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 Posted: Tue Nov 03, 2009 9:21 am
I have suffered a few injuries in band... all when I was drum major... the best one was when our band went on the road during playoff season. We were splitting the halftime show with the band from the other school, so we had to get on and off the field quickly. So when our bandwagon crew (the eighth graders who came along to help with equipment and things) was taking forever to put the podium together, I yelled at them to get out of the way and hopped on up. We did the song, everything was great, I gave the cut off and went to turn around to climb down... and the podium began to collapse.
Somehow I managed some manner of grace and rode it down and ended up sliding on my knees and hopping right back up. Everyone who was headed to the sideline was looking at me like eek and I asked them what they were standing around for- move! lol
Apparently the whole band from the other school thought it was planned because of the song. What song was it? "Surfin' USA" by the Beach Boys. rolleyes
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Posted: Tue Nov 03, 2009 3:03 pm
I havent really had any injures exept I tryed attacking my bf from behind a failed. i crashed to the ground so hard i couldnt breathe for the a moment xD That and in a song we had to dance and at the end we bow well my clarinet when staight up into the roof of my mouth and put a nice small hole on it.
My friends on the other hand. Dear god Dx My one friend finds every possible way to ball tap himself with his intrment, stand, and chair. My one friend tripped and did some ninja move and rolled around the ground for a while. My bf, he tripped and slammed straight on his face on the track when we were going up into the stands.
Last week my bf was playing his trupet and my friend took her hand and slammed it into his trupet while he was playing. There was a nice hole under his upper lip and it bled somewhat too. I was pissed at her for a mintue but my bf was fine. My friends are idiots xDD
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Posted: Mon Dec 07, 2009 6:22 pm
freshman year - almost got taken out by a guard member with a flag...twice.
sophomore year - migraines from marching
junior year - no marching because of migraine potential
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Posted: Tue Dec 08, 2009 8:43 pm
Had my sax connected to my neckstrap. Wasn't paying attention. Saxophone whipped back because of my neckstrap and the mouthpiece stabbed my face between my upperlip and nose. I sustained no injuries, luckily xD
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Posted: Fri Dec 11, 2009 3:38 pm
Oh, gawd!
First let's just point out that I played a bass drum in a Memorial Day Parade, and I am a very small person no taller than five feet and weight...not a lot.
We began playing the song "Louie-Louie".
One point, we had to march down quite a steep hill. I can barely see over my drum. There was a big crack in the road and I ended up stepping in it, not noticing it was there. I fall...
And I start rolling down the hill!
I couldn't stop! I ended up taking down a saxophonist and a trumpet...
No one bothered to stop me from continueing to roll, so I sped up in rolling... As I rolled down the hill, I heard squeaks for the clarinets, saxophonists and flutists.
And everyone just stopped marching and laughed at me as I continued to roll down the hill. Even my BD was laughing at me! sad
A girl scout troop ended up trying to help me stop rolling...and my friends have it recorded on their phones. =.="
I ended up with a sore back later that night.
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Posted: Fri Dec 11, 2009 4:01 pm
The ones on this page make me laughXD
One time I practiced all day on a saturda, and by the end of the day the inside of my lip was bleeding pretty bad. I couldn't play for a weekXD
This eyar I have almost been decapitated by a flag, which was funny because me and one of the bari saxes were marching forward, and a guard girl passed in front of him while spinning her flag, and then some clarinets who graduated the year before started laughing. so I'm just like "What did I do?" wondering what the heck they were laughing about. Finally, my bd stops us to have us work on another part of the show, and I turn to see the bari sax running back to get his plume from the ground. aparently, his plume was knocked off by the flag as he passed. I was pretty close to getting hit myself though. I could hear the flag whirling by my head.
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Posted: Fri Dec 11, 2009 6:51 pm
I've only gotten hurt a couple of times...
In 7th grade, I had to unload music stands from the back of a truck for our jazz band concert (I lost a bet) and while this one dude was handing me down a stand, he accidentally dropped it on me and it split my lip open pretty bad and cut my cheek about two inches or so. And then I had to go to the nurse at the school that we were playing at to get a bandage or something, and while doing so, I tripped going up a single flight of stairs bruising my knee (not that bad, but still hurt like heck).
My cousin was watching me practice my sax and I went downstairs to go th the bathroom. So when I came back up, he had hyjacked my neck strap and had it in his cheek like a hook (I have one of those straps that click shut when I release them) and he said 'look I'm a fish' and then it snapped shut. Okay that wasn't me getting hurt but it was still funny.
Oh, and this one time I was walking around a corner and at the same time so was a trumpet player, so I got nailed in the head by a trumpet.
Mainly I'm just a klutz, not really band's falt, I would just get hurt ayway, I just happened to be doing something band related.
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Posted: Fri Dec 11, 2009 8:25 pm
Our band had a moment that we now call, Drum Domino's.
