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area of the mat or they will be disqualified or points will be deducted from their scores. In a Basketball game or a Football game you can have overtime, but in cheerleading, when you’re in a competition, you have three minutes and fifteen seconds or less to do a whole routine. Guidelines have to be followed, just like any other sport. Athletes lift weights, which cannot be as heavy as a flyer who is lifted in full extensions for two minutes or more, by one or more females. I would love to see a football or basketball player throw someone in the air, watch them spin and catch them on beat. It is not as easy as it seems. To do back hand springs, it takes time and training. Cheerleaders do not just learn the flips and tricks they do over night. Just like a baseball player doesn’t know how to hit a ball with a bat over night. Nothing is overnight. No SPORT is learned over night! It takes true physical training and dedication to do a stunt or a lift. Not two seconds, the amount of time it can take to learn how to throw a football. IN any sport, things can go downhill and take a turn for the worse. If you don’t know how to lift someone in the air properly, then they can fall and break something. I know from personal experience in middle school. Just like a football player, a cheerleader can get a shoulder injury or a torn ACL (anterior cruciate ligament). Cheerleading injuries are two times more severe than in other sports because cheerleaders don’t wear any protective gear. Also mats aren’t used, because most cheerleading teams have no funding. You cannot buy something with no money; sometimes you wish you could but truth is you can’t. Cheerleading consists of lots of physical activity. Just like gymnasts, cheerleaders must learn how to tumble. Cheerleaders lift teammates in the air, throw them up and catch them. Most Football players can’t lift one of their team mates. On ESPN they have shown cheerleaders in competitions. ESPN is a sports channel, Right? I believe ESPN stands for “Entertainment and Sports Programming Network”. Keyword Sport! Now if cheerleading isn’t a sport then why do cheerleading competitions air on ESPN? Now come on ESPN is the number one sports channel. So I believe that if cheerleading is shown on ESPN, then it is a sport no matter what anyone says. pics
Annimation, It's Real. Myles Brock What is animation? Oxford dictionary defines it as the state of being full of life or vigor; liveliness. This describes the way I look at it perfectly. Animation, to me, is just that. Making life of anything! Your wildest imagination in plain sight. It can be as basic as drawing on a flip book, or as advanced as CG animation used in our favorite films, shows and videos today. In my opinion, Animation is the most magnificent production tool ever created, and with the right tools, anyone can broadcast their thoughts vividly through it alone. Most people see animation and think "This isn't real," but that's just it, it is. When you're watching a movie, Marvel's: The Avengers, for example. The visuals in that film are just stunning. The Heroes some people only saw in comic books actually there, with personalities. Anyone with common sense knows that Marvel's comic book superheroes aren't real, and they aren't really in New York City fighting Loki, the Norse God of Mischief and his Alien army, but in that hour or so the film is on, you're seeing it! We all know the saying, "I'll believe it when I see it." Well, you're seeing it. My Interest in animation started very early. Growing up, I was on the internet a lot, like most of my generation. When I was 12 or 13 years old, I discovered Flash. For those who don't know, Flash is a very popular animation software that's used professionally and domestically. Some examples of shows that are made with Flash are Bob's Burgers, launched by 20th Century Fox; Ugly Americans, launched by Comedy Central; Total Drama, Johnny Test, and Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends, all launched on Cartoon Network, and various others. I found Animation on Youtube. Flash to be exact. I started with leisure animations that weren't really serious. I'd maybe show some friends and that's all, but after months of steady improvement and encouragement from friends and family, it became a hobby that I would love to have a career doing. When I first found out about animating, I didn't think of it as a career. It was always something I did when I had free time. There was one project, though, that I was working on for about 3 weeks - the longest animation I'd ever made at that point - about 6 minutes of a ninja stick figure fighting other stick figures. I showed it to my Dad and he suggested that I post it somewhere, so I uploaded it to Youtube. This was the point where animation became serious. This was the first time I actually got feedback, both positive and negative. This also lead to me watching other people's animation much more, and lead to me animating more and putting much more thought into my animations. I started joining different Animation forums, like Fluidanims and Stickpage; Animation became the most time consuming hobby I'd ever had. I met some amazing people who helped me reach a potential I had no idea I had. After a while, I became the guy teaching new guys how to animate. I learned the software inside and out and began producing animations way beyond my original expectations. After about 2 years of animating, I decided that I loved it, and I want to do it for the rest of my life. My 1st college choice would be Full Sail University. "Full Sail’s Computer Animation program was designed to prepare you for a career in this exciting field. By expanding your abilities as an artist and learning the latest tools, applications, and design theory used to create 3D content for different media, you’ll not only be able to take your art in new directions, but also put your skills to work realizing – and sometimes even improving – the creative vision of others." (http://www.fullsail.edu/degrees/computeranimation-bachelors) I'd love to attend Full Sail, but it's in Florida and I don't know if I can afford it. My second choice is
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