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 Posted: Mon Jan 07, 2008 8:58 pm
Gotei14 Color guard using fire batons ha ha fire batons that sounds cool but a bit scary....did anything bad happen?
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Posted: Mon Jan 07, 2008 10:52 pm
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Posted: Tue Jan 08, 2008 11:04 am
this year, spinning flags had to cross through the bass like right before a set we lovingly nick named "Cymbal death" While the snares were moving forward, the cymbals had to turn around, cross to the other side of the snares, then catch up with the line to go to the feature. and the basses had to go through the trumpet section, and we nearly lost our trumpet section leader.
there was also a set where my other cymbal player nearly gets his head taken off by a tuba. that was fun.
there were a few guard crossing drumline or vice versa last year. that was awesome cuz i had to jump over a flag while playing.
basicly, its never safe to cross through the drumline.
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Posted: Wed Jan 09, 2008 9:37 pm
If I sound too proud of my school, I apologize. I have always had the understanding that our school (Fossil Ridge) is known for putting on some of the most intense and demanding shows in our area, if not the whole state of Texas, every year. Our school is within 20 miles of THE L.D. Bell, Richland, Marcus, Martin, Haltom, and several other outstanding bands, and our shows tend to be harder than many of theirs each year. This past marching season, we had a set we called the 'circle drill,' and the entire band was in straight lines of 4 people each, and the lines were arranged in a circle, so it looked like 4 perfectly aligned rings of people with the center in the middle of the 40 yard line. At a tempo of about 172, the lines all headed to the center at the same time, and it looked like someone was gonna die or something. It was a 16-count move, and for the first 4 beats, the first ring of people took 4 steps to right, while the other 3 rings moved inward. The next 4 beats, the group that just moved right starts moving back for 12 counts, and the next ring moves right for 4, and so on. Essentially, what happened was the circles got really small and it looked really dangerous from the stands, and by the end of the move, the 4 people in each line had switched spots, and the lines were still straight, but in their rings. I was the 4th person in my line, so at the end of the move I was in the new center ring. It was really hard, and then it was followed 3 sets later with a 22-count move where I had to go backwards 15 yards and to my right 10 yards... unfortunately, there are no videos i can find right now to put a link up here...
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Posted: Thu Jan 10, 2008 6:29 pm
haha im also a freshman and boy was my drill scary
all the clarinets and flutes form a straight line that is parallel to the endzone and im at the front. all of us then form this box that later rotates but trying to get there was so bad for me.
haha i had 12 counts to jazz run diagonally backwards 3 yard lines! i believe i stepped, crushed, ran into, and collided with the person behind me at least a lot of times haha. i finally got the hang of it though.
near the end of our show we form.. i dont know like these 2 boxes that eventually pass through each other. i had to go backwards to where the quads and basses were and i kept missing my dot because i was trying to dodge the percussionists x]
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Posted: Thu Jan 10, 2008 6:43 pm
OMIGOSH!..im in the 10th grade and never have i been so embarassed of falling in practice.. well heres the strory.. we were doing the band version of "suicides", we march forwards 8,backward 8,forward 16, backward 16, and so on until we are in the 100s. so i was marching backwards and this freshmen in front of me marched too big a step and i was trying to stop him from bumping into me but then a saxophone player 3 rows away fell and i was like "than god that wasnt me" and then *BAM* the freshmen bumps into me and knocks me down. i got up in 5 seconds and kept marching. sum people were like "are u ok"? i was embarased and i will hate that freshmen for life wahmbulance
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Posted: Fri Jan 11, 2008 1:26 pm
In our show..*shakes head* we had 81 square mats that made a sudoku board.
Teh Woodlands High School Band.
Anyway...-sigh- at the end everyone flips over the mats and apparently there was a TON of chaos doing that because the judges had no idea and would get smacked randomly...(not that they didn't deserve it or anything xD)
then I know the colorguard constantly hit the tubas...xD which made me laugh.
There's also a part in our show where everyone leans a certain way and it was really awkward, i'm sure everyone else had harder marching moves though xD
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Posted: Sat Jan 12, 2008 6:20 am
my sophmore year.. we lines up in two lines on the 45 and 50... and did a cross through at 4 to 5 steps. no one fell, and no one got hurt... except for one football game where the field was really icky and muddy...
Senior year- this year- we had these rotating pluses, and alot of the moves were backwards, so you HAD to know where you were going. no one got hurt, though.
we had this block... the outside rotates, then each inside rectangle joins in, then theres 8 (FAST) steps to the left.
of course, nothing bad happened, and color guard all over the place is something we deal with every year. if theres going to be a colition, the guard teacher usually changes something, or has that person stop till out of harms way.. xDDD well, if we're lucky, that is...
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Posted: Sat Jan 12, 2008 12:03 pm
Ok in our queen music this year there was a drum break in we are the champions for like 50 counts so we decided to make up our own drill
We where marching forward in a straight line each person four steps ahead of the next in a line from each ed zone...when the drum break started we all turned to the person next to use and marched straight at them then at the last second went backward or turn forward...then it was like 20 small X on the field then all the X marched toward each other until it spelled CHS then we went to the next song.
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Posted: Sat Jan 12, 2008 12:29 pm
im a feshman so i only know one its in our show in the 4th movment in a 16 count drum break thats were yhe dangers really at because baritons jazz run backwards and nearly colide with the drumline.....our first try at that during practiced i hit the basses it hurt .my freind almost got smacked down by the 4th bass drumer!!!!!!!!....oh yea we had a marching exirsize that was named 666 all 6 to 5 strides three times
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Posted: Sat Jan 12, 2008 12:40 pm
This past season's show had the colorguard doing some flag tosses...
One day they were practicing and two of their flags collided and nearly fell on them.
Them: 0_0 *scream and run*
Director: ...Mrs. Ashworth, will you keep them under control? They won't hurt the flags with their heads.
(Mrs. Ashworth is our colorguard instructor.)
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Posted: Mon Jan 14, 2008 2:53 pm
There was a part fo the show this year where the color gaurd had to pass right by the woodwinds, we've been hit by the falg a couple tiems but onyl during practice
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Posted: Tue Jan 15, 2008 5:51 pm
We had a flute block that moved diagonally backwards this year, at oh, a 5 to 5 step for the back line? Yeah, they changed it, because half of us missed it by about 3 feet.
There are more, but I can't remember and I can not even begin to describe the kind of steps me and my friend had to take my sophmore year. Our band director (who left for the Dallas area at the end of that year) didn't give us the time to take water breaks so on one of the runs (we had to 'march' from the 40 or 45 yd line (side 2 or B), back hash all the way to the 5 yard line (side 2 or B) , on the back sideline (in some ridiculously short amount of time). She blacked out and we had to call am ambulance, she came back to school a few days later with a concussion and recovering from heat exhaustion. That was fun. So, it was kind of dangerous, in the middle of a Houston summer with temperatures in the 90's and no water O.o
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Posted: Tue Jan 15, 2008 5:54 pm
To the rear forward marching constantly into about 8 different formations without locking the formations it took us more than half of the summer and 2 weeks before the first game to get that down people were getting hit with instruments and passing out every which away (at practice of course) at the game it was crisp
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Posted: Tue Jan 15, 2008 6:03 pm
Oh it was fun during my freshman year! At the end of one of the movements we had to kneel down on one knee then to go into the next movement you had to slid back up the go. This year(junior) was even more fun cause we had circles going in opposite directions and you couldn't look where you were going. gonk
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