Sports Science Pits Football against Cheerleading
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- čas přidán 27. 11. 2009
- Sports Science wants to know which is the more dangerous sport, cheerleading or football - the results are astounding!! Read about more amazing athletic feats: www.amazon.com/Perfection-Poin...
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I hate how they only said "sideline cheer". What about competitive and all-star??
Thank God someone in the world knows about all-star cheer and makes a comment about it!
That's a thing? Wow
AngieYaee hi ikr! allstar is way way way more dangerouse than sideline.
Yes!!! If they did all star, football players wouldn't be over here still saying how this isn't even hard. + the impact would be much much greater
PrincessGraceloves1 been there done that, cheer is still more of a hobby compared to football
They should've done it on all star cheerleading instead of high school/college cheerleading
Cristian Perez ikr they just didn’t wanna show how hard all star cheerleaders work
I agree with both of you Christian and Beth I am an all star cheerleader too and I definitely agree with what you both are saying because it’s a lot harder than most people think it is and most people consider all star cheer to be just like school cheer for some reason I don’t know why because I’ve done both and they are way different also I’ve done football and football is soo easy like stupidly easy the worst thing that happened to someone on my team was like a twisted ankle but at cheer I have a friend who got a concussion, pulled a muscle in her shoulder, broke a finger, hurt her knee, and probably a few more things that I forgot about all in one cheer season!
Ikr
Thank youuuu
Ik😂
"or the cheerleaders on the sideline"
aCTUALLY IM A COMPETITION CHEERLEADER SO
emma corinne are you stupid he said sidelines not competitive god you are stupid
@@Ok-kf1pw Notice how nobody gives a shit
I don't believe sideline Cheer is a sport. I do however believe that competitive cheer is considered a sport, because it has a outcome with a score and placings
Thank you, someone guy has the decency to recognize all star cheerleading, you sur are going far in life
+Elizabeth Truong I was just about to say that though lol
mike sazeti I believe all cheer is a sport I broke my arm in a stunt
Elizabeth Truong u can’t be serious u think a requirement for going far in life is saying cheerleading is a sport how many chromosomes have u lost
Malique Lopez that’s cute
allstar cheerleading is even more so than this...
They literally got the crappiest cheerleaders carly mannings basket is HIGHER than that they basicly just showed a bad version of college cheerleading and not allstar wich is even more dangerous
Also it was a really shitty nfl player and obviously hitting the ground from 20 feet is gonna he worse
Still though. These are just ametures basically. It kind of puts stuff into perspective.
As someone who has fallen 15ft from a stunt and hit my head I can say it hurts, its dangerous and even my hockey friends cringe at the thought of what happened. And it was a stunt I've done many many time prior to the accident happening.
I think its horrible though that we sit there and compare sports constantly. Each has its own set of skills and athletic abilities required. I can tumble and fly but I cant handle a puck or catch a baseball. Where as some of my friends can do those thing but stunt or tumble is completely out of the question.
I would note though that ive done dance, gymnastics, cheer, hockey, soccer and basketball and only from cheer did I ever get injuries.
This is actually so good. Cheerleaders respect every other sport, why can't they respect ours? The things they say, say more about them and their sport than ours. Atleast we're respectable people who don't go trashing other people's passions
And as a lineman in football who plays both ways I can tell u football is worse lol
If they brung someone from nfl, they should've brung a cheerleader from smoed.
The football player was like 4th string, he was trash 😂
you are so correct right now
+Laila M for freaking real
Or any other Allstar cheer team
*brought
I've cheered for 2 years. I've seen people get hurt. Sadly, I was one of them.
What happened?
It's so funny how all the football players are mad because there's a sport more dangerous out there lol confuses me as to why they're upset and not happy
ohh so you have proof that it's more dangerous, could you tell me that proof?
Yo, but that happens once in a while a tackle is every play
Donnavan Dillon it’s not even a sport
@@ethanwisniewski9874 do you eve know the dangers of a back bridge alone
@@nolimitprof it is a sport
6:08 if you've never seen a hit that big you don't watch football
an episode dedicated to who can break his or her neck the easiest, great :)
They talking like my man Kassim is Ray Lewis lmao
And that was without the acceleration from the basket toss...
