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 Posted: Tue Sep 22, 2009 2:04 pm
We use gridded drill books and ripped up bandanas/cloth as field markers. I used parts of an old white bed sheet so I could see my spots in low lighting (since our practice field doesn't have lights)
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Posted: Tue Sep 22, 2009 2:49 pm
We have flags of three colors, red, white, and blue. We have drill charts that we use. The squad leaders mark off everyone in their squad, and for the first form, squiggly lookin' in shape, adjusts in nature, we use the red flag, the white flag is for the second form like that, and blue is to finish. It works for us, then again we stomp them into the ground and make 'em flat. sweatdrop Plus, we are a high step band, which prolly helps.
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Posted: Tue Sep 22, 2009 3:10 pm
We use drill charts to find our spots and poker chips when practicing moving from spot to spot. It works very well biggrin
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Posted: Thu Oct 01, 2009 1:27 pm
we have a hugely effective way of learning drill
we are all given drill sheets which has each set marked for everyone over a grid. each space means a standard 8/5 step. we write down where our own spots are such as SIDE 2, 8 down from the hash, two over from the 45 yard line. for marking it we all have four cards, red(pink), yellow, green, and orange. all of them are brightly colored so we can see them easily and we clip them down with clothepins so its easy to keep down but easy to take off. we got like no less than 3 or 4 instructors at a time to help us with it and one or two of them wrote the actual drill so the come onto the field and help us
our school is kinda famous for having awesome drill and this is one of the main reasons
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Posted: Sat Oct 03, 2009 9:24 am
At the beginning of each season everyone is given a number. (ex. C41) Then we're given drill charts and we have to step off from the hashes. We stand in our spots and the band director checks us. We don't put any poker chips or anything down, we kinda have to remember it. Although we have kind of pockmarked field, so I'll remember by "i'm on top of the raised patch of grass or I have to go through the valley of death" When we're learning the show, we have zero points, which are spray painted dots eight in front of and eight behind the hashes. After awhile, we let the dots fade away.
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Posted: Tue Oct 06, 2009 2:42 pm
we have drill charts. and spray paint works wonders for us.
and we have different numbers of where we go and where we move etc.
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Posted: Fri Oct 09, 2009 1:47 pm
We use coordinate sheets, pretty much we just mark lines and have dots every four steps,
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Posted: Fri Oct 09, 2009 10:16 pm
We're actually not allowed to mark stuff on the feild. Our BD calls it cheating, cause we don't have markers on the day of the show. We'll set up a form, and he makes sure we're right. Then we just have to remember our positioning based on the people next to us. It's kinda scary.
It was pretty funny. At one practice, a couple kids were (discreetly) using pencils to mark their spots. Our BD spotted them, yelled "CHEATERS!!!" and chucked the pencils across the feild. XD
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Posted: Sun Oct 11, 2009 2:18 pm
We have 2 or 3 drill setters for every section, and our Director usually gives us all a small drill sheet.
We also use spray paint to set our spots. We've been doing it that way ever since I was a freshman.
We use 8 different colors in a certain order.
Then when we use the last color, we start over using the colors in the same order.
But by then, the first few colors are worn away. ( thanks to florida it rains alot so we have to get things done fast )
Black
Gold
White
Green
Purple
Silver
Orange
Red
I'm a junior now, and I don't see us changing the way we set drill.
cool
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Posted: Tue Dec 22, 2009 6:49 pm
We rub our feet into the ground and make marks biggrin
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Posted: Thu Dec 24, 2009 2:25 am
We used charts and paper tape, we learn the show at a fast level
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Posted: Tue Jan 12, 2010 3:13 pm
The section leaders and most of the directors on the field tell us our coordinates (based on our personal number) and we go to the spot.
We then mark it with whatever we decided to bring to band camp (they used to provide us with playing cards to use if we forgot). People can get pretty creative with that...I've seen florescent weighed down cards, popsicle sticks, pencil grips, pennies, poker chips, markers, crayons (those didn't work too well since they got stepped on), and more really weird things I can't even describe. Most upperclassmen like using people and landmarks as references though.
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Posted: Tue Mar 16, 2010 6:44 pm
In Italy, for thirty years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed,
but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, and the Renaissance...
We just set up by section. Our section leaders have drill pages and set the rest of the section up. I mark my spot by digging my heel into the ground.
I made a hole that some football player tripped on. He faceplanted. I laughed. Hard.
... In Switzerland they had brotherly love, they had five hundred years
of democracy and peace, what did they produce? The cuckoo clock.
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Posted: Thu Apr 15, 2010 4:22 pm
We use a drill book the first three days of band camp, and while waiting to make sure everything is set (takes two-three minutes because we are a huge band), we make dot cards. For marking my spot while learning, I use clothes pins and color them in bright highlighter colors.
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Posted: Thu Apr 15, 2010 10:50 pm
We've either gotten copies of the drill or individual drill sheets.
We've also used BRIGHT COLORED Duck Tape to mark spots in the drill when we're first learning it, but after a while, it becomes rather useless.
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