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If you would also like a member's perspective to help your parents understand what to expect, I marched in Surf 2004, 2005 and aged out with them in 2006. Feel free to email (LucysLogic101@netscape.net) or PM me.

See ... this is why there should be a history night. ... Or I just wasn't paying attention.

I went back to visit at the Thanksgiving November camp for the beginning of the 2007 season. During show and tell, there was a line of guys stretching from one side of the gymnasium to the other, all on snare. Behind each snare drummer was at least one other person waiting for their turn to play. Ridiculous.

Duuuuuude ... The staff bus is most definitely still SEPTA. And the air conditioning on that bus works better than any of the other buses!! I have no idea how they manage to do that. I don't think Bob will ever get rid of her =) She got swallowed by a sidewalk once (2001? 2002? dunno, wasn't there). Funny story, and I swear it's true. One night in 2005, we were driving through Jersey after a show at Giants Stadium. As we're driving, someone comes over the radio on the guard bus and says something to the effect of "Jersey Surf? What is that, like, a dance squad or something?" The band Nickelback was cracking jokes about us and how "ancient" SEPTA was. Dead serious. They must have had a show at the Meadowlands and pulled up along side of us.

I managed to set up an account and I was on two days ago, but for some reason I can't get to it today. It's not like I get a page saying their servers are down/overloaded. The page just won't load, my hourglass is stuck.

Well, these are for preseason. There aren't any show flags. I'm just asking for the typical measurements of a basic rectangular flag.

I have a whole bag of pre-cut flag silks that I'd like to sew into practice flags, but I was never given any dimensions. I know that half an inch to an inch for seams. How wide should the sleeve be? What should the dimensions of the flag be when it is finished? x feet by x feet? I don't need exact measurements, I just want to make sure that I don't screw up the spinability by doing it wrong.

I'm doing a presentation on (what else?) drum corps and in it I mention how any genre is game for a drum corps arrangement and show piece. That manipulation they did of the Jethro Tull album cover would be a nice clipart piece to illustrate my point. I can't seem to Google the image. If anyone can send the image to me, I'd appriciate it (Disclaimer: I've no intention of violating any copyright laws, I just want to present this power point to a class of 10 people). -hayley

I am unsure as to whether I will have internet access during this presentation. Any files or links that I can download and save? BennyASU - No, I don't have any dvds.

Emphasis on the word "little." I'm not looking for clips of a full show. Ideally, what I would like is something along the lines of the promotional advertisement that ESPN2 was running for the broadcast of DCI finals the promotional advertisement that Regal Cinemas was running for either '04 or '05's semis broadcast the segment that CBS did on drum corps and finals week (DCI posted something on their site a few days ago) Basically, what I'm looking for is a small video clip I can put in a power point presentation, something that gives a short visual explanation for drum corps. My presentation is based around an interview I did with my corps director and I thought I could use this video as a way to explain what drum corps is. I would use promotional videos that my corps has posted on their site in the past, but they're too long and they only display our corps (obviously). I'm looking for something that covers a broader spectrum, showing different corps, different aspects of the show. The promotional ads that ESPN2 and Regal Cinemas have done are ideal in their composition. So ... if anyone has saved any clips and can email them to me ... or if they have access to links that still exist for any of these clips, I would appreciate it. I'm not looking for any MP3s or video clips that require purchase or bootleg clips of a show. I just want what was once or is still able to the public.

We weren't there this season, but last season ('04) was . . . well, our housing site, the stadium, the people. It was all wonderful!!!! Made me want to move there (drum corps has dangerously exposed me in that way: I want to move to Denver, CO; to Nashua, NH; to Montclair, NJ . . .)

You guys weren't the only ones. After we got off the field from our show, my boyfriend managed to reach the buses before he blacked out. Our staff and staff from another corps grabbed him and shoved him infront of a fan with ice as they pulled his uniform off. I didn't know anything had happened until I saw him in that state. He looked like a zombie. Needless to say, he didn't go out for retreat. I was honestly waiting to hear a call that we would do a street-clothes retreat or something, anything would have been better than being stuck in uniforms. A girl in our guard couldn't go out either because the turf had burned through her shoes and scorched her feet. Yeeeeesh. I'll tell you what, though. It must have REALLY sucked to be Mickey on a day like that!

even worse is when you have to strip the poles' previous coverings so that you can put new colors on. when i was in high school, all i knew was contact paper, though there were a few painted poles floating around. but in order to keep things from getting too out of balance, we would only use one layer of contact paper. this meant stripping the poles if we wanted to change colors. which is precisely what what my instructors did my senior year. we had to get more poles and cover them with wood-grain contact paper (+brown-taped end caps and cheaters, the best look on mat or field, IMO). well, this white contact paper had been on the poles for YEARS, so not only did we have to strip the old stuff off, but we had to get all the sticky residue off the poles before recovering them. the stuff we used must have been acetone based because it smelled AWFUL. lotta elbow grease was needed in that. i've seen plastic transparent poles, so that spinners can put glitter or glo-sticks inside. I'd always thought it would be a cool idea to put glo-sticks in and then turn the lights out ... catching would be an issue, of course ... maybe blacklight then? I'll suggest it to Fantasia, heh. But has anyone used these? i'd expect them to break more easily, especially with a good swift wack to a person/instrument.

helmets!!! oh, i forgot helmets...well, i guess they fit in the same category as shakos and aussies: standard headgear, fitting with the rest of the band/corps uniform. my apologies to all you helmeted/aussielicious marchers out there.

newsboy caps, driving caps, jeffcaps ... whatever you prefer to call them.