- Dynamic
Explosive
Extraordinary
Are we
We are Highlander
Nation.
The only way to be.
- Yay!
- Hi, I'm Alyssa.
- And I'm Motoki.
And this is Expert Amateur Fraud.
Show where we try to figure
out who the expert is, and who's faking it.
- And today we're gonna be interviewing three
- Cheerleaders.
- Okay. - Oh my gosh.
- Let's go.
- Man, this is gonna be hard.
- I know.
So expert cheerleader, I feel like they're probably
obviously doing back flips and sorts.
- Yeah.
- Also you can tell in the stance,
like the way that cheerleaders are like
- No, no, no. Show us again?
Oh, okay. That one.
- I dunno how to explain it, but it's not,
like it's not gonna be like,
it's gonna be like
- Yeah.
- I'm tired from doing that.
[Alyssa] Come on in.
The cheerleader clap.
- Cheerleader clap.
- My name's Quinton. Hello.
- I'm Rachel.
- I'm Audrey.
- Okay. Do you guys wanna stretch while we do this?
- I would love that.
Wow. Sounds like a cheerleader.
- Legs apart, and down the middle.
- I have a question for Rachel.
[Rachel] Okay.
- What made you get into cheerleading?
- Oh, I actually was a gymnast for 11 years
before I started cheer.
So when I got to high school,
I wanted to get a little bit more involved,
so I joined my high school cheer team then.
- What about you, Audrey?
- I cheered in high school for four years
and then I'm cheering at UCR.
So I've been doing it for maybe seven to eight years.
- Where are you at on the pyramid?
- I'm six one.
I wish I was the top of it.
[Alyssa] Okay.
- Hey, I'm Quintin.
I was born to perform.
- Whether it's in front of seven people or 70,000,
I'm kind of a people person,
and I just like making people happy.
- So today, for my cheerleading news
there's stunters and there's choreography.
So today you're learning a little bit of a sideline.
It's typically what you do when a DJ plays music or the kind
of like set routine that you have automatically in the back
of your brain.
All right, so we are starting with our T claps.
Five, six, seven, eight. We hit
- One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight.
One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight.
- Wow!
- Yeah!
Every sideline starts out with an eight count of T claps.
So what that means that you're gonna start
with your arms out to a T.
Boom. Yeah, from here,
and you're gonna step to the right, step it on one,
clap it on two, left side three, four,
two more times, five, six, seven, eight.
Your arms comes out once,
step forward two,
arms up three,
drop it on four.
Yeah.
There it is.
- I was smiling the whole time.
- Yes, you have to keep the energy up.
Keep the energy up.
Okay. Again.
From here you're gonna step your left leg to the left,
you're gonna re-break this right arm as you snake.
- Oh no.
- Yeah, so.
Boom, but keep the leg straight.
Yeah, yeah. Clean line.
Yeah.
You're gonna bot ma the left leg up,
arms come out to a V.
- Oh yeah, for sure.
- One more time, that was it.
That was it. That was it.
Boom. Yes, yes.
- And now are you doing the choreography for your team?
- I actually do most of it, yes.
- You do most of it.
- This season, yes.
I'm a choreographer as well.
- What if Quentin is just a really positive choreographer?
- That's true. And like,
even some of the moves I was like,
that seems like dancing.
- Dancing.
- Yeah.
- Yeah. But then I was like,
are there are a lot of male cheerleaders professionally?
- Yeah.
- Yeah, right.
- Hi, I'm Rachel, and I'm a cheerleader.
The feeling of hitting a routine together
or even just like running up onto the stage to perform
as a team, knowing how hard you've worked together
is really just indescribable.
So I'm gonna be teaching you guys jumps.
I personally love jumps, but I don't think that's
like a super popular opinion
in the cheer world for whatever's like, no one likes jumps.
- Did you do jumping in track?
- I actually did do track too.
- Really?
- Yeah.
- What was your event?
- I mostly did pole vault.
- Oh, okay.
- But I did a little bit of everything.
Are you okay to like,
jump with like your skirt and everything?
- Yeah, I got pantyhose on.
- Okay, okay.
- So if I show a little that's okay.
(whistling)
- So on five, six, seven, eight,
on one you're gonna squat a little bit and clap.
On two, you're gonna face the corner
and it's gonna be this way
and your right leg is gonna be in front
and your left leg is gonna be behind.
- Oh, okay.
- Yeah. But honestly like that's okay too.
Like a little star jump.
- Yeah.
- You know what, safety is first
and I don't want y'all to like
- Break my groin.
- Yeah. I have done that.
[Motoki] Yeah, thank you. I appreciate that.
- You broke your groin?
Can you break it or pull it?
- More of a pull I guess - Pull, yeah.
- Yeah, you have?
- You know, let's talk more about groins.
- I can demonstrate really fast.
- Five, six, seven, eight.
One, two, three, four, five
Wow.
- Well, let's talk about these shoes.
These look like very, very fun like gymnastic-y
- Oh yeah, they weight like nothing.
They're kind of amazing.
Cheer shoes.
- Those are cheer shoes.
- They are cheer shoes
- Cheer shoes
- Do you remember a time when it was like hard
for you to do this kind of stuff?
Or is that like not in your brain?
- All of my skills from cheer have all just translated
over from gymnastics and you can just change
like the sort of stylistic aspects of it.
It definitely doable.
- Thank you, Rachel.
- Thank you.
- Rachel seems, you know, very, you know
flexible and being able to do all these things
but maybe not necessarily achieve.
