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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Cheerleading has taken second fiddle to poms. In the last twenty years the less athletic have been on the cheerleading squad where the real performers now do poms.[/quote]

Huh? The level is insane. The cheer squads have way more pressure on them during the fall season. Cheer has to learn sideline cheers and their competition cheer, plus cheer at all football games (home and away) during the one season. My DD’s team practices 15 hours a week in addition to the football games. Poms only performs at the home games and doesn’t do their competition dance until the winter season. I think you must have a very dated view of cheer.

Both are great forms of exercise and competitive, but saying that cheer is behind poms is ridiculous. [/quote]

15 hours a week of practice is on par with what our Poms do. Also our Poms Squad performs for soccer and basketball. It isnt confined to football and is a true and active two season sport.

Fact is that these sports are very different. They have different rules and require different skills. One is not better than the other in terms of the sport but one might be more popular than the other in a particular school and hence train more and engage in more complicated routines. But that is about the school culture not the intrinsic nature of the sport. Both require a lot of practice, time and dedication. [/quote]
if schools put this kind of effort into academics, they win national Olympiads![/quote]

Exactly. That’s the reason I hesitate to let my DD try out poms.[/quote]

I don’t understand  this at all. Our kids have so much time on their hands. School is 6 hours. Sleep is 8 - we’d all like it to be more, but it’s not. That leaves a full ten extra a day on weekdays and 16 on weekends. Everyone can fit in 3 hours five days a week for practice and the every second or third week performance.

Thing about Poms is that by HS eligibility, the kids have been on dance, gymnastics and acrobatics teams for years and all of that required far bigger commitments. The kids who make the squad are more than ready for this commitment and more - as are the families.

And this is not unique to Poms. [/quote]

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