Stick Stack
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They would not do well at all in performance captions, and that would pull down their design score. They wouldn't do well in the Guard caption either, the demand just isn't there.
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Perhaps, but the same FAQ page instructs that all participants must stay in the official housing site in same gender rooms, four to a room. It's not cheap to find hotels that have rooms with four beds.
PS: It also says the parking is free.
Yes, the parking is free! Thank goodness! To the above, that is, of course, assuming they're getting hotels with four beds... I mean, if it's a real drum corps experience they should have the beds removed and make people sleep on the floor!
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I also notice that the cost is not only a $400 fee and mandatory $10 warmup packet, but also a $14.35 transaction fee.
So, $424.35.
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According to their website, it sounds like drum corps and marching band training.
It's kind of confusing, it sounds like people are selected to do it based on their wording, but I imagine anyone can register for it...
Also, read the FAQS, they are very strange. Funny things I noticed-
They will take the keys from your car!
Also, don't break anything, or you will pay!
I recognize a few of the names of the clinicians, they are people who have marched Drum Corps and would be good instructors.
I think the $400 price tag is very expensive.
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So you marched Cavaliers, yet you spelled it horribly wrong, even after editing your post. I find that very strange. When did you march?
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Sweet! Green to white, like spoon, me, and the tenor. Or white to green?
Green to white. The Few. The Proud. The corps hoppers. Both corps were great.
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Nah! I just can't think of anyone who marched green team and white team in the last 12 years, besides us and a tenor player who marched like 03 or 05?
Um...I did.
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"There have definitely been problems within the organization, but from what I can tell, people are doing what they can to fix that. An entirely new staff top to bottom, and hopefully as the corps continues to improve we can attract more experienced members and keep hold of the ones we have for those years they want to march."
I agree. I've heard things are starting to turn around. It might take awhile though, that's what's so tough about it. When you get in a pit, you've got to claw your way out. If they continue to work hard enough and make smart decisions, I think they'll find their way.
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I'm know that a lot of kids know they can make upper echelon corps. they choose to stay where they are because to them, the Crossmen or anyothet corps for that matter, is more important to them than a medal
Yeah, that's kind of what I'm saying. It's probably better for them to stay at the corps they're at, they're less selfish than I am. I personally, wanted to make sure that I was spending 3 months at the best program I could. Personally, I feel like there are quite a few corps out there that have really strong programs. Crossmen is just not currently one of them. There's a reason why they are placing where they are.
I like Crossmen's show this year... sort of. They've got a lot of heart. But it's just so dirty. That's a lack of training and experience. This is tough to say because they have had so many strong shows in the past that just make your heart melt after you pick up your jaw from the floor. Perhaps they will rebuild it. Perhaps they won't. With only a select few seasons for most kids to march these days, it wouldn't be my top pick. But that's me.
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I have to respectfully disagree. If everyone had that attitude, "lower echelon" corps would never come back and would continue to wither away into oblivion.
Fortunately, not everyone feels that way, and some feel that it is worth the time, money and effort and ultimately very rewarding to help build a program.
There is a Crossmen guard age-out who I believe is marching her 8th season this summer. Now she personifies "special."
Fair enough. Let them spend their time helping build a program, it leaves more spots open for stronger programs, of which they'll never know if they could make and probably in the end didn't want to in the first place.
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Not meaning this as a personal slam, since I don't know the kid and don't know the circumstances, but if he were TRULY special, he would have stayed at Crossmen and helped build the corps.
Shame he didn't find what he was looking for at Crossmen.
If the Crossmen are stronger and worth the time, members will stay. You don't pay $1000's of dollars as a kid to help build a program.
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Yeah, but they're only Open Class.
So then, it doesn't really count?
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Or it could be because Rifles would make no sense in a Shakespearean context.
This show isn't "easy" it just has difficulty in other areas than we are used to seeing from PR.
AKA, the dance book is easily the hardest in the last 10+ years. The last guard book with dance this difficult AND good was 2001 Blue Devils.
They had rifles in Faust, didn't they have rifles in Spartacus? Weren't there guns in the Baz Luhrmann version of "Romeo and Juliet"? Including rifle in a show never has to be literal, and sometimes it can be awesome.
