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Guard...my sanity, my life.
Lincoln Southeast Guard is the BEST ever. I love you girls FOREVER and EVER (no matter what)!
Southeast Color Guard is:
Allison Duke-Our broken finger this year. "Smiley" (10)
Amy Hill-Our only Senior. "Hilley" (12)
Angel Nies-Not really an angel. (10)
Elizabeth Stauffer-Miss Goody Goody. "Curly Sue" (09)
Jesse Ocker-One of Three Vets. (10)
Jessica Johnston-One of the shortest girls on guard. (09)
Jordan Miller-T-Rex Arms. (09)
Kayla Esslinger-Another one of the three vets. "Little Red" (10)
Lisa Gain-One of the tallest girls. Losing her to drumline next year. "Amazon Jr." (09)
Louisa Ehrlich-Little Louey. (09)
Melissa Jakubowski (Captain)-Last of the 3 vets. My best friend. (10)
and myself (Bailey McAllister)-(10)
Coach: Megan O'Neill
WE'LL MISS YOU NEXT YEAR AMY!!!!! You too Lisa. 
The Drums Majors and Guard Captain at Clarinda Iowa
Southeast Band
Lincoln Southeast Marching Band from Lincoln, Nebraska is the Number 1 band in Southwest Iowa. If that makes sense. It never did to me, but oh well. That's because Nebraska doesn't rank bands. In Clarinda Iowa at the Southwest Iowa Band Jambouree, we ranked 2nd in parade, 1st in field, 1st overall, and also received best brass line.
But! At our second most recent competition (LPS Marching Contest), we got 1's in both categories, and had it gone by points, Guard would have gotten 3rd overall out of 12. Not too bad eh?
Then at Nebraska State Bandmasters Association (NSBA) Competition, we performed the show of our lives, and received a catergory 1 Superior (Best you could get!) And out of the two dozen bands or so that were there, guard got 4th!!! Congrats kids!
LSEMB consists of over 150 kids. 2 Drums Majors (Formerly 3, WE MISS YOU SEAN!!!!), 17 Flutes, 20 Clarinets (I heart my Heather!!), 14 Alto Saxes, 5 Tenor Saxes (Including my bestest friend Matt!!!), 3 French Horns, 2 Tubas, 1 Bass Clarinet (Yay for Mark!), 21 Trumpets, 11 Trombones, 4 Baritones (HI BRIAN!), 5 Bass Drums (Screw you Nate), 2 Tenor Drums, 6 Snares, 5 Cymbals, 14 (or so) Pit people (My Mikey!!!), and 12 Guard Girls.
What Is Color Guard?
Color guard is spending 15 to 20 hours a week marching up and down a 50 by 70 foot area spinning a 3 1/2 pound rifle or a 5 1/2 foot flag. It's your free time to strive for perfection and hearing; "That's wrong! Pay attention! Try harder!" over and over. It is riding countless hours on cold bumpy buses and eating in more fast food restaurants than you care to remember. Sometimes you march with blisters on your feet, splints on your fingers, when you're sick or when every muscle in your body aches. It means being willing to try again even though you have just suffered a defeat, tears are streaming down your face and your heart is breaking.
Then another Saturday night come! Judges, instructors, other guards, and 500 or 600 spectators are waiting for your performance. For five or six minutes, every ounce of your strength and concentration are dedicated to making our family, friends, school, and town proud of your competitive unit. The demanding, endless hours of practice have been a prelude to this moment. There is the hope in your heart, "Please, let this one be ours!"
But color guard is much more than work and intense competition. It is closeness between young people that cannot be described. It is doing your best and knowing that you have your very own group of "fans" who you will always encourage and support you, Whether you win or lose.
Colorguard is Science:
It is exact, specific and it demands precise execution. A designer's drill is a chart; a graph which indicates x and y coordinates for constantly changing geometric shapes and forms in both time and space. Our equipment and props are always pushing the laws of physics with force and speed, action and reaction. All of this with an incredible control of time.
Colorguard is Mathematical:
It is rhythmically and metrically based on the subdivision of time into fractions which must be done instantaneously. We have angles and degrees, both acute and obtuse, sequences, ranges, and hypotenuse.
