Why Dance Should Be a Sport

Dance is a Sport

If someone was to ask you if you belong to a sports team and you answered, "I’m on a Dance Team”, they’d tell you that dance is not a sport. Dance is a sport because it takes strength, agility, flexibility, balance, and it is competitive just like sports. It also requires a lot of personal time and dedication. The Flaxes Dictionary states that sport is: “A physical activity that is governed by a set of rules or customs and often engaged in competively.“ People compete to be the best and to be noticed just like in any other sport, and there are competitions against other teams just like other sports compete against each other. “Dancers work just as hard, if not harder than other athletes.” says New York Times. Some people train at dancing for five hours every day to master techniques, which is sometimes more than most sports athlete do per day.

There are dozens of injuries that can happen in football, and there is just as many is dance. For example, you have the potential to fracture a bone in your foot by not landing a jump properly. Dr. Williams a LA doctors says “I have seen more injuries in dance, then I have in almost any other sport.” Pulled muscles and sprained ankles are common in running and other sports but are also very common among competitive and non-completive dancers.

Some people say that since dance is not an Olympics sport and since you do not see dance competitions on the sports networks it is not a sport. Dance should be in the Olympics, just like the other thirty sports in the Olympics. According to the Olympic officials, in order to qualify as a sport in the Olympics it must be “Widely practiced by men in at least 75 countries and on four continents, and by women in at least 40 countries and on three continents.” Dancers move constantly, even though in hockey you are standing around doing nothing half the time. Yet, hockey is a major sport. "People come from around the world to see people show of their skills, so we should show of ours when we get a chance” one dancer at Judson Dance Theater says.

People think that the ability to dance is not unique. This is not true, anyone can dribble a basketball, and anyone can shoot a puck, and everyone can play these games if they want to participate. “Anybody can do football, baseball, and any other sports but only a handful of people can dance.“ says former dance on Dancing with the Stars Julianne Hough. Yet, only the best people compete in those sports. But only a few people participate in dance for recreation. Some rep hockey teams practice five hours in a week while many competitive dancers practice for five hours a day to perfect their technique “How else are you going to spin around eight times and not fall over is you don’t practice?“ states one writer from the LA Times. It also takes a lot of flexibility. If you were to ask Colby Bryant to do a pirouette, he’d fall out of it, or even an arabesque. Dancing takes hours of practice and years of dedication to master, just like other recognized sports.

I hope from my essay that you can realize that dance is and should be a sport, and not everyone can do it. It also takes a lot of time and effort to perfect your dance skills. If any one tell you different argue back with them and tell them that dance is just as hard as any other sport.

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