- Dec 14, 2010
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I have a question for the cheerleaders and parents, do you think its fair to compete or allow your child to compete with recreation squad and compete allstar?
Please be honest
Please be honest
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Yes I see nothing wrong with it. My cp told me she wanted to cheer for a football team like a girl in her 1st grade class does. I said, that's fine as long as you don't practice the same day. Then I told her that football is outside cheerleading and she changed her mind and said she doesn't want to go outside and sweat because that's not cute!!
I feel like recreation (at least in our area) is like basic cheers. You learn cheesy routines that I could make up. You don't really tumble (unless you already have tumble experience) and the only stunt they may do once is a thigh stand.
I feel it's more so for the non advanced cheerleader. I also believe it doesn't really prepare and train you well enough to make a school team with just that alone. I was more of a softball player in school but I did try out for our middle school cheer team and didn't make it and I had been doing rec cheer for 7 years. All the girls who made it had major tumbling skills!! Not me!!
I agree that rec. is for teaching the basics but its just that for beginners. Last I went to a rec. competition where you had complete teams doing level 2-5 tumbling going against girls who barely have cartwheels and to make add insult to injury walk around in their national champ sweatshirts and jackets commenting on how easy the comp. was.
Its sad but where im from most rec. teams actually recruit lol. They have to be the right age but here they change birth certificates and all sorts of things just to have certain girls on a team.Yes, that happened to us as far as tumbling. The cheer teams were usually made off age. Not anything to do with skill so we would compete with round offs and then the next team would have like half BHS and a few tucks. I'd be like oh ok we suck!! I don't feel like the divisions were set up for competitiveness! I know it's different in other states but here it's not really the thing to do!!
Its sad but where im from most rec. teams actually recruit lol. They have to be the right age but here they change birth certificates and all sorts of things just to have certain girls on a team.
omg a rec team? im not even sure i understand the concept of a rec team completely because we dont have anything like that where i live. i have never seen a rec team or a pop warner team. i didn't even know rec teams competed, let alone recruit!Its sad but where im from most rec. teams actually recruit lol. They have to be the right age but here they change birth certificates and all sorts of things just to have certain girls on a team.
Its sad but where im from most rec. teams actually recruit lol. They have to be the right age but here they change birth certificates and all sorts of things just to have certain girls on a team.