The acceleration up wouldn't have anything to do with the fall. On top of that you can clearly hear them say "let's raise this as high as it will go" which they did raise it to the ceiling. It was basically touching the ceiling.
And that’s whith out nfl players hitting so hard that if you hit someone wrong you can kill them
As an allstar (competitive) cheerleader myself (coed level 6), I found this test to be a bit bias, for lack of better word. Although both sides were talented, they got an unknown player and some random cheer team (who looks like a basic sideline team). I say, If they really wanted to test this out, they should have gotten an NFL player or a collegiate cheer team(or allstar coed 6; same thing). And I found it really annoying that they compared the football player to a sideline team. Sideline cheering is not a sport ! However, allstar cheerleading is. Yes there are football hits that are plenty harder than a cheerleader falling. Yes there are cheerleading falls that will cause more damage than a football players. Both sports are equally dangerous and both athletes train hard for their sports. What I think people tend to forget to, is that even though football players are tackled on purpose, at least you guys get protective gear. Imagine what it feels like to have the force of a human body falling on your head from 18-20 ft in the air, and that's not on purpose. And not every girl that goes in the air is tiny or small, there are some girls who are the same size as me(5'5" 130lbs) and sometimes the girls are even taller.
Protective gear and still hundreds of deaths and people getting paralyzed a year. The pads really don't do shit. Just saying.
lexicat Then don't wear them, we don't ...
Without their pads they'd have 5x as many injuries than you guys. Leaving your last option of self defense for your sport, gone.
lexicat So it would be like playing with their pads ?
STOP COMPARING ALLSTAR TO SCHOOL
right when they make me a flyer for level 5 I see this they're tellin me to do a kick double from a needle I was ok about it but now I'm like ehh...
Hahaha i know right!
But why are these two sports being compared? They're not even the same or close to being the same. They are both dangerous in their own ways. I just don't understand how you can compare two totally different sports to each other. Football is dangerous because other guys are running into each other and cheerleading is dangerous because the athletes are literally being thrown in the air and trusting their bases and backspot to catch them and they're also tumbling around which is also dangerous. These two sports should not be compared at all because they aren't even close to being the same.
well i think it's because there's been so many arguments with cheerleaders and football players. Apparently, (some) football players don't agree that cheer is a sport. They *people making the video* decided to see/prove that cheerleading is a sport and is very dangerous. But i agree with you on both sports are dangerous in their own ways :)
I completely agree!!! But i also don't approve of the way footballers treat cheerleaders, we respect their sport but they rarely seem to respect ours, which is hardly fair so i like that this video is a real push into reality for them
Difference is you don't fall every time in cheer. But you do get hit every play in football
You don't have to fall to get injured in Cheerleading. Cheerleading isn't just 'throwing people'
Gina Aria but you don’t always get hurt in cheer, you always feel the 1800 lb hit in football tho
We once had a girl who tried a basket toss and went about four feet forward. I have no idea what made those bases and her backspot run after her and catch her! My mind would have gone blank and our cheer coach just stood there in shock. Thank you to my bases and backspot, love you! (:
Thank you
This is an unrealistic scenario. There's always going to be an attempt at a catch. The attempted catch is going to reduce the impact significantly. If she's thrown in a way which would make an attempted catch impossible, then she's not going to reach the 18 feet that caused this impact.
Actually basket tosses travel a lot one little mistake can make the flyer end up landing feet away from the rest of the stunt group. So yeah
Alyssa Melendrez feet are not miles.. so yeah, its called stepping over a bit
Alyssa Melendrez you go girl. Tell him.
Alyssa Melendrez
You hit the ground with 2000lbs of force several times? I'm not saying cheerleaders don't fall. I'm saying they're not 2000lb impacts. The fact that it happened to you "plenty of times" and you're still functioning, proves my point.
look up 'tglc worlds 2014' the girls in the basket tosses go up OVER 20 feet while they twist
I could be entirely wrong, but I feel like a Cheerleader does not fall straight to the ground when they fall.... anyone on the base will try and catch them. wouldn't this reduce the impact of the fall? or at least distribute the force more evenly?
