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    Tour Shoes

    in DCI World Class Corps Discussions

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    I wore New Balance for 4 summers, and had some pain in my knees by the 4th summer.

    My age out summer I went to a running store - they watched me run, and "prescribed" shoes that fit my movement type and foot type. They ended up being $150+ shoes but they felt amazing.

    The shoes are the most important investment (except perhaps a large supply of melty gooey DCT!) that you will take on tour.

    New King marching horns advertised to "take the concert sound to t

    in DCI World Class Corps Discussions

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    I doubt there are even five lead trumpet player in 2011 in all of DCI who could play Spirit of Atlanta's 1980 lead sop book [maybe 3 who could play SOA's 79 lead sop book]. Spirit 80 was louder.

    So I lurk a lot, but haven't in a long time. I had to ask this question to the general DCP membership:

    Is Howdy that guy that says really dumb crap all the time an everyone ignores him because he's a "special child"?

    You must not work with high school kids now-a-days, because let me tell you first hand. With the right teacher (probably NOT YOU) they do some absolutely INCREDIBLE things. I know a program in my area that played in one semester - Molly on the shore, Harrison's Dream, Candide, and Trittico!

    I'll move on after this to ignoring the special child, and lurking.

    lurk...

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    New King marching horns advertised to "take the concert sound to t

    in DCI World Class Corps Discussions

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    Let's look at a show that many folks totally worship for power and volume. Spirit of Atlanta 1980. They had ~54 horns.

    Can you honestly tell me that 54 members can play louder on a dB level than an 80 member brass line now?

    Take a look at corps in the 90's which many consider to be the prime of DCI - 64 horns!

    If you can explain the physics of how 54/64 horns are playing LOUDER (dB) than 80(!!!) horns today go ahead.

    I would make a suggestion for some of you to turn up your hearing aides. >.<

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    Changes at SCV

    in DCI World Class Corps Discussions

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    Yes. Back to topic. While it is clear that the UH guys know how to teach and have produced a championship product in the past, I am not that certain that they do know how to get the numbers with the level of talent that they will be getting. Remember that when the cavaliers were winning horns (02 & 06) and DCI (01,02,04,06) in their tenure they were doing so with arguably the best talent in the activity at that time. When they came in (after the 2000 championship season) they inherited boat loads of talent and had shows that were arguably the most innovative in the activity at that time. They were essentially taking over what the blue devils are now. At SCV they are not inheriting the same kind of program. There will be lots of work to do in regards to recruiting and developing talent, not to mention the fact that they have to sell the corps on their way of doing things.

    ugh - typed a sweet reply and it deleted it when I tried to post.

    This is what it boiled down to.

    My small program (>75) has abysmal feeder programs and I believe the only reason we are able to achieve any level of success is because I try my best to use the "eddie green method" that I learned from marching at Cavaliers.

    The only other option is that I'm an incredible music teacher, but I don't want to take that credit because I've only been teaching for 4 years and I still feel like I suck.

    end.

    How often

    in DCI World Class Corps Discussions

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    More often than I have sex. How sad is that? But hey, probably more often than YOU have sex as well!!

    HAHA

    Nope sorry. I only check every few weeks tho - or when I need a laugh. I forget how long I've been a member, but I have very few posts for that amount of time... I wonder how many active lurkers have fewer posts.

    A: Competitive Inertia

    in DCI World Class Corps Discussions

    Posted · Edited by Bari-Player

    You probably shouldn't quote someone's entire post (when it is very long) just to post TWO lines of response.

    "yadda yadda

    ... (Bulk of the quoted post cut)

    Yadda"

    You're line here

    End.

    To stay on topic- I would say that CI is probably the single most important thing to gain in the activity, yes it is influenced by many areas... but you gotta be so good to earn the respect of fans/judges/community.

    CI is like reputation. It's very difficult to build, and very easy to lose.

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