My First Time Cheerleading!

Today was really great!
I was so so so nervous walking down to the gym where the cheerleader's train during Monday lunch, I thought I was going to be entering a world where I would not be included because of how I never have done cheer before and would have to sit and watch for the next three weeks! That was not the case AT ALL! After meeting the girls who are all lovely, and I am not the youngest on the team! There are a few girls who are a year or two younger than me, and getting to know them we did some stretching and warm up's and got onto stunting! I am a base which I am totally fine with because I am a bit too heavy for these girls to be thrown up in the air or lifted! I really enjoyed my first practice and I know I have only ever been once but if you are a cheerleader or have a passion about a sport or hobby then you will remember the first time you joined or went to a practice you would have though during or after 'yeah, this is me' that's how I totally felt. It was amazing and such fun and an amazing feeling.

I had netball after school also but it is more to keep fit rather than do as a hobby. So all in all today was a great day and I feel healthy, fit and very happy. I just need to keep it up, try my best and get into cheer as much as I can until summer and hopefully after then my parent's will let me join the team I have dreamed about for the last few months. There aren't many girls on the squad - I would say there are about enough for two stunt groups, which again for now and until I'm really getting into it and getting tumbling under control because right now I can't really do anything! Like I have heard from watching wayy to many seasons of SMOED and Cheer Perfection, my fav shows by far, I know that Cheerleading is roughly 95% mental and 5% physical and so far I believe I can do this.

Hello! :)

Hey you! :)

So this is my first post and I think that I would like to start this blog by doing a kind of get-to-know-me sort of thing! I don't think many people - if anyone - will read this but it will just be a sort of diary thing for me to do and ask questions or answer to the best that I can on!

My name is Katelyn, im at high school in the U.K and I want to start/ be a cheerleader! In America and many other countries Cheer is such a bigger sport than over here! Which sucks, because it's hard to find somewhere to go and train or even find a gym where I can get started with it! It also sucks because so many people seem to start when they are so young, like only 5 or 6! Which is great for them because when you are my age they would be amazing whereas me, who has only ever done gymnastics for two years and hated it, not much of an athlete and trying to shed a few pounds is super hard to join a team! I wouldn't even know where to look!

So yeah, im 5'3 and I weigh 141 pounds (10.1st) I know that so many girls weigh that or more and are absolutely stunning but I am unhappy with my weight! It's not so much the whole I hate how I look aspect of things its more the whole 'I want to be fitter and healthier' side of it and I do want to be able to rock a bikini during summer - which is my goal!

You might be wondering, 'How is she doing a cheer blog is she doesn't cheer?'  which is a very good question! I have recently been on the hunt for a cheer team where I live, and so far there has been two which have came up in lights! One of them, I have searched up and to be honest their YouTube video's make them look like all their routines are just the same and have little girls in it as apposed to High School pupils doing hard training! The Second team have been in my mind ALL the time - I am dying to join! I really want to cheer for them but my parents have said no, which is understandable as they don't even know if I will like cheerleading and they would be driving be back and forth which is the only problem at this perfect team, they train about 30 miles away from where I live. Which I would be prepared to go to in the dark on the bus by myself if I had to!
That Brings me onto...

How will I ever know if I cant try it?
My eyes have been peeled for any team, any team at all that I could go to during/after school. As if by fate one day I was looking on the school notice board and they had a poster for the cheer team! Lucky for me it's an open team and trains on a Monday lunch break - perfect! Seeing that I went down to the P.E department and asked to see the coach and asked if I could join and she was lovely! She said that it would be great for me to join and we talked then went through to meet the girls but they weren't there!? Which then led to a whole explosion of different thoughts
"Oh! Silly me! They all have exams!" I am the youngest member of the team!
Scary but Exiting, the only thing which I am nervous about is all the guys or stereo-typical jocks hang around where I will be training at lunch but my auntie told me (so glad of this) if it is 'my thing' and the next good 5 years or more of my life will revolve around bows, glitter, cheer camps and late night training why should I let some guys who wont bat an eyelid at some girl years younger than them being in the same place as they are at lunch, get in my way and my future? I shouldn't! So I will properly meet the team tomorrow and I am very nervous and exited at the same time!

But if there are any cheerleaders out there who are willing to give me advice - I need to know, ALL I have been thinking about is cheer,cheer,cheer and cheer. I have always had a passion for bows - maybe its all meant to be and i'm just finding out who I am? Cheesy I'm sorry but maybe, just maybe this could be it. This could be me.

This will just be a blog of how I am getting on with cheer, health eating and exercise things! 100% and please if you have any advice please let me know and comment!

Katelyn 'X