During the early 2000’s many teen movies came out focusing on the woes of being a teenager. One of those memorable movies is Bring It On. Since coming out in 2000, there have been five other movie adaptations of Bring It On and a play made in the likeness of the first movie. The most recent being Bring It On: WorldWide, focused on how teens live and cheer in 2017. The ideal Bring It On would include a brand-new routine, a fierce final cheerleading competition, a rival team set on winning, and a well functioning cheer team. If you want to watch a movie that is more modern, has a winning ending, even though it lacks structure in its cheer team, Bring It On: WorldWide is for you. If you want an early 2000’s, original cheer team, rival team, and …show more content…
Working together they choreograph and learn a new routine in three weeks. They use dance moves from swing dancing to interpretive dancing to miming to martial arts. In Bring It On everyone is involved in making the new routine and finding people to help them. The Toros spend all of their time practicing including between classes, before school, and after school. With the help of their captain, Torrance, they pull off the brand new routine. In Bring It On: WorldWide, they disband the “captain” role to work more efficiently with each other. While they were given four weeks to prepare, they did not truely start until they had two weeks until their final competition. Bring It On: WorldWide mainly pulls from hip hop dance, unlike the original Bring It On. The dancers they recruited are hip hop dancers, so they pull from what they know. Almost everyone in the squad helps put the cheer together. Willow and Destiny, their old captain, have the biggest roles in putting the routine for their …show more content…
Bring It On’s cheerleaders make up equal parts boys and girls while competing, but in practices there is usually more girls. Torro’s are six time national champions because of their old captain. When she graduates the captain role is handed over and the entire dynamic of the team changes. Almost every team has people who oppose what the captains leadership skills. Courtney and Whitney try throughout the entire movie to get Torrance overthrown. Of course Torrance does have people who stand up for her including; Jan, Missy, and Les. The Torro’s are a well functioning
The community members need to just let the players have fun and enjoy it, where they currently heckle and harass players in public. The cheerleaders should be encouraged to include a wider range of students across age / race / fitness barriers (as long as the person can actually perform as a cheerleader), to prevent it from being only the “pretty” girls. The schools need to work toward ensuring all groups are treated equally and with respect, and they need to encourage football as being a way to bring people together, not driving them apart. Some added diversity in all of these sub-groups should help to fix this, and make the community one again instead of many
When it comes to the topic of whether cheerleading is a sport, some of us will readily agree that it is. Where the agreement usually ends, however, is on the question whether cheerleading is a sport or not. Whereas many are convinced that it isn’t a sport, other maintains that it is a sport because cheerleaders are athletes, they need to train and be in shape in order to be able to do all the complex maneuvers safely. I agree that cheerleading is a sport because cheerleaders compete against other teams and competition is part of every sport.
The performance seen by fans is usually full of pep and school spirit. Behind every routine there is someone that helped create or supervise it. For scholastic cheerleading there are not multiple coaches, usually two. One coach for varsity and the other coach's junior varsity. Coaches are staff members with some type of performance
Ironically, cheerleaders get the name of a “snob” or a “brat”, however a cheerleaders job is to bring positivity and spirit to their school. To be conceited or a bully is the complete opposite of what a cheerleaders job is; which means their primary responsibility is to pump up the student body for the big game or to get others involved and support school functions. Aside from the stereotype that cheerleaders are snobby, another assumption is that cheerleaders only hang out with other cheerleaders, that they are very exclusive. In films, cheerleaders are seen as the girls that always sit at the same lunch table and no one else is allowed to sit with them, or the ones that walk the halls in the same cluster while they laugh and gossip about other girls. A cheerleader is taught to be inclusive and to get others engaged in activities throughout the school, and if cheerleaders are pushing others away by being exclusive they are not doing their
Of all the years that Olympics was conducted, it still remains as a non Olympic sport. With thousands and maybe even millions of Cheerleaders existing around the world, how come It hasn’t taken into attention how phenomenal and remarkable it would’ve been if it was an Olympic Sport? With different teams and active countries present in Cheerleading, Imagine how different teams compete for the Championship by showing each country’s high level tosses, extreme lifts, pyramids, heart racing tumbling passes and creative
Movies portray cheerleaders as the popular girls that everyone likes and aspires to be. But when reality hits at Salem High School, it’s a completely different story. Cheerleading was taken as a joke by the other athletes and even students. It was considered a hobby, but to me it was a passion and something I worked hard to be. Being on the cheer squad in high school was difficult to deal with in school because we were constantly being snubbed by the other athletes and students in our school ever since we were kids in junior high which should not happen because everyone has the right to do what they love and they should not be judged for it being different than everyone else. It was always us versus them up until my junior year of high school when we finally earned the respect of our peers.
