April is a big and important month!!

This up-coming month is a crazy month for cheerleaders. April 7th to the 10th are NCA Nationals which take place in Daytona Beach, Florida every year. This competition is for college cheeleading teams. I have never been before but now I finally have the chance to go since I live in florida now. After NCA Nationals is the Cheerleading Worlds and that takes place two weeks after NCA in Orlando, Florida. the team that I used to cheer on got a bid to go, so I am VERY excited to go and watch them compete!!! This video is of my team at a different competition. They are trying to get in as much practice as they can before worlds!

NCA Nationals

NCA Nationals is the second biggest competition, besides the cheerleading worlds. NCA stands for Nations Cheerleading Association. This competition is taken place in Dallas, Texas. It is one of the hardest competitions but one of the funnest. It is pretty much a preview of Worlds because the teams that usually go to Worlds get their bids at NCA Nationals. The competition is being held on February 26-27 2011. Im going to be at that competition cheering my teammates on.

Cheer Dynamics

Cheer Dynamics used to be the all star team that everyone had to be on. Everyone knew everyone and the coach staff was so much fun. I used to be on Cheer Dynamics and eventually everyone moved from there to Full House, which is the team I am on now. The reason everyone moved from Cheer Dynamics to Full House is because two of the best coaches there got into a very big argument that still hasn't been settled to this day. So my coach now, Jason Manhart, opened up Full House all stars, and sure enough mostly everyone followed. Cheer Dynamics was one big family that moved to a different location and has a new name. Now, Cheer Dynamics doesn't exist anymore and Full House is having its biggest year yet! The picture above is a picture of two of the teams at a competition for Cheer Dynamics.

Top Gun Unlimited Co-ed 2009 Worlds Best View

Victor Rosario, in my eyes, is the best cheerleading coach ever. Him and his wife are such amazing and driven people. there ability to coach is unbelievable and I admire them a lot. Victor, is the coach and owner of Top Gun all stars, the best all star team in the world. This team has won worlds every year in the unlimited co-ed division, so he must be doing something right. Aside from coaching, Victor and his wife, along with other staff, go all around the world hosting clinics at other gyms, helping them become more talented and showing them different techniques that he uses for his teams to become better. I don't think there is any other coach that is as talented as him. This video is of his unlimited co-ed team at worlds in 2009.

Risk of Injury

My all-star team in 2007

Cheerleading really is a dangerous sport. You can get hurt very easily considering I tore my ACL tumbling. You can break any bone in your body pretty much and you can mess up some of the organs inside of your body as well. Now they are starting to make different kinds of braces to wear over your chest so that when or if you fall out of a stunt or when you are caught in a cradle, you don't land on your stomach and mess up organs inside or hurt your ribs/back. You can get doing anythings in cheerleading. You can hurt yourself tumbling, stunting, running, jumping, or even dancing. People don't understand the risks people take and that it takes skill to do everything, all while trying not to hurt yourself.

What It Takes To Be Cheerleading Coach

My coach Jason and I at Worlds in Orlando

To be a cheerleading coach, the first thing that you need is experience or knowledge because you need to know what your talking about to be able to coach a cheerleading team. Being a coach takes hard work, determination and patience. If you don't have any of those qualities then your team probably wont succeed the way you would want it to. I admire my coaches so much because they put so much time and effort into each individual as well as the team. You want to be dedicated to your team, have fun with them and not hate any part of your job. If you don't like the sport and hate what your doing, then being a cheerleading coach isn't for you. Jason Manhart is my all-star coach. I admire him so much. I've known him for 7 years and I consider him as a father figure. He has done so much for me and has helped me out so much with a lot of different things. I know that he will always be there for me along with his wife Tiffany, whether it has to do with cheerleading or if it is something going on in my personal life. He has influenced me so much and i hope one day I gain some of the great qualities he has. You need to be a true fan of cheerleading to be a coach and love all of your athletes.

The CheerLeading Worlds

The Cheerleading Worlds is the biggest competition in all-star cheerleading. It is held in Orlando Florida every year during April vacation. My all-star gym has gone the past 4 years. The only way that you can compete at this competition is if you get some kind of bid, which means you have to go to another competition where they give out the bids, compete and if you do good and meet a certain score, then you get a bid to go. Competing at the cheerleading worlds is the scariest/ best thing ever because all the teams that you are up against are really really good, so therefore your team wants to do really good so that you can beat some of these teams. This competition gives bids out all over the world. Teams come from all over the place like Jamaica, Australia, France, China, Japan, etc. It is so cool to see teams from all over compete and see all the cool new stuff that you have never done or seen before that is popular in other countries. Since I am not on an all-star team down here at school, I won't be able to compete, but I am definitely going to watch. Being able to compete and watch The Cheerleading Worlds the past 4 years has been one of the best experiences of my life.


This is a link of a team that won The Cheerleading Worlds for Unlimited Coed Level 5, Top Gun All-stars.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HxtdQlGeWz8