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 Posted: Wed Nov 05, 2008 1:03 pm
hmmm i like that wet towel idea! you would be surprised on how many people don't hold their horns high! but ours is the "Attention game!" twisted we all stand in a long line and the d.m calls us to attention. you cannot move at all if you did, everyone had ten pushups and the game started over! the time limit...10 minutes without moving! we eventually got it after about 300 pushups. and trust me you don't want to be late, or else you're stuck with the asst band director and his "Fundimentals reinforcement!" after practice! gonk ohh it hurt and i finally learned never to be late again! and then there was one time when we had to do calf training! We marched up and down the field...Caddy style!! for about 10 sets! ohh how there was much groaning and pain all around! but it did allow us to roll our feet better and march easier with the toes pointed!
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Posted: Wed Nov 05, 2008 2:27 pm
Hmmmmmmmmm . . . Don't let my band director find out about these punishment games (he'll use them)
We don't have any. We just get kicked out if we don't go to band camp and a DT, if we don't show up to early morning, monday night or school curricular band practice
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Posted: Wed Nov 05, 2008 6:38 pm
We don't do punishment games, but we do have "celebration". If we make any mistakes during our run, we do pushups to celebrate our mistakes. biggrin
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Posted: Thu Nov 06, 2008 8:08 pm
our BD doesn't punish people so much, if you like persistantly talk or something you run a lap. but people like did stuff to get out of practicing because i guess they'd rather run a lap so now they run them after practice which is like... awful... and sometimes you'd have to run a stadium if you forgot something... even if there was like a practice game and a bunch of people are like... sitting onthe stadium... but no games =( i think that would be much better
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Posted: Sat Nov 08, 2008 7:50 am
Where to start?My band is very strict when it comes to punishment games.I swear that our bd just loves to watch us get tortured.
During the winter,we all try wearing thick clothes due to this one certain punishment.When we practice a new song,we have to get the first ten measures correct after the seventh try or else we are to run the parking lot with whatever we're wearing and no coats.Once we're expected to be able to play the song,if we mess up on any part we have to do the same.We run for about ten minutes.We have five minutes to warm up once we get inside and then we have to try again.
Every section has its own punishment if they are the ones messing us up during any other time of the year.For us violinists,we have to do wall sits with our violins for about fifteen minutes.It doesn't sound bad,but it kills your back and legs.
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Posted: Sat Nov 08, 2008 1:18 pm
This is no longer done at my school because when the director retired, the new guy fired our old fundamentals instructor.
Let me put it this way: the fundamentals (and not-so-fundamentals) instructor was a retired marine drill sergeant.
This was the punishment game (but with no "game" to speak of):
BAND TEN HUT!
for the next "five minutes" (which were however long he felt like making them) noone could:
•move
•twitch
•fidget
•sneeze
•fart
•scratch
•wince
•talk
•grunt
•make any sound at all
•anything else he felt like forbidding
If you did (and he saw everything, he would point at you, address you by your instrument, and yell so that other bands could hear him** (this was mainly done in warm-up prior to competitions):
[instrument] DON'T MOVE! WHY ARE YOU [infraction]-ING? WE ARE [our school]! WE ARE THE BEST BAND HERE! (then, to everyone else) DO YOU THINK WE GOT THAT WAY BECAUSE WE [infraction]-ED?...
and so it would continue until someone cried... at which point he turned on them.
the amazing thing is, we all loved it!
**True story:
someone from another band once came to our busses afterwards and asked if we were us. upon hearing that we were, he confided that this damentals instructor (without him the fun of it is just gone) had scared the pants off of him. we asked where he had been and figured out he had been about halfway between us and the stadium.
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Posted: Wed Nov 12, 2008 12:46 pm
no marching shoes they had push-ups 25 added week not having them. anyone late either ran a few laps or did push-ups.
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Posted: Fri Nov 14, 2008 4:47 am
2 laps or 40 pushups for people being late which adds to the 4 laps we do as a warm up to start practice so we usually do a total of 8-10 laps, um... late during 3rd quarter, stand at set next football game and can't move the entire 3rd quarter, um... there's more that i can't think of right now lol i'm scatterbrained today
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Posted: Sun Nov 16, 2008 7:15 am
mostly we just do pushups if we mess up for anything or talk when we are at attention......but if pushups don't work we run laps and have added drills
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Posted: Sun Nov 16, 2008 3:18 pm
Well all of those are fine and dandy but we found out that none of those work. The people in our band can due push ups and run laps easy and even stand in position easy.
What we do are called 'hello dollys' otherwise known as 6 inches
if someone messes up we lay flat on our backs with our hands face down on the ground then when the BD says "UP" we lift just our legs 6 inches up off the ground and hold them there until the BD says "DOWN" we do 5 of those military style (which normal counting thats 10) and it's murder.
That's a great punishment if someone messes up.
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Posted: Sun Nov 30, 2008 12:44 am
amberfire365 It is not really a punishment game, but in band camp we play suicide Simon says with marching fundamentals it is a killer because the Drum Major gets faster and faster to eliminate all the people and they are really picky xp In my band we call it drill downs. I LOVE DRILL DOWNS! those are sooooo much fun but we don't do it all that often cry . (I know you all probably think i'm weird for liking that but whatever i think its fun. I also like metronomes, dont ask i dont know why i just do. I'm an odd person get over it.) During winterguard a couple years ago we had this one drill set that we never could get right and so one of our instructors kept making us do pushups and i dont remember exactly why he called it celebrating but he did. So that spot in our show was called the lines of celebration. (My arms hurt just thinking about how many pushups we did at all those practices.)Most unfortunately for me now the word celebrating is the equivilent of pushup and a happy word's definition was rewritten to mean pain.
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Posted: Sun Nov 30, 2008 5:38 pm
Our punishments usually involve pushups or laps.
what is fun though is if someone leaves anything at the field after a practice/game/etc. they have to sing to get it back. most of the time its I'm a Little Teapot (WITH MOTIONS!) 3nodding
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Posted: Sun Nov 30, 2008 11:16 pm
we have to do 10 random commands PERFECTLY or we start over. and we do this before every break.
they usually go something like this:
command 1: attention
command 2: about hace
etc...
etc...
command 8: right hace
command 9: left hace
DM: BACK TO THE BEGINING!!!
band: *yells at whoever doesn't know they're right from left*
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Posted: Mon Dec 01, 2008 3:06 pm
In my high school, we used to have zero hour, which meant that marching practice started an hour earlier than band class. If you were late, then you had to do 10 pushups for every minute you were late.
Or, if you moved during attention, you had to do 10 pushups.
Here in college, we don't have many punishments, but one I remember from band camp was if you left something in the field, or anywhere else, and a drum major picked it up, after you reclaimed it, you would have to sing "I'm a Little Teapot" in front of the whole band.
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Posted: Mon Dec 22, 2008 10:22 pm
Ahh, we would do the celebrating thing too...So that happy word's been spoiled for me as well.
Along with the word 'PARTY'. Omigod. So, I play baritone, and we all kinda suck at horn angles some times, so if my section leader notices it's really ba,d then he'll call a section meeting after rehearsal. The first time somebody asked him what we were doing he was like (sarcastically) 'We're having a party!' and then we ended up holding our horns up for like 5 minutes. So now we have horn-holding parties, which pretty much just make our arms hurt a helluva lot and make our section leader feel bad because he doesn't wanna torture us but we suck at horn angles so he has to.
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