Cheerleading

From the time I could walk I'd been inlove with cheer leading, I started out being a mascot for my local pop Warner team, and I cheered every year up until my junior year of high school. I didn't want to stop but my niece was born on the day of tryouts :( I wasn't like a super amazing skilled cheerleader but my heart was always 100% in it. I worked my ass off and I wanted it more than anything. Competition days and football games were my favorite. To get out there and show everyone what were capable of, it really gives you a thrill. 

  Nothing pisses me off more than people saying that cheerleading isn't a sport? Lol I would love* to see half the people saying that get out there and do what cheerleaders do. Can you toss a 100 lb girl up in the air while she twists and then catch her! Can you flip and twist and bend yourself in all the ways that cheerleaders do? Can you get dropped or fall hard and then get right back up and do it again. Cheerleaders don't give up. We ice it up put a brace on and get right back to practice. I've been tossed into the air and landed on my face, back, ass and knees. I've had shin splints, dislocated my knee several times and had flyers fall on my face so hard that I thought I broke my nose and jaw. But I always got right back up and hit that stunt. It's called dedication. It's the love of the sport, and I was sad when I didn't get to cheer my senior year of high school. Cheer will always have a place in my heart and I hope that if I have a daughter cheer is something she will want to pursue, if not I guess I'll just have to stick with watching competitive cheer videos on YouTube.