yes you read that right 50 pounds. November 2nd, 2016 11:03 am, Random Sousaphone Player on The first way of looking at it: The bands are competing against each other. They sometimes have someone else carry there stuff for them. Marching band is an after school activity like theatre. It takes so much mental and pysical strength to be in marching band. Yes it looks like we just march around and play instruments and there is more than that. Not saying is real but it’s like olympic scoring. I cannot wait to be in marching band when I get to high school. i live in Wyoming where you have to practice 6-8 pm in the freezing cold your horn freezes up and try back marching in a circle where you can’t look where you are going and when your instrument keys freeze and you touch them it will damage the pads and it costs 300 to 400 bucks to replace. Marching band is technically a sport if the definition of sport is correct. if you do not thing marching band is a sport, then try jazz running with a sousaphone, you will burn easily 1,000 calories. We’re outside conditioning and practicing even before the football team is. On the other side of the coin are those who say no, that marching band is NOT a sport and it is a musical pursuit that happens to involve coordinated movements. A ball is not a requirement in a sport just saying, Have you ever tried it? In fact it is harder than most sports. How about track? Band camp during the summer for us is two weeks straight of 9 hour and 13 hour practices. January 26th, 2017 12:03 pm, clarinet on . Memorizing 8-12 minutes of drill and music and executing it perfectly is extremely difficult. Band is harder than cheer so…. or are you just too close minded and ignorant to think outside the box? All of the people who say that it isn’t a sport, you should know your facts before you dis topics. Then you have TEAMMATES, who, after band camp, become more of a family. And we came back to this argument at school, all because the football players are salty because we beat them at everything. That last one is the whole point of the band. No. There are plenty of words that have now been twisted and turned from their origins to their new modern-day meanings. That was well-written and respectful, and I feel like I agree with many of the arguments you wrote. Okay first of all Marching Bands don’t only play in football games and parades we have competitions between other Marching bands and the audience comes to WATCH THE BAND. There is specific requirements to march and there are specific ways to march. This was my first year in my band and I couldn’t even play my instrument. . When the average person thinks about the term ‘sport’, they will think about football, wrestling, baseball etc. You have to play your instrument while doing either really hard choreography or really hard drill moves. People get physical related injuries in marching band just like in other sports because guess what it’s actually a lot of work. ( or a tempo of 160). Talking about Orchestra people here. hmmmm . During season, you have to memorize at least 100 different spots and go to them in a specified order, amount of time and amount of steps. Sigh. Is marching band a sport? Especially those sousas. It is a highly team-based activity and extremely vigorous, but is more artistic than merely physical. So shut up. You dont see all the hard work put in to do that. Football players don’t have judges watching their every move, a football player makes a small mistake and no notices, and band kid does then your mistake is recorded and shared with the band. February 10th, 2020 7:46 am, Blyat ☭ on All of you who think the marching band is not a sport, please read this. (which is basically 4 songs plugged into one show for those of you who don’t know) 3.) Video gaming? marching band is for people who don’t have anything athletic to put under their “sports” column on their college resume. Extra Stuff: The time I have put in over the summer and during the school year equals, or even surpasses, those of many competitive sports. At the SPORTS assembly we were also called onto the floor. I can’t imagine any football players keeping up in a drum corps, lol. May 19th, 2016 5:25 pm, percussionist and Melophone player on The only people in the comments who are saying it’s a sport are marching band members. Marching band, despite (un)popular belief, is indeed a sport, requiring as much team coordination, technical skills/know-how, and endurance as any other school-funded group activity. In the dead of the summer. For instance, the bass drum weighs 30 to 40 pounds including the hareness and I heard from actual players that it’s so uncomfortable to wear including wearing it for hours. Then we have to stay at the football field in the freezing cold to practice the right movements.And the football players have to do all those things