Band/Colorguard Camp

Anyways, it's tiring. Very tiring. And it makes your muscles sore like crap. So basically, we've done lots of ballet stuff, like (I might spell these wrong) plies, tendues, and degagers. Then we have the "basic" stuff like side/right/left splits, right/left cartwheels, butterfly stretches, bridges, etc. Then we have a lot of stretching "routines" like the secre (sp?) stretch, which is hard to explain, but your hands sort of form a half oval, and it goes up and down and some weird stuff. Lol. Then there's one for your legs, which involves plies, attitudes (it's like a curved kick with a pointed foot), batmas (sp?), batmas with curved arms, and a hop + an attitude (a hopping attitude! XD). Then there's the hip stretch, which is... nevermind, you don't want to know. So we do lots of miscellaneous stretches, all of which actually stretch your muscles, not like those wimpy ones we do in PE. Then we do 16 sit-ups in 6 different leg positions, plus 16 alternating oblique sit-ups, then 16 sit-ups on the right oblique, and 16 on the left. So that's... 144 sit-ups? o.o Wow. I didn't know we did that many. Then we do about 10 push-ups. And we run.
As for actual flags/rifles/sabers, we learn to spin them first, and trust me, a flag is way easier than a rifle or saber. Flags are still hard for me though. Anyways, after we spin, we learn some flips, which are also kind of hard, and seeing as how the flagpole is about a foot taller than me, it's hard for me to flip. But it's better than tosses. You don't want to see me try to toss a flag. It's catastrophic. So, we separate our 15 or so people into flags, rifles, and sabers, and I'm a flag (thankfully), even though most people want to be a weapon. I like flags because I can actually do SOME stuff on it, plus the fact that flags are like 2-3 lbs, rifles are 3-4, and sabers are like 5.

As for marching, Colorguard FINALLY learned how to march today, and I was totally confused for the first 10 minutes or so as to what we were doing. XD But at least I can (sort of) march now, so that's all good... sort of. But I can't spin a flag and march. Which is really bad, since I have to spin and march. Oh well. Anyways, it's pretty tiring, but I feel worse for the Marching Band, since they have to be in the sun virtually the whole time. What I don't get though, is why some band members fainted on their first day out (or so the rumor says), since they were just standing/stretching outside, whereas Colorguard was running across the football field, stretching, and traveling outside. And we got the same amount of water breaks about.

Anyways, for our program this year, we're doing Zorro, which is really heroic or whatever. And all the girls are wearing hairpieces, fake eyelashes, lipstick, eyeliner, and probably eyeshadow. All of which I hate. And then we have this black fishnet top with a red pattern underneath, paired with black pants with a red pleather design, and black canvas jazz boots. And we're supposed to be all seductive and independent or whatever, which I am DEFINITELY not going to be. I don't even want to try. Ugh. But I have to, or else it's like totally no point in being in Colorguard. By the way, if you go to my school, pretend you either didn't hear this, or you didn't hear it from me, because apparently this is top secret or whatever.

So all in all, band/Colorguard camp is tiring, hot, and hard. And annoying.