Cheerleaders performing in a gymnasium with an audience watching, indoors during daytime or early evening under indoor lighting. 4:39
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The drill team that turns into a kaleidoscope

A high school drill team in Washington state faces the bleachers at the homecoming assembly and starts folding itself into patterns. more

At first they stand still on the gym floor in white uniforms, with the crowd watching from the bleachers. Then the counts start, and nothing stays put for long.

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The drill team stands in formation on the gym floor while the bleachers look on.

Every move is timed to the beat and to each other, so the squad stops looking like a group of girls and starts looking like one shape that opens and closes. The best trick is the ripple, where a move rolls down the line one dancer at a time.

Cheerleaders performing in a gymnasium with an audience watching, indoors during daytime or early evening under indoor lighting. The headline runs in white letters across the lower third.Save
A high school drill team in Washington state faces the bleachers at the homecoming assembly and starts folding itself into patterns.

They also use the floor far more than you would expect. Together they drop into splits on the court, and a favorite joke among viewers is that the janitor can skip mopping.

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The squad drops into splits together on the court.

By the time Kanye West's "Power" hits, the routine is running at full strength. At one point the whole team kneels on the court at once.

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The whole team kneels at once in front of the homecoming crowd.

The bleachers stay oddly calm through all of this, which viewers found very funny. Plenty said their own schools would have been on their feet. Drill fans also want it known that this is a drill team, not a cheer squad, and a few would like the kicks higher. One person who had been set on high school cheer now wants to do drill instead.

Kicks aside, the timing is hard to fault. From the first count to the last, the squad moves like one body with a great many arms.

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