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 Posted: Thu Jun 16, 2011 3:06 pm
redheadsrule13 ClarinetGoddess redheadsrule13 I believe we're athletes also. It's hard work to do marching band. but when I asked other people if they think it's a sport on here they started to say that we're not, and it was because we were given a score on how well we did in comps, and because we played instruments! It infuriates me to hear that. We works our butts off to be good, and like any other sport like foot ball getting a touch down, or baseball getting a homerun, we earn our points also. But i don't understand how cheerleading and dancing get recognition and we don't? I do agree with the "why are dancers considered sports." I once went to a dance show at my sister's school, and they announced the hiphop dance team as a sports team. If dancing is a sport, why isn't band? I've done dance before, in middle school. I can give a personal experience answer tot he question of which is harder, and which takes more energy; the answer will always be marching band. If marching band cant be considered a sport, they at least need to stop calling dance and cheerleading sports. (Cheerleading, I'm kinda undecided about really. I still have the personal opinion that cheerleaders are dancing robots, so I don't want to anger their creators and make them send the cheerleaders after me. They already hate the band at my school. Mostly because we start cheering while they do and interupt their cheers by playing. But hey, they started it by cheering while we played, and apparently they are allowed to start different cheers during ours when we cant even join theirs!) well i can understand why dancers are more sporty, mostly the proffesionals because it take muscle and stuff. cheerleading i think it could be pretty easy being thrown up in the air.but because we play instruments while marching we don't get the recognition. i know what you mean by the cheerleaders hating the band but at my school there's only about 5 cheerleaders vs like 40 something bands people in the highschool. people in my town actually love the band, so yeah. Yeah our cheerleaders hate us for no reason. Theres like 20 of them and 40-70 of us(it varies). Whats really bad: our district believes the band should share buses with the cheerleaders. Our band does silent bus rides, which are exactly that: no talking, electronics, sign language, etc on the way to competitions and away games. Its to help us focus on the task ahead. afterwords, its party time, and if the trip is longer then half an hour we will start silent at a certain point. But anyway, cheerleaders are very uncaring about our silence. They cheer, dance, sing, play loud music, be annoying, etc on the bus. We all sit quietly in the back shooting eye-daggers at them, trying to decide which to kill first or how to run the bus off a cliff without killing the other band kids on it. Our director even yelled at them once. They were quiet for a second, then back to normal. And they were doing things to us on purpose, like booty-dancing in our faces and making inappropriate motions or trying to make us talk. We just hung our uniforms up between the last few rows with the band kids and all the cheerleaders. Oh, did I mention that not only did they take more then half the bus and all the front seats, kicking us to the back, but they also sat one to a seat most of the time and wouldn't allow us to sit next to them, while some of us were 3 to a seat in the back with hat boxes, uniforms, and for the woodwinds, instruments. As for the "not a sport because we play instruments thing": In my opinion, that makes us more of a sport.