Colorguard is a language:
It is a visual picture alive with message and meaning. We use interpretive phases, sentences, and words many times with music which creates a most complete and universal language, to be recorded for others to see, feel, and understand. It is a language which is recited and shared many times both near and far.
Colorguard is History:
Colorguard can be influenced by the environment and times of it's creation, or it can reflect the past as well as the future. It can send us to a far away country or bring us closer to home. We are rich in our heritage and have forefathers as well.
Colorguard is a Physical:
It requires fantastic coordination of fingers, hands, arms, feet and legs; in addition to extraordinary control of the back stomach and torso; all of which are called to respond instantly to the sound the ear hears and the sight of the eye see. Colorguard surrounds around endurance, ability, strength, and balance.
Colorguard is a Sport:
A game which we play with others in which we share and we shine. Competing with ourselves to perform better each time.
It allows us to learn more on our inside on confidence and fear, self-esteem and self-image; as we get better on the outside with performances, people, expressing our feelings, and sharing our dreams. It is a chance to realize our attitude is what makes us or breaks us, not anyone or anything else. It is a kind of mind set with an increase awareness which challenges us to realize the potential in our selves.
Colorguard is Performing Arts:
It is a show which can be entertaining and enlightening! With directing, acting, producing, managing, and touring. Colors, fashion, flair, excitement, piazz, sophistication, and subtlety. Always realizing the traid of performance; audience, performer, designer.
Colorguard is educational
It allows a human being to learn how to take all of these things; some dry and technically boring, some difficulty and challenging; and use them to create EMOTION! The one thing that our world needs.
http://colorguardcorner.tripod.com/colorguard/id1.html
Ways To Tell You're In Guard
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1.You walk on step to all music you hear.
2.You spin pencils/pens/mops/brooms/pool cues, etc.
3.You have a drawer full of flag t-shirts. (Puffy Paint is your best friend no matter what drumline says)
4.You're constantly involved in fund raisers (wanna buy a candy bar?)
5.The term attitude has lost all meaning.
6.You know where every highschool in your area is located.
8.When you hear a song you've done a routine to you get estatic. ("I know this one!!!")
9.When you hear a song by a group you used you get estatic.
10.You've seen 3:30 in the morning many times.
11.Seperate checks in a restaurant are the best thing to ever happen to you.
12.You're lucky if your instructor gets your name right.
13.You're considered lucky if your instructer noticed your haircut.
14.You know how to wrap your own bandages.
15.You have a flag calus on your right palm under your small finger.
17.You have more inside jokes than any of your other friends. (Who needs sex when you have T-Rex arms?)
18.You can smile genuinly on command.
19.Your priorities are slightly askew. (Life is guard, everything else is just details)
20.You have an excuse for everything. ("I'm not wearing gym pants because I wasn't able to go home.")
21.You can catch anything thrown at you.
22.You find yourself telling your friends to run for chewing gum.
23.You find yourself telling your friends to run for swearing.
24.Every song becomes a possible flag routine.
25.You know the perfect spot for a toss in your favorite songs.
26.Finals are a positive thing.
27.Your calluses are less stressful than practice.
28.You know that "one more time" never means one more time.
29.You can do your hair and make-up anywhere.(Until you put your eye with with eyeliner)
30.You can change into your uniform anywhere. (Boys' locker room.)
31.Someone who can throw a piece of wood 40ft in the air and catch it becomes your hero.
32.You find yourself designing flags/uniforms/drill in your classes.
33.You've missed more 3rd periods than you've been to.
34.You can change, go to the bathroom, and go to your locker in 6 min.
35.You laugh like everyone else on your guard.
36.You use two hands to tell your left from your right. (L is for Left, backwards L is for Right.)
37.You count all music to beats of 6 or 8.
38.You constantly watch t.v. dance shows for a good new move.
39.Watching a 1/2 show has become more then a leisure activity.
40.Leaving your seat at 1/2 time would be considered a sin.
41.You know how many people can be crammed into a minivan.
42.Lycra-spandex has become a permanent part of your closet.
44.The soles of your practice shoes have holes in them from doing too many turns. (Or helicopter turns and falling on the ground Lisa.)
45.You've left your house wearing things you swore you never would like hair curlers, spandex, 2 tons of makeup,etc.
