Life is pretty good right now, marching band wise. Everyone survived our five hour rehearsal before the competition.
I'm feeling relatively confident about the show. Rehearsal went as well as a marching band rehearsal before a competition could go. Our runs went okay. We fixed a lot of sets, and I'm feeling pretty confident about my part of the show. There's some visuals that I almost always forget, so my goals are to remember them, and marching technique.
We're almost done with the show. Next Saturday, and we're done. I can't believe it. I'm kind of sad. This has been a good season, since our football team is nine and one, I met a lot of nice people, and this year, we have a good show.
Section leaders always give us candy bags and personal notes before a competition. My section leader usually writes that I work really hard. Today, she wrote how I'm an inspiration with all of my hard work.
Today, during band warm ups, my band director pointed me out for having good technique when marching backwards. I guess I'm just lucky to have good calves. Just remember to get up on your toes, legs straight, drag your toes on the ground lightly, and imagine a sting being pulled from the top of your head, like a puppet. It's a lot easier on pavement than grass. A lot of my sets where I have to march backwards, I have to slide backwards. (moving left or right with feet pointed towards the end zones.) I like marching backwards on pavement.
I told my drill section leader something. Marching band is like balls of clay. Her brain takes them, smooshes it all together, and makes the whole ball of clay as perfect of a square as possible. My brain takes them, puts them in order from largest to smallest (importance), makes each a perfect square, and move down the line. She says she likes the way I think, probably since it's opposite the way she thinks.
Hopefully, we'll win this competition.
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