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Post by *CG*Cap. on Jul 17, 2008 20:47:32 GMT -5
we started performing on the field and we was doing good until the second song....... one of the Newbie color guard shift down the whole row when we was doing a flag change and i didn't have a flag OMIGAH i wanted to cry so bad but i didn't until i got off the field and cried like a little baby. has anything happen like that happen to some else? or anything worst?
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Post by Deleted on Jul 17, 2008 21:23:44 GMT -5
My friend flat-tired me
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flagcaptain
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Spin, spin, lock, dip, hope to catch, FAIL!!!
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Post by flagcaptain on Jul 17, 2008 21:48:51 GMT -5
rookies grabbed the wrong flag so I had to run all the way down the line during our rest to get it.  oh and one of our captains fell flat on her butt. |
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Post by Lprdgecko on Jul 19, 2008 21:14:16 GMT -5
This past year our guard had kites as part of our show, and when they were flying them, one got caught in somebody's saxophone. They took forever to get it out, while the show was still going on.
Luckily we still got 1st place though, lol.
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Post by Marine. on Jul 20, 2008 19:51:39 GMT -5
This year one of our sousas fell during a competition.
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Post by SaxGirl on Jul 20, 2008 22:26:16 GMT -5
My worst moment was probably when we were competing in Hersheypark during my sophomore year, and it was incredibly windy. The colorguard had Pilates ball-type things as part of their routine (they were supposed to be baseballs), and the poor girls had to try to chase the windswept balls around the field without screwing up their drill. Of course, the band was tripping over them, as well. We also had a pretty horrible performance. It was cold and miserable; our drum major was exhausted, we couldn't seem to make straight lines, and I think even the Olympic torch at the back field didn't light. It was just BAD. Plus, our lead trumpet player left his horn at the high school, so he had to borrow a trumpet from another band.  |
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Post by bandgeek101 on Oct 28, 2008 17:38:38 GMT -5
im new and its happened to me(rehearslas AND halftime)
....ive been triped by my share of guard ppl
....my shoe came off once and i triped, lost my shoe for the rest of the show, and ended up tripping sum1 else with my shoe
....i just flat-out fell over once when i was backwards marching with bad technique cuz i wa way too tired
....much much more
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sakura11irving
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Post by sakura11irving on Nov 30, 2008 18:14:43 GMT -5
Ho dang...
2007 at the Flagstaff, Arizona BOA competition, if you watch at the very end of the show (prelims), you can see one person near the front be ever so slightly LATE. I was freaking having a heart attack... >.<
Moral of the story: NEVER add body moves less than a week before a major competition...
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Post by Lprdgecko on Nov 30, 2008 21:46:15 GMT -5
^I can empathize with that... My BD added a pretty difficult body movement the LAST PRACTICE before our last competiton. One girl wasn't there so we had to fill her in and stuff. It was stressful. And the people who take a while to remember things like that forgot, and you can see it on the video. Oh well.
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Post by fruple on Dec 5, 2008 1:05:39 GMT -5
^I can empathize with that... My BD added a pretty difficult body movement the LAST PRACTICE before our last competiton. One girl wasn't there so we had to fill her in and stuff. It was stressful. And the people who take a while to remember things like that forgot, and you can see it on the video. Oh well. I know what you mean about adding stuff... Well, for drumline it was never the same show twice, and we sometimes just added in visuals we thought of during the bus ride there. However, the worst one was during this last marching season. We were standing at the gate, like getting ready to go on, and the directors like, okay, you know how I said we'd be singing at the end? Let's add that now. So basically, we practiced it like once to get the words right, and were told to just do it right after a new visual at the end. It sucked really bad, but we were too small to hear anyways, so it didn't matter. EDIT: And I just remembered, at one part, a guard girl was supposed to fall backwards to show how there was still gravity. And it worked. Because no one caught her. Scariest thing to watch, ever. |
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Post by animal on Dec 5, 2008 11:22:28 GMT -5
At the Covered Bridge Band Competition held in Oneonta, Alabama in 2007, the lead Sousa, in my daughters HS band, broke his angle right before the results of the competition were going to be announced. He was jumping up and down trying to get the band wound up. Needless to say, he was ribbed a bit the rest of the year by his band mates. Every time he is reminded about that, he still turns 5 shades of red.
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Post by clarinetlover on Dec 5, 2008 17:22:35 GMT -5
The biggest disasters were forgetting the amps needed for the guitars, and then when the DM forget to call us to attention before he started conducting the drum line to start playing. I stood around for a good 6 beats before realizing everyone else was moving.
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Post by jazztastic on May 6, 2009 21:08:55 GMT -5
Well, at the State competition last year.. Our band was having a really "off" day and we were missing a bunch of people as well. One of them had the runs really bad lol but was still able to make it there - except it was right when we were about to start. The DM was about to start conducting but she looks at me and I kind of give her this look that says "NO!! Don't start yet!!" and she trusts me and hesitates because I saw the tenor sax player run from out of nowhere, grab his sax from someone who brought it, and JUMPED THE FENCE, and ran onto the field. It was absolutely perfect lol. By this time everyone was trying so so so hard not to laugh, the first 2 songs were crap because of the loss of focus.
Still got a Superior though! Woulda been distinction if the drumline hadn't run into each other... oh well.
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tsaxmadness
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Post by tsaxmadness on May 7, 2009 17:46:19 GMT -5
Well, at the State competition last year.. Our band was having a really "off" day and we were missing a bunch of people as well. One of them had the runs really bad lol but was still able to make it there - except it was right when we were about to start. The DM was about to start conducting but she looks at me and I kind of give her this look that says "NO!! Don't start yet!!" and she trusts me and hesitates because I saw the tenor sax player run from out of nowhere, grab his sax from someone who brought it, and JUMPED THE FENCE, and ran onto the field. It was absolutely perfect lol. By this time everyone was trying so so so hard not to laugh, the first 2 songs were crap because of the loss of focus. Still got a Superior though! Woulda been distinction if the drumline hadn't run into each other... oh well. lol ;D GO TENOR SAXES! The worst moment at a competition my band has had was when in the last song the snare drum had a solo in the beginning and he messed up twice for not paying attention to the conductor. He just tapped it and stopped because he was confused. In the recording it just sounded like he had dropped his drum sticks twice. |
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Post by jazztastic on May 7, 2009 21:10:52 GMT -5
yep, and the thing is, NO ONE has ever seen this guy run. ever. and he's a senior. we asked him how he managed to jump the fence w/ his sax on and run across the field and his reply was simply, "I'm Mexican." haha  |
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