Yah they don't it all just depends who there bases and backspotter is and how skilled they r
Of course they try to catch them, otherwise they would all be paralyzed by now. The question is, what happens when something goes wrong and they don't get caught? They are not wearing any protective clothing like other sportsman, and the statistics from the video imply that it is not unlikely that stunts go horribly wrong.
they could be kicked in the face and fall to the floor themselves so are unable to be caught but on top of them falling they still have to do the rest of the routine football players go off the pitch but cheerleaders have to stay on only yesterday in practice a girl fell on my head but i still got back up of the floor and went on to the rest of the routine as that is what all cheerleaders would try to do depending on the injury. so the flyer is not always caught but the base will strive to catch them
Katja tdhudgas It doesn't imply that at all. There is more of a chance of someone putting their arm out (reducing the impact) when they fall than for them to fall straight down.
lexicat How on earth would you know that? How do you know how the chances are that someone catches them or at least tries to?
The question is, what would the worst possible outcome of an accident be?
How likely it is for this worst case scenario to appear, well, we would need to start a whole new survey for that.
Ok in a single fall there might be more impact force for cheerleaders. For football players though they have multiple hard hits throughout the game so both sports are punishing. Also one thing I thought of is I would think in 99% of falls in cheerleading wouldn't they maybe hit the people that are supposed to catch them. Meaning that they would slow down the impact for correct?
rockboy1138 thanks for uploading these vids I love them
Yeah but football hits like this happen every game, you don't see cheerleaders fall 18 feet every day
Xx Hunter xX it happens more often than you may think...
Mimi Ralph they usually have three people trying to catch them too.
usually 2, but you cant guarantee that the flyer will be caught every time
It happens more often than you think but it doesn't happen to the same people for an hour and a half straight
Uh yes actually sometimes you do.
They're are a lot more complicated cheer routines. Allstars
They did a fall from the ceiling of the cheerleader in a twisting motion. On top of that here will usually be bases there to lower the force of te fall. Inaccurate excitement is all this is.
yes and i actually do play football i just think its more common and easier to find people who can catch run and tackle than people who can tumble stunt and dance
Can't wait for cheer try outs👍🏾
Honestly we fall a lot wen trying to learn new things tucks fills etc. and a lot of the team members get small fractures dislocations etc but are enforced to keep going...the only time we stop is if some extremely awful happens ie severe concussions or breaks! So if you comparing it in that sense I would say competitive cheerleading is just as and or
More dangerous that football
No
Well as seeing I taking classes for Ned school Id think I have a fairly good basis to comment on this with my current knowledge
+Shannon Hibner your opinion isn't valid until you play football
+FiveStar Dcuo in that case none of your opinions are valid until you try cheerleading
FiveStar Dcuo uh I did in high school for a little also I have helped rehabilitate multiple football players so I think I know what im speaking about
Tbh anyone can tackle someone throw a ball or run up and down a field but I don't think anyone could do a back tuck or a layout or a full sooo......
anyone? are you kidding me.. do you even play football.. you go on a field and run on a field with 11 guys that want to lay your ass out. I bet you couldn't do that
Most people can't throw a ball 90+ feet, which is small for athletes and catch a ball 60+ mph thrown at you. It's not web that fast but I bet you can't do it
Okay can you block somebody for 4-7 seconds who their only goal is to get by you...how about tackling somebody when they're actually running and their goal is to go through you.... If you go against somebody in football their job is to get by you or go through you and they will do it by any means necessary as long as it's within the rules sometimes it's not even within the rules.... On paper it looks easy but everything on paper looks easy except it's not that easy when you do it in real life.... Believe it I'm on the o-line in high school...which means every single play I'm hitting the guy across from me and every single play he's hitting me back... I don't play one of those pretty positions where i don't get hit every single play...no I play a position where I get hit every single play and sometimes in high school you play two ways.... Football is harder just deal with it...
Donnavan Dillon i actually would enjoy to see your “back tuck” head ass bet flattened by a 3rd string quarterback
This video's more about who can get injured more rather than showing how hard each sport is
Wow. its about time someone did this indepth look.
so its ok for everyone to say cheerleading is easy and not a sport but as soon as we say it about football its wrong? if people let us get on with our sport it wouldnt be like this, we respect your sport why can't you respect ours?
