Marching Band (YES ITS A SPORT)

[TxZombehCat]

I think the first post should say something like "For those of you who insist that marching band isn't a sport: Please, give your definition of a sport and list why you think marching band doesn't fit your definition." That way it'd be easier to prove them wrong.

I miss marching band so much... sad

[littlemiss_sunshine95]

iDop

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Wtf it's not a sport stare

Yeah.. Isn't it like music? I mean you don't do sporty things.. You have more like a rutin with drums and stuff... In cheerleading you do situps and and do basketosses or to chartwheels or stuff like that, I think that's more sporty.. But hey, everyone has a different view on sports! And we all agree on you can love something like a sport or whatever.. ^^

You're completely wrong. We spend hours in the heat, run laps around the field and do jumping jacks and stuff before we even pull out our instruments. Our director probably yells at us more than a coach for a sport like football or baseball. We do more than cheerleaders. They're just more flexible to be able to do backflips and cart-wheels. We have people pass out every other week from heat exhaustion. We are drilled and disciplined. If we even speak a word on the practice field we will be punished by either running a lap for standing at attention. Marching band is just like the military only with instruments instead of weapons. We go through so much work and spend so many hours each day to get our show on the field. I bet you haven't even seen a band behind the scenes. We march in pouring rain, lightning and when it's 95 degrees out. You try standing perfectly still with your feet together and your elbows angled correctly for an hour straight. Try marching backwards on your toes or rolling your feet. Just because band has 'fat people' in it, unlike cheerleaders, and because you've never seen a good band practice doesn't mean that band isn't 'sport-like'.
I understand that we don't play 'against' anyone, but we compete just like cheerleaders do. If you've gone to a cheerleader competion, you can see that they have practiced hard and done well. If you respect the arts you would notice the same with a band at a competition. If you've only seen bands at football games, you're getting the wrong perspective; football games are basically a run-through of the show like we would do at a practice. We are only truely serious when the audience is silent and all you can hear is the echoing of the snair as we march onto the field. People at competitons respect us and are silent when a band is on the field, but at football games people could give a crap. I hear them talking and I see them running to eat their food so they can come back during 3rd quarter. You won't truely understand how hard the band works until yougo to the first dayof band camp and spend four hours straight doing the basics block or Medusa.

You got that right! And for all you guys, you'd better try marching on steaming hot asphalt in the heat of the day with at least 5 pound instruments, for 4 hours.
And by the way, it's 107 degrees. We sweat just as much as the football teams, we're just not as buff.

[XemryXIII]

marching band might as well be considered a sport...

when i was in the 8th grade, i started practicing with the high school marching band...
that next year when i got in the 9th grade, half of the football team were guys i knew from band the previous year

plus, while the football team practiced on the field, we ran around the track

[tears of doom]

thank god i found a place where my fello band geeks roam! i play flute in ours and at our school its um really hard for everyone else to make fun of us cause wer are not afarid to get into ppls faces!

[llonka]

littlemiss_sunshine95

iDop

3llo

J05eQh

Wtf it's not a sport stare

Yeah.. Isn't it like music? I mean you don't do sporty things.. You have more like a rutin with drums and stuff... In cheerleading you do situps and and do basketosses or to chartwheels or stuff like that, I think that's more sporty.. But hey, everyone has a different view on sports! And we all agree on you can love something like a sport or whatever.. ^^

You're completely wrong. We spend hours in the heat, run laps around the field and do jumping jacks and stuff before we even pull out our instruments. Our director probably yells at us more than a coach for a sport like football or baseball. We do more than cheerleaders. They're just more flexible to be able to do backflips and cart-wheels. We have people pass out every other week from heat exhaustion. We are drilled and disciplined. If we even speak a word on the practice field we will be punished by either running a lap for standing at attention. Marching band is just like the military only with instruments instead of weapons. We go through so much work and spend so many hours each day to get our show on the field. I bet you haven't even seen a band behind the scenes. We march in pouring rain, lightning and when it's 95 degrees out. You try standing perfectly still with your feet together and your elbows angled correctly for an hour straight. Try marching backwards on your toes or rolling your feet. Just because band has 'fat people' in it, unlike cheerleaders, and because you've never seen a good band practice doesn't mean that band isn't 'sport-like'.
I understand that we don't play 'against' anyone, but we compete just like cheerleaders do. If you've gone to a cheerleader competion, you can see that they have practiced hard and done well. If you respect the arts you would notice the same with a band at a competition. If you've only seen bands at football games, you're getting the wrong perspective; football games are basically a run-through of the show like we would do at a practice. We are only truely serious when the audience is silent and all you can hear is the echoing of the snair as we march onto the field. People at competitons respect us and are silent when a band is on the field, but at football games people could give a crap. I hear them talking and I see them running to eat their food so they can come back during 3rd quarter. You won't truely understand how hard the band works until yougo to the first dayof band camp and spend four hours straight doing the basics block or Medusa.

You got that right! And for all you guys, you'd better try marching on steaming hot asphalt in the heat of the day with at least 5 pound instruments, for 4 hours.
And by the way, it's 107 degrees. We sweat just as much as the football teams, we're just not as buff.

AMEN!!! lol!! that sounds like my years in high school marching band. i loved it so much. i do miss it though. i played flute and piccolo. we worked our butts off to earn our one ratings at state. i'd rather march at competitions than at a football game because at football games, they are there to see the game, not the band and they are very disrespectful. one time some fans were throwing pop bottles and trash at us. xp

[AdriMarie]

YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES A MILLION TIMES YES

[Master BARNI]

I like sport mrgreen mrgreen cheese_whine

[KiyomiMatsuo]

my band and football team both rock!
go canes go!
^^
any fluters out there i luv ya!
(sorry im really hyper from bandcamp! razz )
and marching band is totally a sport!
doing the roll steps makes your calves hot! smile

[cpbigman9221]

I'm curious, what do you believe makes marching band a sport?

[cloudsmight]

cpbigman9221

I'm curious, what do you believe makes marching band a sport?

i don't know mabye the fact that they call the wimpy thing called football a sport my high school football team won 2 games last year 1 was a scrimmage! and yet every1 in my stupid town shows up for the football game but no1 comes to our marching competitions

[musicgirl825]

marching band is totally a sport!

[j-chan28]

YeS yEs YeS
marching band is sooooooooooo a sport!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
we have to practice like every other day
& our drills are sometimes hard
plus it takes a lot of concentration
to get all of the footwork and moves just right
our marching band practices just as hard as
the football players AND the cheerleaders
SO YES MARCHING BAND IS A SPORT
AND I'LL BE GLAD TO EXPLAIN THAT TO
ANYONE WHO DOESN'T THINK SO

[--nichols--cole---]

it is deffenitly a sport at my skool the drumline practices harder than the football team and im the best snare there is on our drumline!!

[miri-chan44]

band is SO a sport
they run around all day
it is way harder than cheerleading
band is for the awesome

[hamstergirl591]

Holy Princess Serena

harrypotterobsesser75

it is a sport! its harder then like cheerleading, and golf..

Have you ever even TRIED cheer leading and golf? Cheer leading takes as lot of work and Golf is as hard a freakin hell

I agree. Golf may not be as physically exerting, but it's one of the hardest sports to be GOOD at.

I'm supposed to be arguing today in class about why marching band isn't a sport, but I think I'm gonna fail.