지금의 진로와형편이 ...

Tennessee cheerleaders perform at the 2006 Southeastern Conference basketball tournament,

during a game against South Carolina, Friday, March 10, 2006, at the Gaylord

Entertainment Center in Nashville, Tenn. (AP Photo/John Bazemore)

농구경기장 치어리더들의 응원 모습이다. 선정선동섹쉬에서 이런 엄청난 고난이

종합행위전시쇼로 진화가 이뤄지고 있다. 세상은 점점 자극을 구하고 더 적나나한

것을 요구하고 또 원하는 그들이 머무는 시선은 불과 수초 또 다른 것을 보기를 원한다.

그들에게만 적용되는 게 아니다. 지금 내 생활이 내 맘대로 되지 않고 삶에 도전과 활력과

적극이 저하되고 떨어지고 분위기여건이 이뤄지지 않고 있다면 그런 변화를자극을 요구하고

있는 대중들 내 파터너 내 영역의 시선을 못 모으고 있다는 얘기 아닐까. 치어리더 각자

개개인 간의경쟁 또 그룹과 그룹 간의 경쟁 소속기관 간의 경쟁 정말 피터지는 경쟁과 전쟁

이게 서커스인가요 예술인가요 이게 그들의 취미 특기일까요 아님 강제된 훈련일까요

그런데 지금 이들의 진화 고공의 응원이 제한을 받고있기에 의기소침하여 기가 죽어있다고

하네요. 왤까요얼마전 인간 피라미드에서 떨어진 한 치어리더가 사고가 있었기에 이런 제한이

발효되게 되었다는군요.어쨌든 이게 치어리더 그들 변화하는 삶의 현주소, 그렇다면 우리네

삶도 진화와변화를 잉태생산하여 주변을 확 끌여들여 정점으로...

Cheerleaders Dispirited by Limit on Stunts

By JULIA GLICK, Associated Press Writer Sat Mar 11, 1:19 PM ET

DALLAS - Ten minutes before the big game, the beribboned Baylor University cheerleading squad tumbled,

twisted and flipped in a cramped backstage practice area of the cavernous American Airlines Center.

The team scrambled to tone down its routines for the Big 12 Conference tournament this weekend after a national

cheerleading safety group restricted high-flying stunts in response to a frightening fall from a 15-foot human pyramid

a week earlier. The changes went into effect days before a slew of college basketball conference tournaments around

the country.

"Basically, we have been practicing this whole semester for nothing. One incident has caused us to have to rework everything," said Heather Cunningham, Baylor's cheerleading captain. "We are going back to middle school stuff."

The American Association of Cheerleading Coaches and Administrators banned tall pyramids and some forms of

cheerleader tossing without mats after Kristi Yamaoka of Southern Illinois University lost her balance and fell on her head during the Missouri Valley Conference championship Sunday. She had a concussion and cracked vertebra in her neck

but was released from a hospital Tuesday. Jim Lord, AACCA executive director, said the new rules are an attempt to

prevent another high-profile accident. Lord said the restrictions only apply to basketball games, where high-flying tricks

can be dangerous because of hardwood floors and crowded sidelines. "This isn't a cheerleading competition.

This isn't where they get to do everything they want to do," said Lord, whose group works to educate the more than

50,000 cheerleading coaches nationwide. "The cheerleaders aren't there for themselves. They're there for the game."

While the AACCA has no enforcement power, the NCAA, NAIA and other basketball tournaments require cheerleading

teams to conform to its guidelines. And squads are likely to comply, since conferences could punish them for breaking

the rules.

However, Southeastern Conference associate commissioner Charles Bloom said the SEC would not implement any

new rules. The conference includes the top three schools in the most recently completed national tournament: Kentucky,

Tennessee and Alabama. "Standards for safety are already in place," said Kentucky cheerleading coach Jomo Thompson.

"It is up to the school and the coaches that they are followed. In the Southeastern Conference, we take the utmost pride

in not getting anybody hurt." In the Big 12, Cunningham's Baylor team had been nailing elaborate cheerleader tosses and tall

pyramids but scrapped them, settling for smaller pyramids and routine lifts and flips.

"I think the rules are excellent," said Tim Allen, associate commissioner for the Big 12. "There are probably plenty of

things they can do to increase fan involvement and keep spirit up that don't involve placing anyone at risk."

Cheering has grown over the years to include male performers, highly competitive national and world championships

and intensive training regimens. But cheerleading still fights the stereotype of pretty, popular girls waving pompoms

on the sidelines.

"Everybody understands that in any type of sport there's going to be risk," North Carolina State cheerleading coach

Harold Trammel. "You've got to find a way to be able to control the risk, and still allowed to do the things that, if you

train properly, are safe."The changes add to an already strict set of regulations that limit the college level far more than

the competitive amateur circuit, said Baylor spirit coordinator E.J. Williams. Cheerleaders who competed nationally in

their teens arrive at college and find themselves unable to use their best skills or to progress, Williams said.

Fifteen-year-old Lauren Urban, who has been training at Cheer Athletics in the Dallas suburb of Garland since she was

5, said cheerleaders are no stranger to bruises, sprains and occasional breaks. A jar of free Band-Aids sits on the front

desk at Cheer Athletics alongside a jar of candy-colored hair bands. Urban once broke her foot while practicing at home.

Good, certified coaches protect cheerleaders more than rules can, Urban said, adding that cheerleaders should not

be allowed to try something they aren't prepared to handle.

"I have been trained, I know what I am doing and I know I can land it," she said. "I am working on these things,

and hopefully when I am in college, I will be able to do them."

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