Lubbock Winterguard
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I marched in Mariah that year (7th place IA). I have your show on DVD. Get with me at lubbockwinterguard@gmail.com
Brian
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You guys would not believe what I got my hands on. A friend of mine found several Beta videos from WGI and DCI. He brought them to me today. They included 1978-1983 WGI and DCI original video along with some Texas State Color Guard Association tapes. I won a Beta player on Ebay and can't wait till it gets here. These tapes have not been played in over 20 years but have been well taken care of. :P
Update: I got all of the videos but 4 copied to DVD before the Beta player passed on. The loading mechanism broke so I am on the lookout for another one. Still have 4 to go plus I have a couple of people that are going to send me there Beta's so I can copy them too.
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You guys would not believe what I got my hands on. A friend of mine found several Beta videos from WGI and DCI. He brought them to me today. They included 1978-1983 WGI and DCI original video along with some Texas State Color Guard Association tapes. I won a Beta player on Ebay and can't wait till it gets here. These tapes have not been played in over 20 years but have been well taken care of. :P
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i had a couple of weeks off and decided to look at my old high school band videos, and my drum corps DVD's. I realized over my colorguard career(for lack of better words)I have done some incredibly difficult stuff on rifle, sabre, and flag. I thought it would be cool if everyone could think back to when they marched, the most challenging and difficult moves you have had to do.
1976 high school band show, the flags ran up behind members of the band that were playing like crazy, during a 6 count drum solo in the music, in one move, we handed the flag to the band member who immediately tossed it over the heads of the band members in front of them to the waiting hands of the rifle and sabre line. It looked like to the spectators that the flag had actually been thrown from under the legs of the band member by the flags and over the heads of other band members. Very quick and tricky to the eyes. Same show and year we did a back to back reverse catch ala phantom in 1980. Any change in wind direction and...
1977 high school show the rifles throw a quad, and the flags are tossed under the quad. But not like you think. Imagine swinging the flag like a baseball bat but letting it go.
1978 This is the year my high school rifle and sabre line started doing all of the under the leg catches. We started off the line on one knee and as the fanfare begins we toss a double, rise up and catch it under the leg facing foward. We also had one completely blind toss and turn and catch between the legs facing away from the toss.
1979 Our bands show was full of colorguard tricks. All 24 sabres and rifles in one company front, every other person does a triple and we pass rifles and sabres from one person to the next and catch the triple. This you did without even looking at the equipment you are passing so the person has to hand it directly into your hand. Miss the mark and ouch!!
1980 Cavaliers- long flag tosses, and the climax to a drum solo that has to be seen in slow motion to believe what is going on. My high school colorguard juggled spun two rifles together including several single, under the leg catches in tandom with both.
1981 Cavaliers- Ever spin one rifle over you head, and another simultaneously in front of you. Its very tough and I had two knots on me head to prove it
1982 Cavaliers- Ahh the slow triple, roll and catch during the ending of the show. Also we used a rifle and flag simultaneously. If anyone has seen the Cavies 1982 winterguard show it was in the stratosphere in terms of difficulty.
1983 The Bond show- Also VERY high on the difficulty scale. High school band show had a record(I think) 14 equipment changes during the drum solo climax only, no drops to be found. In the last 15 counts so many pieces of equipment where flying at once that we needed an air traffic controller to take charge. I got alot of bumps and bruises that year.
1984 Cavaliers- Tossed my rifle over a prop and into the hands of another guard member(see video). We began incorporating intergrated movement with our equipment work that year.
1985 Cavaliers- Everything, and I mean everything about this show was hard to do. I felt like gumby because my body twisted, lunged, legs kicked, I jumped, and the equipment book was pretty difficult.
Come on, share your experiences.
Since you were in the Cavaliers during those years, all I can say is
Our guards nickname was Xerox because we copied everything you guys did. The only thing we did beyond what you guys did was we had a part in one of our shows where we did the toss, forward roll, and catch but we did the catch behind the back. Also, did a 1 and a half behind the back right handed while at the same time doing a 2 turn from a left handed toss and catch with right. After 20 years and about a hundred pounds, I can still do that trick but no more roll over stuff.
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I am looking for a Beta video player. I have run across a large number of old guard videos that are on beta and I need to transfer them to DVD. If anyone has one that they want to get rid of please email me at lubbockwinterguard@gmail.com
Thanks,
Brian
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It's so funny for me to see that Snyder High pic! When I was in high school, winterguard was dead in west Texas.....I had to beg for us to do WTAC and an exhibition show at NTCA!
Brian- Have you seen inside the Big Spring band hall? Rocky's got all these pics from the early 80's to early 90's from the old winterguard days in west Texas. It's really neat.
No, I haven't been to been to Big Spring since Mariah folded in 88. I went back to Snyder for homecoming and found out that one of the former band directors trashed all of the guard trophies that we won. We had a giant silver bowl trophy that we won a SWAC in 83 and that is the only one they kept. It really sucks.
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Strap + Strap + Bolt + Bolt
That's as simple I can make it without going into a two-page spiel a la 70's era manual of arms.
Ok Mike, what about strap + strap + butt + bolt = left handed double time.
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Snyder High School "Pride of the West" colorguard 1982. Nice bell bottoms, huh?
Help with a certain absurdly difficult rifle catch.
in CGP General Discussion
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Check out the link below. This is how we did the roll over. What we did was figured out how far each person would roll. Then you move that far away from a wall. You throw towards the wall to get used to how far to throw. Also, the reverse toss makes it much easier and much more graceful.