46.You've been in a wrestling room when there were no wrestlers. (Or a gymnastics room with no gymnasts.)
47.You've been in a guys locker room when there were no guys in it.
48.Getting a sip of water is considered an act of love and kindness from your instructor.
49.You find yourself critqueing every parade you see.
50.Caravans are run like well oiled machinery.
51.You will not consider anything over $5 dinner while at a competition.
52.The bandroom becomes your home away from home.
53.You become your own pharmacist. (Or the resident guard pharmacist. Need a band-aid? I'm your girl!)
54.Anyone who carries fem. products becomes your best friend.
55.You know how many teenage girls you can fit in a hotel room.
56.You know how to manage 9 girls and 1 bathroom.
57.You wish they offered time/money/stress management in school.
58.You wish they offered nap time in school.
59.The term battle of the sexes has been turned into battle of the bands/guards. (Or battle of the Guard vs. Drumline)
60.You can mock all other bands/guards quite well.
61.4 1/2 hours of sleep before a competition is considered lucky.
62.You know what jell-o arms and legs feel like.
63.You've considered dating a band/percussion member or have dated one. (Let's see. Me and Mike, Melissa and Stephen, Melissa and Kelle, Jessica and Lucas, Jordan and Mike, Elizabeth and Stephen, Lisa and Sean, etc.)
64.Your parents know of more h.s. now than when they were in h.s.
65.Asking your parents for money has reached the extreme.
66.Having your show finished the day before your first competiton/performance is considered lucky. (Or even day of.)
67.You know nothing is ever definite.
68.There's no such thing as a "summer vacation". (Practice starts in early July!!)
69.The smell of sun screen makes you think of band camp. (Sunscreen AND bugspray)
70.Getting 2 new uniforms a year is a rarity.
71.You're the last people to hear about the pep rally and the first the perform at them.
72.Coming home before 4:30pm on a weekday almost never happens.
73.You've spent more money on flags than you will on your college education.
74.You've never worked so hard for a chunk of wood w/some metal on it (trophey).
75.You never could teach your dog to fetch cause everything you throw you have to catch yourself.
76.No matter how good your guard is you still get the smallest coverage in the yearbook. (NOT THIS YEAR! I'm doing the marching band page this year. Mwahaha)
79.You know what a fulcrum is.
80.Your guard has developed its own language. (glockers!)
81.You know that if you try something weird it might just end up in your show. (Or in the Halloween show.)
83.The term democracy is not in your vocabulary.
84.You try more stunts than the cheerleaders.
85.You learn to love your instructor when you see other guards shows and uniforms.
86.You went to every school football game but never paid for one.
87.Your nails have never extended beyond your finger tips.
88.You know what's significant about June 14th (if not look at your calender).
89.You know whether you've passed your limit or not.
90.You know how to bend any rule.
91.You've never actually watched a football game. (Huh? Why are we clapping?)
92.You can get any teacher to sympathize w/you and let you off for that missing assignment.
93.You say guard halt when you want your friends to stop.
94.You have had more pics taken of you than any of your friends.
95.Your personal best is 60 push ups in one day. (Kayla's)
96.You can arm wrestle any band/chorus/drama/cheerleading/football member and win.
97.You have electrical tape in your back pack.
98.You have a screwdriver in your back pack.
99.You have hit yourself in the head w/a flag more times than you would like to think about or can think about! (More times than your concussed brain can remember)
101.You walk in step with your guard friends. (Or anyone in the hall!)
102.You can talk about practically anything at practice and competitons no matter who's around.
103.When you hear "learn this" while you picking up your stuff.
104.You march to the back ground music in the mall.
105.You jazz walk/run at home, school, mall, etc..
106. You do split leaps down every hall you come to.
107.Every time you find a bruise/scrape on yourself, you automatically know you got it at a guard rehearsal.
108.You've used up all the white out covering up the marks on the ceiling/wall from the rifle you WEREN'T spinnning in the house...and need more.
109.You cheer louder than the cheerleaders at football games.
110.When you are together so much (because of practice or just getting together) that you all get your period at the same time!
111. When your instructor feels she has enough on the job training to look for a 2nd job as a hairstylist/makeup artist to supplement her income during the summer (Not Megan...don't ever let her do your makeup.)
