not too much, skin tight shirts that show their skinny figure and caked on make-up. To …show more content…
From doing cartwheels that could snap ankles to flips that could land themselves on their head. In high school cheerleading, a cheer related injury causes the cheerleader to be out for an average of 28.8 days. It’s more than any sport in high school. There are endless risks that take place in cheerleading and the abnormal stunts they perform put more of risk that could really injure themselves. Some cheerleading squads go to the levels of creating human pyramids that could collapse and cause serious injury to the cheerleaders. This activity shouldn’t be a sport or a thing due to the dangerous behavior that it portrays and the injuries can be easily avoided if this “sport” didn’t
Right up front, cheerleading is a dumb sport to join. Like Reilly said “The velcroed-on smiles. The bizarre arm movements stolen from the navy signalmen’s handbook. The same cheers done by every troupe in every state.” Cheerleading is nothing but fake cheering and fake smiles that has no impact on how any event will turn out. If anything they are a distraction to the players and the fans by the short miniskirts that show some butt but not too much, skin tight shirts that show their skinny figure and caked on make-up. To …show more content…
From doing cartwheels that could snap ankles to flips that could land themselves on their head. In high school cheerleading, a cheer related injury causes the cheerleader to be out for an average of 28.8 days. It’s more than any sport in high school. There are endless risks that take place in cheerleading and the abnormal stunts they perform put more of risk that could really injure themselves. Some cheerleading squads go to the levels of creating human pyramids that could collapse and cause serious injury to the cheerleaders. This activity shouldn’t be a sport or a thing due to the dangerous behavior that it portrays and the injuries can be easily avoided if this “sport” didn’t