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have any of you ever fallen down whie marching? any fun stories?

Well, my shoe fell off when we were learning new drill during practice, but nothing major.

For some reason the color gaurd thought it would be convienent to put their flags behind the pit, where ironically the clarinets have to march in a line, it was during a field show too. Me and a couple other clarinets saw them and stepped over them, but everyone else tripped and almost fell. (we got lucky ><)

Once during a performance.
At championships.
It FELT like I was down for an eternity, and I was front and center when it happened, but nobody in the crowd even saw it.

it was my high school's senior night. and the field was all muddy and not to long after getting on the field. i slipped and almost fell into the mud.

i haven't fallen, but one time, during a parade, the drummer in front of me did. She caught back up with us, then our BD ran through the band to give her her sticks. That story got in the yearbook this year.

I never fell at a competition (know on wood)

but at practice, you better believe it. I have two stories, one of which includes me.

1) It was my freshman year and there was a set where we marched backwards for too few counts with too many yards so we were running backwards pretty much (actually we ended up jazz running backwards). It was me, and two other clarinet girls who had it worse. I had to rely on the girl behind me to make it so I could. One day, she didn't. She fell short and I ended up stepping on her foot, she pulled it out from under me while I was still going and the girl following me ran into me. All three of us fell on the 50 in the center and they had to stop for us.


2) It was muddy and we were doing what is called a diamond cutter. This is where there is a diamond in a diamond in a diamond. The center and outside are going in one direction and the middle is going in the opposite. Its really fast and really difficult. Its pretty much Nazareth's trade mark move. Anyway, it had rained and we have a terrible field. We were doing this and the entire Tuba section fell into eachother and pretty much any poor soul around them. It was so bad. We have 4 LARGE Tubas (not sousaphones) and I believe they were in the middle diamond. It was quite dangerous

luckly I've never fallen....yet and hopfully I never do. I've almost fallen lots of times. All of then were when I was marching backwards. The person next to me in line hardly ever showed up so he really didn't know his sets. Oh we had this one set this year where the whole band went from a dimond to a stright line. Well our tuba player had to pretty much run backwards to make it in time. He was supposed to be next to me. The first few times we did that set he nearly ran me over. We got it in the end. I played louder if he was going to run me over and he could fix himself so he wouldn't.

No one fell down but it's funny. One time at pratice my bd had us all get in one line and march down the field with our eyes closed. That was bad. I drifed towards my friend Kiel and so did the person on the other side of him. By the time we got to the end Kiel had been pushed out of the line. The best part was that he got in trouble for not staying line and my bd wouldn't believe him that it was Cathy and I that pushed him out. We didn't mean to of course.