Is cheerleading half dancing and gymnastics?

Answer 1

Ah, that is a very common misconception. Honestly, it really depends on the type of Cheerleading (highschool or competetive) and the skill level. The competetive cheerleading teams tend to be a skillful mix of dancing and tumbling, but tend to be more related to gymnastics than dance because their routines have many difficult tumbling passes, jumps that are not included in dance, and individual tumbling skills. Highschool cheerleading tends to be more related to dance than gymnastics because most of the girls in the highschool level tend to be far less experienced. Generally speaking though, most mediocre cheerleading is a good half dance galf gymnastics. But the skill level can vairy widely from school to school. For example, the cheerleaders at my school don't even include any gymnastics in their routines because all of the girls are very inexperienced. But my cousin's highschool cheerleaders are at a competetion level. So all in all, you can't catagorize cheerleading as half dance half gymnastics, but then again you can.