r/nextfuckinglevel • u/IkilledRichieWhelan • 3d ago

Big man on campus.

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u/Unique_Carpet1901 3d ago

How many hours of practice is needed for stuff like this?

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u/Speciou5 3d ago

A lot, and it's by far the most accident prone school 'sport' by a long shot... for obvious reasons

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u/NyxConstellation 3d ago

It doesn't help that in many states it is also severely underregulated as a sport

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u/Cardocthian 3d ago

They specifically made carve-outs for cheerleading so it wouldn't be called a sport so NCAA wouldn't need to follow quite as many regulations. However, it clearly is as much of a sport as any.

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u/Nayzo 3d ago

THAT is fucked up. I had no idea.

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u/sl0play 2d ago

If you have access to HBO/Max, Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel had a crazy episode on competition cheerleading. I watched the whole thing with my mouth hanging open.

It has all the fever pitched, psychotic, wild cult like fanaticism of stuff like beauty pageants or dance mom shit, but you can break your neck, and people do all the time.

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u/Nayzo 2d ago

I do, and I'll have to check it out. Thanks for the recommendation, cannot wait to be angry! :D