too. I have been in marching band, more specifically color guard for the past 5 years. Christian Martinez: Thank you! This would have been better with periods. It would be nice to be appreciated every now and then. The events are highly competitive to determine which band has most successfully created a work of art and performed a powerful and skillful show. Competitive: definitely! marching band is a work of blood, sweat, and tears molded into a show harder than almost any play you can think of. November 30th, 2017 4:47 pm, Band Nerd, Trumet Number A on Most students believe marching band is not a sport, but rather a performing art. I think that you are a football player. BTW I’m in 8th grade and I know how to talk unlike you. So your saying that we are “out of shape”. While band, specifically marching band, may require a small amount of physical fitness and coordination, there is no way that it can be considered a sport. The woodwinds and the pit are allowed to put away their instruments but the woodwinds and the brass still practice if its raining! This week, I go over a common controversial topic that I discuss among my music friends. Ok Im in marching band and I play the clarinet as well as soccer and distance running. If you haven’t tried it don’t say something about it, because it is a sport. The actual depiction of a high school marching band is around 150-200 musicians (or 500 if you’re Allen High School) using instruments varying from a clarinet to a mellophone while maintaining a straight-leg technique. I honestly think that Marching Band IS a sport because we do everything we can to get ready for competitions, football games, basketball games, ect. Physical exertion, even holding an instrument, is much less than soccer, where you alternatively jog and sprint, with occasional walking, for 90 minutes with a 5 minute halftime. October 17th, 2018 12:44 pm, that one girl trombone player on Then do so while roll stepping, making sure all your steps take the exact same amount of time, keeping your shoulders steady and unmoving (duck on the water), and getting to a specific point in a set amount of time and steps. Also, sports are meant for entertainment, and so is marching band. Those that tend to think that playing in the band is not "cool" or that "the uniforms look stupid" will likely hold that frame of thought. December 16th, 2019 12:28 pm, Emma Carter on September 12th, 2019 1:52 pm, Alexander on In my school my band is the best sport/activity there is. Why glide? One problem in today’s society is when people just think one way because everybody else thinks that way. All you did was state your opinion and back it up with a definition, and never tried to prove it. that are often incorporated into a school's eligibility policies are also applied toward band members, prohibiting them from performing if their grades fall below a threshold or if they get in trouble with the law. no other sport has you training this hard in this heat. October 21st, 2017 7:32 pm, Marching Clarinet on When did he say that marching band was the best activity ever. November 4th, 2019 10:35 am, themarchingsaxophonist on wow ur so cool you do marching band you have so much more clout than the football players because you won a competition. We are there to support our teams at games but we also work very hard. But please, the band is a sport and my school recognizes this. And your claim that because it’s not on Sportscenter, that it’s not a sport, is extremely ignorant. Marching band IS a sport. The football team gets far too many water breaks! That’s it. Also, there is a lot of running involved when preparing for shows, because band’s usually have to marching 9-12 minutes shows while playing, and marching. I know exactly what you mean. Marching band is a sport because we have to got to school in summer to practice marching and how to march the right way. There are many statistics to reveal marching band is a sport and how hard the … i agree with this dude about the wii sports by the way. They look at every. I’m quite satisfied with marching band being categorized as a fine art. I’m a stage manager for the show, so I have to be there for EVERYTHING! Thank you and good day. Okay… Once more, Let’s think about this. We practice very hard for competition which takes a toll on us. Can you maintain your sharp visuals, or play an instrument that could possibly weigh up to 40 pounds while marching? The difficulty is equal to any competitive sport. While I would be the first to say that Marching Band is extremely difficult, the physical difficulty of marching is nonexistent. Band is like another family where we support each other even when we have differences. Also your opinion is that these other activities are sports. We have more frophies than all the other sports. Marching band also has more than just flutes. Not