Comments on: Evolution of Cheerleaders http://howtobearetronaut.com/2011/06/evolution-of-cheerleaders/ Ever get the feeling you're living in the wrong time? Mon, 10 Oct 2024 02:17:24 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: jufjo http://howtobearetronaut.com/2011/06/evolution-of-cheerleaders/#comment-65325 jufjo Tue, 20 Sep 2024 17:18:54 +0000 http://howtobearetronaut.com/?p=19118#comment-65325 Evolution? Devolution more like. It started with nice looking fun kids and ended with cheap looking girls who look like they are pole dancers on drugs. I hate sports in general but if I was a lover of sports I'd stop going to stadiums and stop watching it if they had modern cheerleaders. I don't want to see that sort of thing and defenitely wouldn't bring children to that. Evolution?
Devolution more like.

It started with nice looking fun kids and ended with cheap looking girls who look like they are pole dancers on drugs.

I hate sports in general but if I was a lover of sports I’d stop going to stadiums and stop watching it if they had modern cheerleaders.
I don’t want to see that sort of thing and defenitely wouldn’t bring children to that.

]]> By: Paula (former cheerleader) http://howtobearetronaut.com/2011/06/evolution-of-cheerleaders/#comment-64137 Paula (former cheerleader) Sun, 18 Sep 2024 19:59:06 +0000 http://howtobearetronaut.com/?p=19118#comment-64137 I was a cheerleader back in the late 70s. Most of the girls in our school would try out for those 7-10 spots on the cheering squad. If you did not make cheering, one would go out for sports such as field hockey or girls' basketball as a second choice for many. We were respected. The summer before my senior year was the first time we went to a cheering camp, where we did learn a dance we performed at half time (no provocative moves). We also learned cheers to "lead" the crowd. I wonder if this was the original intention of "cheerleader" ?? We could get the whole crowd including teachers, parents, students and alumni to join us in appropriate cheers. Some cheers were not "nice" such as "nuts & bolts, nuts & bolts we got screwed!" which the crowd would start and it was the cheerleaders' jobs to change the "not nice" chant to something appropriate. Today, "Cheerleaders" apparently have different roles. Perhaps it's time for new titles for these talented groups with names such as "skimpy-outfit club" or "varsity-dance movers" Don't get me wrong, many do have talent and perform gymnastic/athletic/dance moves that are risky & dangerous. However, many are performing risky moves that are "stripper" like and give a different meaning/reputation to "cheer leading". They say sex sells so perhaps it's about $$. Have the professionals, overpaid athletes & team owners, TV beer commercials, etc. encouraged this role change? How much are professional "cheerleaders" getting paid these days? The last I knew, it was pathetic. I'll sign off with this cheer: Come on girls & women and parents of "cheerleaders" -- stop settling and raise the bar higher! I was a cheerleader back in the late 70s. Most of the girls in our school would try out for those 7-10 spots on the cheering squad. If you did not make cheering, one would go out for sports such as field hockey or girls’ basketball as a second choice for many. We were respected. The summer before my senior year was the first time we went to a cheering camp, where we did learn a dance we performed at half time (no provocative moves). We also learned cheers to “lead” the crowd. I wonder if this was the original intention of “cheerleader” ?? We could get the whole crowd including teachers, parents, students and alumni to join us in appropriate cheers. Some cheers were not “nice” such as “nuts & bolts, nuts & bolts we got screwed!” which the crowd would start and it was the cheerleaders’ jobs to change the “not nice” chant to something appropriate.

Today, “Cheerleaders” apparently have different roles. Perhaps it’s time for new titles for these talented groups with names such as “skimpy-outfit club” or “varsity-dance movers” Don’t get me wrong, many do have talent and perform gymnastic/athletic/dance moves that are risky & dangerous. However, many are performing risky moves that are “stripper” like and give a different meaning/reputation to “cheer leading”.

They say sex sells so perhaps it’s about $$. Have the professionals, overpaid athletes & team owners, TV beer commercials, etc. encouraged this role change? How much are professional “cheerleaders” getting paid these days? The last I knew, it was pathetic. I’ll sign off with this cheer: Come on girls & women and parents of “cheerleaders” — stop settling and raise the bar higher!

]]> By: Aly http://howtobearetronaut.com/2011/06/evolution-of-cheerleaders/#comment-63561 Aly Fri, 16 Sep 2024 19:30:46 +0000 http://howtobearetronaut.com/?p=19118#comment-63561 All I notice is the outfits getting skimpier and skimpier o_0 All I notice is the outfits getting skimpier and skimpier o_0

]]> By: Cami http://howtobearetronaut.com/2011/06/evolution-of-cheerleaders/#comment-57860 Cami Sun, 14 Aug 2024 01:21:51 +0000 http://howtobearetronaut.com/?p=19118#comment-57860 I'm sorry, but all these are different types of cheerleading. Starting in the late-70s is when cheerleading hit a fork, and some cheerleading squads went in the "dance" direction (football cheerleaders like for the Dallas Cowboys) and the other went in a "gymnast" direction. The stereotypical cheerleader is that of a gymnast, not a dance. Cheerleaders shout, yell, dance, tumble, get aggressive and throw each other 20 feet in the air. Dancing cheerleaders run around in slutty outfit spreading their legs for the sake of football. I’m sorry, but all these are different types of cheerleading. Starting in the late-70s is when cheerleading hit a fork, and some cheerleading squads went in the “dance” direction (football cheerleaders like for the Dallas Cowboys) and the other went in a “gymnast” direction.

The stereotypical cheerleader is that of a gymnast, not a dance. Cheerleaders shout, yell, dance, tumble, get aggressive and throw each other 20 feet in the air.

Dancing cheerleaders run around in slutty outfit spreading their legs for the sake of football.

]]> By: Nevak http://howtobearetronaut.com/2011/06/evolution-of-cheerleaders/#comment-57857 Nevak Sun, 14 Aug 2024 00:37:03 +0000 http://howtobearetronaut.com/?p=19118#comment-57857 WOW!... Amazing WOW!… Amazing

]]> By: Ashleigh http://howtobearetronaut.com/2011/06/evolution-of-cheerleaders/#comment-57504 Ashleigh Wed, 10 Aug 2024 05:32:42 +0000 http://howtobearetronaut.com/?p=19118#comment-57504 i wish they would have shown REAL cheerleaders in the 2024s... we work alot harder on stunting and tumling and its alot more intese than just dancing in skimpy outfits...thats not cheering. i wish they would have shown REAL cheerleaders in the 2024s… we work alot harder on stunting and tumling and its alot more intese than just dancing in skimpy outfits…thats not cheering.

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