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 Posted: Wed Jan 11, 2006 3:16 pm
See, let's start with this statement: Dance is my weakest point on guard. I came to winterguard last year fresh from 8 years of TaeKwonDo. Martial arts. Snap, kick, controlled movement. Not rhythmic, sweeping arts. Martial arts.
Dance work has alwaysalwaysalways been my weak point. It's just the way things are. And being on the varsity winterguard means we have to rock it.
And I nearly killed myself yesterday doing dance work. I won't even get started on the stupid backhands on rifle...
How's your winter show shaping up?
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Posted: Wed Jan 11, 2006 5:59 pm
gonk i remember my tryouts last year and there was an 8 count dance move i think? well anyways i couldnt do it to save my life gonk !! we had to do some opposite moves with our arms and legs and i would get it wrong and spaz ;-; but luckily we didnt even have to do it for tryouts...
sorry that doesnt really apply to winterguard sweatdrop
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Posted: Thu Jan 12, 2006 2:36 pm
I've been a solid dancer for 10 years. Then I've moved onto gymnastics for 6 years and such.
And I've been in guard for less than a year. I already have dance solos and groupd work and such. Only I can do the leg lifts and stuff we're supposed to do and my leaps actually look like...leaps. ((Sorry, but coming from my background, my guard's overall leaps and such look reallyreallyreally bad. ^^ wink )
And for the entire show, I think I only have under 24 counts of partner flag work. XD
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Posted: Thu Jan 12, 2006 5:12 pm
Our show is going pretty well except for the rifle doubles. We're all rookies and we started learning rifle at the end of field season in November.
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Posted: Thu Jan 12, 2006 5:31 pm
last spring our resident dancer had a solo in our spring show.
during her sophomore year, she and two others got to use the swan flags and dance across the football field for our marching show.
shes graduating this spring......and i dont think we have anyother dancers at the moment.....shes going to try to get girls from her dance studio who arent going to try out for dance team to join guard so we can continue doing fun dance stuff.
OH. this past marching band season, my coach (tigerish's too) made us do this dance thing for rhapsody in blue.
it was ridiculous. but then she changed it because yeah like tigerish said, we were all spazzing.
well, mostly me.
so she made it simpler, but i still couldnt do it. BUT i finally mastered it later in the season. ((that dance is why i got dubbed "emo bird" because i looked like a vulture. o_O))
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Posted: Thu Jan 12, 2006 6:28 pm
O: how could i forget about that dance?! yea that was about my favorite part of the show :] (maybe cus IIII could actually do it XD heart heart )
BUT last year we had a 20 count dance...if you could call it that. Our old coach wrote it all up and it was... gonk there was actually a part that we reach up and what we called "reaching into the cookie jar." it was EMBARASSING redface and of course whenever anyone recorded the show they would focus on the guard while they did it crying but now we can all look back at it and laugh..............
...haha..>.>;; xd
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Posted: Thu Jan 12, 2006 7:54 pm
Thast what I loved aobut my HS instructor, (I dunno about college...we haven't started) his idea of "dance" wasn't flowy, ballet stuff, but sharp hits that were dance-like only by virtue of not having equipment. I ruled at that dance cool
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Posted: Sun Jan 15, 2006 9:36 am
tigerishdragon O: how could i forget about that dance?! yea that was about my favorite part of the show :] (maybe cus IIII could actually do it XD heart heart ) BUT last year we had a 20 count dance...if you could call it that. Our old coach wrote it all up and it was... gonk there was actually a part that we reach up and what we called "reaching into the cookie jar." it was EMBARASSING redface and of course whenever anyone recorded the show they would focus on the guard while they did it crying but now we can all look back at it and laugh.............. ...haha..>.>;; xd are you talking about the "gay hitler" (as elaine called it) move that erlich taught us?
sweatdrop stupid jetsons.
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Posted: Mon Jan 30, 2006 12:28 pm
Our resident amazing dancer is a senior this year. She's gotten dance solos in pretty much every show. I'm an alright dancer myself, but I generally prefer equipment.
Our show is coming along well. We're finishing the staging tonight, but there's some work that needs polishing. Actually, there's a lot of work that needs..... a miracle....
Okay, it's not that bad, but our tempo is so fast we keep cheating everything so it looks like A-class work intead of Open-class (no offense we love you A-class guards wink ).
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Posted: Tue Apr 25, 2006 6:13 pm
Squawk I won't even get started on the stupid backhands on rifle... you know what we call those? SUICIDES rofl
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Posted: Mon Jun 05, 2006 8:59 am
I hate dance! Well, at least really don't like it...
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Posted: Sun Nov 19, 2006 6:47 pm
We're having winterguard tryouts this tuesday and I'm really nervous. any advice??
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Posted: Thu Jan 25, 2007 2:50 pm
In the dance segment, I get to lift someone my own size!!! It's funny cause we're the smallest ones in our group so they said we were the cute part xD.
What else is funny is that during the dance part, me and Melissa are right infront...We're going to be like...feet away from the first row of people! xDDDD It's gonna be crazy...and I've never done coriographed dancing before...O_O;; xDDD
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Posted: Sat Jan 27, 2007 7:09 pm
so for the first 3 seasons i sucked at dance.
So in indoor(4th season) I find out I am the one starting out the show with dance and I am like ...are your sure? and a senior said that I looked really graceful and I can seriously not remember when I suddenly got good...? kind of scary
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