only that, but it requires top notch physical and mental prowess. Without the clarinet section the tune just wouldn’t sound right and anyway… It’s a team effort. Try jazz running at 200 bpm an hour a day for 4 months straight. To anyone who says you don’t get hit in the face in marching band, I say this: Colorguard rifles hurt when you get hit in the face with them, and I still have a bruise. have you even ever watched a marching band performance exactly? Before every PRACTICE you WARM UP. Try a backwards march, 5/5 while playing straight sixteenth notes on a clarinet, while crossing the “break”… which is obviously going to squeak. While not a part of the dictionary definition additional evidence that marching band is a sport include the fact that the majority of marching organizations such as Drum Corps International, Bands Of America, and other such groups have well defined and publicly accessable rules governing both the performance competitions and the behavior of the musical atheletes who participate in them. I have taken votes between kids at my school to see their opinion and they all said no! Did she just say that. The front ensemble has about 3-5 minutes to set up their equipment onto the field, since the shows are usually about 10 minutes long and we generally only get 15 minutes to perform in all. the beginning said “If anyone says that marching band is a sport then they are wrong.”. April 13th, 2020 12:45 pm, Anonymous Freshman marching band Flute player (Aliyah Johnson) on I’ll say we have quite many people who do ‘real’ sports, but it doesn’t matter. Soo yeah point proven that marching band is a sport. Marching band is a sport. If it gets really bad we go inside AND CONTINUE TO MARCH INDOORS EVEN IF THERES NOT ENOUGH SPACE!!! We do all of this stuff for competitions that we have every Saturday in football stadiums during the fall. May 7th, 2017 5:41 pm, I'm not even IN marching band. What happened? The color guard throws flags AND rifles AND other props like 5 feet above themselves and have to sometimes catch said props perfectly or they’ll either hit themselves in the face, or stumble and knock other marchers out of place. I understand that since marching band isn’t all that glorified you don’t recognize what it actually is. No chance But as a long time band member i can say that both view points need to elaborate more,and here is why. If your band does more things like competition and field band, then you apply to it. This is honestly hilarious. Although you don’t get punched in the face in marching band, literally anything from a flag to a gun to a sabre can hit you in the face at any point during a performance or practice in marching band. Sorry for the rant. February 10th, 2018 1:24 pm, anon on And we don’t “cheer on the kids who play sports”, we hype them up to win, then do our show during halftime, and then listen to the roaring of the crowd after we preform… obviously important. So calm down Eugene. WE ARE THE ONLY MIDDLE SCHOOL BAND TO HAVE BEEN INVITED. The Marching Band has more hours than a sports team in the heat seven in the morning until nine the night in summer band camp. Your opinion is that marching band is not a sport. Thank god yall speak up bc honestly anyone who thinks marching band is not a sport is stupid and you’ve never been in it. People in marching band have to make several formations and complete everything in 10-15 minutes. If you have you would know how hard it is. November 29th, 2017 5:45 pm, 1st chair trumpet on There are also at least five judges evaluating every move you make and more than three judges watching you from other positions. October 4th, 2016 9:32 am, Anonymous Trombone Player on kids in little league can get more trophies in a year than MLB what is your point, Band is not a sport. No reason except for that they are marching band members. Some practice in their uniforms to get used to the heat. I joined trumpet this year. ( Accept they don’t to all of the marching) but hey have to stay up and practice playing, an do do the band kids! Whitley: I think marching band is a sport because [it involves physical exertion]. If you think marching band isn’t a sport then You are GREATLY mistaken and I strongly encourage you to try it before giving an opinion. Marching Band is a skill, sport and art. I play tuba in a World Class DCI Drum and Bugle Corps and all I have to say is that your comment is invalid unless you try making it through a season. Your argument does not work for this. You only see the finished product. Marching band isnt a sport. Many believe it is not a sport due to the lack of conditioning and movement it has that other sports require. So according to what you’re saying all of the “sports” that we consider “sports” aren’t actually sports. Here is the definition of a sport… It is a physical activity as much as it is a mental one. October 25th, 2017 11:48 am, Anonymous on At the top of the activity, it takes quite a bit of skill and physical exertion to perform at that level. Yes football is dangerous, but they don’t have 75 pound tenor drum on their shoulders. November 30th, 2017 4:41 pm, That one Trumpet nerd on Its called a Marching Band for a reason we don´t walk that´s common knowledge. According to the Oxford Dictionary a sport is “An activity involving physical exertion and skill in which an individual or team competes against another or others for entertainment.”