A Varsity At JV Captain: What’s Going To Be Your First Order Of Business With Your JV Team?

JV team as we’re screwing around before practice like we always have: What would you do without us?

Our Director without hesitation and with a stone cold face: Work on the varsity

How Do Northern Bands/Guards Function!?

I want to give a shoutout to anyone up in a northern band for having to deal with this weather all season. It’s finally fallish down here and we’re freezing alive, and anyone who’s dealt with bitchy weather is an impressive person, I couldn’t comprehend the difficulty of having to practice in snow or sleet, and if you have, then, your a fabulous performer and deserve more fine arts funding

What I’m bad at: most things

What I’m good at: somehow hitting myself in the face with absolutely everything

Saber time

BOA SA Lessons

EVERYTHING IS WRONG, COUNT IN YOUR HEAD

NEVER LOOK TO THE SCREENS

PERFORM MORE FOWARD THAN UP

DON’T FORGET YOUR SHOES ON THE BUS AFTERWARDS

MAKE A HORNY BRASS PUN BEFORE YOU LEAVE

YOUR PRE-SHOW RITUAL MAY NOT HAPPEN WITH TIME CONSTRAINTS

YOU WILL CATCH EVERYTHING WITHOUT WIND

TURN OUT THAT LUNGE! YOU LOOK FABULOUS

THE TUNNEL IS UNNECESSARILY SCARY AND ANXIETY BUILDING

Thanks man! Your Blog is pretty cool, has tons of relatable posts and stuff, and I think saxophones are second best sound instrument next to Flutes. But saxophone players tend to not have the negative connotation I’ve heard some flutes have. I hope you have a wonderful concert season (or whatever you band kids do.)

For my Band kiddos

Go follow @growing-up-guard . I love them soo much. They are a colorguard member (obviously) which means they are automatically cool. If you are a guard member or a band freshman you should totally go follow them!! Let’s get support for the band freshies!!

“I respect Patrica a lot more now”

- Said as I try to learn Drop Spins on rifile

Don’t forget the GODFORBBIDEN GLITTER

blood, sweat and tears is a term made directly for color guard

I found that out when I was crying due to sweat getting into my bleeding sabre gash.

Post-Season Thoughts

Never in my life would I think I’d be walking off of a football field in a stadium while crying.

Never would I think I’d be crying as two of the captains announce that they won’t be doing winter guard.

Never Have I thought I would have become so attached to what I do that it became a part of my personality

Never should I doubt in my ability to do something new

Never will I give up doing what I love

I shall forever cherish this season as not only my first season but also as a season where my I changed massively as a person from a shy quiet child who’d always be trying to hide from anyone to someone who’d smile defiantly at judges while performing.

I am so grateful for the chance to be in this family and this sport.

When you finally get that good run

But all of your other runs have been shit