Hypocrite.
Lol but fb is obvi a sport so you're just whining😂
Comp cheer=sport but sideline cheer=no way is a sport 😂
i didnt say sideline cheer was a sport it just bothers me when someone says cheer is easy but if you said football was easy it would be a fkn riot.
Were not saying that it's easy bc trust me I did gymnastics and it's not easy but do you have some sometimes twice your size and strength hitting you with no freaking mercy and then having it happen like 1000 times a game. Sooooo yeah but I love doing it lol😂😂😂
The cheerleading one wasn't nearly accurate. There's going to be people there at least trying to catch her which will soften the blow immensely. And the guy from the football test was tiny for a football player, let one of the linebackers come at you like that. Let's enter at least some realism here.
Shoulder pads reduce impact by about 50%
Jamar Manning Yes and they did this test with shoulder pads on. And someone trying to catch you reduces it even more.
jamal bethune most football impacts are over 4000 pounds of force
Ryan Hunter Which more so makes my point doesn't it
jamal bethune yes it does
well time to go to practice and work on baskets terrified now
Guys, instead of arguing about which ones harder can we just agree that we are all hard working athletes and move on.I mean your only as good as the effort you put in.
No, because the guys refuse to think that girls can play a sport that is as difficult as football..
Elizabeth Ward That's their arrogance not the sport.
BecomeB I haven't really played football but I do both girl's flag football and allstar cheerleading so here's what I have to say. In football or at least flag, you are most dependent on throwing a 15-20 pound ball (i think that's accurate in girl's flag football in high school, right?) and expected to catch it, run, pull someones flag, and/or score a touch down. In cheerleading (at least in highschool competitive, allstar, college, sometimes pop warner) you are expected to throw someone who is possibly 100-130 pounds (depends and varies) and catch it. Along with that, you have to preform a perfect 2:30 minute routine that includes stunts,tumbling,jumps,pyramid, and a dance. I know that doesnt sound very "difficult" but it is when you actually try the sport because most teams make it look extremely easy when it's not. We practice 3 hours, 4 times a week just have a perfect 2:30 minute routine. This all takes a lot of practicing and training so that means we are constantly throwing 100-130 lbs people, tumbling, dancing, and doing jumps (which take a lot of core and ab strength to do). Just think of it this way, a cheerleader's practice is probably equivalent to a footballer's game, every competition however are the same as the super bowl.
No they should have had the same weight as the actual girl in the air and still have the boys throw the dummy up I call bull shit
Also the dummies they use to be tackled didn't look heavy. And the hit was a concentrated blow vs the floor that's not.
+I made this channel just to comment what side r u on
Brandon Marrs they used the height that they could throw the actual girl, which was 18 feet. I'm sure they could've thrown the dummy higher
real cheer isn't even a sideline sport
Now a days sideline cheer teams also compete as well.
Thank you!
kcutie440 this is extremely biased
You should've gotten a really known team from all star cheerleading. All star is the hardest thing I've ever experience
Well then they should have brought in Ray Lewis.... and I really wish they would have cuz that would have proven how much harder football is...
Cheerleading isn't really a sport..
ATTA boy
Yes it is
Josiah Bouie not really
It kinda is it contain more activity than" spots" like tennis
Josiah Bouie Not really. Also anything that the end result is just someone's opinion shouldn't be a sport, i.e. body building, figure skating, rhythmic gymnastics and snowboarding.
people keep saying its rigged like we throw 100 pound girls in the air and you throw 2 pound footballs. your just jealous that its more dangerous than football btw we actually catch them too
Emma CheerGirl why tf would we be jealous
Emma CheerGirl Try throwing me in the air lol. You girls fall on padded mats calm down. I'd rather fall on the mat then get slammed by a linebacker
😂😂😂💀💀💀
Bcuz u throw 2 lb footballs and we catch 100 lbs girls😂😂😂
Btw we can catch a football too 😂😂😂😂💀💀💀
Quentin's spear-4800 lbs
Georges St.Pierre punch-2700 lbs
Kassim's spear-1800 lbs
Lateef Crowder's kick-1800 lbs
Cheerleader's drop-2000 lbs
im a cheerleader and i think that both of football and cheer are sports and dangerous:)
well ya how often do cheerleaders fall? and how often do tackles happen in football? like once every minute? you can't compare these two and football is way more dangerous
Have you ever watched a cheer practice? Or gone to a competition? Falls like this happen all the time! Trust me, i would know.