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Posted: Fri Jun 17, 2011 7:59 am
ClarinetGoddess redheadsrule13 ClarinetGoddess redheadsrule13 I believe we're athletes also. It's hard work to do marching band. but when I asked other people if they think it's a sport on here they started to say that we're not, and it was because we were given a score on how well we did in comps, and because we played instruments! It infuriates me to hear that. We works our butts off to be good, and like any other sport like foot ball getting a touch down, or baseball getting a homerun, we earn our points also. But i don't understand how cheerleading and dancing get recognition and we don't? I do agree with the "why are dancers considered sports." I once went to a dance show at my sister's school, and they announced the hiphop dance team as a sports team. If dancing is a sport, why isn't band? I've done dance before, in middle school. I can give a personal experience answer tot he question of which is harder, and which takes more energy; the answer will always be marching band. If marching band cant be considered a sport, they at least need to stop calling dance and cheerleading sports. (Cheerleading, I'm kinda undecided about really. I still have the personal opinion that cheerleaders are dancing robots, so I don't want to anger their creators and make them send the cheerleaders after me. They already hate the band at my school. Mostly because we start cheering while they do and interupt their cheers by playing. But hey, they started it by cheering while we played, and apparently they are allowed to start different cheers during ours when we cant even join theirs!) well i can understand why dancers are more sporty, mostly the proffesionals because it take muscle and stuff. cheerleading i think it could be pretty easy being thrown up in the air.but because we play instruments while marching we don't get the recognition. i know what you mean by the cheerleaders hating the band but at my school there's only about 5 cheerleaders vs like 40 something bands people in the highschool. people in my town actually love the band, so yeah. Yeah our cheerleaders hate us for no reason. Theres like 20 of them and 40-70 of us(it varies). Whats really bad: our district believes the band should share buses with the cheerleaders. Our band does silent bus rides, which are exactly that: no talking, electronics, sign language, etc on the way to competitions and away games. Its to help us focus on the task ahead. afterwords, its party time, and if the trip is longer then half an hour we will start silent at a certain point. But anyway, cheerleaders are very uncaring about our silence. They cheer, dance, sing, play loud music, be annoying, etc on the bus. We all sit quietly in the back shooting eye-daggers at them, trying to decide which to kill first or how to run the bus off a cliff without killing the other band kids on it. Our director even yelled at them once. They were quiet for a second, then back to normal. And they were doing things to us on purpose, like booty-dancing in our faces and making inappropriate motions or trying to make us talk. We just hung our uniforms up between the last few rows with the band kids and all the cheerleaders. Oh, did I mention that not only did they take more then half the bus and all the front seats, kicking us to the back, but they also sat one to a seat most of the time and wouldn't allow us to sit next to them, while some of us were 3 to a seat in the back with hat boxes, uniforms, and for the woodwinds, instruments. As for the "not a sport because we play instruments thing": In my opinion, that makes us more of a sport. man that sucks well its probably different for me because i actually come from a smaller school where most of the people will be nice to each other except for like bullies. why can't you just stand up to them? that would annoy me so bad that i'd probably do something about it. it's one reason i hate cheerleaders, they're snobs. they bdon't respect anyone else except themselves.
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Posted: Fri Jun 17, 2011 8:18 am
Definition of 'sport': An activity involving physical exertion and skill in which an individual or team competes against another or others for entertainment
Marching band is a sport. All I gotta say.
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Posted: Fri Jun 17, 2011 9:05 am
We're trying to get band count as an athletics course because if you don't take athletics you have to take PE for about a year and a half. I think that for most of the time you actually work even harder than any football player or cheerleader because you're marching, you're thinking about which notes to play, and you're playing all at the same time which requires a lot of energy and can a lot of the times be extremely difficult. Our BD told us that in an 11 minute show, the typical drummer burns as much calories as an olympic swimmer. And yet it's not considered a sport...
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Posted: Fri Jun 17, 2011 9:57 am
KaiKashi Shion We're trying to get band count as an athletics course because if you don't take athletics you have to take PE for about a year and a half. I think that for most of the time you actually work even harder than any football player or cheerleader because you're marching, you're thinking about which notes to play, and you're playing all at the same time which requires a lot of energy and can a lot of the times be extremely difficult. Our BD told us that in an 11 minute show, the typical drummer burns as much calories as an olympic swimmer. And yet it's not considered a sport... We once had a few band-teasing football players join us for a basics block. we taught them how to do it. We started and after the first few commands they gave up because it was too hard for them.
