What are the hardest moves you had to do?

[Misterstarsfan]

You didn't offend me. I was just hassling you. I understand now what you meant.

And, no, that WASN'T a flag! I used the word for lack of a better term.

[deftguy]

You didn't offend me. I was just hassling you. I understand now what you meant.

And, no, that WASN'T a flag! I used the word for lack of a better term.

Whew!!! I thought I had offended a fellow brother :) . I have a whole lot of respect for our 1984 horn and drum line. You guys worked really hard, and because of you guys we did better than all of the previous years I marched. It was that year that the cavies began there upward climb to the top 5. I was really glad, because I thought I was going to age out finishing at the bottom of the pack like we had done up to that point :( . Next time you want to hassle me, let me know so I can be a more willing subject lol

[LancerFi]

Luckily I aged out prior to doing this on the field, but spinning on our backs and kicking the rifle up (done during the end of concert in 81) was difficult. I believe other guards did this as well.

Also, for me catching a triple or a quad in a 1/2 split. We were practicing for the 79 season and it was just difficult to do both exactly together. Actually, this was also done in 81 just prior to the laying on the back schtick mentioned above.

I cannot say what was difficult really.

As Ralph Pace used to say practice doesn't make perfect, practicing something incorrectly doesn't make perfect. Practice makes permanent if practiced correctly.

However, I found many things difficult, like the rifle exchange On The 20th Century.

[uncle z]

i had a couple of weeks off and decided to look at my old high school band videos, and my drum corps DVD's. I realized over my colorguard career(for lack of better words)I have done some incredibly difficult stuff on rifle, sabre, and flag.

1983 The Bond show- Also VERY high on the difficulty scale.

Check out Chachi in his James Bond threads. Isn't that Pesceone to his left???

[Lubbock Winterguard]

i had a couple of weeks off and decided to look at my old high school band videos, and my drum corps DVD's. I realized over my colorguard career(for lack of better words)I have done some incredibly difficult stuff on rifle, sabre, and flag. I thought it would be cool if everyone could think back to when they marched, the most challenging and difficult moves you have had to do.

1976 high school band show, the flags ran up behind members of the band that were playing like crazy, during a 6 count drum solo in the music, in one move, we handed the flag to the band member who immediately tossed it over the heads of the band members in front of them to the waiting hands of the rifle and sabre line. It looked like to the spectators that the flag had actually been thrown from under the legs of the band member by the flags and over the heads of other band members. Very quick and tricky to the eyes. Same show and year we did a back to back reverse catch ala phantom in 1980. Any change in wind direction and...

1977 high school show the rifles throw a quad, and the flags are tossed under the quad. But not like you think. Imagine swinging the flag like a baseball bat but letting it go.

1978 This is the year my high school rifle and sabre line started doing all of the under the leg catches. We started off the line on one knee and as the fanfare begins we toss a double, rise up and catch it under the leg facing foward. We also had one completely blind toss and turn and catch between the legs facing away from the toss.

1979 Our bands show was full of colorguard tricks. All 24 sabres and rifles in one company front, every other person does a triple and we pass rifles and sabres from one person to the next and catch the triple. This you did without even looking at the equipment you are passing so the person has to hand it directly into your hand. Miss the mark and ouch!!

1980 Cavaliers- long flag tosses, and the climax to a drum solo that has to be seen in slow motion to believe what is going on. My high school colorguard juggled spun two rifles together including several single, under the leg catches in tandom with both.

1981 Cavaliers- Ever spin one rifle over you head, and another simultaneously in front of you. Its very tough and I had two knots on me head to prove it

1982 Cavaliers- Ahh the slow triple, roll and catch during the ending of the show. Also we used a rifle and flag simultaneously. If anyone has seen the Cavies 1982 winterguard show it was in the stratosphere in terms of difficulty.

1983 The Bond show- Also VERY high on the difficulty scale. High school band show had a record(I think) 14 equipment changes during the drum solo climax only, no drops to be found. In the last 15 counts so many pieces of equipment where flying at once that we needed an air traffic controller to take charge. I got alot of bumps and bruises that year.

1984 Cavaliers- Tossed my rifle over a prop and into the hands of another guard member(see video). We began incorporating intergrated movement with our equipment work that year.

1985 Cavaliers- Everything, and I mean everything about this show was hard to do. I felt like gumby because my body twisted, lunged, legs kicked, I jumped, and the equipment book was pretty difficult.

Come on, share your experiences.

Since you were in the Cavaliers during those years, all I can say is

Our guards nickname was Xerox because we copied everything you guys did. The only thing we did beyond what you guys did was we had a part in one of our shows where we did the toss, forward roll, and catch but we did the catch behind the back. Also, did a 1 and a half behind the back right handed while at the same time doing a 2 turn from a left handed toss and catch with right. After 20 years and about a hundred pounds, I can still do that trick but no more roll over stuff.

[Will]

Ok... hhhmm I think in high school we had to run from behind a backdrop ( a giant barn door!) and put the flag on our shoulder (while running sidways), bring it over our neck, throw and catch flat. Thankfully all of us did this pretty well.

hhmmm I remember in corps, we had some crazy body roll stuff on flag... can't really describe it... but VERY odd.. kind of goes around the neck, then under the armpit and ends up on the opposite side you started on... hhm I'll have to go try this again..

in high school we had to do ripples with 7' poles at a 4 step interval... and it all happened in like 8 or 12 counts.. all flat to the front, naturally... HAHA kind of messy, but fun!