Usually if the fall genuinely wasnt your fault, (ie: a friend of mine tripped on a drumstick that was dropped, and it led to 3 people falling, the recovery was still while marching and playing and the judge saw the stick, picked it up and mentioned that in his tape, didnt take any points off
Man when the tenors fell on some of them It hurts watching because I fell with my cymbals and I litterly broke one of them and now the whole drum line calls the broken cymbal snaggle tooth
it’s so hard to get back up for some reason. I remember during one of my backwards marching (8 to 5 steps 😎😎) I fell and the helmet just 😩😩😩. i had to like think about it for a second. It’s a really weird thing lol
no cause once during rehearsal i tripped on my flag and literally went sprawling, like i got airtime, and when i was finished falling i just sat there and laughed at myself for the rest of the rep it was so bad
I remember watching one of the guard girls fall when performing for another school a couple hours before state. I really laughed, then asked if she was alright after the performance.
My section leader told me a few years back, someone locked their knees and feinted, we got extra points for STEPPING OVER HER UNCONCIOUS BODY like she never feinted in the first place.
@TheRenaissanceman65 um... Yes? I'm not sure if your dissing them because they messed up, or your surprised that bands rehearse... But yes, they rehearsed, many many times
That almost happened to me at my last performance. The dude in front of me stepped on my ankle on accident, nearly making me trip, so I almost knocked over the people behind me. Luckily we didn't fall but when I watched the video of our performance you could see my plume flick in the air when I was trying not to fall
@@twstdreality its worse than that, when your out there running full tilt you don't really know what is around you all that much. Its just a matter of trusting that if you do what your supposed to do, everyone else will to and it will all work out.
In high school, my band spent thousands of dollars on the Bluecoats' props from Tilt. They sent them to the wrong school, and we never got the props or the money back. I'd call that a fail.
We asked out band director if he would rather drop all of us off a cliff or all our instruments (some brand new). He took a very (VERY) long pause before someone stepped up and said “ya know what, never mind” and we moved on.
As some one that has experienced a fall during marching band during an ice on the field moment, including falling on top of the instrument. I folded that damn thing in half. they had to scrap it. Eh things happen. (trumpet)
Or what else, lay on the ground and be a inconvenience to the band that knows you can just stand up. I mean at that point, you have to get up to get back into your line.
You’re lucky if it doesn’t. In my 2 years in band I never fell but I got close a couple times, I’ve had a few people fall next to me and could’ve tripped on them if I wasn’t spatially aware lol
Same, I’m literally joining marching band next year so if this ever happens to me...imma go home and rock back and forth thinking of how much of a failure I am
I wish that was me. I’m just starting marching band and we can’t play trombones because it’s. “ UNSAFE. “ so I have to play a marching baritone which sucks because one, I don’t know how to play it, and two, I can barely hold that piece of shit up for more than 2 minutes.
@@ebanimations6315 That's very interesting. If you can't hold it up for long periods of time then it's probably unsafe to bring the trombone. Your school is probably just being careful because a lot of instrument damages come from marching or pep band. When you're up in the stands you can lose track of everything and next thing you know you drop your trombone or collide with someone else.
@@Aruesx I understand. But it’s not my trombone I can’t hold up. I used to be one of my top trombone players at my school. It’s my marching baritone that I can’t hold up. I don’t have that upper body strength yet.
@@ebanimations6315 I switched to the Marching Baritone from trombone this year too, and it's hard but it really does get a lot better and easier to hold it up the longer you practice
this anxiety is heightened so much for me because I march with a bass drum with 4 other bass drums... we cannot see in front of us without putting our drums out of a straight line which isn't allowed so we basically just have to pray and play
Let me tell you a story, the majorettes march in front of us and they threw baton the air and it hit the flute and the flute over and everybody fell except for like maybe a saxophone and the tube's
@@hithere2602 I think what they’re saying is: “Let me tell you a story. The majorettes marched in front of us and they threw their baton in the air and it hit a flute and it fell, and then everybody fell as well, except for maybe like a sax player and the tuba players.”
