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- I had never thought about
trying cheerleading at all,

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but, you know, I had a free night.

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- I'm pretty excited about
being on an all male squad.

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- I'm nervous about the live performance

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that we're going to have to do.

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I falter under pressure.

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- The only other cheerleading
experience I've had

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was watching Bring It On.

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- Bring It On.

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- Bring It On.

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- Ahh, yeah, Bring It On, right?

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- As a kid, when I would
go to sporting events,

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I would always look at the cheerleaders.

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But I would wish, maybe,
that I was a cheerleader.

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- Any other kind of male
sport has this like,

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really like dominant
aggressive thing to it.

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Where I think cheerleading is presented

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a little bit more as graceful.

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- So I think girls thrive in that,

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and guys kind of step away from that.

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- I think it's definitely
going to be hard for me

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to tap into being what a cheerleader is.

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- I think if you're a male cheerleader,

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that doesn't make you any less of man.

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- Cheerleading goes against my own

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personal idea of what a man is,

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which again I think speaks more
about me than anything else.

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But maybe I'll learn something new today.

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- CheerLA is an all adult, nonprofit team,

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dedicated to raising funds for HIV

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and AIDs awareness charities.

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- [All] Wooh!

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- [Voiceover] We are part
of a large organization

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known as the pride cheer association.

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The aim is to raise
funds for local charities

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through our cheer for life program.

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- One of the things that I absolutely love

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about cheerleading is
the athleticism of it.

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The thrill of being physically active

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and cheering and making people happy

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and smile, you can't beat that feeling.

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- Cheerleading takes a lot of strength

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but it's generally not just
one person holding the stunt.

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So you've really got
to rely on each other,

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learn each other's
strengths and weaknesses,

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and together we can do
these amazing stunts,

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that we can never fathom to do on our own.

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- It's been a great way to
make lifelong friendships

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because there's no stronger
bond than a cheer mate.

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- And if it's something
that you truly want to do,

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never ever ever give up.

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- And you're never too old to do it.

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51 years old, still doing it.

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- What are you guys thinking?

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- I think we got this.

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- So the basics of stunt, there's

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a couple different
positions to go through.

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There's the back spot, which
is the gruel of the stunt,

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but the most responsible job

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is making sure whoever
is on top is always safe.

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If you get hit, it don't matter,

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you catch it no matter what.

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There's also two bases, provide most

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of the power in the foundation.

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Then there's lastly,
the top, or the flyer.

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It's the person going on top,

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and puts their life in people's hands.

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You guys are based on
body line and strength.

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- [All] We got you.

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- Sounds really good, if
you go for it, they got you.

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- If we don't got you,
the padding got you.

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- And we're going to
teach you a dance today.

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Hop one and two and three hold four.

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Put your right wist over your left one.

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Ready? You're going to reach around.

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- [All] Three.

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- One two down drive.

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Down drive. And settle.

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That was really nice.

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This is one, hold two.

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- And two down up, one two down up.

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- No no.

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- You're there, you're there.

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- Alright good. Let's
try from the beginning,

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real quick, from the top.

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Alright guys so that's the dance.

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So you're on your own.

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- [All] Three, four, five, six...

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- Alright so we're at our
first team practice here.

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Try to, try to practicing
counting out with these guys.

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- We struggled when it came to the lift,

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we got a lot of work to
put in if we're going

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to nail this for the performance.

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- So Collin and I just worked
on the new cheer that we have,

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and we're kind of putting a mix of what

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the CheerLA taught us and
what Bring It On taught us.

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- Hopefully we can pull this off.

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- Are you ready to cheer?

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- Man it's been long day, it's hard to

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find the motivation to cheer.

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So we've only had one practice,

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and we skipped like four or five days

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and this is our second practice,

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so hopefully we remember stuff.

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- Yeah what comes after this?

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Uh, oh!

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One and done, and then we're
ready, we're ready for it.

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- We're really not though.

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- So the performance is tomorrow,

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and we just did a rehearsal.

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- A pre performance if you will.

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And I think it went pretty good.

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- Yeah.

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- There were some hiccups but I feel like

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from now until the performance,
we'll get it right.

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- Yeah, you totally improved.

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If any of us mess up it's
going to be pretty obvious,

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so we all individually have
to bring it, bring it on!

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(cheers)

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- Alright boys, nothing
hits the floor, we stick it.

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I said

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- [Together] Whoom!

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(clap)

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it's dreaded in here, it must be those

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heaters in the atmosphere.

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I said B-U-Z-Z,

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let's go, Buzzfeed.

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- Roll call! I'm captain Carl. Yeah!

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- My name is Kayne! Yeah!

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- And I am Robert. Wooh!

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- And I am Ryan. Yeah!

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and I'm still, Edgar.

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(crowd cheers

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(upbeat music)

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(upbeat music)

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(upbeat music)

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- I mean we nailed it.

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- Brought the sass and the sexy.

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- When you're younger like,
cheerleading and peppiness

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sounds a little corny, but as an adult,

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being positive is a good thing.

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- I didn't think that
I had to like turn down

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my masculinity or anything
like that for this.

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Like, when it came time
to shake the booty,

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I was like yo, I'm going
to shake the booty on beat.

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- I think that doing cheer
definitely didn't decrease or

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increase my masculinity. I think
it made me more self aware.

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- Ever since high school,
it was difficult for me to,

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to perform in front of people.

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I don't think it hurts my masculinity,

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I think it just makes it more solidified.

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- I really do think that more
men should try cheerleading.

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I feel stronger because of
working with these guys.

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- I think if you want to
like, prove how agile you are,

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how strong you are, how quick you are,

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how competitive you can
be, fuck with cheerleading.

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