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As some of you know, I'm a cheerleader that's also a huge figure skating fan. In this past year, I have found some similarities between figure skating and cheerleading that are analogous to each other. And a few other/exact similarities. I've decided to post on similarities between them
That's all I can think of at the moment, but I'm sure there's more.
- In figure skating, when skaters are learning new jumps, they're in a harness with a person holding it and pulling them up when they jump. In cheerleading, when we're learning new tumbling, we have someone spot us on our thighs and back, or just the back.
- I compare cheerleading jumps and stunts to figure skating spins. Also I compare tumbling to figure skating jumps. How so? Well I've seen some novice and pre-noviceish protocols for competitions. And what I saw made me see a similarity: Although skaters at lower levels (novice and less) can do some of the exact same spins as junior and senior-level skaters, they can't quite do the same difficult jumps at all or the same level. And this reminds me that although in my high school cheerleading team, a lot of my teammates can do really complex stunts and some and do very good jumps, VERY few of them can do back handspring and fewer can do more than just a standing back handspring. In fact where I went to high school, if you had even just a standing back handspring, you were automatically on varsity because we needed as much tumblers as we could.
- Biellmann spins look like scorpions in a cheerleading stunt.
- Split jumps or Russian splits look like toe-touch jumps though the preps are different.
- Both sports have competitions.
- Both are judged sports in competitions.
- Guys can learn some tumbling and do them better than some girls just like guys can do harder jumps than girls in skating.
- Make-up can be heavy in both sports in competitions. In fact I remember when I took my sparkly make-up with glitter off my face, it took at least two makeup wipes to clean everything off.
- Under nerves, cheerleaders can undercut their tumbling or reduce the number of back handsprings they do, while some skaters might pop, UR or downgrade a jump.
- Usually the cheerleaders who start at a very young age are more likely to get at the best level and the same goes for skaters.
- Both sports use music for competition though in cheerleading we almost ALWAYS use use songs with lyrics and at least six different songs (A guess) and we make the mix and it's REALLY fast-paced, has sound effects (bells, whistles, a sound that sounds like someone cocking a gun, the sound of an arcade video game gun being fired (That's the only way I can describe one particular sound effect)), and some voiceovers. Figure skating, well we know. Starting to use more lyric songs.
That's all I can think of at the moment, but I'm sure there's more.
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