I’ll never forget the time my senior year when I was at practice and marching backwards. You’d think as a senior, I’d be fine. I was. For a moment. I ended up tripping over my own feet and falling on to my sousaphone bell, bending one side completely in half folded inward. We didn’t stop for a solid two minutes before my band director noticed I had fallen and had taken my sousa off the field with him doing the normal announcements at the end of rehearsal like nothing happened. According to my parents, my band director ALSO tried to charge my family the full amount for a brand new sousaphone to replace that one, in which my parents flat out refused and I still do not know if they’ve even replaced it, being that was back in 2018. Honestly? I don’t care, because now I’m in a college marching band.
This is one of my biggest fears. Sometimes it's hard to keep your feet planted to the ground. If my Sousa goes down with me, I'm not getting back up. And, it's definitely not going to look good when I eventually do get back up.
Totally had this happen when I was in high school… tuba player went straight down, face planted, then had the other 11 tuba players march right on top of him, his back was bruised from the ppl stepping on him 😂 😂 Guess you could say our director taught us well? The show must go on! Made for an INCREDIBLE video though & he was a really great sport about it lol
Yea you’re right!! There were only two of them tho so it was probably a lot easier to practice and get it right/synchronized with just the two of them.
I've been Marching for 5 years and I've fallen twice. We have some awful transition moves. Live spinning around to face back and then taking a sharp left, then coming back, and spinning the other way. Dizzy as hell, I caught my foot under a grass bridge and fell forward
My most embarrassing band moment. Big competition at NSU that's Natchitoches Louisiana. During rehearsals as we make our way to the last position which is everyone lined up on the sideline we always turned right to march single file . Well myself and a fellow tuba player didn't get the instruction that we were turning left this time and we were on the the end so we ended up marching about 6 or 7 yards in the opposite direction of the rest of the band. Packed house but I think my embarrassment drowned out the laughter of the crowd.
Brooooo Louisiana homie! But uh, this one time at show case, my freshman year, we were marching our third movement and this senior trumpet accidentally slipped, rolled, and got right back up and marching- all in time, and in the right spot. It was amazing
The best part is the show kept going and they recovered as best they could and just kept going. But I hope laughing at this doesn't give us karma for tonight or tomorrow's performance 😂
It's funny how my immediate reaction to these is, "are the instruments okay?". Those things are so expensive. Falls like that are great ways to bend, snap, and completely destroy your instrument. Especially those trombones who made a dog pile among themselves.
My sophomore year, I was marching second bass, and we were marching backwards, and I hear something behind me. Of COURSE the colorguard put the props in the wrong spot. Now the other 3 basses behind me were able to stumble around it, I was the only one who marches with proper technique, especially backwards, so you know the moment my ankle hit that foot on the prop, I went straight down. My bass drum came unhooked, and smacked me in the face. I got up very quickly and carried my bass as I caught up, hooking it back on as we marched
Congrats! but you're supposed to march on the ball of your foot with your heel in the air, not too high, though. Our fouth bass "died" last year crab marching on his heel.
@@jazlynsolano3137 yeah. I was backwards marching, not crabing, but either way, my heals were off the ground, but that didn’t keep them from hitting the foot of the prop. I was just saying that because i didn’t bend my knees, I wasn’t going to unknowingly step over the prop.
@@LeakyJAZZ I march bass 4 even though im super weak. Today at our homecoming preformence I fell over because my friend who plays bass 3 was going way too fast backwards. Took me like 10 seconds but I got back in the line, since its kinda hard to get up with a big ass drum.
No because literally I’m laughing when they fall but my heart is sinking at the same time because of the instrument😀✋🏻 (I’m sure laughing is going to give bad karma next time we’re marching 💀✋🏻)
That's what I'm saying!! If you fall or run into something you better be checking your drum immediately!! Finally I've found someone who agrees with me.
