I just realized that I really have been overestimating humans, and it's obvious when one searches something online. I searched crumping, which is a (slightly incorrect spelling, but I was pulling it from hearing it somewhere) form of dance, and pulled up a whole lot of really nasty-sounding people who said a whole lot of stuff that just didn't seem very nice. Well.
Then I was searching cheerleading because I'm an ex cheerleader and I like to keep up on the times, and here's the urban-dictionary link that I came up with:
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Tell me that's not horrible! Now, I play rugby, which I'm sure everyone who's ever read any blog knows. And, admitted, it's a friggen hard sport to play. It causes people pain. But that doesn't mean anything. It's awesome, it's a sport.
I've also played baseball, which in my opinion, isn't a difficult sport. You don't need to be able to run, you don't need hand eye coordination; you need to be able to throw a fit and yell a little at the other team, and that's about it. I know, because that's how we play. Now, when you play seriously, like, where you're paying three hundred and fifty dollars to play on a shi...crappy team with nothing but whiney kids who complain because the last six pitches they threw were off., that's different. Now you're paying money to play a crappy sport.
Which I really do like, btw.
But when someone tells me that basketball is more of a sport than cheerleading, I can't help but laugh.
At them, not with them. Don't knock it till you try it. I'm telling you now, that it is one of the hardest sports I have EVER played, in my life. Not only do you need to be flexible, you also need to be able to count. How many football players can count?
Not that many, I know.
I danced for eight years, so I can count, but cheerleading is damn hard. You also have to smile like there's no tomorrow, and even when your school/team/ both suck, you have to cheer it on! You have to deal with practises that a basketball player would cry after, because you've just spent an hour standing on someone's hands. You've just run for long enough that breathing is a forgotten trick. You've just stretched so much that if your elbows aren't detatched, your spine sure as hell is.
Rugby is almost, but not quite, as bad.
And I don't think that any human being should knock something without trying it twice, because the first time might have been a fluke.
2 comments:
Isn't it the movie Bring it on that proves that once you try it you might actually like it? or that cheerleading can actually be sportlike, and be more competitive than any other high school sport? am i right? or am i right??
Well, sort of. But I noticed that a lot of the characters are really very stereotypical, and the situations are equally typical. Yeah, though, the girly character makes best friends with the crazy dude who loves the Clash and all that... and he's hot, and that's why I've seen the movie a billion and a half times (cough) but that doesn't matter.
Yeah, that's something that the movie was about, but I don't think that it was the biggest plot leader in the movie, which was the "learn for yourself and don't be a sheep" rule because Torrence finds out that their routines are all stolen ones... and... yeah.
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