today i am attempting to transform sofie dossi into a cheerleader in only one hour she will
need to complete three different cheerleading challenges so that we can perform a cheer duet
for a mystery world champion judge hey guys it's sophie i'm a contortionist but i've never done
cheers so this is gonna be very interesting today okay before i start teaching you cheer you need to
look like a cheerleader should i wear something different i think you need a full cheer makeover
i've been doing cheerleading for ten years and sophie is super talented so i think she's going
to be a natural at cheer round one is jumps all i know is like maybe it's like this and then
we're gonna pretend like we didn't see that we're going to warm up first
is this how you warm up do you not warm up like this cheer style so you're going to start in a
t and we're going to do some jumping kicks like this one three five seven switch one three five
seven perfect I was going sideways that's good that's what we're supposed to do
that was really good now i'm mixing cheer and gymnastics you did gymnastics yeah for
how long uh three years that's probably why you're so good at handstands yeah that makes sense for
each round sofie will have to learn five new cheer skills before we can move on to the next challenge
okay we're going to start by doing some jump drills before we get into the full jumps
so it looks like that up around and you're going to hit a t motion one two three four five
that looked so good am i a cheerleader now five six seven eight one two three four five
that was really good your flexibility was on point but i think you could be more clean on
the ending like a cheerleader perfect yeah i think my legs definitely hurt after that last
one i think i can do it okay let's give this a try okay solid i'm a cheerleader now or getting
into being a cheerleader now i mean i could do leaps but that's not very cheerleadery very
dancy yeah it's very dancy the next one we're going to do is really similar to a leap though
front leg is going to be straight and you're going to bend the back leg
wait wait no that wasn't good way wait how does the hand just 5 6 7 8 1 2 three four five six
seven eight cheer is so different than gymnastics and dance because i did gymnastics for three years
and dance for like a year and a half both of them are very much like graceful like you know you
leap and like it's like a step step but cheer is very like pose hit the move stick it you know
before we move on to combining them we have one more jump so this one is kind of hard it's a pike
and your arms are going to be in line with your legs just like that oh i feel like the
pike is going to get a lot harder yeah it's hard to get your legs up in a pike i think i got this
this one is easier to land with your feet together i'll definitely get the landing right but i feel
like the pike sounds a lot harder than the splits and everything but i think you can do
it you're super strong yeah okay let's do this one two three four five seven eight the clean
could have been better yeah i agree i kind of did a little step step after that gotta stick it
and land it line up two down three four five six point seven eight that was like perfect
i feel like this one's gonna be a little harder but i feel like i got a shot at this one two
three four five six seven eight i'm so close you need to do the connection so it'll be hit and
then go down and then hit again one two three hit down hit yes one two three four five six
seven landed a little separate but it felt a lot better than the other ones one of the main parts
of cheerleading is tumbling so next i'm going to be teaching sophie some tumbling skills we're
going to start off with some easy tumbling skills and then they're going to get harder
each time so in cheer everything has a count so to start our front walkover we're going to clean one
two high v three four and then go into the front walkover on five six
that felt good it was perfect becoming a cheerleader already
that felt very in sync the next skill is a standing back handspring cheerleaders
do this way different than gymnasts so i don't know what the approach is like is it
start clean and then you do a step like or you can just sit and then go into your handspring
i have to stop being a gymnast i keep wanting to do it it's my natural instincts guys
perfection so good that was so clean and sharp just like a cheerleader okay let's time it
we definitely were not timed yeah we were not on time together we got to get it better this last one
is going to be hard to time we're going to do a round off backhand spring oh okay let's do this
i think that's definitely what we should put in our duet i agree now that you challenged me a
little bit i feel like you should try some of my tricks like on my aerial hoop here i'll show you
that looks so hard way harder than cheer oh no it's so easy like look how easy there you go
there you have it that was cool yes you got it we are about to perform a cheerleading duet for
a world champion cheerleader but first i want to teach you some cheerleading body positions
for our final round since you're so flexible does my arm have to be straight you don't want to do a
Y stretch you want to put it directly in front of you okay and your hand should be in a high v
perfect you got the first one next up is a bow and arrow you're going to start
in a front stretch and pull your arm through grab and then pull it through yes woo i feel
like if you did cheer you would definitely be a flyer because you're so flexible i mean i feel
that too the next body position was a needle the next step is to do a kick up scorpion
so you put your hands on your hips and then you slightly kick forward and then kick it up
and then you're going to go into a scale yes perfect and after that arabesque since
sofie was able to do all five body positions so easily we decided to combine some of them together
like you would when you're flying a stunt then it is time for us to perform our final duet
for the mystery judge to see if he thinks i have successfully transformed sophie into a cheerleader
i think you did a great job so hopefully the judge thinks so too i hope so too let's do this
now let's see what our world champion judge jack payne has to say
whoa that was an amazing performance anna and sofie now based on that performance i would
say that sofie does look like a cheerleader but i'm gonna have to give you a 9.5 out of 10. now
i'm not being mean sofie but when you did the toe touch you did reach forward for your
toe touch and you're supposed to keep your arms all the way locked out and hit a t-motion but
you still did really good so good job you do pass the cheerleader test