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I realize this is a bit off topic however I wanted to clarify that we did not lose due to a missing rifle although I may have mentioned missing one it is in no way rhe reason. We were flat, BD was fabulous. Of course so much more involved but I needed to clear that up.

76, 77, 78, 79, 80, 94

1976, 1977, 1978, 1979, 1980, 1994

Thank you!

I didn't read every post in this thread so I don't know if anyone mentioned this yet. If there was a drive-thru at either the BK Lounge or McyDees, 4 of us would go there, put our order and then proceed to the window. There was a piece of rubber that we had to jump on so that they would think there was a car there. We would even pull up with someone pretending to drive, 2 of us in front and 2 in back. The hilarious part of it was when we got to the pick up window the whole corps in line inside would see us at that window and some would freak, some were a tad envious, others thought "why didn't I think of that".

Actually they were mentioned I believe maybe page 3 or 5 by DCI kid.

By marches do you mean like "Fanfare Prelude"?

Does Drums Along The Rockies count? SORRY WRONG YEAR!

Really, I'll need to go back, I found it disjointed and dirty for them although I love them all years.....I felt the music was that deep music and the guard did pretty difficult stuff, but not so clean.

OK, so I believe Ralph Pace said it best: Practice does not make perfect, if you're practicing something incorrectly it will never be perfect. Practice something correctly and practice makes permanent....I'm paraphrasing here, I never forget that, it made so much sense to me!

No confusion or rambling, I love that you have an almost scientific explanation, way above my head. I do have to agree, in most cases, especially while on the competition field even doing something more difficult faster sometimes made it cleaner and almost easier because there wasn't time to think (IMO) about it or even time to make a mistake unless it was a drop. Usually on 1rst tour Denise would go thru e-a-c-h c-o-u-n-t, and where e-a-c-h hand was supposed to be. We'd go over and over it and generally the timing would come together so much better because each hand and angle was in the same place and we'd have conversations about where it should or end up being. It was a long and very draining arduous affair but sometimes when I watch the video, some of the easiest movements make me go OH MY GOD....it's like we had the same habits...it's not habit that I mean, it's something I'm unable to explain, I guess it might have to do with timing maybe, the way the rifle would go up ever so much during a move, but each one did it the same....guess I really cannot explain this part. Intangibles? I don't know.... I'm not going to apologize for hijacking this thread as I spent hours and hours scanning and posting pics...so I"m not going to feel guilty on this one!! ANYONE KNOW WHERE THE 1994 PICS ARE OF OUR REUNION CORPS ARE? I cannot locate them but saw them a few years back on DCP. They were taken from the side of the stadium while we were laying back to spin in Danny Boy, I'm dying to see them and also ask if I may post them to my Face Book? Thanks all!!!

I was wondering if there are any female drill writer or caption heads?

This pic for some reason made me remember the differences in styles of marching...I was thinking about this like a week ago while watching a few videos. So, if you watch Phantom Regiment (my era) their guards snap happened from their shoulders/using their equipment to kind of make the statement, kind of the same with Guardsmen. It was mostly the top of the body. Ours was more the total length of the body, the whole thing moved at once, top and bottom snapped together. I was watching the turns and flanks etc. and theirs was separate. Don't know why I added this in this thread or if anyone even knows what I'm saying, but if you go to the video it will make more sense I guess. All were hard core, but the differences were obvious during that era.

Does anyone know if this was the year that there was a male rifle member who would throw 10s and 12s thruout the show? Or was it maybe 73? I enjoyed it! Loved that corps!