When they say MMA is dangerous....

**Mtripp** · Posted On: 6/27/2009 8:49am

http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/...rtcheerleading

**Kokujin** · Posted On: 6/27/2009 9:30am

I'm portuguese. so cheerleading around us is mainly eating pork derivatives and drinking huge amounts of beer in soccer games...or pretty much whatever we see. But somehow that stuff always seemes kind of dangerous with those flips and throws

**The Thinker** · Posted On: 6/27/2009 9:36am

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**Holy Moment** · Posted On: 6/27/2009 9:41am

Originally Posted by Mtripp

http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/...rtcheerleading

You just don't get it. MMA is still more brutal because the POINT of the sport is to beat your opponent to death. Now I haven't actually seen an MMA fight, but I know by its description that it's definitely human cockfighting; they strap razorblades to their ankles and maul eachother until a knockout, submission, or death occurs.

Besides, cheerleading isn't really a sport anyway...

**patfromlogan** · Posted On: 6/27/2009 9:43am

Originally Posted by Mtripp

http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/...rtcheerleading

Glad I got my kids into ma young and also gave them some ideas of what kind of life choices they could make - when my daughter was a preschooler we'd sit and eat fresh whole wheat bread with raspberry jam at the U and I'd have her point out the girls that looked like Barbie Dolls.

And remember the real danger of cheerleading...

But things could be worse

**jubei33** · Posted On: 6/27/2009 9:52am

Speaking of is she still in China? How you doing? How's Hawaii?

**TheRuss** · Posted On: 6/27/2009 11:53am

Most dangerous female sport.

The NYT has a good article on it called Pompoms, Pyramids and Peril:

The more athletic, more acrobatic era of cheerleading is widely linked to the 1980s, when hundreds of high school gymnastics teams were dropped, partly because school districts grew weary of paying off injury insurance claims for the sport. Many gifted female gymnasts gravitated toward cheerleading and, with their ability and competitive nature, they soon pushed halftime routines far beyond shaking pompoms and waving banners.