- Hey, how's it going? - Hi.
I'm Rafael.
- Is your family from...
- Family's from Mexico.
- Oh man.
Soccer.
(dynamic music)
- Hi, I'm Junior.
- My name is Craig.
- [Interviewer] Junior, what are you doing here today?
- I'm gonna match athletes to their sports.
- [Interviewer] Do you know anything about sports?
- I was a three sport high school athlete,
so there's a couple sports I might've played out here.
- Was good at basketball.
I used to coach basketball and I trained basketball players.
- [Interviewer] On this list is nine total sports.
We have six people here today.
- Rowing, armored combat.
Either they're really hefty in order to use all the gear,
or they're really nimble.
- Color guard.
Is it like a dodgeball thing?
- Water polo.
If you can't catch water polo
with one hand you are most likely not playing.
- Is cheerleading a sport?
- [Interviewer] What do you think?
- I think it's an activity.
- Are you ready? - I'm ready.
Just a unique group of people
that could play all sorts of different sports.
- All right, hello. - Hi, I'm Craig.
- I'm Richard.
- Can you say whether or not
you did this sport in high school?
- I did, yeah, okay.
- Oh, okay, all right.
Do you, and you do this sport today?
- I coach.
- You coach. - I coach now.
- Okay, interesting.
- Did it originate,
or is it more popular in the United States,
or is it more of a--
- I would say most popular in the United States.
- Most popular in the United States.
- How long has it been since you've actually been on a team?
- I would say about seven years now.
- Okay, all right. - Yeah.
I've performed since then, for fun.
- He said performed.
Cheerleading, circus arts, and color guard.
Color guard's on there only because
I still have no fucking clue what it is.
My first thought was four teams
and they're all wearing different colors.
And they have dodgeballs,
trying to throw balls into the other nets.
Just like Hungry, Hungry Hippos.
So that's what I thought of.
Can you tell me then what color guard actually is?
- Yeah, it's really close to Hungry, Hungry Hippos.
It's flags with marching bands, or like in parades.
- But that's a sport?
- Can you try on the helmet?
That looks like that fits perfectly.
So I'm gonna go with armored combat.
- On a typical day, what did your training include?
- Training, we do a lot of cardio.
Upper strength training.
- My guess is rugby.
- Rugby.
- You were in cheerleading.
'Cause you did it in high school,
so it's a high school sport.
And they need to have stocky, strong guys
to kind of be the baseline.
- Hello. - Hi, nice to meet you.
- Nice to meet you.
I'm Julia.
- Can catch that for me, maybe?
Hm, can you hold the ball in one hand for me.
And yeah, comfortably, yeah.
And switch to the other hand real quick.
Hmm.
(feet tapping)
- How tired do you feel?
- Moderately tired.
Probably has decent endurance.
I'm gonna go with soccer?
- Did you spend a lot of time
of your training outside or inside?
- 50/50, but I think the majority would be outside.
- Outside.
I'm gonna say tennis.
- Hi. - How's it going?
I'm Craig.
- Casey. - Casey?
Okay, I had him picked right out of the gate.
My initial impulse is circus arts.
In your life, have you moved a lot?
- Yes.
- Boom.
Done.
- Can you do a handstand?
- I can do a handstand.
- Yay!
(all clapping and cheering)
- I'm just gonna guess cheerleading.
- [Interviewer] Based on?
- I would say your build.
- Have you been injured doing your sport?
- Not really. - No.
- Have you been hurt? - Yeah.
- Okay.
Is injured and hurt different?
- I consider injured going to the hospital.
- Okay, all right, so you haven't gone to the hospital,
but you've gotten hurt doing it?
- Yeah, oh yeah.
- I'm gonna go with armored combat.
- Let's see.
How long have you been playing your sport?
- Only a few months.
- Only a few months? - Mm hm.
- How long have you known about this sport?
- A few months. - Oh wow.
I kind of wanna go with armored combat for you.
- [Interviewer] But didn't you already give that one away?
- I did give that one away.
- What does your training usually consist of?
- Some cardio.
Lightweight lifting.
It's pretty lax.
- More finesse? - Yeah.
- Okay, light cardio.
Honestly, thinking some armored combat.
- I would say he looks strong.
Do you wanna try and pick me up?
- Sure.
- Oh, you're a rugby player.
- Hello. - Hey, how's it going?
- Hi, I'm Rafael. - Raphael?
I'm Craig.
Where are you from?
- I'm from this area.
My family's from Mexico.
- Oh man.
Soccer.
- What are some stereotypes with your sport?
- They're full of themselves.
- Yes, I'm gonna give you water polo.
Mainly because of the chain.
- The chain?
It's an anchor and there's a Jesus on it.
- I'm just gonna go with the anchor.
That was the first thing that caught my eye.
- All right.
- [Interviewer] 'Cause anchors?
- Water. - Mystery solved.
- Hi. - Hi.
- Hmm, how tall are you?
- I'm 4' 11".
- 4' 11".
- Yeah, I'm very, very short.
- How often do you practice?
- Six days a week.
How early are you practicing?
- 4:00 AM.
- The fuck?
- Let me see a quick twirl.
You can put the flag down now.
