ok my story is kinda cheesy:)))
When I was 3 yo my dad used to travel to the usa all the time for his job and one time he brought me a minnie mouse in a cheeruniform. my 8 yo brother used to watch american teen-tv show on tv in which apeared cheerleaders and i instantly linked those two and got a cheer-obsession. it didnt excist in my country so instead my mom send me to dance and gymnastics. still it kept having my interest.
when i was around 15 yo, internet came up and i was still interested in cheerleading and started looking up video's and learned myself how to do the jumps and basic stunts, motions,... in meantime i was still searching for teams.
but all i found were very bad pomdance teams. so i went from team to team, never satisfied, i kinda started to give up, untill i met on holiday a scotisch girl who told me there were competive teams out there who did the real cheerleading, also in europe. so i started looking around, finding none of those in my own country. so i again joined several bad pomdance teams. i went every now and than to germany to watch competitions and thats how i got to know allstar cheerleading. in the same period i was asked to coach the team for a local american footballteam but i found members only in a different city, than i started thinking about making my team allstar too instead of cheering for that football team and doing only what they wanted me to do, so i went to camps, coaches conferences, ordered dvd's and books, visited some teams in the usa,...did all i could to learn it. founded my own team 3 years ago, first allstar team in my country. only 4 members showed up the first practise. now it's our 3rd year and im still learning every day and our team keeps growing, we're now 25 members:)