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Hi! Your blog is super cute!!! Just wondering, how big is your Band? Like class wise?

I’m a part of a large 6A band, approximately 300 ish people ,plus guard and band dance. It was a big scare for me transferring since I came from a small school with only about 500 people.

This picture is from the closing hit of our show for a visualization

I freaking love this band, but damn, it must be hard to organize

I blame you

Me: Can I barrow your glove?

Older Friend: Sure, but she’s a little smelly

(puts on glove)

Me: HOE DAMN THIS IS NOT A LITTLE SMELLY! GONNA KNOCK A BITCH OUT WITH THIS FOUL SCENT OF DEATH!!!

I’m @ing everyone who allows their gloves smell like

death

Me: Can I barrow your glove?

Older Friend: Sure, but she’s a little smelly

(puts on glove)

Me: HOE DAMN THIS IS NOT A LITTLE SMELLY! GONNA KNOCK A BITCH OUT WITH THIS FOUL SCENT OF DEATH!!!

Me: Can I barrow your glove?

Older Friend: Sure, but she’s a little smelly

(puts on glove)

Me: HOE DAMN THIS IS NOT A LITTLE SMELLY! GONNA KNOCK A BITCH OUT WITH THIS FOUL SCENT OF DEATH!!!

PREACH!

Why is guard considered a "girl's sport" if it's considered a sport at all?

A few classmates of mine (football players, who else) had the gall to tell me today that guard isn’t even a sport and it’s “just a girl’s thing anyway”.

Sometimes I want to hit people like that upside the jaw. With my rifle. Although that would be cruel to Igg.

Guard is not a “girl’s sport”. Guard is a sport. The only reason there are not so many guys on my team is that people like those two football boys say it’s too “girly”, so guys don’t bother to join.

But one of my captains is a boy and he’s honestly the best person on our team. One of my best friends in guard, one of my best friends PERIOD, is a boy and he loves guard more than anything in this world. Guard has kept him happy, alive, and out of trouble, and it’s so much fun for him too. The third boy on our team just tried out today and you can see how much he already enjoys spinning rifle. He got near-perfect flourishes in under a day, people. That’s not something you do because a sport is “too girly” for you, a male.

Just because we bleed out of a few different places, just because we have the ability to create new life, just because we have slightly different bodies DOES NOT MEAN that guard is limited to us.

Just because guard involves dancing and spinning pretty things and wearing makeup DOES NOT MEAN boys can’t be in it too.

Fragile masculinity, people who are anti-guard, and people who think guard’s a “girly sport” get on my nerves.

To those people: MAN UP. Have you ever tried to spin a rifle? Have you ever gotten bruises on your arm from sabre? Have you ever pulled multiple muscles trying to master a dance move? Have you ever tried to do a routine with a very large and heavy piece of equipment while looking UP, AWAY from the equipment? And SMILING? Showing EMOTION? Running a show nonstop on a floor or a field for up to ten minutes?

I didn’t think so. Man up, and grow up. And try out for guard.

I wanna be the very best Like no one ever was To catch them is my real test To dance well is my cause I will travel across the land Spinning far and wide Try a new toss to understand The technique that’s inside Color Guard! Gotta catch ‘em all

It’s you and me I know it’s my destiny Color Guard! Oh, they’re my best friends In our class we must ascend Color Guard! Gotta catch ‘em all Our work’s all new Our faces will pull us through You teach me, and I’ll teach you Color Guard! Gotta catch 'em all, gotta catch 'em all

Wow rifles are really thicc

Just Guard Things

No matter how short your nails are, one will always be broken

Nor will there ever be

just color guard things: bruised fingertips

When your told to do 100 drop spins

“Ohh ....... crap.”

Just Guard Things

Having an abnormally larger right arm

A Varsity at JV Captain: What’s going to be your first order of business with your JV team?

JV Captain: Helmet, every last one of them are getting helmets.

“I respect Patrica a lot more now”

- Said as I try to learn Drop Spins on rifile

“You just gotta .... crank that bitch out.”

