Penalty for Falling ? Famous Falls ?

[84BDsop]

Night of Magic 2006 - pick a fall, any fall.

A certain corps I used to be a part of may have had an individual do a full on slide into first base in Scranton, taking several folks with him and ruining a a few sets of white bibbers. It may or may not have been immortalized in DCW.

If you're going to throw in DCA corps, we can't forget that poor Cabs sop who took a header at 04 DCA prelims....he was pretty stunned for awhile until he got himself off the field...

[BOSMarcher]

The big time BD tenor fall was 04 on the exit.

My fav of all time wasn't at finals. Evansville, IN. 2003. Magic of Orlando.

The drums are crossing the 50 about 8 in front on the hash. End of the closer.

End snare player falls. All hell breaks loose. The only guy not to fall was the center who eventually stops playing and just starts picking dudes up by the harness. I think I heard several curse words. The end of the show looked like a yard sale of percussion equipment, sticks, shakos, and performers. They couldn't even cadence off the field until all the #### was picked up. The audience was speechless.

You must be mistaken, because that never happened. Maybe it was a different year.

[CloudHype]

There was I guy I marched with in Madison, who in 75 and 76 had two memorable biffs. In 75 prelims I think it was he fell down almost immediately off the starting line. Back then if you fell you were done, no way anyone was going to take a penalty since you were considered grounded equipment. There was even a photo somewhere of him being escorted off the field by a judge, his head down very low. Then the following year I think it was again right in the beginning of the show, he snaps down his sop and watches his mouthpiece fly off onto the field. No playing obviously.

Either I took some trumpet lessons from this guy or I heard this story during a lesson.

[bmroth1]

Hello All,

I was curious as to what the penalty is, if there is one, for falling during a competition ??? Are there any famous ones in the past that people talk about, or video of any online? Here is a fun marching fall we wanted to share from the film, "From The 50 Yard Line".

http://www.metacafe.com/watch/2071014/marc..._fall_accident/

Have a great Weekend!

Your Friends From The 50 Yard Line

Garfield Cadets 1984 Whitewater.....I was sitting up front watching them drop like dominoes

[OdeToArsenal47]

Funny story real quick. There's a senior in my band in the trumpets who's a section leader, and every year, it never fails, he screws something up really bad that everyone playfully bashes on him until the next year.

His freshman year, he went into Cadets mode and marched an entire show from start to finish out of step. This was at a pretty big competition and we have a fancy DVD of it, and there he is. There's even one section of that show where he marches in a trumpet line blasting a fanfare and he's the only one out of step.

Sophomore year, the trumpets had this really aggressive horn move where you shove your right arm out with your horn in your hand. It was an extremely cold day for an early competition, and everyone was freezing. He couldn't feel his hand, and when he does the horn move he literally throws his horn about 10 yards down the field. Luckily, he passed his horn on the march out and quietly picked it up.

Junior year, at the biggest competition which was in Memphis, we were mezmerized by the Liberty Bowl. None of us had ever seen a stadium that high (this wasn't the first college band competition we've been to, either), and that got a bunch of people nervous. Anyways, fast forward to the end of the ballad. We put our horns down on the field, stand at a attention for a few seconds, and then the battery kicks off a drum solo on the 50 and the hornline has a dance to go along with it. The first move on 1 was to do a Genie in a Bottle (around the plume! lol) and jump in the air, spreading your legs. This trumpet player got a little trigger happy and jumps up and does the Genie in a Bottle as soon as he hears the drums.

Senior year, at a smaller early competition, he jazz runs backwards, but slips and falls on, get this, a shoe left from the last band on the field. He does the splits, splits the bibbers, jumps back up and continues jazz running, all in step and in the period of about 8 counts at 185! When we saw that in the video, we all laughed, but that was one of the best saves I've ever seen. Luckily, it was prelims and the other band was disqualified for the shoe and we weren't penalized. We went on to dominate prelims and lose finals by .15 in a fluke.

[IllianaLancerContra]

Didn't Fiedler fall off the podium once during a performance when he was cavvies DM (79/80)? I seem to remember hearing about that - might have been DCI prelims?

[84BDsop]

Didn't Fiedler fall off the podium once during a performance when he was cavvies DM (79/80)? I seem to remember hearing about that - might have been DCI prelims?

I hadn't heard that one....I think Dave Bruni fell off a borrowed podium a few years ago, tho.