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Marisol Balderas
English 9E
Ms. Emily Murphy
2/25/13
Dance is a sport
It takes an athlete to dance, but an artist to be a dancer. Dance, the expression of a soul through body movement. Eachmovement synchronizes with the rhythm of the music and transmits certain emotions. It seems easy from outside, but at the time of actually doing the movements with music on depends on synchronization.But, is dancing a sport? Dance is definitely a sport. According to The Farlex Dictionary, the word “sport” means: (1) An athletic activity requiring skill or physical prowess and often of a competitivenature. (2) Physical activity that is governed by a set of rules or customs and often engaged in competitively. Dance is a physical activity, it requires skill and physical prowess, there are dancecompetitions and is governed by a set of rules and customs; therefore, dance is a sport.
Dance may not require a helmet or padding, but it requires dedication and training to be successful. Dancingnot only requires to have rhythm and basically know how to dance, it also requires strength, endurance, agility, dedication, skill, co-ordination and for that to be accomplish your body should be in avery good condition. There are dozens of fractures or injuries you could have while dancing AND playing football. Making a jump causes many injuries for example, fracture your bone just because youdidn’t land properly, end up with a splint, fall and fracture your arm, etc. By dancing and doing certain damaging movements you can even get reattached a bone because of a bad landing on the toes. Onballet, you can get paralyzed if you fall when you are on pointe shoes. If you go and ask a dancer just after having a class if any part of your body hurts most of them would answer “my knees”. Theknees are one of the basic muscles you use while dancing, they’re really important. Back injuries, knees hyper extensions, pulled muscles and sprained ankles are common injuries on any sport, like...