Competitive dance

standing watching the parade downtown Middleville with my Mom when I saw the Middleville competitive cheer team The cheerleaders dressed in red, black, and white uniforms were doing ‘flips’ or as I later found out, handsprings. I turned to my Mom. “I want to do that!” “What? Walk in a parade?” She asked confused as the parade kept moving downtown. “No, do flips.” Later that week my mom signed me up for the competitive cheer team. At the age of four I would be placed on division one. My…

The biggest regret I had was not becoming a competitive dancer sooner. I had convinced myself that I wouldn’t make the team, and didn’t try out until last year. After being a part of the team for a year, and seeing how much I grew, I decided to perform a solo. The solo improved my technique, and my self confidence. My main goal going into it was to let go of my fear of failure. After almost six months of rehearsal and practice, I was ready to compete. It was a Friday night, and I was sitting at…

a sport. Cheerleading can be classified as a sport in many different ways such as, a varsity high school sport, or as a competition sport. Cheerleading requires the same amount of athletic ability that other sports such as football, basketball, or dance have, which is why cheerleading should be considered a sport. During the course of the years, many legal companies have backed up the fact that cheerleading is a sport. “The American Association of Cheerleading Coaches and Advisors have…

of course our cheerleaders could not be any different. Heights high school cheerleader had been known around the city for being exceptionally good. We have always had the best cheers, dances, and stunts. Our cheerleaders generally spent years before high school participating in competitive cheerleading. Competitive cheer taught girls many advanced things such as tumbling or gymnastic…

Annotated Bibliography Altonji, Chris. "Is Dance a Sport? Opposing Perspectives from Dancer and Football Player." The Oracle. FLEXWordPress, 1 Feb. 2013. Web. 05 Dec. 2016. In this article high school football player Chris Altonji states “Dancing, however, passes this one. Every time I see Poms or De La Cru perform, I am extremely impressed by their flexibility and coordination. Dancers clearly have to go through strenuous practices to be able to pull off those performances. But that’s…

Dance is a non-threatening, non-competitive way to challenge participants to improve physical skills and artistic expression. The abundance of research shows the benefits of physical activity in general, and dance, in particular. The idea of integrating the arts, including dance, into the broader curriculum is not new but appears to be achieving a stronger foothold in public schools today. Dance is an artistic form of expression where bodily activities are used to convey any inner thoughts…

Is cheer leading a sport Everyone knows those girls who sit on the sidelines of other sports and yell “GO TEAM.” These girls have to be very athletic and trained to do all of their stunts. The professional name of these girls is cheerleaders, they are the ones who get all of the crowd peppy on Friday night games and then go and compete all day Saturday and yet what they do is not considered a sport. The topic of Cheerleading has generated a lot of argument for the two viewpoints of…

when we think about poker, chess, swimming, or ice dancing. In my opinion these would be considered competitions rather than a sport. I believe that if you are competing against another person or team and this activity requires strategy or any competitive event in which one side is actively engaged in stopping the other side from scoring then it shall be considered a sport. These activities must be governed by a set of rules and not be won based on luck. Although, strategy and chance may play a…

consumed by my own thoughts, I had felt a flurry of emotions, struggling to differentiate my feelings of excitement from my feelings of angst as I first attended tryouts for the cheerleading squad. Never had I been forced to say chants or perform dances to multiple eight counts. It was not commonplace for me to be found along the sidelines, cheering for others. Rather, I was the student who was on the court, reacting instinctively to the movement of the ball, but after enduring such an…

seconds, all for one little sport. The sport that fills my heart and love so deeply, cheerleading. Not the school sideline girls that yell and kick, but competitive cheer. In a cheer routine, a team must be able to continuously flip across the floor, jump as fast as rabbits, launch people into the air while still managing to keep them safe, and dance and be sassier than a seven-year-old pageant girl - all of it jam packed into 2 minutes and 30 seconds. It looks like a piece of cake reading it…