Dance and cheer are a sport I would say, they both have the same components
as any other sport. In dance you have to be strong, have great stamina, be flexible
and have endurance. In cheer you workout a lot, run and have stamina.
What they both share in common is that everyone who is a dancer or a
cheerleader have love for what they do. There are many reasons why I think
dance is better than cheerleading. Although there are some very big differences
between dance and cheerleading and I’m going to be telling you some.
Dance is my favorite, I’ve tried both cheerleading and dancing. Dance
is graceful its a mix of sharp and slow movements, dancing may involve being
more graceful but it’s still just as difficult as cheerleading.
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Dance also involves ariels which is kind of a cartwheel but
without your hands.
In dance you could have unlimited amount of dancers and the dance would
look amazing. My director always says the more people the better it looks and I
couldn’t agree more. In dance you don’t only have to dance but you could do
contagions and it would look just as cool. In dance you have to be very flexible
for all the leaps and grand jetes. I love dance because you could do so many
things and show emotion for all of them it’s like if you’re telling a story through
dancing so your facials always have to go with the song and the dance.
Cheer is very different from dance because their personalities. Cheerleaders
very bubbly, super loud, all over the place and let’s be honest sometimes
obnoxious. Cheer all you mostly do is stunt, stunting may be cool but they’re
just throwing someone up in the air. What happens if you don’t catch the flier? Or
If one of the bases accidentally twists the fliers ankle? There are many
While cheerleading and gymnastics have similar moves and tumbling passes, the differences in the sports can vary. Varying from if they are a team or not, cheerleading and gymnastics are two totally different sports but also similar in ways. Even though gymnastics and cheerleading include tumbling and the difference in the level of difficulty in the tumbling passes. Cheerleading lifts people while gymnastics is all about how graceful you can be. A big bow, a part of a cheerleader’s uniform, makes the appearance of a cheerleader more interesting. Lastly, cheerleading is some team sport and gymnastics is mainly an individual sport.
A sport is an activity involving physical exertion and skill in which athletes use this to compete against other teams. According to American Association of Cheerleading Coaches
Cheerleading is a big part of high school and community culture. For many young girls, and sometimes boys, cheer is a way of life. Often pursued as a profession, cheerleading is a very serious sport. Like most sports cheerleading has different types and divisions. Scholastic cheerleading and All-Star cheerleading have many similarities and differences. Cheerleading similarities and differences include what they do, coaches, and appearance.
By universal definition, "sport" is listed as "an activity involving physical exertion and skill that is governed by a set of rules or customs and often undertaken competitively." Football, basketball, baseball, soccer and other primary activities have always been concretely defined as sports in society. However, one of the most physically demanding activities is constantly forgotten when it comes to the realm of sports- dance. Dance requires a tremendous amount of training and creates an aura of competition in which people compete to be the best, win, and take home the trophy- just like in traditionally accepted sports. These sports, however, do not possess an element of psychological health threats that some competitive dancers unfortunately must account for due to the emphasis placed on physical appearance.
While the definition of a sport may vary by the person, the dictionary definition for a sport can be best described as, “an activity involving physical exertion and skill in which an individual or team competes against another or others for entertainment” (Oxford Dictionary). Cheerleading has been a topic of an ongoing controversial debate as to whether or not it should be recognized as a sport. Players that engage in sports, such as, football, basketball, and baseball all display a genuine liking for their sport, which generally emphasizes why they take part in the activity. Similarly, cheerleaders have this same mindset, but society tends to overlook their passion through the generation of the argument that cheerleading does not require
“Cheerleading involves skills which require the strength of football, the grace of dance, and the agility of gymnastics” (“Sport”). Many categorize competitive cheerleading as just an activity without any skill needed: there is nothing further from the truth! Competitive cheerleading is a sport that is dedicated to competition, fits the definition of a sport, and possesses a goal.
Competitive cheerleading is most definitely a sport due to the athletic ability that is needed, the way that there can be a winner and a loser, and the teamwork that is essential. There are more ways that this sport can be classified as a sport than ways that it cannot be classified. Cheerleading has come a long way from where is started. The difficulty that has now been developed in this sport has made more and more people realize that it truly is a sport. The next step for this new and upcoming sport is to have more and more people able to get scholarships for all the hard work they put into training. Who knows one day cheerleading could be put into the Olympics as a true
For the dancer, music and choreography are paramount. The music guides the dancer, and the moves express the music. However, the dance has to start from somewhere.
Over the years it has been debated many times whether or not cheerleading is a sport or a club so what is the verdict? Is cheerleading a sport or is cheerleading not a sport? Truthfully, there are two types of cheerleading, sideline cheerleading and competitive cheerleading. There are multiple distinguishing factors of competitive cheer and sideline cheer. The hours of practice, the level of skill, and the end goals of the two types are what set them apart. While there is a lot of heavy debate on the topic it is obvious that competitive cheerleading is a sport and is one of the most difficult sports to do well and sideline cheerleading is not.
does our society fail to respect dance as a sport? Dancing as a career requires an incredible
Dancing is a tremendously difficult task. That is why all dancers must have a mind mentally
There is something beautiful about dance, but there is something more beautiful about dancing with others. When a group of 13 girls and 1 boy can come together from 14 different ways of life and move together as one, then a dance team become more than just a dance team. This was not something that happened over night, it took time, effort and about 7 conversations with our coaches about our values. Without all of those components this team would have never became the successful, fighting, dream team that we became.
...dance education is to continue growing throughout public schools and colleges in the United States, students, parents, and the rest of the community will need to stand behind their dance educators. Dance has always served a form of great exercise that allows people to express themselves through movement, and will continue to do so into the future. Dance education in the elementary level is a place that may need some help in child development, and the way to solve this problem is by getting classroom teachers who are skilled in dance and creative movement instruction. Dance education in the secondary level also needs to get highly skilled teachers who are also certified in dance themselves. It would also help attract more students if dance was presented in a different department other than physical education. Dance education in the college level is taught by certified dance instructors, therefore dancers in this level are able to explore movements, while being critiqued by someone who knows what is happening. Dance education has played a major role in the development of children of all ages, and will continue to do so, as long as dance educators and dancers have the proper support.
To many, dance is only an art. In reality, dance is much more. It 's an art, a sport, a way to express one’s self, a way to exercise, a way to get feelings out. Since the beginning of time, humans have used different types of dance to express themselves. There are many advantages to dancing, however there are also some disadvantages. Dance is one of the most physically and cognitively demanding sports.
I know that while I dance my heart rate rises and I get exercise. Many of my dance teachers will tell us to keep the right form until we have muscle memory or until we don’t have to think about moving our muscles in a certain way. In one of my dance classes we had a day dedicated to our bodies, seeing what parts of the body are affected by dancing. I found that we use all of our bodies in dance, so it