Cheer on Netflix is, quite simply, a sensation. Having never been a cheerleader myself, instead spending the fall of my senior year of high school in a massive polyester sauna suit otherwise known as my mascot uniform (I was a lion, rawr), I find the sheer athleticism of the Navarro cheerleaders tumbling and stunting and spotting on the mat to be nothing short of electric.\n
If anything, the show seems to offer the constant agony as a sort of evidence for the sport’s leigtimacy: These must be real athletes if they get hurt this often and play through this much pain.are the systems and polices that are put in place to protect these elite athletes after the sustain an injury, particularly a concussion, which we see two cheerleaders evaluated for in the first episode alone.
. Knowing that cheerleading is an at least somewhat well regulated sport, Moskovitz submitted a pubic records request for Navarro’s policies and protocols as they relate the the safety of the cheer team, and found that they do have for a concussion assessment plan, return-to-play rules for concussions, and a traumatic head injury policy.Did we see these policies enforced in? The truth is, I can’t be sure. I watched all six episodes in a row and took notes on discussions about concussions, athlete safety, and injuries. The documentary shows you horrifying falls, lets you hear the thuds and the screams. A few times I saw what were glimpses of what are presented as concussion testing: standing on one leg, closing your eyes and touching your nose with each hand. But the focus after any fall, concussion or not, wasn’t on testing. It’s on the mandatory punishment: a drop means everyone has to do 50 push-ups.treats concussions much the same way a football or hockey broadcast treats them: an event happening on the sidelines, nothing worth paying that much attention.While it brings me no pleasure to talk about the potential downside of one of my favorite things I’ve watched maybe ever, it does serve as an important reminder that just because something is consumed as entertainment, it doesn’t make it any less real. And as spectacular as the feats accomplished by the Navarro cheerleaders are, they don’t make them anything other than human. Amazing, yes, but still just human.
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