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Yes, and it always seems to happen that way. I'm on gaurd and was dating a percussionist for a long time, and one of the other girls on gaurd is currently dating the percussion section head. It's always been like this for some reason.

We're at each other's throats constantly, yet tend to have inter-section relationships more often than not.

Not really at mine. Most of the drumline is pretty cool. When they're alone, that is. Together, they're rather annoying. But, in any case, they've learned not to date anyone in guard, since when they break up with our captain, we all automatically get mad at them. Yay for the guard sisterhood!

The only tension we have is in the fact that we have to share the gym during practice. Our school is fabulous at not providing for the winter band activities - even though we are a couple of the very few teams who win anything - so we have to be in the same spot.

Add that to the fact that we were kicked out of the band room so it could become the wrestling room and the new band room won't be done 'till the end of February.

Mmmmm. Delicious. 3nodding stare

I've experienced this in 3 separate high schools and one drum corp.

The guard always seems to not get along with the drumline(mainly the battery). Why? Well it's been different in all 4 cases.

School #1-not only did one my co-drum captain date and then break the heart of one of the guard captains, but we had 4 guys that were dating guard girls but broke up with them as soon as the drum captain broke up with his girlfriend. that created tension because the guard girls felt like the battery guys were being stupid. which they were(thank goodness I was in pit and didn't have to deal with that crap. odly enough the guard girls usually love the pit. it's so weird. me having been drum captain didn't make it nemore fun when we were having drumline meetings. Because I was friends with the guard captains and didn't sever the ties with them just bc my co-drum captain and his groupies did so) The entire season there was constant bickering between the guard and battery. "well she hit me on purpose. I took the same path I always take" Fun stuff

School #2-no dating between the guard and battery. Not so much bickering. Just jealousy. The guard and drumline both did indoor and the drumline always go their asses handed to them while the guard won all the time. The guard called the drumline lazy.

School #3-just about every battery guy likes,liked, or dated a guard girl at one point in time. This doesn't really create tension, it just makes things awkward when the drumline and guard have to share the gym during indoor. (which is a rarity. thank goodness) And on the bus during indoor. and during outdoor because the guard and drumline were mostly on the same bus. There's actually more tension between the battery guys because they fight over the guard girls. But there is some tension because the battery calls the guard lazy. Which they aren't. We just get worked like slaves. lol. There are the moments where the guard and battery get into mini-wars because 'so-and-so said this and this abt so-and-so and that's not very nice and he should apologize.' It's very interesting. Having been Drum-Captain for all four years has made this a difficult, yet fun, situation for me. especially when I was in pit because I was always the mediator between the two. If something happened during practice I'd have to stop helping the rest of the pit and run out onto the field before the guard captains killed the battery captain.

It just depends on the situation, how the two sections will interact with each other. I've seen some situations where the guard captains and drum captains were best friends(not dating, just really good friends). Sometimes it depends on who's in the two sections. Sometimes it might even stem all the way to the staff. If the percussion staff hates the guard staff(or vis versa) then the captains will hear about it and ,as a result, hate the other section

At my school, color guard and percussion are in love with each other, lol

Thats why its always a bad idea for percussion to share a bus with Guard, because they will basically be all over each other in a couple of minutes, lol

During fall season the guard and drumline have a friendly rivalry to see who is going to do better @ contests but during winterguard and indoor percission we love each other! A lot of our competitions are @ the same place so we travel 2gether a lot.

Okay, so this is pretty rediculous. Like, we only made colorguard an actual class this year (before it was after school) and we didnt at the time have enough people to just have it be us...so its us and the drummers in a small music room and the only other place we can go is outside. Now, we decided to switch off the room every other day, but when its our turn the drummers purposely take forever to get their stuff out of the room and go and then come in early and bang on their drums while we're trying to practice. It's so frustrating, especially since we NEVER interrupt their practices, AND for a matter of the fact 3 of our members (including me) are HELPING them out because they need a few people to play some of the pit parts in their competition song. OIY VEY.