My friend is the fifth base and this one part in the show all of the drum ling is moving up field in a diagonal and then stop at a pretty fast tempo. My friend is 5' 10" and weighs about 120, he is a stick! Well, this one practice at band camp, his back gave out under the drum and he kept going foreword instead of stopping. So he hit Megan, who hit hannah, who hit Jabarie, who his chris, who hit andrew, who hit cory, who hit garret, who hit tucker, who hit the matt, who hit nick, who hit micheal, who hit the lead flute Katie! And, as weird as it sounds, all the drums were fine! The people were a bit bruised, but the drums were fine!
Another one, one of our staff, Boof, nickname is a long story. Was standing on the drum major stand yelling at us, when it fell out from under him mid yell. We didn't start laughing until after he had laid there for half a minute not moving before hopping right back up. Also, the drum major was terrified of her stand the rest of the year!
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Posted: Fri Dec 11, 2009 9:59 pm
My bands show this year had props. They were doors, with just the frame. And each frame has a person with it, so they can keep a eye on it. Well, one day, it was very windy. And there was a prop behind me in one set. And the person that keeps a eye one it was gone. We were just standing there listening to our BD talk, when everyone yells, "Move!" I look behind me, and there's this big prop coming at me. Thankfully, it didn't hit me. But still. It was kind of scary. razz
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Posted: Sat Dec 12, 2009 6:34 am
Oh! I forgot about oru props this year!
We had two big i think they were canvas backdrops, and a smaller one, which all had metal frames and a large, dangerous pipe for stability across the back. In front of the two biggest backdrops we had risers, like you would find for a jazz band(actually, they were for jazzbandXD) With those, we had two saquaro cacti and a wooden bonfire.
Anyway, this particular day was super windy. we were practicing with our props for the first time. Well, there is a part where all the trumpets are on one riser and all baritones and trombones on the other. The woodwinds are doing a follow the leader swirly thing in front of the baritones because we had a few measures of rests because of the bari sax solo. All of a sudden, a few woodwinds get knocked out of the way by falling baritone and trombone players, who are laughing their heads off. Then, you hear a clunk. The bd stopped us and I turn to see the riser sunken almost completely into the ground on the front, and the backdrop on top of it. That is how we got a hole in one of our backdrops.
Also, our cacti should have been a bit more aerodynamicXD At another windy rehearsal(when our lights first decided to be stupid in the stadium and shut off halfway through our rehearsal) we ended up having about 6 peopl holding up those stupid things, and one, the same bari sax who got his plume hit off in my past post, got hit in the head.
And I do have some band injuries! In our second to last song, hoedown, me and a few other people have to pass between the bass drums at a backward march. So, we can't see them, and they don't care enough to help us find our way through them(or make enough room for us to get through.) Of course, i have to pass between the two people who never made their spots>.> So, almost everytime we did tha move, I was hit either with the actual bass drum or her sticks.
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Posted: Sat Dec 12, 2009 6:46 am
This past season when had some really windy days, we were doing one song and a color guard lost her grip on her flag. And since I was too busy turned around playing the vibraphone I didn't notice until it hit me hard in the legs.
Also had two Pit carts fall on one another, slammed into my knee. And another time a trombone player shoved a Pit cart into me, knocking me down.
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Posted: Sat Dec 12, 2009 8:39 am
I think it was 3 years ago i'm in a marching band and i played on a xylophone ( we walk with them yes i'll add a photo ) we were walking in 1 line and going randomly over the road. and then there was a tile that was a bit diffrent from the other and i tripped i felt with my xylo and landed on my knees very painfull. and the worst of it was that the pipes of the xylo were bend sorry for my english XD 
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Posted: Sat Dec 12, 2009 9:27 am
So, for a week or two our fiels were all muddy, the stadium, both practice fields and even the baseball field, so we were marching through a swamp. I felt really bad for the guard! There are a few points were they are on the ground, rolling onto their backs or crouching down, and one girl was just sitting there for a song because she was a late-comer, and these parts just happened to be on the mudiest parts of the field. And everytime somebody was wearing a white shirt, one day everyone was wearing our white band shirts. Needless to say, they weren't white by the end of rehearsal.
Then at the end of hoedown the guard was in a line on one side of the pit, and they threw their flags like missles in a cool supposed to be simultaneous arc, and one time our bd just happened to be standing in the fire zone. They hit him square on the armXD
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Posted: Sat Dec 12, 2009 11:07 am
we had a concert and i had to bring something back so i rolled the bass drum and it rolled over my foot! omg that hurt so bad, thought i lost a toe. and before the concert i dropped my sax (alto) in the hallway. that hurt me hard. i love rusty...
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Posted: Sat Dec 12, 2009 1:36 pm
I haven't sustained a VERY big injury but I did bust up my knee once.
We were at nationals, and the pit was backing up after the show.
I'm in pit, and we have a very very big electronics set up. I was wrapping a kat (electronic marimba thing) in a blanket for loading on the truck.
We have speakers on carts and I tripped on the edge of one and scrapped my knee along the rough wood edge.
The kat was fine though, and a friend helped me put it up.
A few band-aids and I was fine, though it was kinda hart to wear pants for a while... (my knee was really sensitive for 2 weeks or so)
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