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Post by ilovemyflute on Jan 30, 2006 14:05:17 GMT -5
to the people that say it's not a sport thanks for agreeing with me.
prongs4band you don't have to be in shape to be in band. i have seen some really fat band people before. they are good marchers but they are deffently not in shape.
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brassqueen1988
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Post by brassqueen1988 on Jan 30, 2006 15:51:31 GMT -5
to the people that say it's not a sport thanks for agreeing with me. prongs4band you don't have to be in shape to be in band. i have seen some really fat band people before. they are good marchers but they are deffently not in shape. "In shape" doesn't neccesarily mean that you have a lean physique or a body like Brad Pitt. It means that you can withstand physical activity to a certain degree. Look at football players. A few of those guys are huge fat (not muscle) wise and they can still play the sport and go through the games. In my band there are some really big guys that march and can withstand it better than a regular sized person in band. I think that you have to have a tolerance for some strenuous physical activity if you want to march. This is just my opinion, by the way.
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Post by stickshifty on Jan 30, 2006 17:15:27 GMT -5
i think we should put marching band in the happy medium between sport and activity. we should call it a "spartivity." i think the same arguement can be argued (for lack of a better verb) in horsebackriding. some people feel that riding is a pasttime, an activity, but my hardcore riding friends will argue to the death that they and their mounts are true athletes.
i think its a sport in the way we (in our band at least) march sets repeatedly about (im guesstimating) a bazillion times on a parking lot with a heat index of 140 (gotta <3 memphis humidity) and i (i dunno about the rest of you) sweated off about 10lbs.
i think its an activity because i do band for the heck of it. if i didnt do band i wouldnt have a life- because band = life. band is a thing im good at, and it gives me an opportunity to enjoy myself (not on the parking lot though- in the air conditioned bandroom) with fellow bandies.
it all depends on how you look at the glass thats filled 50%. but thats just my opinion.
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Post by javelin on Jan 30, 2006 17:27:57 GMT -5
I'd have to say no even though I march DCI. That means I don't think drum corps is a sport either. This is because I think calling marching band or drum corps a sport is because we feel inferior in society because of the activity we do. If we call both activities a sport, we conciously feel accepted vs. carrying on our own and not caring what other people think. In Florida, it is in state law that your get .5 P.E. credit for being in marching band, and my school allows us to get letters in it. I think this P.E. credit represents that we are doing something physical that requires time outside of school. I think the letter represents the hard work we put towards it. I don't care if what I do is called a sport or not because I love what I'm doing. No one else's opinion matters. I somehow managed to overlook this post and I think it's one of the wiser pieces of text I've read for a while. I agree with this wholeheartedly. I was trying to come up with an answer to whether or not marching band was a sport when, in fact, it doesn't really matter. I love marching band, and I guess I shouldn't really care what other people think.
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Post by flyingbird on Jan 30, 2006 21:13:38 GMT -5
if poker is a sport then by all means...band is a sport.
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Post by SaxGirl on Jan 30, 2006 21:49:14 GMT -5
It's really all how you look at it. Here's a helpful piece of information from Wikipedia: "A sport consists of a physical and mentally competitive activity carried out with a recreational purpose for competition, for self-enjoyment, to attain excellence, for the development of a skill, or some combination of these. A sport has physical activity, side by side competition, self-motivation and a scoring system. The difference of purpose is what characterises sport, combined with the notion of individual (or team) skill or prowess." So, that being said, marching band is a sport. - We all know marching band is definitely physically and menally challenging.- Competition can include against oneself or in group participation, so that works. - We all love band - it definitely falls under the self-enjoyment category. - In marching band, members try to attain excellence by doing their personal best. - Marching band can help develop skills: teamwork, better playing, discipline, etc. - Physical activity. Band camp. Enough said. - Marching band doesn't really have side-by-side competition, unless you count drill downs. It's not a major aspect of it, so I'd say that's a strike. - We all want to do the best we can to win a title or to feel proud of all our hard work - self-motivation.- Lastly, band can have a scoring system. It is not necessary,, but can be an important driving factor. 7/9. I'd say marching band/drum corps is a sport. *steps off the soapbox*
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Post by Bassoon4Life on Jan 31, 2006 0:01:10 GMT -5
Calling it a sport would be downgrading it... I don't think any "sport" could ever give you the feeling that marching band does... Aren't all "sports" about winning anyways?