Also, the dance book is not at all the hardest in the last 10 years. It is effective! There is a difference. They are doing chasses and soutes with body shaping... it's not that hard at all.
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Of course it's an issue that members should be aware of (something that parents can influence before members leave on tour). However, let's not make the risk more than research is currently telling us.
When you marched, I'm guessing you stopped wearing sunscreen as the season went on because once you tanned...you didn't receive a serious burn from rehearsal, because you were tanned...there's not the same concern with that. The research I've read shows correlations between folks who had bad burns as a kid and an increase in skin cancer rates......not tans.
interesting. I pretty much never wore sunscreen at all, although that's pretty much my own fault. I also know people who did wear tons of sunscreen and still managed to get severe burns on their skin. That's the danger of fair skin for ya!
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I think this is an important topic. I don't agree with making people wear shirts, or really mandating anything, but there is a big problem out there. Here's the thing about leaving it completely to the members to wear sunscreen- after the first week or so of pre-tour, hardly anyone I saw EVER wore sunscreen. There were plenty of warnings from staff to make sure to drink plenty of water... but it's not really the same for sunscreen. I didn't realize that the long term effects could be potentially dangerous until after I aged out. I now regret not wearing sunscreen for 5 solid seasons at all. As much as people would like to downplay it, I believe there is a reason to be concerned.
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I don't actually remember seeing a 10 in the show at all... maybe an 8... maybe. Most of the tosses look more like 7's to me.
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agrees with dugg
stick stack - kinda kidding - I do understand and agree to a point. I personally think it's exhausting to pat these kids on the head all the time. in my day if you dropped you got a drill book thrown at your head..... LOL
but i do get what you're saying..... how about a golf clap instead of screams for mediocre? deal?
Actually, golf claps ARE my policy for that kind of stuff. Unfortunately, at the last show I went to, there was virtually no clapping until the world class. Then again, there was virtually no audience until the world class either... which is sad! Color guard is not just about the top class people! Then again, if you don't feel inclined to cheer for middle to lower tier world class, you're probably not going to appreciate watching the other classes one bit.
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another observation in the world classes are super talented performers being given substandard show design and poor programming choices.
So which guards are you talking about?
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i say we treat it like youth soccer and give everyone a gold medal and no score
Hardly... You're kidding, though, right? That would be terrible. Nobody's suggesting that everyone's a winner. I'm explaining why people clap for high tosses even when they're not clean.
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regarding the world classes,one thing people in the audience are doing is screaming wildly and applauding like trained seals for simple tosses that are caught poorly and without technique.haphazard catch positions,misplaced and over-rotated tosses [often involving even the most elementary of skills] are greeted with hysterical screeching,clapping and approval.can we please put a stop to this?
I say let people respond to what they want to! If they have poor technique for the class, the judges will respond correctly. There is absolutely nothing wrong with getting excited about color guard. Perhaps to a person who has been around the activity for a long time, this would be frustrating. But remember, to most High school students out there, even what the lower scoring World class guards do is spectacular. I remember when I first saw World class for the first time. Blown away. Should I have instead disapproved because of drops, inconsistent catches, etc?
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I think the part you are talking about was from Cirque. I don't have the show with me, but that sounds like the point where they used music from Cirque du Soleil.
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thanks will,great discussion here....
i love color guard and have for several decades [before most of you were born]
and i think it's important that we don't forget to embrace the humorous,suprising and less serious sides of winter guard especially considering that this is in many cases a youth activity. As well as world peace, existentialism, and shows about particle physics. The youths will have to be exposed to it eventually, so, colorguard's a good place to start.
Question: How does one actually emote existentialism on a flag, exactly?
Sarcasm aside, I'm pro-more fun. It's a good thing.
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I would love to see more fast spinning. As fast as it can go. Speed. That would be cool.
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I like color guard. I still think it's good.
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The show is fine. It's extremely literal, which is odd to me, but it's fine. The strange part is hearing girls cheering like crazy throughout the show, it seems very off. It crushes any mood they are trying to set. Can't do much about that though.
To not show it on the Fan Network is a mistake. Plain and simple. Beware that this is now an option for some of the other shows you've been looking forward to.
How do we know this doesn't count for future Fan Network regionals, finals, the DVD?