[nabs-l] Cheerleading and dance

[Mark J. Cadigan]

Ashley,

When I was in middle school, I went to a school for the blind, they had and 
to the best of my knowledge still do have a cheer leading squad. However, 
this squad did not at least when I was a student do any dancing or 
acrobatics.


Mark

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bridgit Pollpeter" <bpollpeter at hotmail.com>
To: <nabs-l at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Saturday, November 26, 2011 10:25 PM
Subject: [nabs-l] Cheerleading and dance


> Ashley,
>
> I know a girl who did cheerleading in high school and she's blind. She
> has RP and still has quite a bit of vision, and during high school, she
> did very little with alternative skills, but I read about a totally
> blind girl who was a high school cheerleader. I came across it while
> researching for a paper years ago.
>
> Based on my experience, I think it would be extremely easy to do
> cheerleading without vision. Obviously learning the cheers and chants
> wouldn't be a problem, and it wouldn't take much to learn the motions
> done at specific moments. And there are cheer moves you learn that are
> specific cheer moves, similar to dance, like a bucket fist means you
> ball your hand with the thumb side facing up. So once you learn these
> moves, you know based on the name what to do.
>
> College and professional cheering is more involved and takes a lot of
> physical stamina regardless of sight or not.
>
> Sincerely,
> Bridgit Kuenning-Pollpeter
> Read my blog at:
> http://blogs.livewellnebraska.com/author/bpollpeter/
>
> "History is not what happened; history is what was written down."
> The Expected One- Kathleen McGowan
>
> Message: 13
> Date: Sat, 26 Nov 2011 12:05:31 -0500
> From: "Ashley Bramlett" <bookwormahb at earthlink.net>
> To: "National Association of Blind Students mailing list"
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> Subject: Re: [nabs-l] Cheerleading & dance
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> Hi Bridgit,
>
> Your description of cheerleading sounds right. The high school team did
> more
> basic cheers and some dances where as college teams do more gymnist
> moves
> from what I've observed.
>
> You were not blind when cheerleading, right? I'd be curious to know if a
>
> blind person did that? You would have to have a willing coach to be
> hands on
> and a guide for running. It could be done though. And as you said, it?s
> a
> great thing for a college application
>
> Ashley
>
>
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