Gary1959

I attended the FFCC (Florida Federation) Premier in Orlando on last Saturday. Saw the Scholastic A, Independent A, Sch Open, Ind Open, Sch World, and Ind World classes. As usual quite a few performed without uniforms and many performances were a bit sloppy. However, Orlando Visual in Ind World was just great. They did their show to "Its a Man's World", they had a huge guard, about 36 or so, about half male, half female. The guys wore white suits, the ladies had dark formal style dresses and they used a number of large mobil frames that they hung from and tossed equipment over all over the place. From where I sat it was all organized chaos, dancing, explosive equipment work and one of the loudest audience responses I've heard in years. They were fantastic. Timber Creek HS in Sch W was very good, appeared in dance clothes - a Michael James guard I think, at least it was his style. Paradigm was back on the floor, (in Ind Open) after a couple of years. They were pretty good. They used exercise balls that they balanced and jumped on. I'm afraid it didn't work for me. The performers were good, but balancing gave it a kind of sloppy look - I don't see how they can coordinate that. UCF Pegasus had their first show as well. They were entertaining. Lyman HS used a really big teeter totter to good effect and had the night's best uniforms I think. Dr Phillips HS had a huge mobil box they did their show around. Apopka HS was well prepared - they used big metal slides in their show. Nease HS, Cypress Creek HS, Durant HS, Oviedo HS, and Lake Howell HS rounded out Sch A. Sch Open Hagerty HS, Olympia HS and Freedom HS were all pretty good. It was a good opening night. I left before any scores were given out. Ought to be a good season.