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  1. 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.
  2. 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".
  3. Actually they were mentioned I believe maybe page 3 or 5 by DCI kid.
  4. By marches do you mean like "Fanfare Prelude"?
  5. Does Drums Along The Rockies count? SORRY WRONG YEAR!
  6. 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.
  7. 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!
  8. 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!!!
  9. I was wondering if there are any female drill writer or caption heads?
  10. 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.
  11. 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!
  12. Sorry, I forgot to add that we during many of our songs went to I believe 200 bpm....Can Can 1977 and many others, I could be incorrect about the exact cadence....nothing compared to now! I am only talking about the corps I marched in because that was my experience.
  13. OK, so I'm not disagreeing with you however if you watch 1975 2-7, I see low mark time in many places, especially the rifle line....also the 4 or 8 count turn arounds were also done extensively in 1975....any thoughts on this Blackstar? I'm not doubting you however I will go to both 75 and 76 to watch again just to be sure of my memory.....
  14. I just screwed up again, so I'm going print these directions out! Thanks! You're so right about friend that didn't get to meet...so true!!!
  15. No quotes around byline in the above post....so sorry...
  16. P.S. I definitely understand what you mean about the nerves. I was the same way . . . though it wasn't as bad for me in corps as it was performing music solos in high school and university. That's when I wished a big hole would open in up the floor and swallow me up, thus rescuing me from the stress. Never happened, of course! The only times I was nervous to that level in corps was when-minute changes were made to the show right before we had to perform. I had a pretty good idea that I would never remember them all . . . and I was usually right! I always dreaded that, and cursed my poor memory! I know Sue, right? Loved those changes we would learn while marching in to perform..!!!
  17. Wow, you're right. There were so many great corps! Now I see why they wrote on the chalk board DCI after erasing DCN when forming DCI.... It should have been bolded out!!! Whew what a sentence...
  18. There are too many to name, but I must say that because Zingali made me feel like I was making progess, or growing, I'd have to give him the nod. In 1979 when we he was teaching us how to march in the middle of winter - , marking time was almost totally on the toes/supposed to be an even distribution as the foot is coming down so that our heads didn't bob. The heel almost didn't touch the ground. He called out Kathy Howell (the best) and I in front of the whole corps and began a rant and made us do it along with the heel toe roll. This type of thing was both good and bad. But to made to feel special regarding technique and "emotion" was a thrill beyond belief. Believe me, probably the next hour he was sreaming at me for something, but to believe you've actually "gotten it" was a thrill. It happened many more times with items used in the basic block. He was very generous!
  19. That's a fabulous story. What I don't or didn't like is when people assume certain things and state certain things and they have no idea what really happened. I guess I now feel like the cat that ate the canary. People are sometime in their own little worlds and talk themselves into facts that don't exist. I'm sorry if I'm sounding a bit bitter but I hate that I did something nice for people and then they believe it was talent that gave them certain positions. I guess that's what it is. I had some great years and a lot of them, and wanted others to get a taste of that, but no good deed goes unpunished. Sorry for this rant!!!
  20. REPLY Believe me, I had 2 older sisters involved with the BAC stuff along with my dad, I remember that as a young girl some of it scared me, but you're right, that was the way the game was played back then. It's wonderful that you'll be reaching 40 years....God Bless! I don't know how to separate quotes, so I bolded my responses....thanks for some interesting info, I enjoyed it!
  21. I know we will, and I hope it's sooner rather than later!!! N
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