FieldofBlueDreams

You all say "wait till so and so gets their new ending and cleans their drill and bd and cadets are going down " ... Well... Wait till bd puts their new ending and cleans their drill too... As if they are just going to hang out and not get better until finals.

You know other corps have actual words and sentences right? Lol... Bd laughs like a demon during a seriously loud and angry part of their show that is supposed to be in hell and someone makes a topic? Seriously...?

i thought the same thing...

great article

maybe you weren't playing high enough or moving fast enough and your legs were trying to get ya movin! haha i never really had cramps per se in a show... however there always seemed to be 2 spots during the show that when we got there during run throughs or performances, i would realise i am just completely numb from the waist down and breathing like i just finished sprinting some laps. edit: cramps during circle drill in the beginning of the season were common. ouch :)

"when i was in NAM..." haha.. sorry :)

im pretty sure he knows what gush-and-go's are. im more inclined to think that he meant it like.. "gush and go? that sucks, we get water breaks" some corps dont make you get water and run right back... a 5-10 minute water break is more like normal for some of us ;)

not to play "devils" advocate, but i paid 1200 for tour fees last year... just sayin' :) edit: the grand total for my summer was 1300... 1200 tour and 100 registration fee. now, if we want to talk plane tickets, then add on another 1500 or so, but as far as corps fees, 1300 total.

there is no spoon. the answer to the GE conundrum is 42. back to you. :)

right... so when the crowd goes nuts for an alumni corps... you're saying that they played better than the corps who have been working on the same 11 minutes for 6 months? or when regionals are basically in some corps' backyard, the crowd response is basically going to be the same no matter what, just because they are the hometown corps, even if they have/had a bad show (qualifying statement: as long as the show is pretty good... a huge tear/shows that even the hometown is confused about etc. do not fall under this catagory). Using this logic of crowd response, why not just mail BD or SCV their gold medals for 07 now? dci finals in cali for the first time, you better believe the crowd is going to be ape**** over bd and scv. come on now...

No matter what devs do dcp will have something to say about it... i find it funny that in this basically meaningless poll people actually are telling other dcp'ers to team up and vote bd off. who cares that much? seriously.. regardless, i voted regiment. go california :)

there, fixed it for ya. :P

hmm, bd vs scv not so much these days... lot of members know other people in the other corps... bd vs cavies i'd say is the bigger one.

funny you mention that one... just a few nights ago a few friends and i watched that show. Watched the ending on slow motion about... oh... 12 times before it wasnt hilarious anymore. B)

crown. for the 8th time. lol

i agree... a lot of these are nice... but not "drum corps entities" for everyone. the scv star is cool, the corps songs are cool.... my picks: Mr. Crocker's voice and "the game". everybody who marches knows the game and his voice... no matter what corps you're with :)

"playing to the judges" i really dislike this argument. first of all, if you're marching in a finalist corps (especially one with potential for a championship) and you WANT that championship, #### yeah you should be "playing to the judges". However, it is unfair to say that they are the only people you play for. Sure, i want to win, and i'll play for the judges and play their silly little game, but dont think for a second that before i step off that ready line that i dont want to blow doors down and make people #### themselves from sheer volume and intensity. Its a necessary evil. Fans want corps to make them go nuts, judges want to hear clarity and perfection. You have to mix them both to be able to be competitive. Just go back to last year... top 3 seperated by only .5 of a point. Any sort of variation can send a corps from 1st to 3rd. As a corps, do you play it safe and make sure all the chords are perfectly tuned, that the drums are playing their easy book perfect and the guard is totally in sync... or do you play it a little rough around the edges and use more energy and emotion and risk those few precious tenths in any subcaption that could send you down the ranks? I guess the goal would be to do both equally well... however its been proven to be rare that the corps with the largest crowd reaction turns out to be the winner. Anyway, back on topic. Here's how i see it. Fans going nuts happens when something "special" happens. When a drill move comes out of nowhere and makes your eyes hurt wondering how the hell they did that... or when a hornline turns around from backfield and just blasts you against your seat with volume. Shows today are becoming too stagnant and there isnt a whole lot of new special going on... just the same ole, same ole. Sure, there are moments... but the moments you hear people going ape #### is when something truely amazing happens. What happens when corps fill their shows with things that used to get the crowd going? You get the reaction you're complaining about. ie- "oh cool, the cavies are doing their spinny drill stuff again... that was cool, in 2000." or "wow phantom is playing really loud... something they've always been good at". or "dude the devs screamers are amazing again". seen it, heard it... bring something new please. You cant OVERDO those special times when you feel like going crazy or else it becomes the norm and we sit around discussing why we dont cheer anymore. :) (im not sure that makes any sense to anybody else, but it does in my head haha ^0^ ) Corps need to innovate and figure out how to create the magic of watching or hearing something incredible that makes you want to lose it.

i dont think all corps make their alternates pay a full tour fee... also, announcing at shows? heh. that would make me horrifically uncomfortable. Sure, the person can probably learn the show... but how about jumping into the middle of all the horn/battery exercises? or the visual routine the corps has gotten used to? i would hate being with someone who (especially if this is mid-tour) doesnt know how to do anything we do. having an alternate allows you to have a member of the corps step up and fill the position, not inviting someone new into the corps and trying to transform them overnight into what you need. for what its worth, if kids didnt want to be an alternate, they wouldnt do it. its not like the staff is forcing anybody to do that... its an offered position and you can take it if you want, or leave and march a full summer with a different corps if you dont.

"The final round of voting for the 2007 DCI Classic Countdown will begin almost on Wednesday, Feb. 7 at noon CT" anybody else notice that on the dci site when you cast your vote? lol... it will "begin almost on wednesday" :P

True, but we try :)

No, thats still untrue. We dont plie on 4. You have to lose a little height to begin with going from still to running, but after that you're after straight legs with a slight bend in the middle to make sure your foot goes through without tripping you to the ground. The leg should reach straight before the toe touches the ground. Upper body does not curl over or squish like the dude in that picture but aiming for still as tall as if we were just standing or marching a normal sized step. If you want to see jazz run with straight legs check out bd 2006, the first loud horn statement of the 3rd movement. We're all jazz running with straight legs. Or well, just about any bd show you'll find straight leg jazz running. The sunglasses in madisons uniform is sweet, btw.

i was going to guess cavies or phantom by the way they squat when they run... hehe

likewise.

lots.

there. fixed it. hahaha...