#DreamTeam

OKAY HEY WHAT if anyone remembers that old reality show Cheerleader Nation that followed a high school cheer team through competition and football season down in the south from the mid 00s, Lifetime rebooted it and did a follow up series called Cheerleader Generation. MY CHILDHOOD. I CAN NOT.

Currently watching Salt n Pepa on the BBMAs and remembering how I first heard their Push It song: in a cheer mix. Go figure. 😂

There's nothing really like sitting down for competition awards and your hands and feet are either freezing or sweating like crazy in anticipation.

Watching some of these teams do badly honestly breaks my heart... When you're the ones competing against them, yeah, you hope they do bad. But it's when they do painfully bad that makes me want to run up to all of them and hug them because I feel so sad they did as bad as they did.

Lowkey want to throw that performance at my old coach 😂 Having tight motions does in fact look good, coach. And gee, I don't know, tight motions might've actually gotten you first place at the state comp. SORRY NOT SORRY

Few stunt falls, so first place won't happen, but the team was bigger than it was when I was cheering, the jumps were good, the motions were tight and the synchronization was AMAZING. I can only imagine how good our team would've been when I was there if the coach we had (for what? almost a decade?) had long been ousted and we had the coach they have now.

Nothing motivates me more to go to the gym, work out and work on flexibility for scorpions, spikes, heel stretches and bow and arrows than watching the state cheer and dance competition... I may not cheer anymore, but once a cheerleader, always a cheerleader. 😉🎀 My old high school's team comes on in 7 minutes and I'm a jumble of nerves and anxiety times a hundred.