. I participate in completions almost every saturday. August 29th, 2018 2:07 am, Floyd on Make it a wind instrument and add blowing in a particular way and doing all of the above while out of breath. The Oxford Dictionary defines a sport as “an activity involving physical exertion and skill in which an individual or team competes against another or others for entertainment.” However, the debate over its classification remains. Like dance is a sport it’s hard too. All of it fits the criteria. September 18th, 2018 5:23 pm, charlene geer on I was in one of these competitive marching band DCMB. September 9th, 2018 11:42 pm, Myra on Those of you who go off what the dictionary says, look up the word ‘sport’. Or at least nice for people to recongnise us for the sport we are. Rather, they are just a relatively quiet instrument when it comes to low notes and they will go up an octave if too much air is blown into it trying to be louder. We are from a small-er sized school and still go to states. They’re crazy! Well last time I checked, this is a free country. I can call anything I want what I want and no one can stop me. April 18th, 2017 10:12 pm, Anonymous Trumpet on 2.) Yes, I agree with The Register that Marching Band is a sport. Examples like football, baseball, and basketball. We spend hours and hours and hours working to perfect a show for performances that usually lasts about 10 minutes. August 7th, 2017 8:38 pm, Marching Clarinet on If it is not a sport than why? Marching band and show choir are two popular groups at Wash. All sports have a certain ‘season’ that they’re played in. At 360 ORTHOPEDICS we take care of injured musicians as well as athletes. Plus I am a major DCI fan. First off, if you’ve ever even seen a performance, then maybe you’ll be able to see past your huge ass ego and have an open mind. When marching, all the instruments have a unique way of holding their instruments, with judges staring at them constantly and marking down anything wrong with horn angles. We spend hours and hours perfect 10 minutes, we deserve recognition for what we do and I dont know where your from but my town LOVES our band you should hear how loud they cheer when were done I dont care what you think but they come to see us too. “Any one who thinks its a sport is stupid” This is what Alyvia said. Does marching band necessarily need to … October 26th, 2016 2:13 pm, crabtree on It should be judged on the actual definition of the word “sport”. The difficulty is also equal to other sports. So there are preparations for shows. Instead of making a stereotypical opinion. Many may say that there is no ball, and we may not be running back and forth, but we do get as much exercise as a regular basketball or football player, if not more. Plus out 8TH GRADE band has been invited to attend a convention for band directors and private tutors from all over the entire state of Alabama in Birmingham. At least one. While band may not be easy, make no mistake, it is an art, not a sport. INTRODUCING THE MERRILLVILLE BAND OF PIRATES(BOP). At my school sports like field hockey cant use turf because marching band (“a sport”) needs to use it. Oh and add practices daily in weather ranging from 100 degrees, to 20 degrees, to rain, to wind. Its a sport for smart, multitasking people who aren’t afraid to be called a geek. Your music if vary important. You need upper body strength to get the saber, riffle, or flag in the air with the other guard members. If someone is confused on a move, or not quite sure where they’re supposed to go, the director can’t just call a timeout to help that one person figure out where they need to go. The band works harder than high school football. September 20th, 2019 1:13 pm, Sara Smith on I have completed a season of marching band, and it should be considered a sport… Also, don’t forget about baritones! October 23rd, 2017 7:34 pm, Anonymous Guard Member on We also work harder and longer than most other sports. December 6th, 2017 9:22 am, Someone With a Clue on Nah fam. If 1 person is even 2 inches off it ruins the effect. DECA? Marching band and field band are widely loved by those in it, and those who watch. September 27th, 2019 3:52 pm, `joel sellers on (I live in South Alabama. I think marching band is definitely a sport. (also I almost pasted out