The Wildcards Blog

Meeting expectations

Regardless of which squad you're in, one thing in cheerleading that will never change is meeting expectations.

Expectations can come in many forms, and can be mainly divided into two categories: namely expectations set by yourself, and expectations set by others.

What is important for all of us to realise is, there will always be opportunity costs to meet those expectations. In this video, we learnt from our foreign counterparts that their opportunity cost for meeting expectations is pressure from their peers, strain on their bodies, and on the amount of time spent on the sport.

In Wildcards, the opportunity cost as an open team is that while we are progressing in stunt level, we are not able to increase training frequency due to our wide commitment varience. This is one of the main reasons why most of you feel mentally tired despite having less trainings compared to season 2008/2009. It is only natural that lacking practice in the light of more difficult stunts will make you feel insecure.

Competitions are all about luck. The *harder you train, the luckier you get. (notice i used the word ''harder'' rather than ''more'')

As mentioned, training 5 times a week is not an option for us since not everybody can make it. Yet training twice a week but coming up with a sub-standard routine is definitely not within our own/management's expectations.

Hence, the only way around this problem to have productive trainings.

Productive = focus + effort + no more sad stories!

We have the winning routine. It's now up to you guys to hit it!