When I was in HS I was a tenor player at the end of the drumline formation. They sometimes expected me to crab walk 30 yards in like 4 steps. Not easy! These drill writers (my best friends parents own FMBC and his dad wrote drill for hundreds of high schools in the 80s, 90s, and 2000s) seem to never take into consideration the weight of those tenor drums.
I will never forget my freshman year of high school when the field show had the band make a big W and for some reason put our drum section (not really a line since there was only 4 of us: 2 bass 2 snare) on the far ends of the W split 2 and 2 where nobody could hear each other. It was bad
I think the most hilarious thing is saw in one corps i marched, the drill writer had the quad line at 6 step intervals in a straight line, and wanted a pinwheel in 16 counts moving at 188. So the end guys would be moving at like a 1 or 2-to-5 step size with direction changes every 4 steps including backwards and laterally. When we pointed out the absurdity of this notion (with heavy ass dynasty quads of the mid 2000s), we got a lecture on "c'mon guys, you have to at least be willing to give it Try! Don't be so pessimistic!". 😂
Glad I marched D.C.I. in the early 80's. No running around. No spandex. Hats were worn at all times. There was a standstill number where you had very minimal movement so you could "park & blow" so-to-speak. Judges were on the field with clip boards and they would often come up to you and stare at you face to face and then smile and walk off if there were no tics. The fired a blank pistol close to the end of the show in the closer to signify no more execution scoring was allowed. (judges would hold their clip boards in the air overhead to let everyone know they were not scoring anything. Retreat at every show had the full corps from every competing group. G bugles were used & were loud as (fill in the blank). Top heads were silver dot mylar cranked to the bone. End of ranting & ravings of an old geezer who has a pretty decent memory of the past. Not living there. I appreciate the present. Just an observation and preference.
When I was in HS I was a tenor player at the end of the drumline formation. They sometimes expected me to crab walk 30 yards in like 4 steps. Not easy! These drill writers (my best friends parents own FMBC and his dad wrote drill for hundreds of high schools in the 80s, 90s, and 2000s) seem to never take into consideration the weight of those tenor drums.
I will never forget my freshman year of high school when the field show had the band make a big W and for some reason put our drum section (not really a line since there was only 4 of us: 2 bass 2 snare) on the far ends of the W split 2 and 2 where nobody could hear each other. It was bad
I hate when that happens
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I think the most hilarious thing is saw in one corps i marched, the drill writer had the quad line at 6 step intervals in a straight line, and wanted a pinwheel in 16 counts moving at 188. So the end guys would be moving at like a 1 or 2-to-5 step size with direction changes every 4 steps including backwards and laterally. When we pointed out the absurdity of this notion (with heavy ass dynasty quads of the mid 2000s), we got a lecture on "c'mon guys, you have to at least be willing to give it Try! Don't be so pessimistic!". 😂
Glad I marched D.C.I. in the early 80's. No running around. No spandex. Hats were worn
at all times. There was a standstill number where you had very minimal movement so
you could "park & blow" so-to-speak. Judges were on the field with clip boards and they
would often come up to you and stare at you face to face and then smile and walk off
if there were no tics. The fired a blank pistol close to the end of the show in the closer
to signify no more execution scoring was allowed. (judges would hold their clip boards
in the air overhead to let everyone know they were not scoring anything. Retreat at every
show had the full corps from every competing group. G bugles were used & were loud
as (fill in the blank). Top heads were silver dot mylar cranked to the bone.
End of ranting & ravings of an old geezer who has a pretty decent memory of the past.
Not living there. I appreciate the present. Just an observation and preference.
Park n bark baby we love to see it
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No spandex? Then what material were Spirit of Atlanta's colorguard uniforms sewn from?
The thumbnail
@@noah-berg so funny
Typical Eric humor! 😜
Drum line spacing is flawless in the thumbnail 😉. Love your vids though 😁
Sup Loopy Grandma!
Sup! Concert with Switchfoot at our Church on Saturday "Dare you to move" ... Loopy Grandma is volunteering her time.
cool !
slay