The Do-It-All Cheer Sneaker
One of the most needed skills as a cheerleader is tumbling. The tumblers are the girls you see running up and down the sidelines doing multiple flips. There are very few cheerleading teams that will accept a girl if she cannot tumble. It doesn't matter how good she is in all other aspects, she needs to tumble. With practice and the proper instruction, it can be done. But where do you go to get this instruction? It can be difficult taking advice from a tumbling instructor because even though they can watch what you do, they don't know exactly where you're going wrong. This is where the Do-It-All Cheer Sneaker will come in.
The sneaker will be very fitted to the foot; It will almost feel like tumbling barefooted. However there will be enough support in the shoe so that after a while of tumbling, the foot won't feel pressured. Directly under the arch of the shoe there will be a slot in which you can place a digital chip into the sneaker. This technology will review your tumbling similar to how a digital camera can review the pictures that you have taken with it. You are able to throw a total of 5 tumbling passes before the memory in the chip will erase and start over. Once you have finished with the five passes, you take the chip out and place it into a small electronic device the size of an iTouch. The device will go through each pass and tell you exactly what you did wrong, and how you can improve. It will be better to get this feedback from this device rather than the instructor because it will be tracking your steps, as well as your rebounds.
With the Do-It-All Cheer Sneaker, cheerleaders don't have to get so frustrated when their instructor isn't helping them. Not to say that the instructor isn't important, because he/she is, but the chip is going to provide exactly what the instructor cannot. The only technologies that tumblers have to use now are video cameras. With the video cameras to allow you to see your own tumbling, with the instructors to help guide you to success, and the chip in the sneaker, tumbling will become a little less frustrating and more common in cheerleaders from all around.
I was a cheerleader in high school so as I'm reading this.... wishing this was real life and I had this for my tumbling which SUCKED. But such an awesome idea! I love how you commented on how the sneaker is going to be skin tight and almost feel as if you're barefooted. Also the digital design of the blog is done very well, it catches your eye and makes you want to read on what it's about. If anything I'd say for the future or to improve on is it may be interesting to go into the technological side of how the shoe is created and what exactly happens to the chip when the passes happen. Other than that - great idea.
ReplyDeleteAlthough the science behind this idea may be somewhat unrealistic, I think the overall concept is great! The style and fit of the shoe reminds me of the new running shoes that fit like water shoes. As long as they're only worn for practice and not performance they would be perfect. Having some tumbling experience myself I can truly see the amazing benefits this shoe would have and how its ability to perfect technique would come in handy where an instructor's advice may fail. Love the concept. Great work.
ReplyDeleteI think this is an awesome idea! Although I have never done tumbling, you explained the concept really well and told why it can improve the advice of an instructor as well. The idea is really creative and I like how it personally pertains to you. Also, you might want to come up with some rules regarding when the shoe can be worn and if it should be limited to certain people.
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