Winterguard is spending 8 to 10 hours a week marching up and down a 50 by 70 foot area spinning a 3 1/2 pound rifle and/or a 6 foot flag. It's your free time to strive for perfection and have the time of your life doing it. It's riding countless hours on a bus cracking jokes and eating in more fast food restaurants than you can remember. It's learning routines, techniques, and work outs that make you a better, stronger, more coordinated person.
Just imagine Saturday morning, you wake up and leave your house in full costume. Practicing at from 10:00 in the morning till right before the competition. Night roles around and it's time to put on your show, in front of judges, instructors, and other guards cheering you on. For the next five or six minutes, the floor is yours to show off in front of everyone. You are really hoping, saying to yourself, "Please let this one be ours."
But winterguard is more than work and intence competion. It's closeness between young people that cannot be described. It is doing your best and knowing that you have your very own group of "fans" that will always encourage and support you, whether you win or loose.
We do much mor together than practice. We have fundraisers to raise money. We have movie and pasta parties. We go down to Trumbull to watch a WGI competition and see who/what you are up against. It's having the chance to achieve at something whether it be dancing, acting, spinning, or just plain showing off.
|
|
