Surprisingly it wasn't too bad today. Hot, yes, but not too much strenuous activity. Walked/ran a mile (alternating laps), and I was already about to die. How sad is that? Then we stretched, like always (I'm getting really inflexible too), and did some core activities. Twenty crunches, bicycles, scissors, held our feet off the ground for a while, and held a plank position for 30 seconds.
Then we did a few basics; learned dress center, up-four-four-down-for-four, high mark time, step-offs. Good stuff.
Lunch was pretty awesome; guardies stuck together, and like four people mooched off of Mindy. xD We have a decent amount of people this year too. Sixteen showed up today, including five vets (Ellen, Melanie, Claire, Laura, and me). Ellen, Aileen, Jessica, Mindy, Monica, Alex, Erin, Mari, Elise, Katie, and Olivia. =P
I annoyed Ross and Peter for a while too. And Courtney, of course. xD
After lunch, the band went into sections. Guard spent 30 minutes trying to unravel a human knot (we ended up failing still; but we were so close!). Those things are damn hard with 16 people... Elaine (our new coach) is pregnant too; it's like the curse/boon of the guard coaches! Then we broke off into ID, flag, and rifle groups. Melanie and I wanted to do ID, but since we're vets, the positions went to newbies. =[ The five vets are stuck on rifle. Which sort of sucks, because I suck at rifle. I can sort of spin right-handed, barely spin left-handed, do double tosses and no more, and that's about it. -sighs- Ah well. I guess I'll deal with it somehow...
Not too bad of a day; pretty fun actually. We played a game at the end too, nice bonding time. So yep. Welcome back to band camp!
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Oh, and more differences from field. Only one piece of equipment (since there's no way we're switching equipment in parade), and more footwork. Good parts are that there are fewer practices (no Saturday 9am-5pm!) and... That's about it. Ah well.
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