- Yeah. Maybe,
cause she said she was a gymnast and
- Track star
- Pole vaulter. Yeah.
But maybe like she never actually switched
over to cheer.
- Right.
- Hi, I'm Audrey and I'm a cheerleader.
- Audrey
- Okay, so.
- Today I'm gonna teach y'all cheer.
All right.
- Let's go
- Dynamic, explosive, extraordinary are we
We are Highlander Nation
The only way to be.
- Oh yeah.
That gave me, that gave me chills.
I have chills.
[Motoki] That was great.
- When you're cheering, you need to be really, really loud.
And so the loudness comes from the stomach.
It's almost like singing.
You said you're a musician, do you sing?
- Yes.
- Yeah, okay.
So you know how it comes from the diaphragm
but it's much more of a lower octave so
- Hey
- Ooh. Hey
- Loud? Okay. Hey
- Yeah. Cause when it's all like unison
when everybody's cheering with a manly voice
it sounds a lot better than,
Hey, you know?
- Oh wow. Okay.
- Yeah.
- All right, so the first move is this.
So you're gonna step on your left leg
and then over with your right and put it into the T.
So that's dynamic and then you're gonna clap up and spin.
- Whenever you do that twirl.
How do you not get dizzy?
- It's called spotting. So
- I think eye left
- Yeah, pretty much.
It's like you look at a certain point this way
and when you spin
- I got dizzy
- You follow it
- And you learn that in cheerleading?
- That's like more of a ballet thing but it's used in cheer
- You did ballet?
- Yeah. I did ballet for a little bit.
- Hmm.
- And then you're gonna step on your right.
This hand is kind of just like doing this
and it's twice
- Start our lawnmower.
- We are Highlander, Nation
- Nation. Showing your breasts.
- You're representing whatever team is on your uniform.
And like add a little funk to it
- Oh dude. That's a real thing.
I remember cheerleaders. They always be
What's this about?
- It's a little attitude, you know?
- Thank you Audrey. You are amazing.
- Thank you guys.
- My strategy for today was just being myself honestly
- Audrey, to me had the most pep.
- Yeah. Also like the most, I don't know
if it's weird to generalize
but like the stereotypical cheerleader look
- Because she's blonde
- But you get it.
- Just kidding. Yes
The thing that she taught us was like the actual cheer.
- So maybe that's amateur though.
Cause she was saying she does it in college, right?
- Yeah, you call it.
- That's not necessarily something you get paid for
but maybe you get a scholarship.
- That's true.
Yeah. Do we think we have an answer?
- Let's do it.
- Okay. We got it.
We did it
- Let's go
That one too.
- Come on in, cheer squad.
- What's up.
Step up to the mat
- Let's get this team
Ooh, we did some deliberating.
Please don't be mad if we gravely messed up
- Still cheer for us.
- I'm just gonna walk out
- You're gonna leave?
- We think, Quentin, that you are the expert.
- We felt pretty sure of that.
I felt like I was on your cheerleading team.
- Yeah, I feel like the experience showed for itself.
- Yeah.
- Yes!
- Tell us about your experience.
- Well, name is Quinton and I am one of the first
male cheerleaders in the NFL.
- Wow
- And I cheer for the LA Rams
Totally awesome experience
[Alyssa] But yeah, go Rams.
Okay. I love the Rams
[Quinton] LA. LA.
I started dancing in cheerleading
in high school at the age of 16.
In 2018 I decided to try out for the LA Rams
and now I'm on my fourth season and I'm captain this year
and it's been a great season so far.
- We got one.
So it's all downhill from here.
Nice.
- We thought Audrey, we thought you were the amateur.
Maybe because you taught us a cheer.
I definitely felt like your pep and loved that voice.
You had to do the cheer.
That was kind of like, gave me chills.
Yeah.
[Motoki] Yeah, yeah, definitely.
- No
- I feel like, and not to be judge-y but like
based off of like, you know, stereotypes
you do seem like a cheerleader in a sense.
- He said that
- Why you throwing me under the bus?
- Not me, I'm staying out of this
- I don't cheer right now, but I did cheer
in high school.
- Okay
- That was like six years ago though.
So, and I only cheered for like two years there so
[Motoki] Gotcha.
- I dance. I'm a dancer.
So I wanted to pursue my hip hop career.
- What about UCR?
- I don't cheer for UCR
- Liar. Wow. Literally nothing
- I don't even go there.
- Wow.
- That cheer that I taught them was actually one
of my high school cheers.
And I just changed the name to the UCR mascot.
- What, what do y'all have to say for yourselves?
- We're so sorry
- After everything that I put into this
- It seemed legit, but you know what?
I don't know.
You were acting a little sus
- The cheer shoes?
- Cheer shoes, yeah
- I'm personally a little bit hurt,
I'm not gonna lie, but I also do get it.
I think I was a little bit nervous today.
And so the confidence was maybe not quite there.
- We thought we were like, she's so athletic.
Like we just thought you were kind of coming in here as
like the gymnast athlete who like never like actually went
over to cheer.
- So I was a gymnast and then I started cheer sophomore year
of high school and now I cheer for USC's competition team.
- Wow.
[Alyssa] That's amazing.
[Motoki] That's cool.
- There are tons of people out there who do cheer.
So I guess you could compare someone who's been doing cheer
for like 10 years versus someone who's doing it
for like two, but really it's all relative.
- Wow. Alyssa, what did you think?
- I thought, we did okay.
- Five, six, seven, eight.
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