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Wtf it's not a sport
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Yeah.. Isn't it like music? I mean you don't do sporty things.. You have more like a rutin with drums and stuff... In cheerleading you do situps and and do basketosses or to chartwheels or stuff like that, I think that's more sporty.. But hey, everyone has a different view on sports! And we all agree on you can love something like a sport or whatever.. ^^
You're completely wrong. We spend hours in the heat, run laps around the field and do jumping jacks and stuff before we even pull out our instruments. Our director probably yells at us more than a coach for a sport like football or baseball. We do more than cheerleaders. They're just more flexible to be able to do backflips and cart-wheels. We have people pass out every other week from heat exhaustion. We are drilled and disciplined. If we even speak a word on the practice field we will be punished by either running a lap for standing at attention. Marching band is just like the military only with instruments instead of weapons. We go through so much work and spend so many hours each day to get our show on the field. I bet you haven't even seen a band behind the scenes. We march in pouring rain, lightning and when it's 95 degrees out. You try standing perfectly still with your feet together and your elbows angled correctly for an hour straight. Try marching backwards on your toes or rolling your feet. Just because band has 'fat people' in it, unlike cheerleaders, and because you've never seen a good band practice doesn't mean that band isn't 'sport-like'.
I understand that we don't play 'against' anyone, but we compete just like cheerleaders do. If you've gone to a cheerleader competion, you can see that they have practiced hard and done well. If you respect the arts you would notice the same with a band at a competition. If you've only seen bands at football games, you're getting the wrong perspective; football games are basically a run-through of the show like we would do at a practice. We are only truely serious when the audience is silent and all you can hear is the echoing of the snair as we march onto the field. People at competitons respect us and are silent when a band is on the field, but at football games people could give a crap. I hear them talking and I see them running to eat their food so they can come back during 3rd quarter. You won't truely understand how hard the band works until yougo to the first dayof band camp and spend four hours straight doing the basics block or Medusa.
You got that right! And for all you guys, you'd better try marching on steaming hot asphalt in the heat of the day with at least 5 pound instruments, for 4 hours.
And by the way, it's 107 degrees. We sweat just as much as the football teams, we're just not as buff.
