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    22 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

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      12 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!

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        22 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)

        • @gabriellablowsOP
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          12 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

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            22 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)

            • @gabriellablowsOP
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              12 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 😉

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                22 days ago

                Cool! I wish you luck on that! I bet you must look (and probably feel) hella dope doing some sick acrobatic moves (I know I probably would, I guess, on a fictional scenario in which I am a cheerleader). Btw, is cheerleading more of a woman thing? At least that’s the image I have, from media. Not sure how many men do that. Do men do that? Is that common, or a thing at all?

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                  12 days ago

                  Haha thanks!! It is generally more of a woman thing, but there are a few guys who do it too!

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                    11 day ago

                    Interesting. I reckon men wear other types of clothes, innit? I doubt they’d be rockin skirts or whatever. Are skirts the usual cheerleading clothes? At least from media that’s what comes to mind. Skirts and tops (is that what they’re called?). And pom-poms. I reckon Lemmy could do with a cheerleading community. Maybe that could be interesting. Though I’m not sure if Lemmy supports video yet (images sure are popular here, but I reckon seeing the acrobatics in action would be cooler). Though for people interested in cheerleading themselves, from the inside (rather than outsiders), threads and discussions could be popular. Not sure what the prevalence is on Lemmy for people into cheerleading. What d’you reckon? Any interest in that?