Straits Times Reflection
Term 3 Week 3
2E/NA

In Section Page 8
3 Cheers for the Team


(a) Why is cheerleading an expensive sport?
(b) What makes cheerleading such a tough sport?

What is your opinion of cheerleaders? If given a chance, would you join cheerleading? Why/ why not?


Answers:
(a): I think it is a form of sport that requires art, skills and many other things, especially cost. Example, the uniforms and costumes can already cost a lot, the cheering staffs like 'pom poms', masks, flags, etc. It also requires much time and energy. Nowasdays, equipments for cheerleading like shoes, uniforms are expensive, therefore cheerleading is an expensive sport.

(b): Cheerleading requires skills, such as stunts, sumersalts, agility and many other forms of difficult skills. One must be brave enough to learn these as they are dangerous, fail, and one may become paralysed. Of course, those cheerleaders have failed before, but becouse of their resilience, they success. Cheerleading requires lots of practice in order to make their performence perfect, also to master their new moves and stunts.

I think that this cheerleaders are very compassionate, it is a difficult sport, but still, they perform with all their best. If I were given this chance, I might not accept it, not because I do not like challenges, but to me, it is one sport that can destroy one's future, because you will have to sacrifice time, energy and risk the dangers.