-Me showing off a big 45

I’m thinking about possibly posting trick tosses, but I’m not very sure about it. If you see this let me know in comments if I should or shouldn’t.

How Do Northern Bands/Guards Function!?

I want to give a shoutout to anyone up in a northern band for having to deal with this weather all season. It’s finally fallish down here and we’re freezing alive, and anyone who’s dealt with bitchy weather is an impressive person, I couldn’t comprehend the difficulty of having to practice in snow or sleet, and if you have, then, your a fabulous performer and deserve more fine arts funding

And gentle rain outside the bus leaves the walls chilly and the lights bending. But you’ve never been more comfortable in your life

those nighttime band bus rides where people are napping or singing or laughing or listening to music and there’s the faint glow of the streetlights passing by and everything feels right in the world

*sits in pile of guard flags*

I am the color guardian guardian of the color

On the First day after band, our director gave to us

A shattered practice door

Thanks man! Your Blog is pretty cool, has tons of relatable posts and stuff, and I think saxophones are second best sound instrument next to Flutes. But saxophone players tend to not have the negative connotation I’ve heard some flutes have. I hope you have a wonderful concert season (or whatever you band kids do.)

For my Band kiddos

Go follow @growing-up-guard . I love them soo much. They are a colorguard member (obviously) which means they are automatically cool. If you are a guard member or a band freshman you should totally go follow them!! Let’s get support for the band freshies!!

Me: Hey Guys, what’s up? I’m Artemis and I’m getting post-season depression

The Ambitious Freshmen Strike Once More

Now that marching guard is over, the majority of the freshmen today ended up getting trying to learn how to do drop spins. It definitely is a happy sight seeing people trying to teach this group of hopefuls trying their best. Is this just a common thing within guards that the moment marching band is over everyone wants to learn weapon or is that just exculusive to my school?

Post-Season Thoughts

Never in my life would I think I’d be walking off of a football field in a stadium while crying.

Never would I think I’d be crying as two of the captains announce that they won’t be doing winter guard.

Never Have I thought I would have become so attached to what I do that it became a part of my personality

Never should I doubt in my ability to do something new

Never will I give up doing what I love

I shall forever cherish this season as not only my first season but also as a season where my I changed massively as a person from a shy quiet child who’d always be trying to hide from anyone to someone who’d smile defiantly at judges while performing.

I am so grateful for the chance to be in this family and this sport.

GOOD LUCK TO ALL TEAMS COMPETING TODAY!

It’s the End of the Season

Quite Frankly, I’ve only been doing this for 4 months now and it’s become my life. I don’t know what winter guard will be like and I love the seniors so much I don’t want them to leave us. It’s way to early to be thinking about this n all but it’s sad. Especially since all of them are varsity and that I’m not sure how much the two teams interact.

I love you Bri, Payton, Jazz, and Copeland, my captains, along with the other seniors, regardless of who stays for next season. All of y’all have a place in my heart and soul.

SOMEONE STEPPED ON A TUBAS MOUTHPIECE AGAIN!

Some good quotes I’ve heard from the band this season

“Hydrate or diedrate.”

“What on God’s good earth did they teach you over at drum corps???”

“Ok, if I say ‘cool?’ I want you guys to say ranch, cool?”

“Nevermind,I guess you guys are lame.”

“I was gonna roll down my window and yell ‘NERD’ but I chickened out and just drove up on the grass.”

“What an absolute goddamn unit.”

“Ok, can someone that’s NOT a senior please raise their hand”

“Literally everyone here is a breathing meme and it’s kinda scary.”

“I think I have some ligma in my part.”

“SAY LIGMA ONE MORE TIME SEE WHAT HAPPENS”

Add on if you want

Senior Advice P1.

Band boys are always horny, brass especially

Clarinets without a doubt. Seen one of those crazy kids yeet a triple with a CLARINET learned by ONLY WATCHING the weapons

-Growing-up-guard

what instrument is the most yeetable?