Brogan McHugh tell me this, why do people do this if they try to argue how much they're going to get hurt, no one besides cheerleaders actually care about cheerleading, why take that kind of risk for a sport no one cares about? Also he's right these kinds of hits happen in almost every play, but cheer leaders, you cannot say that these falls happen this often there would be a lot more injuries if they did.
I'm not saying football isn't, all i'm saying is that its unfair people who know nothing about cheerleading assuming that we never fall of get hurt, im a flyer and am currently writing this comment with a bruised eye haha :-) they're both difficult sports, both dangerous but i dont think you can compare them as they are completely different :) *****
Cheer isn't a sport
Robert Goldman that's your opinion and i respect that
Firstly, this video is stupid! They picked a cheer squad with the same skill level as a High School team and a special teams football player. Lol!!!! Secondly cheerleaders do wwwwaaaaayyyyy more risky skills to obtain injury. All Football players do is run at each other with extreme speed and hit with extreme force. Cheerleaders throw other cheerleaders with extreme force and catch them in extreme speeds without any protection; these girls wear nothing but a shirt and skirt.They also tumble with extreme force and speed. So it totally makes sense that cheerleading has way more dangerous then football. Id like to see every football player who says no way to cheerleading being more dangerous then football to gather up four dudes and try doing all the stunts and tumbling passes that cheerleaders do. Lets see how easy it comes to you guys. Also, for all you who don't know the definition of a sport, here it is: Sport- an activity involving physical exertion and skill in which an individual or team competes against another or others for entertainment. That sounds like Cheerleading to me!
here's what I want you to do look up the Peyton Hillis Sports Science and just watch and then picture in your mind him running at you at full speed and his end goal is to go through you..... And then look up the Ray Lewis Sports Science and then picture him running at you for Speed coming to tackle you then come back and tell me how cheerleading is harder again..
The cheerleaders who throw them up are boys
I'm a football player my self, and i have huge respect for cheerleaders... Y'all have more guts than I've got!
Why thank you
Did not expect that result.
This is rigged the people would have been trying to catch her
Yah "TRYING" sometimes they DONT
+Marissa Chavez but they would of broken her fall
that's right
Ya I mean they did not have the right exact set up cause in a stunt the bases and back spots will do anything to Catch the flyer. But also again they could had of been thrown back and the bases could not catch them. But still cheer is a sport no sideline cheer maybe but AllStar so is. We throw 100 pound girls you throw 2 pound balls. We can drop with 2,000 pounds of course you can with 1,000 and something. Take hint people!
lmao
Everyone can do football soo... Cheerleading will always be "mind over matter," while football is just football.
Anyone can play football. Not evryone can be good at football. It's the same for cheer
You have no clue how much more skill, strength, endurance, and so much more football takes.
+Romtin Kharrazi still not as hard as cheerleading
+Yasmine Scholte please shut up you don't know what you're talking about obviously. I'm in competitive cheer but I'm still not dumb enough to think it is harder than football. Cheer is more technical while football is more strength
nice bait
sideline cheer should be considered a sport! I'm in my high school cheer team, and we do elevators, extensions, Baja flips, liberties
, and basket tosses. Two of our flyers are out for leg injuries. one has a full leg cast/brace, and the other is on crutches. I have actually gotten a concussion from bracing the fall of a flyer for a basket toss, cause my head took the impact. We're doing competition next year, so I don't get why people are saying sideline cheer shouldn't be considered a sport.
Isabella Schabell-Barrera they mean the kinda side line cheer that dont stunt or tumble.
Isabella Schabell-Barrera I’m a lineman for my football team. In 4 years I have had 4 concussions, 2 bone fractures, A tooth fell out, and 8 wrist injuries
Wow. Just wow. So much force.
