CheerGyms.com Open Team Expenses and Review

I thought it would be worthwhile to publish my expenses for my college team last year. This is useful for anyone who is interested in calculating whether or not you can afford to an open cheerleading team. I cheered for CheerGyms.com. They were a good team and I will talk about my pros and cons a bit lower, but first lets look at the expenses. Expense Cost Tuition and Competition Fees, including uniform costs $1,209.81 Nationals Hotel Bill $104.00 Gas Costs to travel to practice. Assuming 3 practices a month (to account for holidays and weeks off), cost of 2.50/gallon, and 20 miles/gallon on the car $405.00 Gas for nationals, same figures as above, traveling distance about 404 miles $101.00 Gas for local competitions in Sacramento $80.25 Total $1,900.06 This is just the hard numbers and I’ve gone a little soft on the miles and gas price. The point, however, is still relatively strong: I spent nearly $2,000.00 no an open team last year. I had a good time, but that is really expensive, so I’ve decided not to cheer again next year while I try to get my finances in order. ...

June 21, 2009 · zacharyzacharyccom

Crazy Cheer Parents

I was reading this cheerleading blog today when I came up to a quote that I have to pass on. The article is part of One Two Down Up, a blog for a cheerleading coach who doesn’t make their identity easily known. (I could probably find it, but I’m too lazy) One of the articles is about Cheer Parents, The Ups and Downs of a Cheerleading Coach: Those Crazy CHEER PARENTS. ...

May 18, 2009 · zacharyzacharyccom

Flipping from the Past

Okay, so this video is old, and I can’t believe how young I look, but this was me back in the day. I’m glad my friend Jon was nice enough to make it for me so that I could have it to remember that I was good, once. http://video.google.com/googleplayer.swf?docid=6458798771655030241&hl=en&fs=true

April 17, 2009 · zacharyzacharyccom

I'm retired

After 12 years of training cheerleading, I retired yesterday. I soft retired last year, but I found myself really missing it and wanting to get back involved. I joined the CheerGyms.com open team and cheered for them throughout the season. While I enjoyed cheering for the team, the logistics of the situation didn’t work out for me. The team originally said they would be splitting time between both gyms. One in San Jose and the other in Concord. San Jose was 30 minutes away, Concord was about an 70 minutes away. I decided to do the team anyway. The drive meant that I was up before 8 most Sundays. I couldn’t go out late with friends on Saturday for fear of being to too tired at practice. On top of the cheering aspect I coached a local high school. Coaching would take up Friday nights with football games, which meant that I really didn’t have a weekend. ...

March 30, 2009 · zacharyzacharyccom

My First Vimeo Video

Today I made my first post to Vimeo. I found this old video of my gymnastics. It’s old, not completed, but was fun to find and fun to post. Enjoy http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=3503000&server=vimeo.com&show_title=1&show_byline=1&show_portrait=0&color=&fullscreen=1 Partial Sampler 2006 from Zachary Cohen on Vimeo.

March 6, 2009 · zacharyzacharyccom