Going into my 4th and final season of high school marching band and this is bringing back memories of the times we've had slipups. Like when an upper classman walked into me and I fell to the ground and them got back up in seconds.
Seeing people trip over other people in videos like this cos they aren’t looking behind them makes me so happy to be in a show-style, high step, band, that turns in the direction they’re marching. I’ve only ever accidentally fallen down once, which was recently, when I spun too hard and fell down. I, thankfully, was not holding my trumpet.
this hurts my soal, especially since i almost had a fail in my last halftime show. we were playing believer and there is a part where we lunge our left legs out and then lean back together. i was focused on playing loudly because one of our 1st part members was gone because of covid so i ended up fumbling and almost fell sideways. otherwise very good show
I've never fallen down during an actual performance, but I have fallen down at least once in practice every season (only two seasons so far, but still). First season I got run over by a Sousa, second season I was backward marching over a small hill and directly after down a small hole (losing my balance and falling over, causing my section leader behind me to break into laughter).
I'm a horrible person. When you said you got run over by a Sousa, I laughed too hard. I am a Sousa, and I'm always told to just run anyone over who's in my path. I would never, but the thought of just plowing through someone is hilarious to me.
karma came for me i watched this and laughed and then at the next practice somebody stepped on my foot while i was marching backwards and i feel backwards
I did this the other day at practice. I am on the color quard and I have a really fast set backwards. I biffed it so hard. My band director left her mic on and when I say she almost blew out eardrums out with how loudly she laughed, I'm not kidding it scared our drum majors
I feel so bad for the kid at 00:28. That was not his/her fault at all! Why was that stupid cone on the sideline of the field, anyway?? Of course it was going to inevitably get knocked over at some point, which placed it inside the actual field where this poor kid marched right onto it while moving backwards, so there was no possible way to avoid it. I'm pre-emptively made at the judge(s) who might have docked the band on drill for this, and I'm legitimately pissed off at the person who thought it was a good idea to put a fucking cone on the sideline right there! Also, I may or may not have face-planted during a show back when I was in high school, so this sort of thing is a sore spot for me, lol.
that was definitely a football game and not a competition, the orange cones are there for training and stuff i think it just got left out and that happened unfortunately, but since its a game theres no judges to worry about :) they wouldnt have those yard markers like that if it was a marching comp
@@bigidiot5338 Hey, you're pretty smart for being a big idiot! Yeah, I think you're right about that not being competition, but I've seen some really weird crap happen when I was in high school marching band depending on which school we were visiting. I agree that any competition that isn't a friendly and actually counts would definitely have the field free of any tripping hazards unless self-inflicted by the band themselves (I've seen a show with 2 or 3 people tripping over a trombone that fell on the ground after the player lost his grip).
It was actually a friendly high school competition, though the band featured is the UMaine band. We were invited as guests to inspire them, or something. :D This would have been 2009ish. I can't remember which school, exactly, but not too far from Orono, ME.
The thought of making people March backwards and sideways is terrifying. My only experience with marching band is in high school and it just sends shivers down my spine
I'm nervous for my first game today especially since I don't have all the songs memorized yet and I was absent because of covid but this made me feel better :) thanks
To those who don’t know why it’s really hard to fall in marching band is because of marching. If someone doesn’t march the entire show is ruined. When you’re on the field, it’s actually not as hard as you thought because you’ve practiced for HOURS. There are two different styles of marching and the each have pros and cons. Bent knee marching makes it harder to keep in time but easier to keep your balance. Straight leg marching is easier to keep in time but a little more difficult to do it correctly. Some high schools don’t allow kids to do straight leg because if you lock your knees your feet will fall asleep and you will fall. Marching is such a weird thing to get right guys. But if you do it for really long like most of the people in the video it shouldn’t be that hard. But nobody’s perfect.
omg in one of my sets i have a really big backwards march and i’ve fallen 3 times so far doing it. thank god it’s only been while practicing and never a game yet