112.When all your "outside the guard" friends roll their eyes and whisper not again, as u talk about how cool ur show is, and how u manage to "nail" ur tosses everytime.
113.When you can drop spin and carry on a conversation, and jazz step all at the same time, with out even thinking about it. (Without hitting yourself in the shins)
114.When you point your toes in your sleep.
115.When you get teary eyed when you have to put your saber down so you can eat dinner.
116. When Colorguard is practically all you talk about!
117.When your colorguard friends is all you talk to.
118. When you spend 5-10 hours of your day practicing on spinning!
119.When you spend all your free time looking at band related websites.
120. When you look at the websites of other bands in your area just to get the inside info on their show.
121. Your out of guard friends have heard so much about guard, they are almost pros at it!
122. when you''ve left more bruises on band members (especially the drumline!) than on yourself, and are proud of it!
123.Your friends notice bruises on you and you didn't even know that they were there!
124. When it becomes a game to see how many patches and buttons fit on a letter jacket
125. When you don't own any socks that don't have holes in them (Hey look! You can see my big toe!)
126. When the only age that matters is 22
127. When you have one giant brown grass spot in the backyard from practicing so much
128. When stadium nachos and hot dogs are a delicacy
129. When not wearing underwear for fear of pantylines is a constant thing
130. When you have 4 tan lines-tee shirt, gloves, shorts, and socks
131. When the words 'one more time' really means 15 more
132. When gatorade, cheeseballs, and fruit loops is the breakfast of champions
133. When you fold the floor more times than your laundry
134. When the gym/football field is your second home
135. When styrofoam flats are your favorite hiding place
136. When spaceburgers make sense
137. When you can see yourself trying to make your make-up darker
138. When nike blush checks are a fashion statement
139. When your speed dial consists of your captain, director, and show writer
140. When you forget how to count above 8
141. You make up routines in your head to songs on the radio
142. When you have 6 different uniforms in your closet
143. When you try and guess the height of the guard by the size of the pole
144. When you have a roll of duct tape next to your bed
145. When school nachos actually taste good
146. When you have 10 silks folded in your garage
147. When the blisters on your blisters don't hurt anymore
148. When you look for flags in commercials that show bands (in The Fugative, during the parade, they show a guard. i swear!!!)
149. When you own a copy of every show you've ever done
150. When band music actually begins to sound good
151. When you refuse to date outside the band (Ew...football player? Whatever.)
152. Life? what's that?
153. When you always step off on the left foot
154. When you see the guard more than your family
155. You have 2 rifles and sabres-one for practice and one for performance
156. When you name your equipment (Manuel and Nike)
157. When the only song you have stuck in your head is your marching show from 2 yrs ago
158. When you glide step in the mall
159. When you begin to look good in show make-up
160. When your senior ring lives on your necklace
161. When you break a bone and still insist that you can march (even if on crutches, Lisa)
162. When you still spend the same amount of time w/ your band-after you graduate
163. You only go to football games to see the halftime shows
164. you find yourself switching feet to get back on-step while walking through the mall
165.When you name all your bruises.
166. When getting dressed up to go to school means wearing what you'll have wear to practice that night.
167. When riding in sections to a football game is the biggest dilemma of the day. (I wanna ride with Pit!!!)
168. When you catch yourself spinning your pencil in Algebra class.
169. When all your teachers and classmates have seen your guard videos at least twice.
170. When your classmates roll their eyes at you for talking about the band, yet again.
171. When everyone knows that you are in guard by the t-shirts you wear. ("Can you imagine half-time without us?")
172. When you show up for everything at least 15 minutes early(even parties).
173. When you wake up in the morning and put your dot book or drill charts on not thinking.
174. When you wear your hair slicked back every where you go.
175. When the people at Home Depot know you by name.
176. When vending machine food becomes gormet.
177. you have had the words "left! right! left! right!" repeatedly screamed at you and you are not in the army
178. You permanently project to the press box wheather that meant the top of the six foot tall basketball player in front of you's head or the top of the doorway
179. You toss your flag even when they're 50 m.p.h. winds
180. When you choose a college for the colorguard and winterguard directors and programs
181. you have hit yourself in the head so many times, not only can you not count, it doesn't even hurt any more
182.when the local Village Inn is your second home, but only because you spend more time at school
183.When you always have to walk in step, even if they aren't in colorguard
184.When you go to see other school's football games just to see their colorguard, and who you're up against.
