- Mar 4, 2011
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Okay, this is probably going to make me sound and look really bad, but, I'm really having thoughts about quitting my team. Don't get me wrong I looooove cheerleading and it's one of my favorite things to do, so I kinda want yall's opinions. Here are my reasons -
1. I'm a level 3/4 on a level 5 team, so I don't do anything except stunts and jump tucks. It really makes me feel like disconnected from the rest of the team when they're working on running/standing tumbling and I have to go over to the power rod. I try my hardest to get skills and I work hard but I just wish my gym offered a lower level teams.
2. I feel like I'm the only one who takes it seriously. People constantly come to practice 10-30 minutes late with no excuse and people just don't show up and they don't get in trouble. We need everyone there to do a routine and I honestly don't think we've had a practice with everyone here unless it was for choreography. Nobody wears the right practice clothes, which isn't a big deal but for me it's not hard to put on a black pair of shorts with a black tank. Don't come in wearing hot pink cheetah shorts and a blue top. We have a calender that says what to wear, wear it. There are some people who don't give an effort which holds everyone back. Constant talking while coaches are trying to tell us, I'm always hearing "what did he say?" "where are we supposed to go?" and I'm like "pay attention!" And people actually don't like me because I'm the type of person to tell them to pay attention or if they have a wrong count. I was at practice the other night and it took us 10-15 times to do 4 or 5 kick doubles because they were talking and missing the count and one girl looked at me and said ,"why is it so hard to go w/o music?" and I'm like "how hard is it to go w/ music? K told us to go with the music." I mean we've had this routine since august, the last thing we should be messing up with is counts. I always get these kind of remarks towards me. I mean we had a girl come to practice high once, and some come with hangovers and such. I hear all of the time "I don't wanna be here" "I hate cheering" and it makes me so frustrated. Also, one thing I don't like is that there are favorites in the gym. Some people get away with stuff that if I or some others did it, we would get in trouble. One girl always gets in trouble for not wearing shoes but another one NEVER wears them. Everyone has to take tshirts/pants/etc off but chosen few get to wear them. Some people never have to do extra tumbling at end of practice, they don't have to stretch, or anything. Another thing, I don't think we've done a full out all season yet, and we've had our routine since August. That's why we haven't hit at any of our competitions.
3. I think it's a waste of money that my family doesn't have. I live with my mom and grandparents. My mom doesn't work and it's sometimes hard to get the payments in. I forgot how much we payed in comp fees but it was more than it has been and we've been to 3 one day competitions and we don't have competition. I hate to know that my family pays for gas to drive 3-4 hours there, I don't compete against anyone, and drive 3-4 hours home in one day. The only big competition we're going to is Supernationals, rest are small rinky dink ones in which we probably won't have competition. I joined this team to compete, not perform. Deff not worth the money to go to. It would save my family loads of money.
4. I feel like I don't belong at practice. I only talk to the people in my stunt group, I don't talk to anyone personally on the team because I'm so much different than them. I think it's mostly because I'm more I guess focused than a lot of them and they don't like it when someone tells them they're wrong. I could obviously be replaced because when I had something I had to do and maybe miss one small town hillbilly competition w/ no competition, they talked about replacing me for stunts for the rest of the season. We've had TONS of people miss competitions for something and they got put right back in their spot, why am I different? I ended up not missing the competition anyways but still. Also, I was at practice the other day and I've always been a part of guy co ed stunts and we did a jay up thing. Well I come to practice and I get ready to go to the part and this other girl steps in and does it and when I asked about it nobody answered and I just thought that was really shady. I had a guy tell me that I had no right to say anything because I don't do anything in the routine. I know people talk about me and it's not that I care what people say, it's just I hate going to practice for that reason.
I want yalls honest opinions. I would wait to quit after our only big competition which is Supernationals, then the rest of the season is one days with no competition. I really love to cheer and it's been my life ever since I was in 2nd grade, but my gym just isn't enjoyable anymore. My family thinks it would be okay because they're honestly not too happy with them right now but I told them I'd wait til the end of the season but I really don't know if I can. The only thing they'd have a problem with is my flex group but hey, they've told me they could replace me before. I don't want anyone on the board who reads this to think I just want to get out of the commitment of cheerleading and that I'm trying to be selfish or anything. This is probably one of the hardest decisions I've ever had to make, so I want opinions from people with an open mind.
