Boy Cheerleaders

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Tomorrow night on BBC2 at 9pm is a programme called Boy Cheerleaders; this is the link to the BBC site:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00vd7q4

I am certain this will give some of the writers on the site ‘food for thought’ as it were.

Love to all

Anne G.

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Not what I was expecting...

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That wasn't quite what I was expecting to see... One of my cousins was a male cheerleader at his University. But, there, the guys are there for strength - lifting the girls, throwing & catching them... Yeah, the do some acrobatics too, but they don't tend to use pompoms and such...

Having played football in High School (breaks to the collar bone are what kept him from playing college football), he said that it was far easier for the make cheerleaders to get dates with the cheerleaders than the football players - because they didn't stink after a football game and they almost never were in pain and such. LOL

Interesting that guys can be let to do the "other" style cheer leading in the UK.

Anne

More on the squad

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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-11488546

Europe's only troupe of boy cheerleaders can be found on a tough housing estate in Yorkshire. What's more - they've just picked up a trophy at the National Cheerleading Championships. About 40 boys turn up every week, and the boys groups are broken down into three to six-year-olds, seven to 11-year-olds and 12 to 15-year-olds. The squad - 16 boys between the ages of eight and 14 - put in a good 12 hours a week training, even more in the lead up to a competition.

There's a 99 second video on the site to give you a taste of the boys in action...

 

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