Flag Guy

Shooting marshmallows at other guards on retreat..yeah I had a marshmallow gun....so much fun!

SA is ALWAYS going to be a bloodbath. There are too many guards, and with that, too many great guards to fit 15 in finals. The system WGI has is as fair as they can be, but inevitably, especially with this class, there will be guards that many people think should have gone on and didn't. My best advice is to not give up ONE thing. Because that one thing could be one tenth out of finals.

Have they always done that? That's a very lame idea to start with because now the winner from the first round will get into finals where someone in 8th place of the third round deserved that spot. ridiculous.

A couple of us marched in the same circuit with Salem Blue for a couple of years and have always seen him improve each season. But when we saw him in Trumbull, we were in awe, and wondered how he came leaps and bounds over last season...especially in movement!

A couple of us marched in the same circuit with Salem Blue for a couple of years and have always seen him improve each season. But when we saw him in Trumbull, we were in awe, and wondered how he came leaps and bounds over last season...especially in movement!

I TOTALLY agree with you on this. Remember also after 2002, all a class finalists got bumped to open. in 2003, guards that most likely would not have made finals if those other groups were still in a class were getting medals. There was a serious drop in quality of a class finalists. And also, after 2003, most of the guards that were bumped to open either folded or went back down to a class because they had a n abysmal year, because they weren't ready for open class

it's kind of true but you also have to look at the finalists from the past couple of years....alot of them were in middleschool or high school. I know people that won jewelry at wgi at 11 without the hardest show. It was designed for A class, and technique was hammered into them. I love the idea of compulsories, but not to the extent of figure skating lately, because that turned of of their shows into the same exact thing....you know whats coming up beforehand. another little tangent: I went to a regional lately where i saw a class shows taking design strategies from world class ie, having multiple little groups doing alot of stuff. There was no ensemble moments. In world class it works because of the training they have. in a class the technique isn't there and it just looks like a huge mess on the floor.

as a full-time job..no. as something you love..yes! I am going on my 10 year high school reunion without a college degree, but everything i have done has been worht it. Dont get me wrong. I am working slowly towards my degree. but m philosophy is do everything you can while you're young. i would have regretted missing out on everything that has made me who I am because of what everyone else thought as normal graduating in 4 years, getting a normal 9- 5 job. It's also given me time o think about what i do want to do for the rest of my life. time that i personally needed.

i started when my girlfriend at the time (dont laugh!) brought me to a guard show....i actually ran late and ha to get a ride from a couple of people from her organization's world class guard). I fell in love with it. It was only b class (IRA), but it was to a version of "Over the Rainbow" and I fell in love with the activity. I saw the open guards "Duel of the Fates" and the world guard's "Miraculous Mandarin" and realized how both beautiful and powerful colorguard was, and marched the next season. Because it was independent, there was no marching band season to actually learn, so I practiced in my local park and had my girlfriend teach me everything. as fortunate and thankful as I am that I started with one of the most recognized organizations in the activity, i still wish i started before i did. It felt like everyone aound me started out of the womb seriously. My friends started at 6. I got my sister involved in the cadet guard at 7. people who had already won WGI open class were younger than I was. And not that that matters. I just wish i ha more time to enjoy the activity i fell in love with before life and college and jobs got in the way.

Dont' call lame "early 90's"! Picture it: 2001. ECJ opening move. 12 foot swing flags with lame. Tropical storm force winds. THAT'S lame burn. :-)

If anyone saw Blessed Sac winterguard in 2004, their Matrix show, they used part of their music in the middle. Its good stuff!

i love Heat of the Day! I can't to hear it!

ONE WEEK! SOOOOO excited!

nothing is going to stop a full-blown smoke. Fortunately I marched corps that were very lenient. I know its a disgusting habit, so i didnt smoke near anyone anyways. But every water break was a smoke break for us smokers, even if 5 of us shared a cigarette. We had a big can we used as an ashtray, dump it in the trash and washed out....that was the only thing carrying that can, haha. But as long as we're not in uniform, noone cared, because EVERYONE smoked. Senior corps was even worse. At finals the colorguard has a little mini-banquet where we give out funny awards. Mine was "most likely to be smoking a cigarette under the first toss" haha. Senior corps actually was more strict about school sites and such, but when we practiced n our field, which is an abandoned paring lot, i would smoke every second i could. And for the first toss i was on the 15 and 6 from the back sideline. I thought noone actually noticed, haha. I burned quite a couple of holes in the practice silk tho.

or "the day you went away" i discovered it randomly on my ipod as im coming home from dca finals and burst into tears