185.When you're in your loud english class your teacher yells, "Attention" and you look forward and sit up straight and don't make eye contact with anyone.
186.You love rainy days, because it gives you a chance to spin (your umbrella) in school (And show off too!)
187.Your unguard friends know that you're almost never available to go out
188.You jump up and down when you hear a song that a guard once did
189.Guard tape is the best thing that has happened since sliced bread
190.Guard tape fixes everything
191.When the "can i have 5 extra mins" turns into a midnight practice
192.When you find yourself dancing everywhere
193.When there is more holes in the school hall way where you practice then Swiss cheese
194.When you have more gay guy friends then straight
195.When getting new members is the most exciting thing that happened to you
196.When you have seen the same WGI or DCI tape a thousand times and still enjoy it
197.When you pick out thing in the same tapes
198.You listen to the judges tapes more then the radio
199.When you don't think anything of bare feet in the snow
200.When the only jacket you own has the name of your guard on it
201.When you practice more then the band that can only play the star spangled banner
202.When you look forward to getting new gloves
203.When you love the black stain from the new gloves
204.When you are told this is so hard you really walk 5 steps
205.When stretches are your favorite part of the day
206.When you have a song for everything that has happened
207.You know how to sleep with the your music on 10 and the bus going 60mph
208.You take over guys bathrooms b/c the girls is too full
209.Changing in front of guys doesn't phase you anymore
210.You have see more skin from the same sex then the opposite
211.You can talk about "your body" with ease
212.When it all seems to be a soap opera with ups and downs
213.When you work at a bingo hall
214.When you miss some one you saw 5 mins ago (I miss you Mike!!!!!)
215.You see the same people all day everyday
216.The closest group you have every been in is guard
217.When you spend more time with the guard then your own family
218.When you have practice 5 days a week and enjoy every second
219.You know all of your friends by their last names or a name that is completely ackward to others and they wouldn't be caught dead calling anyone that...
220. You have been in a guys locker room when there WERE guys in it!
221. Your friends have heard about your routine so much that they can probably get out on the field and do your routine with you!
222. You have dated every guy in the band, and are starting to wonder what life would be like if there wasn't marching band!
223. You have become so accustomed to waking up at 5 am that you do it when you don't have to. (Saturdays, Sundays, days w/ no school or marching practice.)
224. You can march your show in your sleep
225.You say the pledge of alligience to YOUR flag
226. Seeing how fast you can fold the floor becomes your primary form of entertainment
227.You find it easier to fall asleep in a van along with seven other girls than in your own bed
228.While your non-guard friend sleep with teddy bears and other various stuffed animals, you sleep with your flag, rifle, and/or sabre
229.If your room is covered with good luck signs.
230.If you have gotten a black eye from doing a toss! (Like Amy and Melissa)
231.If you catch your self doing air flag while walking down the hallway or while you are sleeping!
232.If you think you will die when the season is over.
233.When you are doing a horizontal toss and you know that it won't make it too far and it smacks you in the face. (And splits your lip open like me.)
234.You own more stretch pants and tank tops then you do regular clothes.
235.When you make a website dedicated to guard. (Like this.)
236.When you have prayed all season for a break before the next season, be it colorguard or winterguard, then you spend the whole thing crying, cause your muscles aren't used to resting for that long.
237.When your boyfriend has been to as many practices and games as you have!
238.When you like wearing your uniform.
239.When people ask you about your social life and you say "Oh, you mean my flag."
240.When being mauled by a drum is a normal part of life. (Poor Amy)
241.When you can show up to practice in your pajamas and dripping wet and no one notices.
242.When jazz running no longer reminds you of ballet.
243.When "armed guard" means a girl with a pole instead of a guy with a gun.
244.When you see your section more than your family.
245.When you subconsciously start practicing with a pencil.
246.When numbers past 8 aren't important.
247.When you'd rather practice than read the list.
