Christian Fast Shannon Swonger English 9 18 May 2023 Is Show Choir truly a sport? Exploring the physical and mental demands of this competitive activity. For those who don’t know, Show Choir is a very difficult art that gets a lot of hate for no reason. If you would take time to notice Show Choir and other sports are very similar. We will also go into the pros and cons of doing Show Choir to show how difficult art is. The similarities between sports and Show Choir are very close the more you look into it. Because of that, it doesn’t deserve the hate it all gets when it has the same difficulty as most sports. Show Choir is a very difficult art. This can be seen from many people assuming dancing and singing are just natural-born skills, something …show more content…
For instance, when you join a sports team, you are usually given a contract to sign saying you will attend practice, keep your grades up, eat well, and stay away from drugs and alcohol. It is no different for a show choir. If you break the contract you could get benched or even suspended from the team. You can see the definition of a sport as an activity involving physical exertion and skill in which an individual or team competes against another or others for entertainment." team sports such as baseball and soccer." Yet this fits into the definition of a sport nearly perfectly: it involves physical extension with the necessary cardio and core strength. Teams DO compete against one another and others for entertainment because they're getting judged for the accuracy of the movements and precision …show more content…
Art and sport teach our students teamwork with each other to perform a good show. This is necessary. This also teaches our students that their actions affect those around them, because if one person messes up a thing it affects the whole group. It also connects people by spending time with other people. It is easy to make friends in this activity. The promotion and encouragement of personal growth are also relevant. This activity also teaches students to have a good stage presence that can help with self-confidence. The cons to Show Choir include. Subjective Judgment to our people because the judges at competitions are paid to pick out everything you did wrong, and if they said something good it's a good thing. This also creates rivalries between schools to see which one can outscore the other. Which leads to the start of egos in the group becoming out of control like Evan this year. Those were the pros and cons to Show