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Post by NinjaBaker on Dec 25, 2007 23:43:19 GMT -5
My group is supposed to work on the floor sometime... hopefully soon. Hopefully I'll be around to work on it, since I am one of the few artists in guard.
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xxcrissxcrossxx
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Post by xxcrissxcrossxx on Dec 27, 2007 2:16:07 GMT -5
we just ordered our floor. =\ and our drill is supposed to come in from the writer around the 3rd...so between then and the 26th we will be working our butts off. but i'm excited, this is the first time our school's guard has owned a floor. its kelly green, and *crosses fingers* hopefully amazing. =) haha kelly green? the true irish green. our show's irish and we didn't even use that color. lol. how weird. and what the??? you order a floor?? hmm we paint ours ourselves. it always looks AMAZING though. and wow?? you hire someone to write your drill?? interesting. our instructor does all that. work, drill, and coming up with the [[basic]] uniform sketches and flag designs and floor design.
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Post by NinjaBaker on Dec 27, 2007 10:25:01 GMT -5
We hire someone to write our drill too. but we convinced our director to let us paint the floor ourselves.
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Post by contraltoguard on Dec 27, 2007 16:20:03 GMT -5
So much for our show.
The band director veto'd it because the lyrics said "on my back again, wanna stop but I have no choice" and it says the word "hell".
*sighs*
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Post by NinjaBaker on Dec 27, 2007 17:38:15 GMT -5
Jeez that sucks.
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Post by xxcrissxcrossxx on Dec 28, 2007 0:37:09 GMT -5
omgsh. that totally sucks. did you explain to him that you can take out those words when you cut the music?? i mean, cmon, stupid.
so guess what?? WE GET TO THROW A 360 SINGLE AND A HALF ON FLAG IN THE FIRST TWO MINUTES OF THE SHOW!! we also throw a 45 toss[[sort of how you start most flat tosses]] we actually do them one after another. like, first the 45..then the 360 1 1/2. =]]
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Post by moe on Dec 28, 2007 17:40:26 GMT -5
we just ordered our floor. =\ and our drill is supposed to come in from the writer around the 3rd...so between then and the 26th we will be working our butts off. but i'm excited, this is the first time our school's guard has owned a floor. its kelly green, and *crosses fingers* hopefully amazing. =) haha kelly green? the true irish green. our show's irish and we didn't even use that color. lol. how weird. and what the??? you order a floor?? hmm we paint ours ourselves. it always looks AMAZING though. and wow?? you hire someone to write your drill?? interesting. our instructor does all that. work, drill, and coming up with the [[basic]] uniform sketches and flag designs and floor design. hahha that is perfect irish color, didn't even think of that. what do y'all use for the floor?? I don't know of what we could use, cept for an amazingly hugggggggee tarp. lol. my instructor - not so good with the drill writing. like, we got through the past three years, but our scores would be a lot higher if we had someone who knows what they are doing write it. lol. but she does come up with most of our work (flag and really awesome sabre work - remember ibanana? she wrote our riffle work =D) we basically reuse flags year after year, or stow 'em away in the attic. its a big thing when we get new silks. lol. but our instructor picks those out too. with the uniform it kinda is between instructors and captains, the same with hair and makeup.
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xxcrissxcrossxx
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Post by xxcrissxcrossxx on Dec 31, 2007 19:25:07 GMT -5
yeah our hair and makeup is decided by our captains.. chris and bertles could care less unless it's looking a hot mess. lol. and we get new flags basically ever year. every season. although we do reuse some flags. like we reused our old fireflags from last year this year on longer poles. it looked alright. most of our flags are specially made to fit our show. and for the floor we use this GINORMOUS tarp.
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Post by contraltoguard on Jan 4, 2008 10:25:35 GMT -5
Seriously. It really doesn't bother me. The tempo for our old song was too fast for half the guard to comprehend. Our BD's a cranky man, he is. Also, our GD got all miffed that the song didn't wasn't as good as she had hoped.
We found a new song, and it's cute. It's by an artist who sang songs featured on Grey's Anatomy. "Keep Breathing" by Ingrid Michaelson. The counts are in varibles of three, though. XD
And we're painting the floor come next weekend. I'll take pictures for you guys if you want.
We're keeping Teal and adding in Navy Blue, Blue and Silver. =D
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Post by moe on Jan 4, 2008 13:36:27 GMT -5
ooh very nice. i like those colors. our song was in 3's last year too. what a pain. but we got used to it really fast.
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Post by moe on Jan 10, 2008 21:49:43 GMT -5
update: as of todays practice, I get to do a solo quint =DDDDD
we have this bench thingy in our drill, and people get on it at different parts of the show. (just so happens that the "benched" people are the two captains and two cocaptains =]) close to the end, i get up on the bench, and toss the quint, and the senior captain who is standing on the floor next to me catches it. ....in theory. we have yet to try it.... i'm good on the toss, shes not so good on the catch. =\
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Post by spartanguardie09 on Jan 11, 2008 16:24:51 GMT -5
Hi! My show this year is to the song, "I Hope You Dance" by Lee Ann Womack. I compete in the Tournament of Indoor Association (TIA) which is like, Delaware, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania.
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Post by moe on Jan 11, 2008 16:53:04 GMT -5
oooooh i love that song!!!!
wow you only do indoor guard and you're already sabre capt?? dang. nice job. =]
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Post by spartanguardie09 on Jan 12, 2008 9:59:50 GMT -5
Thanks! But I did marching guard this year and last year. But I've always played clarinet so I'm switching to that for my senior year b/c of a shoulder injury. I can still do indoor with the injury, though =]
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Post by NinjaBaker on Jan 12, 2008 12:20:22 GMT -5
I'd tell you what my floor looks like, but it'd ruin the surprise for Contralto Guard. So after we complete with them, I'll put up pictures. *evil laugh*
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