248. You have more bruises, scars, and injuries than a military solider
249. Your teacher makes you write on the board, "I will not spin in class" fifty times.
250. You find yourself watching your spring show routine from freshman year thinking was I ever that bad?
251. Automatically you know what the captain is going to say and you do it before anyone else (most of the time)
252. Weekends are forever lost to practice
253. When you ask "What is summer vacation?"
254. When you stand at parade attention to say the pledge to the flag at school
255. When you can do drop-spins at any tempo with ANYTHING (penciles, forks, brooms, air)
256. When you actually like to watch the Thankgiving day parade for the bands, not those stupid balloons
257. When you can do splits in gurdles
258. When you are rivals with all the chearleaders
259. The funny smell in the guard room in no longer noticeable to you
260. The only nail polish you wear in the fall/winter is clear or none at all
261. When there is a possiblity it will snow, and your competition will be cancelled, you pray that it won't snow
262. When you spend all your money at competitions on guard shirts, boxers, etc. instead of food
263. You can mimick all the annoucers in your circuit
264. Have a dresser dedicated to guard unitards socks pantyhouse and silks
265. You go to the mall to try to find something new to make your rifle colorful
266. The Home Depot (Hardware store) is you favorite place to shop.
267. All your screen names have something to do with Color Guard.
268. You've eaten out more then anyone you know.
269. You anylize every song you hear for Winter Gaurd Standards.
270. You always have to find the perfect Drill Team song, and you go crazy when
you finally find one.
271. Your boyfriend owns more Color Guard shirts then the store that sells them. (Not quite yet)
272. You own every cd that contains a song used at a Winter Guard show.
273. Your non-guard friends think you're crazy becuase you've always got songs that they've never heard of stuck in your head.
274. Your Boyfriend has a copy of your schedule hanging in his room.
275. You've used the word "FRESHMAN!" more then a billion times.
276. Your guard instructor invites you to perform at her wedding. (Megan will never be married. Lmfao)
277. You critique migrating geese on how straight their diagonals are!
278. You mark time in the shower(or whenever standing still.
279. You hear "this isn't K-mart we don't like/want 'sails'" more than once a week.
280.The phrase water break has a whole new meaning.
281. You are the only one to have a screwdriver handy during any season. (Melissa)
282. You find many new uses for a sabre
283. Your best friend becomes a six foot pole and three foot silk
284. Your phrase becomes this isn't we don't like sales
285. You spend your lunch period trying to break into the guard room just so you can spin your equiptment
286. Getting locked in the band's coat box is an honor
287. Being friends w/ anyone outside of the band just seems unnormal
288. You listen to your guard tapes as you fall asleep
289. Your family knows your entire show, inside and out
290. You get a shock from leaving the band room b/c the air is so CLEAN
291. You arrive at the school on the days you have practice so early that the school isn't even open (And you can't even see the lines on the field because it's so dark.)
292. When your instructor says rehearsal is at six, you are there by five thirty or you are LATE
293.When you meet your friends places you are always half an hour early
294.. When you have no problem at all telling one of the members of your guard that they smell and they are not offended
295. When pit stains are cool
296. When your little sister plays with, touches, or even LOOKS at your weapon, you jump on her like a lion on a mouse
297. You've got a certain section of your wardrobe labeled "Guard Clothes" that you'd never be caught dead in anywhere but practice.
298. You go into Home Depot and ask for flag tape.
299. Electrical tape is used for everything (ie. labeling cabinets, putting up posters, fixing your flag bag, etc.)
300.You know you are in winterguard when you watch local basketball games on tv
and can rememeber what shows you did there and how well you did. And exactly
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Guard Slang
AIR DRILL- when you do your drill with no flags/weapons
AIR-FLAGGING IT - when you do your routine minus the flags or other props, just the movement, an imaginary flag/rifle/sabre, whatever. Usually done at practices
ANAL-PROBE - When a guard member comes up behind you and shoves a pole up your bum.
BAND GEEK- one who lives in the band room, is obsessed w/ band, and is crazy
BOOB TWIRLER-someone who dose drop spins up high at their chest
BRAIN FART- Any mistake made by a member of the guard
BRAIN SUCKING- when a guard member does not know the works and she watches others to do the work
BUM-GRABBERS - Members of the band or colorguard who go around grabbing peoples' bums.