- Did you get into it on your own accord?
Did your friends, or your family get you into it?
- I got recruited. - You got recruited.
- Could you catch a tennis ball with one hand?
No, okay.
I'm gonna remove tennis off the list.
- Yeah, let me see.
Can you do a cheer move for me?
Maybe a little cheer.
- Yay, let's go. (laughs)
- Gonna have to go with cheerleading.
- Hurray.
- I'm gonna go with color guard.
- [Interviewer] Why?
- Because somebody's gotta be on the color guard, okay?
- [Interviewer] Who did Masha guess correctly?
- [Masha] Oh man.
- Not a single one, I figured
- I did, I got two.
- [Interviewer] Okay, close your eyes, no peeking.
And everybody go ahead and grab your gear.
- [Masha] Oh my God, that was rough.
- Son of a.
(all laughing) No, no!
Oh man, I had that just horrible feeling creep up my spine.
I'm like, am I just talking trash to the guy who does that?
- [Interviewer] You were.
- Yeah, so the sport I do is color guard.
- So how'd you get into it?
- My sister was in marching band.
And so I would be forced to go
to football games and watch her.
And she played clarinet and I wasn't watching that.
And my high school had a color guard team.
So I joined them and I've been doing it ever since.
- So is it there like competitions, meets and everything?
- Yeah.
Performed at the professional level,
toured the country competing, have competed internationally.
- Oh damn. - Yeah.
- Oh damn, that's cool.
- So this is how you unravel it.
And this is how you hold it still.
- I should've asked you to twirl the flag.
(all laughing)
- It's water polo.
- I was not gonna guess that.
- You really caught me off guard because when you're,
I played water polo too.
When you're switching hands,
you were kind of playing it off cool.
I was hoping to see like a nice
- Oh right, I'd be like...
- So how'd you get into water polo?
- My sister's friends did it.
I was honestly just looking for a sport to do.
- So you started in high school?
- Yeah, I started my freshman year.
- Oh nice.
Are you gonna continue in college?
- I don't think my college has water polo,
so unfortunately not.
- Oh, that's not good. - I know it is.
- And then how deep is the pool
when you guys are doing this?
It's like you guys are standing in it?
- You're technically not allowed to touch the bottom,
so you are treading water the entire time.
- Oof, okay.
Oh, that sounds brutal.
- It's not fun.
- I can't, I'm not a very good swimmer
so the whole sport sounds just awful to me.
- I'm a circus artist.
- Okay.
- So these are called canes.
- Got it.
- Where you do handstands on them.
- Oh shit!
- Do you think that the majority of people out there
would assume circus artist as a sport?
- I guess if you consider just
if there's a win-loss situation as a sport,
or what do you consider a sport exactly?
- Walking in here,
I'm thinking that a sport is gonna have to have a ball,
or it's gotta have physical contact.
That's where my head was at.
- All right, okay.
- God, I figured.
I immediately it clicked in my head when you said
a year and a half ago you just started getting into it,
and you hadn't heard about it before.
What got you into it?
- I saw people doing a demonstration in fighting.
- Oh wow.
- And I wanted to do that really bad.
The childhood dream of having armor.
- Yeah, being a knight.
- Yeah, yeah, yeah.
- So now you can compete,
and you'll start competing and stuff?
- I can get beat up by everybody, yeah.
- No, you gotta beat people up, that's the goal.
- It is the goal, yeah.
But there's a lot to learn, it's a huge learning curve.
Fighting people that have been doing this for decades.
- That is wild.
You have something I can hit him with?
Yeah, can I do a headshot? - Yeah.
- Okay, all right, here we go.
It shook my wrist more than it probably hurt him.
That's wild.
- So I was the cheerleader.
- How did you get into that by the way?
- They were just recruiting.
I was a diver originally
and I kind of wanted something to add to it
'cause diving's an individual sport.
And so I figured this would be
a great way to meet a lot of people.
And so I figured, why not?
- Let's see some of your moves.
- Yeah, I can do a back flip.
(all cheering and clapping)
So let's hold a high V, step back with one,
and then kick it straight up.
And then switch to the other.
Now I don't do those kicks, but the girls do.
- So you're the rower.
Hey, you're not a cheerleader, you're the rower.
- No, I'm the rower. - Crew.
- I'm the crew.
I'm on a men's team.
- Oh wow!
- I'm not one of the rowers, I'm what they call a coxswain.
So I'm the ninth person in the boat.
I'm the one steering, I'm yelling,
I'm in charge of everybody.
They all have to listen to me.
I yell at them quite a bit
'cause everyone needs to be doing
the same thing at the same time.
Or it could potentially be very dangerous.
- Bring one arm up!
Come on, boys, let's go!
Bring up the pace, let's get it!
Let's go, come on boys, let's get it!
Together, stay together!
Let's go!
Get off your ass, come on!
This is nothing!
- Okay, all right, okay, okay.
(all clapping)
Okay, all right.
Okay, thank you. - Thank you.
- [Interviewer] So what'd you learn today?
- Every time I come out and see everybody here
I always am kind of exposed to new and cool things,
and interesting people.
And today was no different.
- Come on, boys, let's go!