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No poise but no shame while cheering: UAAP Cheerdance Competition 2013

written on Tuesday, September 17, 2013 @ 7:00 PM

It was my first time to attend the UAAP Cheerdance Competition last September 15. I was so thrilled to be one of the 20-plus thousand attendees. I will always be amazed with the intensity of the passion and dedication the UP crowd has for the UP Pep Squad. Hataw UP!

I’m no expert but I can see and feel the difficulty of the stunts and pyramids that the UP Pep Squad was doing. And yes UP can also stand for University of Poise. UP Pep squad had about three obvious errors/falls but no one from the squad or the UP crowd lose their composure. The UP Pep Squad was still all-smiles and continued the routine after their mistakes. There’s a picture circulating online. A picture of a UP Pep Squad member with a bleeding gum (I presume). He was pictured smiling despite the blood on his mouth. Mad respect for you man.

(Photo by Marc Henrich Go)

The UP crowd was also something for holding their poise despite the glaring errors. No one gasp or commented about it during the performance. I bet the other people, like me, drew in deep breaths when the errors were committed. But no one said anything. We held our ground and just cheered. That felt amazing.

Aside from UP, my personal favrite would have to be La Salle. Their execution was almost clean and it was also well-thought of. The military theme was so chic and badass that my friends and I were cheering for them during their performance. Heck, the Ateneans around us was cheering for them too.

If there’s one thing that I didn’t like that day, it would have to be this crowd for one of the schools. They were jeering and not cheering. Hoots, high fives and shouts were heard from their side if someone from another school would fall or commit a mistake.

Talk about shitty luck when I went to the CR and found out that the restroom was crawling with people from their school. I daresay that I was the only student who wasn’t a part of their school. I got uncomfortable when they started praising their school while dissing all the other school. In the back of my mind I was thinking, “I know that this is a place where you go take a shit but I’m not taking any shit for my school.” Thankfully, there was no comment directed to UP.

This may be a competition but people shouldn’t forget why we have this competition in the first place. It’s to show the unity and school spirit of one school, at the same time to build camaraderie with all the other schools.