BUS MACKING- the extreme flirting that goes on riding home after a great competition.
BUTT- the rubber at the bottom of the pole
BUZZ KILL- when you expect a great guard show, and it turns out they suck
CAR WASH- when flag work is totally not together and it looks like you can drive your car through it
CATTLE GUARD- derogatory term for the guard from the drumline
CG's - Short for colorguard
CHICKEN WALK- jazz runs
CLAM-A MISTAKE- someone who is making alot of mistakes is said to be eating clam chowder.
COLOR-G - Short for Color-Guard
COME NAKED- Don't come in uniform
COMING To JESUS- a meeting in which the instructor deals out the tough love and lets a struggling guard know what it is going to take to become a quality guard. (*Megan, lol*)
CONCUSSION-the percusssion
COP-A-SQUAT- forone to squat down and take a knee during practice
CORN BREAD- another derogatory remark from the "oh so kewl" drummers
CORN COB- someone who walks like they march, even when football season is over
CORNDOG- when the flag gets stuck over the end of the pole. AKA a sail
COTTON CANDY-when someone gets their flag stuck on their pole (sail)
cows- ppl who make loud thumps against the floor while jazz running
CRACK-HEAD- term used for the instructor making you bend like gumby
CRUTCH TIP - the ends of a flag pole
DIAG- diagonal; it's mostly used during marching season
DIANGULAR - diagonal
DIVA - a person who can utilize ANY piece of equipment and use their body as well to make it look like an effortless thing
DOUBLE TIME- spins where you do down flat, up flat...
DO IT UP-To do well, kick ass
DOUGHGIRL- name given to one who is gasping for air after warm up or stretching
DRILL- 1.)Usually the routine 2.)Also could be a warm
up 3.)Or a set in a song.
DRILL DOWN- When all the guard members line up...Close
their eyes...And run through the routines...If someone
messes up...The instructor/captain/whoever...calls
their name...and they sit down...Who ever is left gets
to sit and watch the rest of the drill down until no
one is left.
DROP SPINS- the fundamentals to work, up and down spins
DUCKS- people who walk funny
DUMMERS- term used about the drummers
DUM-DUMS-- same as dummers
DOWN SYNDROME- when you sit down for a long time and can't get back up
ELVIRA- the one guard senior that always yells at you, takes your boyfriend, makes your life hell and you can't wait for them to graduate.. (Not Amy though)
FALL VETRANS- people who have done fall guard and know what they're doing
FAKE IT- to look like you know the work, while trying to remember drill at the same time
FISH- when a saber wobbles in the air (Or our 10 foot poles)
FLAG FEATURE- intense, unison flag work together.. no solos
FLAGLINGS - New recruits to the colorguard (otherwise known as "newbies") (Or Rookies)
FLAGGOT- nickname for the guard, a member of the band who wants to secretly join guard, and can do the work better than us. (Emily!)
FLASH FLOOD- what happens when a weapon can't hold back, and the entire work gets watered down.
FLEAAG (Pronounced_ Flea-ag) - Makes it sound like the word flag is a foriegn word
FREAKING REE REE- the new girl who can't quite ever get the work-EVER
FROSH- freshmen
FUNDIES- fundamentals
FUTZ-ASS- name for the annoying band director, who try to do things to fast, or just do dumb stuff.
GHETTO- everything that goes bad 1)something wrong happens 2)something doesn't goes your way 3)a part of your show or some other guard's that looks stupid
GOING SHOPPING - When a guard member, while jazz-running, swings their arms back and forth as if they were swinging shopping bags around.
GUARD GEEK- like a band geek, but obsessed w/ guard
GUARD HOES- another term for the guard
GUARDO- guard member
HAND CHECK- used on band busses to embarass that couple making out in the seat in front of you (response to this is to raise both hands somewhere where everyone can see them)
HELICOPTER-parallel toss
HOLOCAUST- when the equiptment work falls apart to the point that it isnt recognisable
HUNKAHOLIC- The type of guy that any member of the guard should not go out with
KANGAROO- a person who bounces, or jumps while jazz running
'LANGLE - to remind each other to keep your heads up! (at an 'L' angle if you put your fingers in an 'L' shape and hold it up to your chin)
LET'S DO IT ONE MO' GIN- another good run through
LITTLE BITCH- any new guard girl who always complains about the work, sweating, her nails, hair, etc...