once). It looks a hell of a lot easier than it actually is. September 30th, 2019 10:08 am, That one drummer on February 2nd, 2018 3:38 pm, a random clarinootist on February 20th, 2018 12:57 pm, that one trumpet on Most bands are out there in 95F+ heat for 8-10 hours during summer and have to endure 50F temp in the fall. We perform a field show. You can say that band is a sport, because it matches the definition in some dictionaries, but that isn’t going to change peoples’ minds at all. Guard practices even more vigorously than band does to execute every dance, toss and move perfectly. Now I may be sounding over dramatic but these are possibilities. February 18th, 2018 10:21 pm, That one Trumpet nerd on In some cases a music student may feel that they have been persecuted by "jocks" for pursuing their musical craft and this negative connotation in their minds of what athletes are comes back to taint their views. Because if just one person if out of step that could mean we lose the competition. Ill take you seriously when you actually can spell. Yes, I’ve gotten into fights for this. Marching band is hard come to percussion camp with me and you’ll say oh this is pretty easy but then pre-band camp and band camp are the worst. They get more trophies in one competition than football does in an entire season. Don’t tell me band is not a sport. I FLIPPIN PASSED OUT BECAUSE OF HEAT EXAUSTION! November 14th, 2017 9:51 pm, Zach on In addition, your fingerings for you instrument and notes on bass or treble clefts. December 11th, 2018 6:36 pm, Trumpet03 on In soccer or distance running there is no stopping like there is in marching band, where you stop between songs and the time period is only 10-15 minutes. Umm excuse me but apparently you don’t know anything about marching band. January 21st, 2020 11:15 am, Clay on Do you get punched in the face on the field? The same goes for the temperature argument. Okay… Let’s think about this for just a minute… What do you do in Marching Band? There is no walking. November 14th, 2016 6:29 pm, Alex on Skill? November 19th, 2016 8:46 pm, Anon on If band is or isnt a sport that doesnt change anything at all, its still the same activity that it was before it was considered a sport or not. I am currently on the varsity track team as a sophomore training to run a sub 4:30 mile, I grew up playing baseball, soccer, football, and basketball, my aunt play rugby on a national championship team, her best friend is on the us national team fort rugby, my uncle and grandpa pitched in college baseball, I can say I come from an athletic family. They don’t bat or kick a ball, they wear gloves and throw punches. You have to march, know where to go and when to go there, you have to know how to play an instrument, and know all of your music. Not in a bad way though. Maybe try and do some research? Ok, so, let me just point out a “few” things here. I mean, we practice every day for like 7 hours. This is getting me really pissed, Not good enough to play real sports! Marching band is a sport and we do not just run around with 10 pound flutes we have to go to certain spots that are put down on a coordinate sheet and w spend at least 60 hours to perfect those movements. Marching band requires physical exertion in the sense of 5 hour practices consisting of learning and memorizing placement, marching in 85 to 100 degree weather, and being in near perfect shape. It is sometimes hurtful when people don’t think your trying and think that you are unimportant. These are three need to know things wile on the feild. Same with concert band. We practice even if there’s a bit of lightning. October 1st, 2018 8:05 pm, katherine vargas on So just like EVERY OTHER SPORT, there are NEWBIES. lol. In conclusion, stop adding to the fire and just deal with it. October 23rd, 2017 7:19 pm, Anonymous Clarinetist on You also have to learn to march certain sized steps (the common 8/5 step which is 8 steps in 5 yards is 22.5 inches per step) to be able to march in time and keep forms with other members around you. Again with tenor drums you still need to march perfectly, you still need to play well, and you still need to hit your dots perfectly. For all the imbeciles arguing that it’s not, look at the definition. December 10th, 2018 4:38 pm, Marching Flutist on You CAN play a different instrument BUT you have to let Danielson know first before you change. Not the activity, but how hard it is. We have Jazz Band if you are interested and Drumline if you want to join. I found myself laughing at some of the responses on here, and i’m sure there would be many more who would have the same response. Oxford Dictionary says a sport is “an activity involving physical exertion and skill in which an individual or team competes against another or others for entertainment”.
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