But I have mad respect for the contra and euph chicks. I can't even hold a euph at playing position for longer than 10 seconds before my arms turn to jelly.
Two words...weight lifting. Helps a lot :). That, and conducting marching band helps too actually. I picked up a euph after this season as drum major, and it didn't seem heavy at all. Now contra is a different story, there's no way I would be able to carry that sucker around all summer.
To the contra chicks!