• lemmyknowEnglish
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        9 days ago

        Cool! I don’t think I’ve ever seen cheerleading in person. Wonder if that’s mainly a US thing or if it’s me not being big into sports. Is cheerleading a difficult thing? Seems fancy in movies, where they do all those fancy stunts

        • gabriellablows@lemmynsfw.comOPEnglish
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          9 days ago

          I’m not very athletic and I could do it, but I also wasn’t cheering for a professional football team or anything haha 😂 The ones that are actually good at it can do amazing stuff though and that takes a lot of training!

          • lemmyknowEnglish
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            9 days ago

            Cool! What kinds of stuff does it involve? Jumping around and shaking pom-poms? Or were you doing advanced acrobatics? Were you just doing it for fun? I reckon it usually involves cheering for a team, though I am not very knowledgeable on the topic (as you can probably tell)

            • gabriellablows@lemmynsfw.comOPEnglish
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              9 days ago

              I used to be able to do splits and backflips and stuff like that! And sometimes we’d jump up and be held up by the other cheerleaders or something like that. That’s about as athletic as I can get, I’m terrible at sports otherwise haha

              • lemmyknowEnglish
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                9 days ago

                Damn, that’s impressive! Jumping up and being held up by others is especially quite the feat, on all ends. Did you ever hold other people up? I imagine that requires some strength as well (though if two people were to hold one, I guess the weight distributes between both people)

                • gabriellablows@lemmynsfw.comOPEnglish
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                  9 days ago

                  I don’t have the upper body strength to hold other people up yet, but I’ve been going to the gym so maybe someday 😉