Why Some People May Not Think Dance is a Sport

Many people don't think dance is a sport but I have come to realize that the majority of people are guys. I don't know why this is, maybe because it isn't a contact sport, or maybe because they don't think we actually do work in dance and that it is an easy sport. A lot of people don't understand how much work we do and how much we practice until they experience it for themselves.

The kind of girls who don't think dance is a sport are the girls who play contact sports or girls that are really into sports; they like to participate in a lot of them, they like to watch them, and they understand pretty much every sport out there. I know this because most of the girls that i have talked to about this subject play soccer or basketball or hockey or softball. They usually think this way because they think dance isn't a competitive sport, but it is.

Every winter season of Blazettes runs from late October to late January. This is the competitive season. We have comeptitions every Saturday starting in mid-November and some on Tuesday nights. The competitions on Saturdays are usually all day long but we only perform one or two dances. Either kick or kick and jazz. Our training to get ready for competitions is very difficult and serious. We have to have really good endurance and learn our dances in about 3 weeks. It is very difficult to learn our dances in such little time because our coaches want them to be perfect and not everybody cooperates all the time. Sometimes I get frustrated but I know it will all be worth it once we get to perform!