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- From: rwberry@hubcap.clemson.edu (Robert W Berry)
- Subject: Re: precision or lack there of...
- Message-ID: <1993Jan27.231637.4060@hubcap.clemson.edu>
- Organization: Clemson University
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- Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 23:16:37 GMT
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- dugan@wpi.WPI.EDU (Robert Francis Dugan) writes:
-
- >And if you read the sheets, equipment = 20 points and movement
- >= 20 points. So they should be balanced in your show. I still have a
- >tough time with that when I write work being brought up in the 80's
- >colorguard world. It just seems to me that lately a show that is
- >heavier on the movement/body work than on the equipment work gets more
- >credit than being heavier on the equipment than on the body. Seems to
- >me that a 60/40 show is a 60/40 show no matter if the 60 is body or
- >equipment.
-
- But the sheets carefuly relate the equipment work to the body work. The
- two are very closely intertwined, and the upper boxes on each sheet
- insist on the additional demand placed upon the performer by layering
- the two captions on each other. Since we've seen some of the most
- difficult equipment work possible, the advantage is to add difficulty by
- placing body demands on top of the equipment demands.
-
- As far as precision, I feel that there has been a trade off in that a
- little sloppiness in a pike angle can be forgiven if the rotating,
- 3-planar, carving move that got to it is clean. Guard work (equipment
- in particular) has come a long way in the last decade, things may not be
- a straight-foward hard as they used to be, but there are lots of factors
- which make "easier" work a lot harder than it seems.
-
- >My guard's name is Q.E.D. We are really laying it onto them this
- >week. Sometime I wonder if we should go to Boston. If we go and
- >do poorly, WGI will categorize us for the rest of the season. I don't
- >think they do this on purpose. But when you have to judge 50 guards,
- >you have to do something to keep them all straight. If your first
- >time out you do poorly, it's an uphill struggle the rest of the season
- >to overcome people's first impressions.
-
- IMHO, it depends on what kind of poorly you do. Early in the season a
- lot of your score comes from the potential your guard demonstrates. Is
- the work and drill readable? If so, don't worry about having a bad
- showing, the judges understand where you're at. What class are you
- competing in? If you're in Class A, don't worry at all. I think what
- will stick out more in their minds at this point in the season is the
- overall quality of your design. (As long as the design is
- *readable*!! Have a friend who knows a little about guard watch your
- show from up top. While you may "fill in the blanks" watching your
- show, a third party can't. If they can't read your show, maybe it is
- too early to hit the floor for competition. Did you attend a field day?
- How did you do? Could the judges read the concepts in you show?)
-
- And even if you do start out poorly, as long as you improve from week
- to week, your show will start to stick out more and more in the judge's
- mind. By WGI you may be cracking finals!!
-
- HTH,
- Bob
-
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