JV Team As We’re Screwing Around Before Practice Like We Always Have: What Would You Do Without Us?

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.

Hmu, got a long bus to competition

Marching Band Asks

1: What was the longest you’ve travelled for a competition/football game

2: What instrument would you be in if you weren’t on your current?

3: What’s your favourite weather to march in?

4: Does your school do bent-knee or straight-leg marching?

5: Do you play a different instrument in concert season than you do in marching?

6: How many scales do you know by memory?

7: Are you planning on pursuing a career in music?

8: Do you get new uniforms every year?

9: What was the name of your favourite marching show you’ve performed in?

10: Do you keep up with DCI? If so, who is your favourite group?

11: Have you ever done Winter Percussion/Guard?

12: Have you ever fallen while marching?

13: Why did your director yell at the band the last time they did?

14: How often does your band meet for rehearsal?

15: What’s your favourite stand tune your band plays?

16: Have you ever had a solo? If so, how did you handle it?

17: Have you ever done an instrument cam while performing?

18: Has your band ever received any awards?

19: What’s your section’s “hype”

20: Have you ever dated someone in your section?

21: Are you a section leader? Do you plan to be?

22: Have you had a crush on your section leader?

23: Are you a drum major? Do you plan to be?

24: How does your band director feel about you?

25: Do you get along with your section?

26: Have you ever tried out for all-region? Did you make it?

27: What was your marching show this year?

28: Have you ever slept in the band room?

29: What kind of fundraisers does your band do?

30: Do you have to put your hair in your shako while you march?

31: Are your uniforms comfortable?

32: Do you wear marching uniforms for concert season?

33: Do you practice as much as you need to?

34: Are you in any other extracurricular courses?

35: What instruments do your drum majors play?

36: How often do you practice?

37: Do you enjoy practicing?

38: Have you ever fallen asleep hugging your instrument?

39: Do you have a tradition you do before you perform?

40: What’s your band’s least well-behaved section?

41: How easy is reading a drill chart to you?

42: Have you ever gone on a band trip? If so, how was it?

43: Have you ever disliked someone because of the instrument they played?

44: Do you ever accidentally march while you’re going somewhere?

45: Tag your best band friend.

Over Yeeting

Here’s a tip, from an idiot freshman.

Don’t

Over

Do

The

Toss

Even

If

You

Can

Lights are expensive

You know the party is dying when people split into

Crazy party crew

The emotional support squad

Clarinets without a doubt. Seen one of those crazy kids yeet a triple with a CLARINET learned by ONLY WATCHING the weapons

-Growing-up-guard

what instrument is the most yeetable?

Nor will there ever be

just color guard things: bruised fingertips

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

PREACH!

Why is guard considered a "girl's sport" if it's considered a sport at all?

A few classmates of mine (football players, who else) had the gall to tell me today that guard isn’t even a sport and it’s “just a girl’s thing anyway”.

Sometimes I want to hit people like that upside the jaw. With my rifle. Although that would be cruel to Igg.

Guard is not a “girl’s sport”. Guard is a sport. The only reason there are not so many guys on my team is that people like those two football boys say it’s too “girly”, so guys don’t bother to join.

But one of my captains is a boy and he’s honestly the best person on our team. One of my best friends in guard, one of my best friends PERIOD, is a boy and he loves guard more than anything in this world. Guard has kept him happy, alive, and out of trouble, and it’s so much fun for him too. The third boy on our team just tried out today and you can see how much he already enjoys spinning rifle. He got near-perfect flourishes in under a day, people. That’s not something you do because a sport is “too girly” for you, a male.

Just because we bleed out of a few different places, just because we have the ability to create new life, just because we have slightly different bodies DOES NOT MEAN that guard is limited to us.

Just because guard involves dancing and spinning pretty things and wearing makeup DOES NOT MEAN boys can’t be in it too.

Fragile masculinity, people who are anti-guard, and people who think guard’s a “girly sport” get on my nerves.

To those people: MAN UP. Have you ever tried to spin a rifle? Have you ever gotten bruises on your arm from sabre? Have you ever pulled multiple muscles trying to master a dance move? Have you ever tried to do a routine with a very large and heavy piece of equipment while looking UP, AWAY from the equipment? And SMILING? Showing EMOTION? Running a show nonstop on a floor or a field for up to ten minutes?

I didn’t think so. Man up, and grow up. And try out for guard.