The Bring It On series consists of 5 movies all based around the lives of teenage cheerleaders who compete. Throughout the movies all of the cheerleaders come from varying backgrounds. The first movie, Bring It On is a movie based around preparation of team’s to compete in a cheer competition. While the high school champions cheering squad learns their captain stole all of their cheering routines from another school, whom they have to compete against. Next, In Bring It On: Again a group of students are not able to make it onto their college cheering squad, so they create their own squad and begin prepping for a cheer off.
Society should consider competitive cheerleading a sport because it fits the definition,
Many think of cheerleading as just an activity which is nearly mindless. They do not recognize the hard work and skill that is crucial in becoming a first-class cheerleader. They believe that there is no ability or athleticism that is needed. They almost demean cheerleaders as unintelligent. They believe that cheerleaders are only out to look pretty and to entertain a crowd.
For example, they have practices every day after school to practice their routines and stunts (Remnick). They have to make posters for all sport teams, go to all of the sporting events, and support and volunteer for the community. Also, everything they do represents the school in some way, so they have to be on their best behavior all the time. Sometimes they even have to cheer for more than one sport at a time, so they will be cheering for a game every night of the week, and they are expected to get homework done and get to bed at a reasonable time for school the next morning. They are more busy than regular athletes, and sometimes cheerleading isn’t the only sport or activity the girls are involved in.
New routines, stunts, and gymnastic aspects are constantly being discovered and mastered by cheerleaders every day. Eventually the number of injuries will rise and it will become evident to all that something should have been done. It is time to make this sport official before more injuries happen.
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While Piersten, my tiny sister, is being tossed 15 feet in the air, I am the one doing the tossing. Also instead of being a collegiate cheerleader, like me, she is still a high school cheerleader. I was able to talk to her coach and was able to observe one of their practices for football games. One immediate reaction when she was texting me the details of when and where the practice was, was that they have practice right after school. That means they get out of class at 3:15 and have to be in the auxiliary gym at 3:30 dressed and ready to go. That’s extremely different to me because at Marian, I get out of class at 11:50 and I’m not expected to be at practice until 6:30 at the earliest. As Piersten pointed out, “you might as well just call it an extra-long gym class, because we have no time to gather our thoughts on the school day once it’s over.” Also, being right after school has its advantages too, like you don’t have to go home just to turn around and come back for practice. Over all, I believe the girls like having it after school because they could all sit and gossip while the coach walked from the middle school, where she works, to the high
The New York Times states that cheerleading is the fastest growing girls’ sport, yet more than half of Americans do not believe it is a sport. A sport is defined as “an athletic activity requiring skill or physical prowess and often of a competitive nature” (dictionary.com). Cheerleading at a competitive level is physically demanding and requires team work to be the best. The misconception of cheerleaders being weak, nonathletic crowd entertainers makes people believe cheerleaders are not athletes and that cheerleading is just a hobby but cheerleaders that compete at a competitive level are in fact athletes because it meets the standards of what a sport is, which includes rules and regulations, and overcoming air resistance.
Preparing for competition is easier said than done, you need a passion to complete the task. Competition is extremely stressful, but amazing at the same time. It?s a process of mixed emotions, not knowing if it?s importance will have a meaning in the end. Having practice six times a week allows us to work on our jumps, cheers, dances, tumbling, and the most difficult, stunting. Just the counts and lifting people in the air is traumatic enough, but repeating it over and over again it gets strenuous. Dancing is relaxing when you have counts to them, but when you have to learn the dance to the music people get confused and don?t know when to leave to the next formation. Team members start getting fed up with each other at the closing stages of practice, it?s just a natural human reaction after practicing with the same fifteen to twenty girls for three hours.