LIL DRUMMER BOY- the "pimp" snare player who tries to get with every person in guard... even the new ones on the first day
MARIONETTE- the drum major who is a puppet for the band while the drummers and guard really keep the band together
MEATHEAD- someone who thinks they are thebest and they really aren't
MOXY- what all guard chics possess- that natural feminine kickassness
MRS. SPOCK- the guard member who is no fun, won't participiate in activities, goes to bed early on trips, and never talks
OFF THE LINE- the begining of the show
OLD PEOPLE/UPPER-CLASS - Terms given to the member of the colorguard who have been in the colorguard the longest.
NERD- the rubber stopper on either end of the pole
PACIFIER- something like a wood block that the insane instructor uses to keep in time
PARK AND BLOW- the part in the show where you just stand there and spin, no marching
PEE-ON- the annoying kid from the band that always gets picked on, and the guard being as nice as we are.. always invites him to hang with us.
PEGGY SPINS- double time spins except you grab over and under instead of flat
POLP- a really bad fall
PRINCESS-the girl in the guard who always has to get her way
RAAAAIIIIGHT- (pronounced "raw-it")- yeah, ok, i believe you
RETARDED HAND- When the hand is inverted
RIFLE SQUAT- to sit down and lean on the butt of the rifle
RIP- a stolen guard score
RIPPLE- when something isn't together but is suppose to be
ROCK THE FLOOR- perform
ROCKET SCiENTIST- someone who takes forever to learn something and then when they actually pick up on it, this is what we call them
ROOKIES- people new to the guard experience
SAIL- When the silk of the flag wraps itself around
the pole no longer exposing it
SHA GOINK- what happens when the instructors aren't around
SHITTAY- a grand pleay in second position while sticking your butt out like you're going to the bathroom
SHUT ER DOWN- to end practice
SILK- the flag
SMOKIN'- outstanding
SNACKUM- one who eats all the time
SPANK- used any time you beat a rival guard by a large amount or perform very well, sort of a "oh yeah, how you like that" term
SPACEBURGER- when your hands are positioned to look as if you are holding a "spaceburger" while jazz running/walking, marching, etc
SPACETTE- the girl who leaves a huge hole between them and the next person and never fixes it
SPEED SPINS-Double time (down, parallel, up, parallel)
SPIDER NEST-a place up at the ceiling that we project to
STIR THE SOUP- like a crazy 8 (front 45, back 45, cross over, shoulder hip)
STOPPER- The rubber end of a pole...holds the bolt in
place.
TAKING A WALK IN THE MALL- any guard member that is not rolling feet...looking like their walking in the mall...
TRAINWRECK- when the guard as a whole screws up, causing the entire visual and GE scores to go down
URINATION VACATION- when someone goes to pee and never reterns
VETRANS- have marched both fall and winter and know what they're doing
WALDO- the person who wanders off and nobody can find him
WET MOUTH- any drooling band members who want to join guard and they stay after to watch you practice
WONDER GIRL- the new guard girl who totally blows you away. can toss a 6,. and gets captain her first year
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The Creation of Band
THE CREATION OF BAND In the beginning, there was nothing. On the first day (insert the story of creation here, adapt it as you will)...
On the eighth day, God was tired of the boringness of life, so He decided to spice it up. Therefore He decided to create a marching band.
First, He created the DRUMLINE. Once He heard them play, He covered his ears and ran screaming into space. Unfortunately, He could not undo His creation.
On the ninth day, He created the BRASS instruments. Thinking that this was the epitome of good music, He ordered them to play. Again, He ran screaming.
On the tenth day, He created the WOODWINDS. Fearing that He had done worse, He ordered them to play and sat cowering in a corner. He was surprised that they actually sounded decent(compared to the others).
On the eleventh day, he decided to put all of His musical creations together. Hearing them play, He decided something was missing.
So on the twelvth day, He created the most superior life form in the world of marching bands: The COLOR GUARD. Once He saw them perform, He was mesmerized. "These people are BY FAR THE BEST" he said. And that is the story of creation.
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