cheersafety
Cheer Parent
- Jan 7, 2010
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If they ground bound all school cheers, they should cut jumps too. It's not just the tumbling and stunting that is dangerous...all it takes is one wrong landing and you can snap your ankle. Worst yet, we better take out the dance teams while we're at it since leaps are just as dangerous.
Yes.
Skip to 0:55 and watch the whole cheer.
Now imagine that without stunts.
Yes.
Skip to 0:55 and watch the whole cheer.
Now imagine that without stunts.
Are you saying dance moves are as dangerous as stunts?
They can be depending on the dance team and what styles they perform. For example, if a dance team decides they want to do a contemporary dance they can do their own version of a pyramid (where a dancer climbs the backs of their fellow dancers like a staircase and then jumps off to be caught). That isn't including lifts, which when they go wrong, can cause just as much physical injury. There are also tumbling aspects in dance...aerials would be the most popular.
So yeah, dance and cheer...both dangerous.
Why does it have to be "necessary"?
None of us WANT schools to be ground bound... But we are asking because these are the questions schools are going to ask. They don't care if it's fun.... They care about the money. If cheer is a sport and going to require their funding for proper training, mats, etc, they'd rather take out stunting and save the money. It's not about "fun" for them.Why does it have to be "necessary"?
Why isn't it enough that they're fun to watch, fun to do?
The entire sports industry is built on activities that have no other purpose than being fun to watch, fun to do (and good exercise, which cheerleading stunts & tumbling are as well). Why do we need more than that to justify our activity?
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Why does it have to be "necessary"?
Why isn't it enough that they're fun to watch, fun to do?
The entire sports industry is built on activities that have no other purpose than being fun to watch, fun to do (and good exercise, which cheerleading stunts & tumbling are as well). Why do we need more than that to justify our activity?
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No, I get that. My point is, why do we have to prove that it's "necessary" in order to get the support? Football isn't "necessary", but they get support.Because of risk, safety, and insurance.
If we want to be able to do these things (stunting tumbling and what not) they need to be supported appropriately. Would we ever let football practice without pads? Water? A trainer? Yet cheer teams do this all the time. If a sport is doing things in appropriately you have a multitude of ways to report them. Cheer usually falls under a marketing department.
Schools see our job as "crowd leading".Football needs pads, they can justify the money for pads. The tackling is part of the sport and it's dangerous without it. If our job is crowd leading, what justifies the stunting and extra money it requires them to spend? Obviously cheerleaders would say that stunting is as important as tackling in football - but to outsiders, when our purpose is to crowd lead, it's not.