Willie85 Posted August 24, 2007 Share Posted August 24, 2007 you're right....those football and hockey thing are pretty violent...maybe we should remove the violent aspect of tackling each other or smashing into each other.....they just don't seem very socially responsible to me...nor do they seem congruent with the context of trying to get one's ball or puck from one end of the field/ice to the other.... :P Between all the on-field violence, drug charges, shootings, and dog fighting it's no wonder professional and college football teams have such difficulty lining up corporate sponsors for their weekly network television coverage and getting cities and major universities to spend millions on building new stadiums for them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blueemrld8 Posted August 24, 2007 Share Posted August 24, 2007 what woudl you use that isn't bizarre? like Boo said, when you think about it, the activity in itself is rather odd.....why would you dance around with some fabric on a stick in time to music? Cuz otherwise they'd just be standing there and that would look more bizarre. (Plus, its Pretty ) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zackiedude Posted August 24, 2007 Share Posted August 24, 2007 That's because, as I've found working on the Renegades board, it's hard to get Division 1 folks to think outside the box when it comes to marketing Drum Corps to a larger audience (which is one of Renegades missions). It's why I told Daniel he's going to meet with alot of resistance w/ his ideas here. I just don't think he worded what he meant so that others would understand him. People got caught up in gun deaths so they kinda stopped reading. I think it would be good for the activity itself to move past rifles, but again I don't think drum corps itself is ready to. If I taught a bunch of Lisa's kids who had been trained on many things, then yes, I think the group would be able to pull it off. But again, kids spend years perfecting just a single toss on rifles and the talent will be there until high schools and independent winterguards change what they're doing... but seeing as WGI defines the activity as flags, rifles and sabers, I doubt things will change anytime soon. WGI would have to change first, and I doubt with the popularity of the indoor activity that that's going to happen soon. I guess if you look at SCV 04, yeah, the guys spinning those large wooden scimitars was really cool. They developed their own technique and everything for that. But then if you look what they do on rifle it's much more advanced than what they did on the scimitar, mainly because everyone already know how to toss 6's and 7's on rifle. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flammaster Posted August 24, 2007 Share Posted August 24, 2007 I think they should throw babies! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GuyW Posted August 24, 2007 Share Posted August 24, 2007 (edited) Han Solo (perhaps a student of Machiavelli) had the correct answer a long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away: "Nothin' beats a good blaster, kid" Edited August 24, 2007 by GuyW Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
danielray Posted August 24, 2007 Author Share Posted August 24, 2007 Yes...except your pictures are all pictures from band catolgs, advertising uniforms. ANYONE looking at those is going to be looking at a uniform catalog....and if they are looking at a uniform catalog, they are probably pretty familiar with what they are looking at!and further, even if for some odd reason they thought it was a clothin magazine instead of specialised uniforms, they are going ot be more taken aback by the funny looking clothes than teh wooden rifle! Sorry, your arguement makes no sense whatsoever. www.google.com www.gooogle.com + drumcorps ww.gooogle.com + drumcorps = fjm fjm = cheese Anyone with Google looking up drum corps, say, for example, a journalist, will come across this cheesy nonsense within a couple of pages of search. 9.9 times out of 10 they will have no clue about the activity and will draw their conclusions from these images (pics worth 1,000 words... and so on). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Willie85 Posted August 24, 2007 Share Posted August 24, 2007 www.google.comwww.gooogle.com + drumcorps ww.gooogle.com + drumcorps = fjm fjm = cheese Anyone with Google looking up drum corps, say, for example, a journalist, will come across this cheesy nonsense within a couple of pages of search. 9.9 times out of 10 they will have no clue about the activity and will draw their conclusions from these images (pics worth 1,000 words... and so on). Daniel- Weak. Of course, a keen journalist will scroll by all this useless info on search page one: Drum Corps International :: Marching Music's Major League™Non profit organization dedicated to the junior drum corps activity. Contains corps information, links, and related articles. www.dci.org/ - 58k - Cached - Similar pages Drum Corps PlanetDrum Corps Planet is the world's largest online community for the drum and bugle corps activity, featuring news - information - and discussion forums. www.drumcorpsplanet.com/ - 48k - Cached - Similar pages Drum Corps AssociatesProvides an organization for senior drum & bugle corps with rules and regulations which provide for continuous progress and growth for senior corps in the ... www.dcacorps.org/ - 7k - Cached - Similar pages The Cavaliers Drum & Bugle CorpsView photos and listen to audio clips of this all boys Illinois drum corps. Includes news, a message board, and an alumni database. www.cavaliers.org/ - 32k - Cached - Similar pages Welcome to Drum Corps WorldThe main newspaper of the Drum Corps World. Provides scores and reviews of contests. www.drumcorpsworld.com/ - 32k - Cached - Similar pages corpsreps.com - The Drum Corps Repertoire DatabaseThis site contains a searchable database of junior and senior drum and bugle corps repertoires, histories, pictures and scores. www.corpsreps.com/ - 24k - Cached - Similar pages Dave Sherry's Comprehensive Drum Corps LinksComplete Drum Corps Links! Presenting one of the most complete and fast-loading listing of drum corps sites on the Internet. users.ids.net/~dsherry/drumlist.htm - 47k - Cached - Similar pages Street Drum Corps Self-Titled Debut Album In Stores Now!Want to come backstage to meet the Street Drum Corp for a private drum lesson? Then make sure you bid on the Street Drum Corp - Drum It up Package! ... www.streetdrumcorps.com/ - 11k - Cached - Similar pages The Concord Blue DevilsCorps comprised of division one, two, and three drum corps. Presents audition information, forums, links, multimedia, schedules, and contact details. www.bluedevils.org/ - 33k - Cached - Similar pages Drum and bugle corps (modern) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaA drum and bugle corps or drum corps is a musical marching unit (similar to a marching band) consisting of brass instruments, percussion instruments, ... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drum_and_bugle_corps_(modern) - 63k - Cached - Similar pages Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guard Diva Posted August 24, 2007 Share Posted August 24, 2007 (edited) by your logic then, we should get rid of the silly uniforms too..........or maybe we should get rid of FJM???? this is a reply to Daniel's post, not Willie's. Edited August 24, 2007 by Guard Diva Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
soccerguy315 Posted August 24, 2007 Share Posted August 24, 2007 I didn't read this whole thread, but... B ) Gun deaths among youth, particularly accidental, are the highest they have ever been deaths among youths are high. Maybe we should eliminate youths from DCI so it is more socially responsible. Guns don't cause the deaths. People handling guns that don't know what they're doing cause death. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LisaLisaMoMeesa Posted August 24, 2007 Share Posted August 24, 2007 I didn't read this whole thread, but...deaths among youths are high. Maybe we should eliminate youths from DCI so it is more socially responsible. Guns don't cause the deaths. People handling guns that don't know what they're doing cause death. An argument can be made that alot of kids in drum corps today don't know how to handle their guns anymore. :P Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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