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- From: dowzycki@andromeda.rutgers.edu (Ken Dowzycki)
- Newsgroups: alt.colorguard
- Subject: Re: precision or lack there of...
- Message-ID: <Jan.28.13.29.34.1993.5049@andromeda.rutgers.edu>
- Date: 28 Jan 93 18:29:35 GMT
- References: <1k646pINNbgq@bigboote.WPI.EDU>
- Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J.
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- dugan@wpi.WPI.EDU (Robert Francis Dugan) writes:
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- >Ken: I remember that long rifle exchange! You were one of the people
- >doing that? Which one?
-
- Yup! I was on the far right side, last rifle when you are watching
- the videotape.
-
- We put that exhcange in, in '82 but not at the WGI Olympics in
- Nashville, but rather at the MAA Championships in Elizabeth, N.J.
-
- In '83 we put it in around the middle of March to have practice
- at it before the Oly. and Champ. Both years Brian (McCormick) and I
- were the two guys to do the exchange. We were going to have the
- entire rifle line do it but as chauvinistic as this sounds, the girls
- in the rifle line couldn't quite get the distance on the throw, plus
- when it comes flying across the gym, it really numbs your palm when
- you catch it. THESE WERE THE DAYS WHEN GUARDS USED THE BIG RIFLES, not
- the one everyone uses now. If I remember one of the girls refused to
- do it because she hurt her hand/knuckles, the other girls in the rifle
- line were gung ho to do it. (This of course was '82 when the rifle line
- was 50/50. In '83, the rifle line was all male).
-
-
- >I agree about lack of precision. I think we have to continue to push
- >the limts of where this activity is, and we have to encourage
- >creativity but not at the expense of cleanliness. I would rather see
- >a rifle line nail a quad than try to do a six. But I do appreciate
- >the more extensive body work. This is way beyond what used to be
- >done. 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.
-
-
- When I went to a show after a few years absence I was amazed at the
- lack of uniformity in winter guard these days. Instead I noticed a
- BIG focus on individualism. Where if one person could perform a solo
- trick or whatever, it was put in. Blessed Sac 2 years ago with the
- Capt. I believe spinning a clear or hollow rifle and Suburbanettes the
- year they stood on park benches. Every one wants to be a star!
-
-
- Ken
-