Research Paper On Cheer

The reason I started cheer was to take what I learned from my gymnastics and acrobatics and put them into something new. I wanted to see if I was capable of trying something more challenging or more competitive. When I finally got there in was very different then what I was use to. People were staring at me in every direction, as if I was a new colour in the rainbow. At that point I was trying to show where I need to grow and where I am doing just fine. When they told me something, I really had to listen so I would enjoy and be good at everything that needed to be taught to me. This experience was going to involve metacognition!
After the first week or so I realized that it is not just something new I am learning, but it is something new I am teaching. I am the one who did gymnastics and everyone else there was cheerleading since they were two to five. I was still teaching them that somethings are different in different places. Even though I did not know how to lift a person properly or throw a person in the air properly, I knew how to find my inner balance to do tumbling and dancing. So, after I went through the stage of learning, I wanted …show more content…
Cheer is that competitive is very serious. In rec participants are expected to yell and occasionally have music, and when they do it that means they are doing it for another sports team such as: football, soccer, or basketball. In competitive there is definitely music that we dance, tumble, and stunt to. Just like any other sport it can not just be a time to hang out with friends, I have to pay attention. This is where I had to take what I learned from school and on regular days where I have to pay attention to my surroundings and still find a creative way to make it fun to me. If I make it fun to me I will find interest and want to learn more and do more with it. Before I did cheer I still had to go to school and in school I had to find a way to make what I was doing fun to