Our topic is on cheerleading. A cheerleader is someone, who is a member of a group that shouts out chants to encourage a team and entertain the crowd in a game in sports like basketball and football and some types even do competitions against each other. In cheerleading you work your way up to competition, just like football players work their way up to their games. It gets you exercise and you have coaches. Therefore it’s a sport. You have coaches for it just like any other sport. It is important because it is a fun sport for people to do that isn’t exactly like no other. People need cheerleaders so that they can gain confidence in themselves, or at least more because the cheer squad has hope in them plus it’s great for marketing. It encourages …show more content…
On earth there are about four million cheerleaders. The myth that your feet size affects your cheerleading is false, along with the theory that you have to be skinny to be a cheerleader. Cheerleaders tend to have above average grades. Some presidents were even cheerleaders, like George W. Bush. Cheerleading has grow more and more popular over the generations. Most colleges have their own cheerleading squad for certain sports such as football and basketball. fourty-five major deaths of happened in high school cheerleading from 1982 - 2006. Two of the injuries lead to death. Five of them lead to disabilities and eleven lead to serious injuries. You have to have passion, strength, flexibility, great self esteem, focus and you have to work really hard. It takes quite a bit of practice. Football is the most popular sport to cheer for in the United States. When cheerleading first started, it was only men and no women. Now ninety eight percent of cheerleaders are female. Most cheerleaders range from the age five to fifteen. The cheer capital of the United States is Texas. Pom poms used to be called pom pons. The Dallas cowboys were the first to have a recognized cheerleading squad. For stunting it is not required to have a back base. Lawrence Herkimer invented the herkie. Another name for a twist cradle is a three hundred and sixty down. “GO-FIGHT-WIN”, is the most popular chant. A straddle life is also called a threepoint. You can only have up to nine people in a stunt group and a minimum of two people in a stunt group. Broken arms and busted lips, are the most common injury to get in competitive cheerleading. There are four Bring It On movies out that are cheerleading based. Anytime you do a stunt, it is very likely to get inured. Most cheerleaders are gymnast and twelve percent are dancers. Now the sport cheerleading is a normal