These comments make me question women's rights and realize why they didn't have them in the past
Why
Cheerleading is way harder than football and we do it without padding. Think about the risk you take every time you get thrown in the air. There is a likely chance that you could come back down and get a major injury. You through 2 pound balls we through 100+ pound humans. Let's switch places and see what happens. The football players won't make it back.
Omg your spelling...
U won't last a week of football. Getting hit, weights, conditioning. And if all u have to do is catch people and can't even do that with 4 or 5 other people helping u then that's really sad
megatron #1 We get hit and we do conditioning, there's no need for weights, we have people. There is two other people trying to help you catch the flyer, another base and a back spot. I want to see you go to a cheer practice and see what happens. If a cheerleader did football for a day they'd be bruised, if a football player did cheerleading for a day they'd be DEAD
Are you talking cheerleaders against football players or just switch positions, and we have to use padding because if you get git like this without padding you'll die, we get hit like this every single play that were in, you guys don't fall 18 feet straight t the ground every single time you're thrown up in the air, and there's only one person on the field that throws a football and he's throwing the football while trying not to get hit like this, cheerleading would barely even be known without football
Maggie Laurx bullshit, if we put a cheerleader in the middle of our football practice and put her up against 1500 pounds of force every single play for around a couple hundred plays a day you're not bruised, you're broken, you have boys that lift weights that throw you up in the air so stood bragging that you guys train so hard to throw 100 pound girls in the air
I think that instead of testing a mistake in a stunt, they should have tested the amount of force that tumbling takes.
Not as much as even the smallest football hits
+FiveStar Dcuo don't doubt that, a lot of people have been paralyzed or broken a neck from tumbling
I am going to go over some things...
1. They used a non professional cheer team, TGLC cheerleaders, or SMOED cheerleaders would have thrown an even higher basket.
2. People say "at least someone would have tried to catch her" But there is a blind spot, because if the bases cant catch her at the right time, she has already rotated into a position where she folds in half, and would have fallen through the cracks.
3. These accidents happen often because football hasent become harder as time goes on, its the same game now, as it was when it was invented, but every year, cheer difficulty gets higher, its all about who can do the most, so we learn a new stunt, and immediately move onto a harder one, causing more mistakes to happen.
I think football because look at football they have about 1000-2000 people die from injury every year. Um how many deaths were there in cheerleading every year.
Were you not even listening? Way more than that.
PrincessGraceloves1 cheerleading cant be more dangerous than football
aartisan44 you have no idea man.
3,500 for cheer every year in allstar division only there are two more 🖕🏻
A little over 3,000 if I'm not mistaken. And that number increases every year because our competition scores entirely depend on coming up with new, original, exciting things which generally translates to being increasingly dangerous.
Some of these comments tho. Why are guys always trying SO HARD to prove cheerleading isn't a sport, isn't tough, etc? I'm sorry but I spent many years cheering and my daughter cheers now. Her middle school team conditions with weights...harder and longer than our football team. And my tiny 90 lb daughter beat the entire football team in a pushup contest when she was only in 7th grade...and had strepp at the time. Give me a break. Go ahead and talk about how tough football is. I KNOW it is. But why do you have to make yourselves feel bigger and better by putting someone else down? I don't constantly degrade football players because I want to make myself and my preferred sport seem better/tougher. Grow up, little boys.
Then your guys football team is made of a bunch of pussies
Test them against Australian football. Wouldn't stand a chance
This was a well put together comment until the bigoted bullshit at the end. Don't be a hypocrite and insult us when you want us to not insult you.
+OZZIE TYSON00 so true also put them up against Samoa or New Zealand or Fiji or any other islander team
dang you ugly as fuck
i read this article in class and literally everyone in the class said cheer isn't a sport and i was literally so angry i was about to scream
It is true
@xparadoxyxz: why isn't it a sport huh? Please explain. What sport do YOU play? Are you a bench warmer?
Cheerleaders move out the way! Im trying to watch the damn game!
I hate how the guys are trying to prove there sport is more dangerous. It was just proven that cheer is more dangerous and this isn't even real cheer. Allstar is 10x harder and more dangerous. You guys through a 4lbs ball not a 110 pound person
I'm calling troll on this one. No way this is real.
