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 Posted: Thu Jan 13, 2011 2:05 pm
...if we messed up or were late on exicution...we had to do backwards laps around our whole practice feild...percussion was the only ones who had to do it with their drums on...pit could never mess up...i'm lucky i never had to do that...if not that it was ten push ups with an added five if you made the same mistake again...and again...and again...and during band camp weh ad to five then ten then fifteen...one person actually got all the way up to like 80 in one day...and that was for everyone...that stopped by the second week though...we were good this year...
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Posted: Fri Jan 14, 2011 2:55 pm
We had these things called drags that were used as punishments sometimes. It goes: march (at 8 to 5 stride) 8 forward, 8 back, 16 forward, 16 back, 24 forward, 24 back, etc. at a tempo of about 120. You'd have to do ten of them. Considering that we're in Texas marching in temperatures of 100+, it's pretty terrible.
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Posted: Fri Jan 14, 2011 3:48 pm
If one person talks, the entire band goes down and does pushups.
In this last season I had to run 2 laps because people in the sax section were talking. So we all had to run.
And then I had to run another because the instructor thought I was being irrelevant but it was an important question.
The worst is having to do circle drill for the entire length of the show.
If you know what circle drill is, you understand.
And for every person that's late to the first day of band camp, that's how many minutes we start earlier from our regular practice time for every after school practice.
Lots of people were late...
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Posted: Sun Jan 16, 2011 11:32 am
flutterkicks are terrible...
oh, and also, one time we each had to take turns dancing in front of the group. not terrible, just very embarassing.
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Posted: Mon Feb 14, 2011 6:19 pm
50 push-ups for being late to before-school band rehearsal.
And I did them all....
LIKE A BOSS. ;P
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Posted: Sat Feb 26, 2011 7:01 am
man, our punishments were never this bad ... we usually only had to do 10-30 pushups for each thing that was wrong ... there were times we went back to do drills when someone wasn't getting things, but we never had to run or anything
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Who is Puffer Fish Vice Captain
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Posted: Sat Feb 26, 2011 7:46 am
The worst punishment I ever had was being section leader. /kidding
They drove me crazy every day, though...
My director has two punishments that he's enacted over my marching band career:
He makes kids run laps around the entire baseball field if they piss him off enough. Only problem is that the kids who piss him off are the track kids who WANT to run. So that doesn't really work lol.
And if you never shut up/constantly screw around at practice, you have to be the last one to lunch/dinner and possibly sit by yourself (depending on how stupid you've been during the day). This got instated because of one guy who would never shut up, so he had to spend a whole week in the corner by himself at dinner, we felt so bad for him. But anyone who talked to him got put in the other corner, ahah.
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Posted: Sat Feb 26, 2011 7:52 am
Well... The colorguard and the band has different punishments. All the band ever had to do was like the maximum of fifty push ups per tardy and ten push ups for one mistake, fifteen for the next mistake, twenty for the next and so on. The guard had to do a hundred drop spins and one lap areound the field for every minute one person is late. If two people were late for a minute, that was two hundred drop spins and two laps. Thankfully, momma Keri was kind enough to only give us a max of six hundred drop spins and five laps. But that adds on to our lap and fifty push ups we had to do anyway... She had to stop doing that for morning practices because it took up too much time. But during sectionals, she would make us stay after to do all our punishments...
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Posted: Sat Mar 05, 2011 6:31 am
I completely forgot about Celebrations!
Now, when i say that, you might think "how is celebrating a punishment?"
Celebrations are named because "mistakes are the backbone of society. You can't succeed without first failing. So in this band, we will celebrate our mistakes."
How did we celebrate our mistakes?
10 pushups. Per mistake.
Luckily, this was individual, not full band. We had alumni and instructors walking aroud every time we had a celebration day, who would make sure you wre celebrating. It sucked.
However, if there was a particular set that was a bit rough for the whole band or an entire section, the band or said section would have to all do it, whether you messed up personally or not.
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Posted: Wed Mar 16, 2011 8:38 pm
Wasn't a punishment, but it was horrible nonetheless.
It was my first year playing tenors, so my back wasn't used to the weight distribution. It was the second day we actually had the drums on, and we were marching around our school's track (which is horrible anyway). We were also playing the couple of cadences we had prepared.
We went around the track 8 times, without any breaks in between. It wouldn't have been so bad if I was better conditioned for playing tenors.
