noncolorguard guy

From my own experience, the people who tend to believe in the "Logan is a performing arts school" rumor are people who are within the color guard community and are not from Northern California. I don't recall anyone outside the color guard community or from Northern California calling Logan as a performing arts school.

I remembered when the 3,000 seat pavilion was finished. That was in 1986. Logan did not even have a color guard back then. It was built primarily because the old gym was outdated and could not fit the huge Logan population. I do know that the community in Union City has been very favorable in passing school bonds acts over the past several decades when compared to other school districts. The community always seem to pass any school bonds act that comes its way. For instance, a $55 million bond was passed in 1993 to provide technologies and facilities and $35 million in 1996 for even more facilities. Furthermore, another bond was passed in 2003 which will pay for facilities upgrades at various schools within the district. On the other side of the token, the community right next to Union City is currently in a teacher strike.

What is a "performing arts school" anyway? I went to Logan, and I sure did not have to take anything artsy there. Logan is a public high school in the New Haven Unified School District in Union City, California. Just like any other high school, the vast majority of people do not take any performing arts classes at all. I always hear this "performing arts school" rumor for the past half decade or so. I don't know what it is, but I do find it amusing. Perhaps I just have a different definition of the phrase.

This is an interesting question. To broaden the question to a regional level, I have noticed that there are some high school guys in the California and Florida regions. However, there are almost no high school guys in the midwest and northeast regions. On the other hand, the Independent World Class, such as Pride of Cincinnati, is a different story. Do my observations concur with others?

As someone who had graduated from Logan back before Logan had an official colorguard, I'm not going to vote in the poll. I do say that I enjoy watching Avon perform. I also liked their sense of class when Avon visited a western regional last year. They seemed supportive of the other colorguards. Also, ever since I had watched the DVD when Avon went to the World Guard class level for the first time back around 2001 or so, I always thought Avon had the potential of getting the Gold. I also do not like voting if I hadn't seen both groups perform. However, I do like this year's Logan's performance more than last year's performance.

I saw them at evaluations. My initial worry before the show was that Logan's show would slip down a bit this year. After the show, I was very satisfied. My worries disappeared. I'm not in colorguard, so I can't describe the technicalities of this sport. This is my futile attempt. In the opening scene, about five girls would stand on a box probably representing the bricks for the China Wall. The girls are evenly spread apart on the floor. Each girl standing on the box would be lifted up in the air by two other designated girls. The girl in the air would be lying horizontally. The Logan guys would be behind the girls. The guys would then throw their rifles up in the air over the girls and catch their rifles on the other side of the girls. Each guy would catch their rifles one by one from the left hand side of the floor to the right. Another trick was that the Logan guys would carry the girls on their shoulders. At the same time, the girls would be spinning their flags and the guys would be spinning their rifles. This spinning was not very fast though. In one loud scene, different sabre girls and rifle guys would throw their objects in the air while standing on their individual boxes. Just when they catch their rifles and sabres, the flag girls would slam their flags on the ground for a dramatic effect. In a later scene, some Logan guys would be standing on what seemed to be the China Wall on the right back corner of the floor. They would do a series of rifle throwing tricks to the remaining Logan guys standing next to them. I believed I missed these tricks since I was sitting on the opposite corner of the floor. Once again, this was in the evaluation show. However, I did see Logan Open's show and two of Logan World's shows up on the web somewhere, but I'm not saying where for obvious reasons. :sshh: Search and ye shall find! :P In their last performance, Logan scored an 84.5 in their local circuit on February 10th. Avon scored 81.3 in the Dayton Prelims on February 10th and an 83.9 in the Dayton Finals on February 11th. I think the two schools' scores are competitively close. noncolorguard guy