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Posted: Mon Jul 25, 2011 3:04 pm
ClarinetGoddess KaiKashi Shion We're trying to get band count as an athletics course because if you don't take athletics you have to take PE for about a year and a half. I think that for most of the time you actually work even harder than any football player or cheerleader because you're marching, you're thinking about which notes to play, and you're playing all at the same time which requires a lot of energy and can a lot of the times be extremely difficult. Our BD told us that in an 11 minute show, the typical drummer burns as much calories as an olympic swimmer. And yet it's not considered a sport... We once had a few band-teasing football players join us for a basics block. we taught them how to do it. We started and after the first few commands they gave up because it was too hard for them. One time some band members were in a tutoring hall and they were discussing how band is a sport and that we should get pe credits like what varsity teams do at our school. When a football player and a drama kid over heard them. The football player was like "band's not a sport!" The drama kid also agreed. Then the band members said "how is it not a sport when we work our butts off more then you guys do and actually win competitions?" (At my school the varsity football team is known for its losing streak for the past couple of years. They lose almost every game but they still find time to think that what we do is not a sport!) So the other band kid asked "so where are you guys going next year?" The football kid said no where really but football games." "WELL WE'RE GOING TO CARNEGIE!" xd
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Posted: Mon Jul 25, 2011 4:14 pm
It's a sport of course.
I started this summer and have already been in one parade. Even in a polo and shorts, I was sweating the amount that I would in probably half an hour. And my head wasn't above my spine. It's easily one of the more stressful activities I have done, and I played soccer in elementary school. But aside from it being a sport, it's a great way to know people in the High School (Freshmen are still in the Jr High).
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Posted: Mon Jul 25, 2011 5:26 pm
ravens extreme ClarinetGoddess KaiKashi Shion We're trying to get band count as an athletics course because if you don't take athletics you have to take PE for about a year and a half. I think that for most of the time you actually work even harder than any football player or cheerleader because you're marching, you're thinking about which notes to play, and you're playing all at the same time which requires a lot of energy and can a lot of the times be extremely difficult. Our BD told us that in an 11 minute show, the typical drummer burns as much calories as an olympic swimmer. And yet it's not considered a sport... We once had a few band-teasing football players join us for a basics block. we taught them how to do it. We started and after the first few commands they gave up because it was too hard for them. One time some band members were in a tutoring hall and they were discussing how band is a sport and that we should get pe credits like what varsity teams do at our school. When a football player and a drama kid over heard them. The football player was like "band's not a sport!" The drama kid also agreed. Then the band members said "how is it not a sport when we work our butts off more then you guys do and actually win competitions?" (At my school the varsity football team is known for its losing streak for the past couple of years. They lose almost every game but they still find time to think that what we do is not a sport!) So the other band kid asked "so where are you guys going next year?" The football kid said no where really but football games." "WELL WE'RE GOING TO CARNEGIE!" xd That sounds about right. We get treated like crap when the football team wins like, 2 games and then loses. We're going to Carnegie too though surprised That's awesome.
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Posted: Mon Jul 25, 2011 8:16 pm
KaiKashi Shion ravens extreme ClarinetGoddess KaiKashi Shion We're trying to get band count as an athletics course because if you don't take athletics you have to take PE for about a year and a half. I think that for most of the time you actually work even harder than any football player or cheerleader because you're marching, you're thinking about which notes to play, and you're playing all at the same time which requires a lot of energy and can a lot of the times be extremely difficult. Our BD told us that in an 11 minute show, the typical drummer burns as much calories as an olympic swimmer. And yet it's not considered a sport... We once had a few band-teasing football players join us for a basics block. we taught them how to do it. We started and after the first few commands they gave up because it was too hard for them. One time some band members were in a tutoring hall and they were discussing how band is a sport and that we should get pe credits like what varsity teams do at our school. When a football player and a drama kid over heard them. The football player was like "band's not a sport!" The drama kid also agreed. Then the band members said "how is it not a sport when we work our butts off more then you guys do and actually win competitions?" (At my school the varsity football team is known for its losing streak for the past couple of years. They lose almost every game but they still find time to think that what we do is not a sport!) So the other band kid asked "so where are you guys going next year?" The football kid said no where really but football games." "WELL WE'RE GOING TO CARNEGIE!" xd That sounds about right. We get treated like crap when the football team wins like, 2 games and then loses. We're going to Carnegie too though surprised That's awesome. Really?!? Next year? Right in march 2012? That's awesome! xd
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