1. I'm a level 3/4 on a level 5 team, so I don't do anything except stunts and jump tucks. It really makes me feel like disconnected from the rest of the team when they're working on running/standing tumbling and I have to go over to the power rod. I try my hardest to get skills and I work hard but I just wish my gym offered a lower level teams.
2. I feel like I'm the only one who takes it seriously. People constantly come to practice 10-30 minutes late with no excuse and people just don't show up and they don't get in trouble. We need everyone there to do a routine and I honestly don't think we've had a practice with everyone here unless it was for choreography. Nobody wears the right practice clothes, which isn't a big deal but for me it's not hard to put on a black pair of shorts with a black tank. Don't come in wearing hot pink cheetah shorts and a blue top. We have a calender that says what to wear, wear it. There are some people who don't give an effort which holds everyone back. Constant talking while coaches are trying to tell us, I'm always hearing "what did he say?" "where are we supposed to go?" and I'm like "pay attention!" And people actually don't like me because I'm the type of person to tell them to pay attention or if they have a wrong count. I was at practice the other night and it took us 10-15 times to do 4 or 5 kick doubles because they were talking and missing the count and one girl looked at me and said ,"why is it so hard to go w/o music?" and I'm like "how hard is it to go w/ music? K told us to go with the music." I mean we've had this routine since august, the last thing we should be messing up with is counts. I always get these kind of remarks towards me. I mean we had a girl come to practice high once, and some come with hangovers and such. I hear all of the time "I don't wanna be here" "I hate cheering" and it makes me so frustrated. Also, one thing I don't like is that there are favorites in the gym. Some people get away with stuff that if I or some others did it, we would get in trouble. One girl always gets in trouble for not wearing shoes but another one NEVER wears them. Everyone has to take tshirts/pants/etc off but chosen few get to wear them. Some people never have to do extra tumbling at end of practice, they don't have to stretch, or anything. Another thing, I don't think we've done a full out all season yet, and we've had our routine since August. That's why we haven't hit at any of our competitions.
3. I think it's a waste of money that my family doesn't have. I live with my mom and grandparents. My mom doesn't work and it's sometimes hard to get the payments in. I forgot how much we payed in comp fees but it was more than it has been and we've been to 3 one day competitions and we don't have competition. I hate to know that my family pays for gas to drive 3-4 hours there, I don't compete against anyone, and drive 3-4 hours home in one day. The only big competition we're going to is Supernationals, rest are small rinky dink ones in which we probably won't have competition. I joined this team to compete, not perform. Deff not worth the money to go to. It would save my family loads of money.
4. I feel like I don't belong at practice. I only talk to the people in my stunt group, I don't talk to anyone personally on the team because I'm so much different than them. I think it's mostly because I'm more I guess focused than a lot of them and they don't like it when someone tells them they're wrong. I could obviously be replaced because when I had something I had to do and maybe miss one small town hillbilly competition w/ no competition, they talked about replacing me for stunts for the rest of the season. We've had TONS of people miss competitions for something and they got put right back in their spot, why am I different? I ended up not missing the competition anyways but still. Also, I was at practice the other day and I've always been a part of guy co ed stunts and we did a jay up thing. Well I come to practice and I get ready to go to the part and this other girl steps in and does it and when I asked about it nobody answered and I just thought that was really shady. I had a guy tell me that I had no right to say anything because I don't do anything in the routine. I know people talk about me and it's not that I care what people say, it's just I hate going to practice for that reason.
I want yalls honest opinions. I would wait to quit after our only big competition which is Supernationals, then the rest of the season is one days with no competition. I really love to cheer and it's been my life ever since I was in 2nd grade, but my gym just isn't enjoyable anymore. My family thinks it would be okay because they're honestly not too happy with them right now but I told them I'd wait til the end of the season but I really don't know if I can. The only thing they'd have a problem with is my flex group but hey, they've told me they could replace me before. I don't want anyone on the board who reads this to think I just want to get out of the commitment of cheerleading and that I'm trying to be selfish or anything. This is probably one of the hardest decisions I've ever had to make, so I want opinions from people with an open mind.