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So during one competition before my time in band, one of the guys in the drumline was marching backwards on his heels (he was a freshman at the time, but he learned from his mistake!) and he fell backwards, doing a somersault, and getting back on his feet and back in step without missing much of a beat. Apparently it was so epic that the judges didn't take many/any points from that.

Another time I just had an epic failure. This past season, I dropped a swing flag. They were really light things, and I was switching hands, and I've NEVER dropped one before, but I dropped it. I picked it back up quickly, but the point is that you don't drop swing flags.

this one's funny but gross both stories were at rehersal thank god:

one of the trumpets in my marching band a few years ago threw up right next to the bd and went right back up to horns up, omg when i heard that story i just about died laughing so hard!

one of my friends that was a dm in california (i'm a floridian). This is another barfing story. He had his arms up to signal the band to be in playing position and without putting his arms down, he sprinted to a nearby bush and tripped over the podium on the way, threw up, wiped the barf off his chin with his shoulder, and went back on the podium with his arms still up! none of the band members even flinched until they saw the huge smile on his face