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 Posted: Tue Jun 06, 2006 7:22 pm
well. band camp is in august and i live in the south so its like 95 degrees with a lot of humidity so it feels like 102. and we're outside for 4 hours. and then sometimes it gets really muddy, whick sux for scatter drills.
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Posted: Thu Jun 29, 2006 7:36 am
I live in texas so it getz hella hot down here. I think the worst conditions for us this past year was practicing on a field of a different school after it was just watered, with with killer bees trying to attack us. I swear our band director jumped a 15 ft tower to run from the bees. The rest of us just ducked rofl
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Posted: Thu Jun 29, 2006 6:30 pm
I really think our field beasts all y'alls, because about halfway through the season of football, our field was declared officially "unsanitary" and a major health hazard, so we no longer had home football games and had to go to other highschool's to play OUR home games...
The reason?
Sewers.
RIGHT underneath the field.
And when it rains in Oregon, it RAINS so the sewers overflow and when you march on the field, that 'aint mud you're stepping in...
But that isn't the worst conditions we've been in.
We've had those days that make it seem like God is pouring a bucket of water nonstop over our heads SIDEWAYS, and we've had the scorching 105 degree weather durin' band camp.
And don't get me started on how they had to cancel Finals at the Pacific Coast Invitational this year because of Sprague High School's muddy field and someone in my band breaking his ankle because of the mud's suction power...
My band probably hasn't been in the worst, but we're well rounded for marching in bad weather conditions....
All except snow and ice, which doesn't include hail because we have that too.
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Posted: Thu Jun 29, 2006 9:04 pm
Well . . .let's see . . .uhhh went on a trip to California and marched in a parade . . .it rained the whole time and it was really really cold and windy. . .[and I couldn't see cuz my glasses were all wet] . . .and I come from a warm place where the lowest it ever gets is like 60 something so I froze and my uniform weighed half of what I do and I had to buy new shoes . . . crying
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Posted: Thu Jun 29, 2006 10:52 pm
At the USSBA state championships it was raining like woah. Actually, it wasn't just rain. It was hail and wind too! The instructors tried to keep us on the bus until the very last minute because it was so bad. Eventually we got off and just as we started to warm up the lights went out. The ground was slippery and we could barely keep walking straight with the wind pushing against our helmet plumes. It was indeed fun.
I felt so bad for my dear old clarinet in that storm. We were told to break position and cover our mouthpieces (that is, clarinet and saxaphones) when we were walking on and off the field.
You know what our directors said as comforting words?
"If the power goes off, DO NOT stop and DO NOT run into eachother" Thank god we won for our division.
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Posted: Tue Jul 04, 2006 1:17 pm
yeah once i went to an astro turf feild at towsand and it was freezing and poring down raining
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Posted: Thu Jul 13, 2006 12:31 pm
We'll, we've never had to march in snow or even rain, but we have marched in about 40 degree weather, which nearly freezes your hands off. We also just got through marching in the 4th of July parade in Washington D.C. We spent in hour in our uniforms, then marched a mile, with a lot of stopping(we had to march in place). Did I mention it was about 95 degrees? Yeah...that sucked. But being able to march down Constitution Blvd with thousands of fans and on Fox News was well worth it.
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Posted: Sat Jul 15, 2006 10:58 am
It was pouring the rain/ice, the wind was blowing way hard, no guard gloves, and it was below freezing in a tank top with a metal pole.
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Posted: Sun Jul 30, 2006 11:37 am
Legolas_fan_ag I live in texas so it getz hella hot down here. I think the worst conditions for us this past year was practicing on a field of a different school after it was just watered, with with killer bees trying to attack us. I swear our band director jumped a 15 ft tower to run from the bees. The rest of us just ducked rofl same here, its so hot in texas and the bugs are HUGE
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Posted: Mon Jul 31, 2006 2:12 pm
It's hard to decide between the two mile long parade where it down poured the entire time (I had trouble playing my flute, my lip kept slipping around) and the highschool superbowl where it was like....literally twenty degrees outside. Needless to say, after the latter of the two, we were all numb in the fingers. And, the funny part was when we all started saying "Let's go home!" Instead of "Let's go team!".
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Posted: Fri Aug 11, 2006 9:52 pm
It rained while we were practicing for a competition the whole day last year. We found our competition was cancelled, so our director got us a slot in another one. We needed a score for chapters.
When we got there, they decided to tell us it was a standing-only competition because of the conditions. It was a normal grass field, so it was really muddy, and there was a pond stretching from one side of the 20 to the other.
The name of the competition was "The Hidden River Schuylkill Competition." Go figure.
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Posted: Sat Aug 12, 2006 10:30 am
So far, the worst we've marched in this year is rain. Once we had sectionals when it was pouring, which was alot of fun. I just took of my sweatshirt and marched in my tank top and swimming trunks. Then we had to set drill in the rain (which sucks majorly, cause we learn our drill by marking our dots with chalk first, and chalk-marks plus rain = bad.)
Last season, late september it got really really cold (I live in colorado, so the weather is phsychotic most of the time) and we were trying to march with the wind and a little bit of snow. I was out there in my trench coat, and most kids had their snow-coats on. They ended practice like an hour and a half early that day. Hehehe.
And then there was one time where we had to practice on our football field (which sucks hardcore. The yardlines are actually just big dirt trenches...) and it had snowed, so all the 'yardlines' were great big muddy swamps. We had to backmarch through said swamps, which is kind of death-defying. My sectionleader kept saying that if we had good marching tech, we wouldn't fall down/get hurt, and then next run through he totally fell down.
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Posted: Sun Aug 20, 2006 11:43 pm
Rain doesn't bother me at all. We've done shows in monsoon-like rain, I thought it was fun.
The worst was probably this past Thanksgiving- State Street Thanksgiving Day Parade in Chicago.
...Good ol' Windy City keeps it's promises, it was windy and cold. With the windchill, it was below 0ยบ. It was cold enough for the plastic pole caps on our flags to freeze and tehn break- letting our weights fly from our poles. I lost both end caps and one weight. sweatdrop
We're going again this year, and really, I'm not looking forward to it.
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Posted: Sat Aug 26, 2006 8:23 pm
Although I have marched through pretty much everything (hail, heavy rain, snow) I think the worst weather I've marched in had to be my senior year at one of the last comps of the season we were at Weaber State University ((up in Utah)) and it was raining so hard (hail included) that they had to stop the competition, and while everyone was leaving it stopped raining, but once they started playing again, it started raining again...
Another was when we were compeating up at BYU it was so cold that by the middle of the second song ((Minnimaly Speaking: Echoes)) I could hardly move my fingers, and a young freshman in my section was so cold she started crying.
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Posted: Sun Aug 27, 2006 10:58 pm
One field in my circuit is very muddy, and it's both slippery and sticky. One guy from another band broke his ankle trying to come out of a halt because his foot got stuck. Of course, he marched the rest of the show, but then finals was a standstill performance.
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