There is also probability young lady. Or should I dumb it down for you, you are more likely to get hit in football then fall in cheer.
Nate Mcnally not all girls who do cheerleading are flyers :) there's bigger chance of a base to get hit by a girl going 20 mph (i think thats accurate?) and just by not catching her properly, us bases (and even backspots) can get hurt. you can also say that in cheerleading or just anything that involves tumbling, you can fall just from not landing properly. most cheerleaders just tore their acl when this happens, some dont even get injured depending on the difficulty of the skill that you are trying execute. just thought this might help in some sort of way :) but either way i think both sports are dangerous but different so theres no reason to compare the two.
It HASN't been proven that cheer is harder. So thanks and good bye.
Nate Mcnally Possibly, but when cheerleaders do fall it has a worse impact and more chance of fatal, injury, as proven in the video, then again i see atleast 10 cheerleaders every competition get injured and i've seen probably my entire squad get severely injured atleast once during practice, so your statement isn't necessarily true. But also ***** has a point that bases and backspots can get injured from stunts but also all cheerleaders are at risk in tumbling. Even jumps and dance can be dangerous if you land wrong or pivot your foot in the wrong direction which could lead to a torn ACL or Achilles Tendon which are both serious injuries, not so much fatal but are nonetheless incredibly serious.
"That was a big hit. I don't think I've seen a football hit... that big" LOL cheerleaders.
THANKYOU FOR THIS. to the people who say cheer isn't a sport, you can do one!
comparing an accident in a sport to a basic action in a sport doesnt work lol. All these people saying "oh let the football players attempt to even try cheerleading". Ok do it, but now I'd like to see the girls playing football, getting hit by guys every play lol. If you cant take it dont dish it.
im a cheerleader. im also a better football player then the boys i cheer for
that sounds like a problem your school needs to fix lol
Cody Tanksley Your comment literally made me laugh out loud
But if girls were playing football, they'd be playing against other girls, who, most likely weigh less and have a lower force, so if we 'tried' it, it's not going to cause us as much damage as you might think, because we're up against something of equivalent force, as are boys on boys. Cheerleading is the force of a human body against a hard surface below, which completely outweighs the force of the athlete. Cheerleaders go up against a harder 'enemy' when at risk of injury.
Also, these accidents, do actually happen, more often than not. In the past 2 months i've already seen 3 girls fracture their spines and probably near a 100 more minor injuries, it is likely that atleast 1 fatal injury and multiple minor injuries will happen at every cheerleading competition (Allstar Cheerleading) :)
Gina Aria If you watch football for 3 months, how many times do players get hit?
Girls getting mad tho... thinking cheer is more dangerous than football. Yes, it is dangerous, but if they didnt make mistakes as often, there would be less injuries. football, you get hit EVERY play. Cheer is nowhere near as tough as football, and never will be.
Please, football has armor on.
Let's not forget footballers wear helmets and padding, cheerleaders don't.
Mikko Argonza yeah but not every cheerleader is in "danger" only the flyers, ever football gets hit every play therefore everyone is in "danger".
The bases in cheer are in danger too, I've had a girl drop on my head before from a height and that really hurt
would you rather have that happen or a 250 lb ray lewis bull rush?
everyone says that cheerleading is based on judges opinon so you don't beat anyone, but so is gymnastics, trampolining, figure skating and ice dance to name a few.
i think this video isn't the best way to compare cheerleaders vs football players. some things to take into account in the "is cheer a sport" debate is the athleticism, difficulty, and endurance you need to get through the routines that competitive (not sideline) cheerleaders must do. this video almost continues the stereotype of cheerleaders being on the sidelines, although still dangerous, but doesn't inform people on the whole entire world that cheerleading is. this is why you see all the comments by football players invalidating how dangerous it is, when their only knowledge of the sport is that they cheer on the sidelines, throw people, etc. when it is in fact, much more than this, especially when talking about all star cheerleading.
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Nobody knows about all star- we are stereotyped as the ones cheering for them with pom poms when really competitive cheerleading is nothing like that
Im pretty sure golf is more dangerous than cheerleading
mcclellangarrett lol
Garrett Mcclellan u wish
Garrett Mcclellan tru
Garrett Mcclellan shut up you idiot. Are you on cheer? All star cheer? No, you're only into the over glorified game of football
Garrett Mcclellan nope
@XParadoxyzX have you ever done it?
