Marching Band is a Sport

alongthebroken-road:

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Name, Age, Live:

Amanda. 18. New York State.

Instrument(s)?

Clarinet

How long I have been playing?

Since the summer before 4^th grade

Colors of the School?

Blue and White

How long I have been in Marching Band:

Was in Marching Band my Junior and Senior Year of High School. I plan to transfer to a college that has marching band at some point.

Ever a Drum Major?

No

Went Anywhere?

Disney

Competition or Pep Band?

Both, but mostly competition. 

Thought this was kinda cool

marchingartsphotos:

Just because it’s Wednesday.

inthemindofateen:

Marching band.. Oh how I miss it.

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In my opinion, I don’t think marching band should be considered a sport. Here’s why:

In sports, you do train and learn how to execute certain moves and tactics to win a game. But band and drum corps are so much more complicated than that. There has been a study made on a few people in a drum corps where they attached all sorts of information gathering sensors, and they found that they exert as much energy and force as a football player, if not, even more. We need dexterity in different parts of our body to play, move, and perform visuals and such at the same time. 

If done right, marching can be considered a somewhat rigorous exercise, developing muscles from backwards marching or holding up your instrument. It takes more skill than a regular sport, because band is about precision and quality of a different level than other regular sports. We endure a lot more because we have to keep perfection going, marching nonstop unlike other sports where people may be sitting by the sidelines or there are time outs called. You’re playing an instrument, keeping the sound quality as you use your air to breathe and play, that’s a lot more exertion than usual. You are relied on a hell of a lot more because you have a spot in the formation to keep. If one fails, we all fail, you can just be taken out and replaced by someone else in the sidelines. 

I could go on but the point is, it shouldn’t be a sport among regular sports, it deserves it’s own thing. It’s own title, it’s own channel, it’s own major league(which is what DCI is, being the Music’s Marching Major League or something) 

That’s why I call it performing sports sometimes, I just don’t like it being a regular “sport” when it deserves so much more credit than that.