GYMNASTS TRY 'CHEERLEADING' Ft World Champions! | Nile Wilson 

that's the difference between doing it for the comp and doing it for fun.

@@Dave1507 exactly this

Watch former women’s elite gymnasts do college gymnastics. They have so much fun with it even though it’s considered “less.” They love the ability to do the sport they’ve participated in since they were kids with a fraction of the pressure and injury. I’m sure Nile feels the same way about his fun youtube videos. Less pressure, less risk of injury, less divisive competition. Just doing a thing you love because it’s fun. Katelyn Ohashi’s smile during her college floor routine makes me so happy, knowing how miserable elite gymnastics made her.

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I’m not even exaggerating, I’ve never seen anybody as genuinely excited about ANYTHING in my life as Nile was about cheer in this video! I mean, other than like, the rest of us being excited for beer and pajamas after a bad day.

Same

We all do

I love them!!

If I could hit the like button more.....

Me too

Right?! He just launches.

the springs on that dude's legs =0

where have you heard it will be featured in 2024? 😍😍😍

2028* Olympics in LA will most likely be it’s first time in olympics

No it's just been recognized as a sport, a lot of things are recognized but not actually included in the Olympic Games

🤮

100% seeing people just genuinely have a laugh and enjoy themselves

@@tomhayes413 And all the unapologetic displays of affection. It really gets me in the feels.

they really do have great support for each other really is a tight group!!!!

Right, I love how genuinely excited and supportive they are of each other and they're not afraid to show it

I was so impressed with their saves when Nile fell!

This comment is a year late but oh well. With things like this be it for cheerleading or circus (I’m sure others as well btu I’ve heard this from cheerleaders and I have trained in various circus skills) bases are trained to no matter what not let your flyer hit the ground. The base has a much lower risk of injury getting hit by a flyer than the flyer does hitting the ground. Circus is extra scary because there’s often way less people basing or spotting. When I was first learning to stand on someone’s shoulders it was usually just the one base and the coach supervising. I was (and still am tbh) terrified of two highs. The first time I ever agreed to let go of my bases hands and fully stand up when I came down I saw that two of my friends were standing behind us in case something went wrong/I didn’t know to jump off the front and it really touched me.

As the teammate who was consistently chosen to be the spotter because I would run underneath the falling people instead of away; it really does take a certain type of person to truly be a good spotter. Thanks for recognizing us 🥰

I was in a dance routine where we incorporated some simple cheerleading lifts(some of the dancers were exoerienced cheerleaders). I was a rear spotter and during one rehearsal one of the base guys had his wrist lock up mid lift and our flyer dropped but i instantly caught her in my arms got her foot to my head and went down with her landing on me.

I still do it, and it's been...16 years since i completed?

it's called saluting lol

@@ethrim I was a dancer but i used to practice gymnastics for tumbling and I still salute for no reason lol

that's cheer for you if a flyer hits the floor its 50 cheer burpees for me and other gyms have 50 pushups

@@shhh.im.sleeping.619 I was just about to say the same thing. We would have to do so many sit-ups 😭

Well it's the number 1 rule in cheer: Flyer never hits the floor

I've seen quite a few videos of cheerleaders and gymnasts actually missing their friends' or coach's screams to stop and then slamming into a wall, usually a padded one though :')

Gymnasts train with vault as an event which is literally running full-speed at a block you're planning to spring off of, that's the thing they have to mentally comquer. When you're doing a tumbling pass on floor you don't even see the wall, doesn't even enter into your mind. Lol. You're normally too focused on your first skill or whatever you've just been instructed to fix.

I'm more scared running at people than the wall. The walls are usually padded. People, however... I did a dive roll-cartwheel-roundoff combo warming up and came face to face with another cheerleader clear at the end of the other mat (I'm quite tall and cover some ground when I run). Both of us fell over because it scared us. XD From then on, nobody was allowed to stand at the very edge of the mat even though it was really long.

I mean they are good but they look like gymnasts....

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Right. Lol I was like okay I guess I can hit rid of all my old uniforms now that I’ve been put to shame.

Same!

Remember he’s an ex Olympic gymnast and has some sort of idea

@@rubytyson8176 Yeah its not like he competed with a triple twist or anything lol🤔😂

He’s also done a cheerleading video before, his ex and her twin sister (also Luke’s ex) were competitive cheerleaders so he did a video with them like or 3 years ago

Do it do it do it do it. I do miss baseing with you though 💕😢

Joanna please tell me you shot a video of you doing everything as well

yesss! you looked so happy when they said 4 spots left 😂

Yes Joanna!!

Let us live through you!!

This was the easiest for them because of the relation of gymnastic movements. It seemed that the competitive cheerleaders were actually learning as well because they are also dealing with world level veteran gymnast.

Truly amazing.

The difference between literally olympic atletes and "just" some ordinary people with a hobby they love... I am sure you were great after all that time though. I can't even do anything they did after a year now.

@@phoenix72999 very true, but flying requires being held up by literal people, and learning how to make yourself lighter. Even for an olympic athlete it would be somewhat difficult. But sometimes, in nile’s case, you’re just naturally very good at it, which is kinda rare to see. Super super impressed with him :)

@@lexcifuentes6157 That makes sense. And I also think that he is really cool and he looked impressive.

@@phoenix72999 agreed! i’ve seen that stuff every day for YEARS and i’m impressed! nile is such a well rounded and talented athlete, it’s actually super incredible and satisfying to watch :)

I thought the same thing! Glad I'm not the only one that noticed that

I don't think that ever goes away! I'm 20 years out, and I'm 500% certain I'd go in for a spot if I was around a stunt group again.

We love to see it!

Its not very big at all in the UK.

@@Heatwave9000 I take it you’re not involved with UK Cheer..? Obviously it’s not on the same scale as it is in the USA, but it’s definitely bigger than most people realise. If you go to one of the big National competitions, such as Future Cheer Nationals (held in Bournemouth every summer) there are literally tens of thousands of cheerleaders competing over the weekend. Cheerleading within the UK has grown massively over the last decade especially, and there are teams, including Coventry Dynamite, who compete at the World Cheerleading Championships in Florida every year now. One of their teams actually placed third in their division a couple of years ago! 🙌🏼🏆🧨🌎

I think she might make a vlog of this on her own channel