Stuff to do during cadences at football games?

[Trombonium]

heyyy there.

Well, after a football game we played at tonight, I learned that some of my section's members are quite annoyed by the repetitive nature of this dance that we do during every cadence.

I'm posting here because I need some ideas of what to do during cadences. Any fun ideas?

P.S. I've wanted to do suicides, but my section refuses to do them.

[tromboneking87]

I'm gonna run through a quick list of moves that we do in the stands and during parades. If you can talk your section into doing it, go for the suicides, they are SO much fun. Check this out...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=SBb7zxs68s0
Anyway, on to the list...
-"Churn that butter", hold the trombone by the tuning slide, slide on the ground, and churn it! You can vary the direction, speed, whatever works with the cadence.
-"Defense", we do this with our defense cheer, you move your instrument up to parade rest height, then attention height, and then "swizzle" your horn back down, rinse/repeat.
-"Rock out", pretty self explanatory
-"Led Zepplin Cheer", when the drumline starts this one up, we alternate leaning forward and leaning back, creating this cool wavy effect throughout the band
I'm having trouble thinking of all of the ones we do in the stands. On to the parade moves...
-holding your trombone in the crook of your arm, moving up/down and side to side
-"machinegun", hold your trombone like a gun and "shoot" it
-"Mario Party", turn your trombone upside down and try to catch falling items from the sky
-"Tusken Raider", hold your trombone above your head and scream
-"Ride the pony", self explanatory
-"300-style pump", "What is your profession?" "HOO! HOO!"
-"Remix/Pull", Put the trombone on your shoulder, wave it side to side, then someone yells "Pull", you slowly move it from left to right until you line up the target, then you "shoot"
-"motorcycle", go "vroom vroom vroom" with your trombone, can also work as a chainsaw
-"Strike a pose/Freeze", this one has been pretty popular the past couple years, while the entire band is rocking out, the trombones freeze in a cool pose, this can be really funny during parades, because the front half of the band just leaves us behind, so we have to run to catch up. All in good fun
-"Bonehead", put your trombone on your head like a dunce cap. You are now a bonehead.
That's all I can think of for now. I'll post more as I think of them.
By the way, here's some videos of us in action.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=EhXjt1MoXFs
www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Ci9rV2Q8B0
www.youtube.com/watch?v=70YRAUMl76w

[the_sousabone]

find a 4 count break in the cadence and chant your schools initials. 1,2,3,4 E B H S or something of the like. battly cry is pretty cool too. tap/roll off for the 8 counts or whatever it is, then yell for the next 8.

[spacermase]

My band actually has specific visual moves we do for each cadence (and there are a *lot* of cadences). Try to get some section leaders together (or drill instructors, if your band has them), and work out a uniform visuals.

[trumpetgirl0121]

One we used to do is 'Dig a hole.' The trumpet bell served as the 'shovel' and we 'dug' in time. I don't rember seeing how the trombones did this though. Also alternating horn flashes - every other person moves their horn in time but opposite of the person on either side.