yet more ramblage

[minkhollow]

First off - hey, randomfrog. To what do I owe the pleasure?
So I'm the guard assistant-ish person (in terms of getting their equipment on the field) this year. And sometimes I'll pick up a flag or a rifle or something and goof around with it. It's fairly obvious that I don't really know what I'm doing - I've been taught how to do drop spins twice and I don't remember it - but the stuff's still fun to play with.
Today one of the guard members told me I'm not that bad at it, considering I don't know what I'm doing. Go me! XD
Am out of ideas concerning RPage, and anyway Ade Celestina doesn't seem to be online. Maybe later (hopefully not hours later, though).
Music is entirely the fault of corialis, since she was discussing the band and their songs getting stuck in your head. Different song, though.

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[bcgphoenix]

Color guard! Eeee!

(Sorry, I was on my HS flag team for two years, so I had to say it *g*)

[minkhollow]

Last year we nearly killed a percussion judge with a hula hoop.
That is to say, one of the guard members did. I was well out of the way at the time. See, the hula hoops had painfully flourescent fabric on them, and the equipment change consisted of throwing them to the sideline, and it was a really windy day... the wind caught the hula hoop in question, sent it over the field commander's head, and it landed right next to the percussion judge. Was quite funny. He prolly though he was safe, on the sideline. XD
And today we had a dog barking in tempo along the way to the warm-up area. That was just brilliant.

[bcgphoenix]

*dies*

There was one time where we had practice just after a torrential downpour, so the football field was a complete mudpit. Everyone was slipping and skidding around, a few people almost dropped their instruments, one guy stripped off his shoes and marched barefoot because he couldn't take it anymore...and after we left, all you could see were these great muddy scars going up and down the field.

And then there was the one drum major who worked a "Suck it!" gesture into his salute without the director noticing...*nostalgic*

I never thought I'd say it, but man, I miss flags and marching band.

[minkhollow]

IALVATJ.
We don't have a football field to practice on - we sort of take over the parking lot after school. Sometimes people leave their casr in the spot we need to practice in, so it's very tempting to take the guard equipment to it. Oops! Well, you shouldn't've left your car there. XD
And one time... either last year or the year before I accidentally threw most of my flute across the parking lot. Pretending it was guard equipment, only holding on to the head joint... yeah. It didn't get badly damaged, at least, so I got to find it rather funny at the time as well as doing so now.
I know how you feel. Before I had stuff to do this year I was just hanging out in the bleachers, and it's not right, not having anything to do at halftime.

[shati.livejournal.com]

IALVAYA.

(A = 'anecdote,' for the record, because at some point I'll have to say 'IALVAYA' and mean 'acronym.')

[minkhollow]

One of the best things about watching competition tapes? Watching the percussion judges nearly get run over by the band. Usually several times, seeing as some of them like trying to keep up with the drummers.
Fast-forward and rewind are also brilliant, brilliant buttons for those things.