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Post by formerbandnerd on Feb 1, 2006 8:25:35 GMT -5
I say yes also, because at my high school, they say marching band is physically demanding enough to be counted as P.E. credits for the fall semesters.
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Post by ilovemyflute on Feb 1, 2006 14:13:41 GMT -5
yea your right about the in shape thing brassqueen1988. i just said that you had to be in shape (meaning not fat) because in my the fat people conplain a lot about how hot it is and how much work it is. they aren't really in that much shape that's why. but they are still good but would be better if they just shut up and play more. anyway's that's just my band.
stickshifty i guess you are kinda in a way right too. the marching part is a sport BUT there woudl be no point of marching if there was no music. and because of this it's an activity. a lot of activity's are sports in a way. in some you have to run or move a lot in, but there is always something in it that's not a sport at all, which makes it an activity. in the case of marching band, the thing that makes it not a sport is the music.
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Post by trumpetislife on Feb 1, 2006 16:47:36 GMT -5
im going to have to disagree with the having to be in shape thing... i dont know about other schools but for my school you dont have to be in shape. we really dont do ne thing that you have to be in shape for (except the colorguard) but i do think that marching band shoold be consitered a sport cus we work just as hard as people who are on sports teams
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Post by prongs4band on Feb 1, 2006 20:16:08 GMT -5
to the people that say it's not a sport thanks for agreeing with me. prongs4band you don't have to be in shape to be in band. i have seen some really fat band people before. they are good marchers but they are deffently not in shape. "In shape" doesn't neccesarily mean that you have a lean physique or a body like Brad Pitt. It means that you can withstand physical activity to a certain degree. Look at football players. A few of those guys are huge fat (not muscle) wise and they can still play the sport and go through the games. In my band there are some really big guys that march and can withstand it better than a regular sized person in band. I think that you have to have a tolerance for some strenuous physical activity if you want to march. This is just my opinion, by the way. Thank you. That's exactly what I meant. You see those "larger" football players who can withstand the pressures of the game. I think that's the same thing in marching band. I don't mean that you have to have less than 10% body fat to be in marching band or anything, you just have to be able to withstand the pressure both physically AND mentally. (The mental aspect of it being the more important one). I said I would post more later, so here it goes. Marching band, in my opinion, is a mixture of an Art (which music is) and a sport. So in my opinion, it's a spart. Taking an art and setting out physical exertion. The mental part being the musicality put into the music, and wanting to take the physical exertion for enjoyment. Or maybe it's a "spartivity". Sport+art+activity. I say it's in the category of a sport and an art.
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Post by tinkerbell on Apr 29, 2006 23:28:21 GMT -5
I say....sport. ESPECIALLY, this is the case for competition bands. If you're just playing at football games than maybe not, but for competition, DEFINATELY. Are you all about to tell me that I spend over 20 hours a week all fall running around a field while playing an insturment and trying to dress not a sport? That I spend over 40 hours a week during band camp and it's not a sport? Physical activity. Of course. It's hard, it's aerobic, you compete. And competing is amazing. You have your favorite bands and you pray as hard as possible to WIN the competition and beat your competitors. And when you lose, its sad, especially during chapters and championships. And that's my take on it.
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Post by bandveteran2008 on Apr 30, 2006 12:45:33 GMT -5
[glow=aqua,4,000]YES!!!!!!!!!!!!![/glow]
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Post by xolaurenrochelleox on Apr 30, 2006 18:51:44 GMT -5
The dictionary.com definition of a sport:
# Physical activity that is governed by a set of rules or customs and often engaged in competitively.
In a technical sense Marching band is a sport. And there have been studies showing that marching band has the same amount of activity as football.
If you march CORRECTLY is some hard work until you get it down. And you create muscles (well, more defined muscles)
so in basic form.
Answers may vary depending on what time you talk to me.
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Post by flyingbird on Apr 30, 2006 20:29:45 GMT -5
well, it really depends on what you are comparing it with...in most sports the players are not out on the court/ field the entire time, so we may be getting a more intense workout than say someone who is on the sidelines.
the thing that pisses me off is the fact that stuff like dart throwing, poker, and even some eating contests are labeled as sports. i guess in a sense it's good that we're not considered a sport...since it might be too complicated for the "average joe" to figure out.
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