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My friend quit football for marching band, and he says marching band is more challenging than football.
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Speaking of cheerleaders... My highschool pepband danced better than our dance team. We went to national competitions for our marching; the cheerleaders were just really good at dropping things. Marching band is fricking hardcore. Anyone who says it isn't a sport should try marching ( or dancing! ) and playing an instrument at the same time. |
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ToRI_AnN_ BETCH So...since I was told that if i considered marching band a sport to post about it the the sport forum..i am. Marching Band IS A SPORT! And if you swear that its not..take a look at cheerleading. Music is involved...steps and sets are judged...the only difference is people in the band dont run around in skimpy skirts that show half of thier butts! I bet if they did...people would be more than glad to call it a sport. This is a marching band thread. If you have come to bash people and swear that its not a sport...dont waste your time. We really dont care... u dumb blonde, all u do is move ur F**KING fingers and march |
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Hellz yes its a sport!!! I don't see the football team dong THREE a days for an entire week in the middle of the summer. And we practice twice as hard, and receive half the respect. Umm Its funny how we never receive any respect from the school we've tried so hard to represent with pride and dignity. When we get first place trophies and the football team can't even win homecoming...
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BrianMyyster ToRI_AnN_ BETCH So...since I was told that if i considered marching band a sport to post about it the the sport forum..i am. Marching Band IS A SPORT! And if you swear that its not..take a look at cheerleading. Music is involved...steps and sets are judged...the only difference is people in the band dont run around in skimpy skirts that show half of thier butts! I bet if they did...people would be more than glad to call it a sport. This is a marching band thread. If you have come to bash people and swear that its not a sport...dont waste your time. We really dont care... u dumb blonde, all u do is move ur F**KING fingers and march You do NOT just "move your F**KING fingers and march" You have to move your lips and carry the instrument too, smartass! And if you play trombone or percussion you have to move your arms. Marching is harder than it looks, well it should be if your doing it right. That and you do not just march you march in the form and in lines and you have to have certain step sizes at certain times. |
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BAND/gaurd/cheerleading IS A SPORTbut cheerleading not so much
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All the stretches, pilates, planks, and running we do plus the push ups for every mistake, i would consider it a sport
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It all depends on what you think tho......but iv been doing marchingband for 3 yrs and all i have to say is "Sometime in the future, football will be the halftime show."
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Sanity is Optional Look, I love the marching band. They're awesome, but they're NOT a sport. It's just them putting on a musical performance in a certain way. It is, by no means, an actual sport. Go join a serious marching band, not a slack one but a serious one, just be a helping hand or work in the pit for one year and you'll be arguing with people saying that yes it is a sport...which it IS. |
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sweddor BAND/gaurd/cheerleading IS A SPORTbut cheerleading not so much |
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Marching band sure is a sport. (: But I don't agree with what you say about cheerleading in your first post. Those girls and guys work hard, harder, even than we do in marching band at times. I think they deserve some credit. |
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Its probably one of the hardest sports! Anyone else who doesnt think so I want to see you go running for 3 hours and yell at the top of your lungs the whole time. My marching band puts in around 30 hours a week. (three days a week we ahve 3 hours of practice. We have around 5 hours on fridays for football games but if there isnt a football game then we have practice and then on saturdays there are competitions which we have practice before and when we get there so thats about 12-15 hours that day) Its more work then ive ever put into anything. we run miles just to expand our breathing range and our lung compactiy. We do hundreds of push ups to build our arm strength so we can hold our instruments up for around.....40 minutes! And if you dont know what a breathe up is....lets just say its a living HELL! My first year at band camp (6 days away from home. 18 hour work days) I lost 14 pounds. Im already little and I lost that much weight! So if people dont think its a sport then ******** them because their just mad because they cant handle it! SUCK IT! lol (Sorry I get so worked up about that. I am the biggest band geek ever. I have to be since I play 3 instruments and am Assistant Drum Major)
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wow, marching band post....bit surprised to see this. spent 12 years in it myself (last fall being my final season)
anyways, dont hate me, but i wouldnt call it a sport myself....tho, its just as hard as any sport out there. the challenges, physical demands, discipline are just as tough. I still remember marching on an old field in the rain, hitting some random holes/puddles that were getting mud up to my knees, and just having to keep moving, keeping the horn facing the right way, and not let it distract me. honestly, i challenge just about anyone to try to hold some of these horns/instruments up for 10 minutes straight(where im from, proper position was horns points to the press box, meaning above parallel) just try to stand there and hold it for 10 minutes...or even 5.....let alone a full rehearsal. this with out the heat, moving, playing, etc. I played a baritone, and due to where your hands sit on it, and how big it was to start with, its easily one of the hardest to carry (not to take away from any other instrument, everyone of them gets heavy fast..) This all ignoring having to remember your music for how ever many songs your putting on the field, remember your position, the positions of those around you, any visuals that may be in your show(couple years ago we had to do some michael jackson dance on field in the middle of a song....) anyways, i think this has all been pretty well covered, no point in me saying it all again. tho i am curious, how many have had to do 4 to 5 marching (4 steps to 5 yards, as opposed to an average marching pace of 8 steps to 5 yards, explaining for those who aren't in band and dont know, and i'm unsure how its taught in other places :p ) |
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Quatre47 wow, marching band post....bit surprised to see this. spent 12 years in it myself (last fall being my final season) anyways, dont hate me, but i wouldnt call it a sport myself....tho, its just as hard as any sport out there. the challenges, physical demands, discipline are just as tough. I still remember marching on an old field in the rain, hitting some random holes/puddles that were getting mud up to my knees, and just having to keep moving, keeping the horn facing the right way, and not let it distract me. honestly, i challenge just about anyone to try to hold some of these horns/instruments up for 10 minutes straight(where im from, proper position was horns points to the press box, meaning above parallel) just try to stand there and hold it for 10 minutes...or even 5.....let alone a full rehearsal. this with out the heat, moving, playing, etc. I played a baritone, and due to where your hands sit on it, and how big it was to start with, its easily one of the hardest to carry (not to take away from any other instrument, everyone of them gets heavy fast..) This all ignoring having to remember your music for how ever many songs your putting on the field, remember your position, the positions of those around you, any visuals that may be in your show(couple years ago we had to do some michael jackson dance on field in the middle of a song....) anyways, i think this has all been pretty well covered, no point in me saying it all again. tho i am curious, how many have had to do 4 to 5 marching (4 steps to 5 yards, as opposed to an average marching pace of 8 steps to 5 yards, explaining for those who aren't in band and dont know, and i'm unsure how its taught in other places :p ) Haha We did some of that this year. I was one of the lucky girls (out of three) who had 16 counts to move an impossible length while marching backwards. I had to learn how to jazz run a 4 to 5 backwards. Quite a lovely thing, especially when there are mud holes smile |
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Band, in any form, is a performance art.
Though, due to the low calibur musicians and music traditionally involved in marching band, I'd be willing to acquiesce to it being a sport, if you'd also concede that it is not an art in any way. It is more physically demanding than intellectually or musically, so it could be a sport in that regard. Not to mention that, as per Princeton's definition of sport: an active diversion requiring physical exertion and competition , it could be, with the word exertion loosely defined. Of course, so could eating, due to the need to lift and chew the food, and video gaming, due to the need to hold a controller and press buttons, or press keys on a keyboard and move a mouse. |
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