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

The first drumcorps season that i have honestly been excited about from the beginning, since my junior corps days, lol. I cannot wait for BWCG09!

Lakota 1998 alter ego 2007? to name a few in wgi to hav the same theme with strghtjacket..never caused this much controversy..both amazing shows

I do not need another 5 stitches to my eyebrow!

Credit Crown, Tick PR 15 - Blue Devils 22 - Blue Stars 18 - Bluecoats 10 - Boston Crusaders 23 - Carolina Crown 10 - The Cavaliers 09 - Colts 20 - Crossmen 07 - Glassmen 24 - Madison Scouts 10 - Mandarins 06 - Pacific Crest 20 - Phantom Regiment 07 - Pioneer 19 - Santa Clara Vanguard 17 - Troopers

Completely disagree. That's where you see the most who has the best technique. and ability to cope with different variables. No yardlines? you should already know your show enough by now to make the adustment and follow the form. For the colorguard, who can fight that wind the most? I'm not saying it's going to be perfect, but you can see who has it in them to go after it. And also, who's going to let these conditions break them, or who's going to just go balls to the wall and have fun? That's how I personally felt. I just had fun in prelims because thats all you can do (with 4 stitches that night to boot)

so upset my corps isn't going! Being originally from Boston i would have loved to have a home show for all of my old friends to come :-( Maybe next year...i'm going to have to push my corps director to us to go next year. Marching Harrisburg Gay Pride will just have to substiute ;-)

not a jab at any corps....but i don't think it will happen. I haven't seen a concentration of top4-7 corps in one area ever. The fact that they compete against each other almost every week pushes them more and more...and judges can also compare corps compared to those other top-tier corps. Until DCA gets a better national network (see other thread) i just don't see it happening. None of the other corps, no matter how talented are competing with others that will push them to new boundaries.

Double Tick Spartans (sorry old rivalry...i am glad they managed to come out again this year...hopefully we'll see them in the top 3 Open Class very soon) 10 - 7th Regiment 08 - Academy 13 - Blue Devils 09 - Blue Knights 22 - Blue Stars 11 - Bluecoats 12 - Boston Crusaders 17 - Carolina Crown 17 - The Cavaliers 10 - Citations 11 - Colts 12 - Crossmen 10 - Dutch Boy 11 - Glassmen 11 - Jersey Surf 13 - Madison Scouts 10 - Mandarins 10 - Oregon Crusaders 10 - Pacific Crest 20 - Phantom Regiment 10 - Pioneer 10 - Revolution 07 - Santa Clara Vanguard 8 - Spartans 07 - Spirit 09 - Spokane Thunder 09 - Teal Sound 12 - Troopers 11 - Velvet Knights

bump...sorry, i just discovered this thread yesterday. I'm a "little" late. And it's the best thread dcp ever had. More pics pz kthxbye

once again..if you dont find it funny, don't come and just rant....:-) just having fun and clearly many people on here find the humor in it