Cheerleading Persuasive Essay

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SHOULD CHEER BE A SPORT?

INTRO
Cheer should be in the olympics right? Well if you said no ...they should! All things in the olympics are athletic in a way or another cheer is to. Some people think cheer shouldn't because cheer is a team sports but they have team sports in the olympics like volleyball, water polo, basketball, and tennis.

PHYSICAL ACTIVITY
The first paragraph is about physical activity.Tumbling is physical activity because you have to sometimes have your legs straight, spin / twist, and point your toes. Jumping is also a part of that because your are jumping in the air, keeping your legs straight, pointing your toes, and going high. Stunting is very much all physical activity because you have to lift athletes and do different things. All their weight is in your hands now I feel bad for the floor. In stunting, tumbling, and jumping all you have to define gravity and work all your muscles. Also tumbling you can strike out in and they can take off points.

COMPETING …show more content…

In fact cheer doesn't go against one team at a time they could go against one or a hundred, unlike other sports that go against one. Sports have score sheets but cheerleading has all kinds of score sheets including jumps, tumbling, stunts, motions transitions, technique, difficulty, creativeness, and more. Sports need specific floors. Hockey needs ice, soccer and football need turf and cheer needs bouncy floor like gymnastics. Most sports have time limits to play the game and cheer has a time limit to perform. In addition tons of sports get the crowd pumped up but cheer gets them the loudest, craizeist, and the