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Posted: Thu Mar 17, 2011 12:35 am
Wouldn't really know if you would call it a punishment....Well I guess you could. It was from BOTH my teacher AND my parents. Back when I was living in New York, I missed a concert. I had no idea that I could attend it cuz I was on level 3 academic probation at the time which meant that I can't practice or attend any school related activities. I enter his class the very next day and he called me into his office and told me that I missed the concert...Blah blah blah....And it was very important...Blah blah blah....So he called BOTH my mom AND my dad and told them. I tried explaining to him that I was on Level 3 academic probation, but apparently his was an actuall acredited class....I forgot to mention all this took place during the DAY BEFORE SPRING BREAK! So, long story short....Since I missed that concert, my entire Spring Break was ruined because I was grounded for not attending a concert that I had no idea I could attend
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Posted: Thu Mar 17, 2011 10:27 am
Late to practice: 25 push-ups (additional every minute passed)
Instrument not present: 10 push-ups (depending on section)
Dropping instrument: 45-50 push ups (depending on section)
Marching incorrectly: 5 push-ups (more if needed/depending on section)
Section punishment (after practice): Four corners (a lap around the football field, 5 push-ups within each corner)
Not memorizing music: 5 push-ups (depending on section)
I can say the worst punishment would be having to freeze when backwards marching. Standing on your tip toes for 10-15 minutes without moving sucks. ^_^ especially if it's 106 degrees out.
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Posted: Wed Mar 30, 2011 8:13 pm
As section leader, I'd make my section -- and anybody else I caught misbehaving or performing badly -- do drills which consist of:
Push Ups
I decide when you go down and when you come back up and for how long you do them.
Mountain Climbers
Basically, you place your hands in front of you as if you're going to go down for a push up but instead, you push your legs against the ground as though running without moving. You keep doing this until I say to stop.
Dynamites
I tell you when to jump and how much time of rest in between dynamites as well as how many to do.
It was grueling and I'd change it up a bit as far as the time went depending on how much I thought the person could handle, but it got the lesson across quite nicely.
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Posted: Tue May 24, 2011 5:17 pm
PFFFFT. Those are nothing compared to what we had to do.
Our practice field is next to a parking lot. Separating the parking lot from the field is an old concrete curb. While watching us run through our show, our Coordinators usually try to balance and walk along the old curb. One of our Coordinators, Ben, was balancing on a particularly old piece of the curb. The curb, being old, broke away from the rest of the curb.
Now, this is no small piece of curb, a whole section broke off. The approximate dimensions were 10"x8"x8" - of concrete. Ben stopped us in the middle of us rehearsing. He told us, while holding up The Block (as we would soon learn to call it, and a dreaded name it was indeed), that if the brass players couldn't keep their horns 10º above parallel to the ground, then we would have to hold it.
Apparently me, being Trumpet section leader, was prime choice for the first to hold the damned thing. "My horn was 10º above parallel, though," I said. "I know," Ben responded, "You're the example."
And so ends the story of Sine the average-built Trumpet player, and begins the story of Sine, the Trumpet player with buff arms.
We couldn't let the damn thing down, either. If we did, more time would be added on to how long we were already holding it for.
Needless to say, it sucked. A lot.
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Posted: Tue May 24, 2011 7:14 pm
Sine Auctore PFFFFT. Those are nothing compared to what we had to do. Our practice field is next to a parking lot. Separating the parking lot from the field is an old concrete curb. While watching us run through our show, our Coordinators usually try to balance and walk along the old curb. One of our Coordinators, Ben, was balancing on a particularly old piece of the curb. The curb, being old, broke away from the rest of the curb. Now, this is no small piece of curb, a whole section broke off. The approximate dimensions were 10"x8"x8" - of concrete. Ben stopped us in the middle of us rehearsing. He told us, while holding up The Block (as we would soon learn to call it, and a dreaded name it was indeed), that if the brass players couldn't keep their horns 10º above parallel to the ground, then we would have to hold it. Apparently me, being Trumpet section leader, was prime choice for the first to hold the damned thing. "My horn was 10º above parallel, though," I said. "I know," Ben responded, "You're the example." And so ends the story of Sine the average-built Trumpet player, and begins the story of Sine, the Trumpet player with buff arms. We couldn't let the damn thing down, either. If we did, more time would be added on to how long we were already holding it for. Needless to say, it sucked. A lot. That is quite bad, But I know the point got accross, If I ever become section leader or a drum major in my next four years of band, I'm gonna be like that guy. Oh and what grade are you in?
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