@POQUOSONQ2 Right, and my point is why would you do this test with NOBODY catching you when that doesn't seem to happen in cheerleading..?
@CharliesAngelsAMMKD are there judges?
you cared enough to respond ;)
And this is why you respect your bases
Kyle Hyman, being the child of a football coach from ages 9 to 15 didn't hurt my understanding of the sport too much. neither did the fact that I watch the sport and every male in my family has/is played/playing. your assumption that I know nothing about football because I'm a cheerleader is a bit ignorant.
I'm a cheerleader, but i actually love watching football on TV. I hate when they assume we're stupid girls in provocative clothing waving pom poms with no brains. Most of us are actually pretty smart
@@GinaAria and i hate it when they make football players look dumb too lol
A girl my cheer coach used to know flew backwards in a basket toss and hit so hard that she had a traumatic brain injury that caused he to lose all her memory and I’m pretty sure be hospitalized for the rest of her life
I think there both about even I think it just depends of how high u fall from a stunt or how skilled the stunt group is and how hard u get tackled playing football
i never loled so hard at a video
I have, many times. So incredibly easy.
I'd like to see you try do return ONE punt in a serious game, just one.
I can understand some people's opinions and what not about cheerleaders since I have been hearing those rude and nasty comments since I was about five years old. Cheerleading is a sport in both Canada and The United States, saying and not recognizing cheerleading as a sport is almost equal to saying football isn't a sport. It has been proven that having a cheer team on the side lines of football games actually encourage fans and most times the players on the field.
While cheer leading receives 200 lbs more force, injury's like that don't happen often. The only other injuries are pulled muscles and fractured bones. Someone being tackled with that power in football happens every kick off
that bone crunching sound effect, lol.
Ray Lewis made a hit with 2200 pounds of force in another sports science episode.
well, you better not mess up
It’s frustrating that this is a genuine discussion. Football is obviously harder,And I’m including football cheerleading and competitive cheerleading.I’m so frustrated that someone thinks more risky means harder.Also if those cheerleaders actually fall from that height without being caught it means that the cheerleaders didn’t do their job right,which really isn’t that hard when they have about 4 people to catch a person.It’s easier to mess up in football because it’s actually player v player,meaning that football players have to take big hits way more often than cheerleaders do.
@CharliesAngelsAMMKD are the judges the only ones who decide the winner?
I'm honestly happy about this because now I have a better chance of my mom letting me play football
@fenderboy2012
since when do federal judges make calls about sports?
it happened on the orlando magic stunt team just this november
i’m not here to defend either side but the science behind the crash test dummy being dropped to the ground from being held straight up wouldn’t even match fully because it hasn’t gained the same momentum as being thrown upwards force and then coming back down. the actual test would gain even more force technically
If they would bring an nfl football player, they should bring John Lynch. One of the greatest, feared tacklers of all time
This video is pretty cool :) I feel bad for the test dummy xD
So when I'm at cheer practice the injuries I get are broken arm, broken ankle, broken wrist, broken fingers, and a concussion, plus I almost broke my leg.
At football I almost broke my neck, got 2 concussions, broke my ankle, tore my acl, broke my ankle, broke both my wrists at once almost got paralyzed, almost broke my hip, and fractured something in my leg, with pads on, what sounds more dangerous
Omg this is 10 years ago
ahhhh...this is gonna make me fear competition practice for a week cause were doing a star kick basket toss with a twist in it......
I’m a cheer leader and support this in every way but a tackle in football happens more often
How Ricardo Arona survived the slam without a damn scratch, I have no idea.
It’s funny that people think cheer leading is hard it’s mostly memory and barely muscle
The biggest difference here is that in cheerleading they are trying to not drop somebody. In football they are trying to smash them the hole time
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Yea so basically football you are more likely to get injured and do that stuff on purpose but with cheer that only happens when they make a mistake but the mistake can lead to more serious injuries
LOL @ the cheerleaders acting like that totally non-dramatic test was shocking.