Competitive Cheerleading

Most people stereotype cheerleaders as people who cheer for other sporting teams victory's. This was defiantly the correct term for a cheerleader when cheerleading first originated, however over the years cheerleading has developed into something much different. Competitive cheerleading is where a full team forms a routine and performs at a competition against other teams in there level. Teams that achieve high scores from the judges win special bids to travel and perform there routine either inter-nationally or nationally. When your team becomes one of the very best at a top level there is the biggest cheerleading competition that takes place in America once a year and it is called cheerleading worlds. When performing at a competition there are two different types of routines you can perform they are a pom routine or a cheer (stunt) routine. Pom routines are very similar to normal dancing except it involves each cheerleader to have a pair of pom pom's and some compulsory moves which are a kick line and jump series. A cheer (stunt) routine is performed on a sprung floor and it involves stunt, tumbles, jumps and dance. However the old stereotypical idea of cheerleading still remains with some teams only cheering and supporting football and basketball teams, competitive cheerleading has defiantly become a sport in its own right.