Sadly during their performance the props smashed onto the ground and the balls flew out of the stadium. This was followed by my brothers Corps, The Mandarins where their gong fell down and then detached
💀sadly i can relate because during our BOA competition, we had an electronic failure with the keyboard in front ensemble, and our 3rd part of the show begins with a keyboard solo, and so everybody just had to march and do choreo while it wasn’t working and the judges pegged it as an “abnormally long transition”🫤
Imagine if this was the Troopers. We actually had our huge oil derrick prop fall over once in Casper during spring training, when there was a huge wind storm. Nobody got hurt, but dear god it was frightening, and thank goodness it never happened again.
@@carsonridd We were happy that there was the intermission because my brother had just his first year in mandarins and there props had to be able to move with people on them. They did perform safely though.
Way to finish... that's what DCI is REALLY about: life lessons & adversity!!! It's what makes drum corps a community vs. seeing a broadway show where you "critique" the help out of everything! "Should we rise or fall, we'll still be proud..." The Academy has all my love!
The sad part is the wind died down very quickly after that show. It was literally wind free after Academy, Mandarins, and BD performed lol. Battalion troopers, vanguard, and BK all had wind free shows 😅
My brother is in the mandarins playing euphonium and trombone and the wind was making the Color guard have a harder time. The sad thing is one of the next competitions got canceled.
A) Academy is awesome! B) You should share your story with dci or a drum corps related podcast. I'd love to interview but I kinda got out of the game. !!
Kinda reminds me of when RCCs props fell during a performance this past season. It takes a huge amount of skill and improv to overcome such accidents, especially for an activity that allows no improvisation.
I taught at a high school marching band several years ago and the ball props we had got blown by the wind as well. in conclusion, light bouncy balls are not the way to go
we had a similar situation, my sophomore year we had a space themed show so we had one of those giant beach balls made to look like the moon and it kept blowing away so we started partially filling it with water to weigh it down at shows
Oh my gosh I feel bad, I didn’t even know the wind was this bad at corps encore for you guys. Battalion was packing up the trailer when you guys performed
Center marimba for this show here. Had no idea the prop disaster was as bad as it was until long after this performance. Seconds before the video was taken one of the tall mics they use to record audio for FloMarching (this one was on the 50) fell over and landed a few inches from two front ensemble members. Thankfully no one was in the wrong place at the wrong time with all this wind
I actually have the full show recorded but put on the prop part up. Glad no one was hurt. You guys did great when I saw you guys In Indianapolis. I just bought a few of the flags for the show though.
Yea I was thinking a prop would hit someone and cause them to fall and cause a domino effect with the other people, but luckily it didn’t happen and only the props fell over
When I marched Freelancers in the 1980s they recruited us sopranos to do some (very simp[le) flag work during the drum solo, then we'd toss to the color guard. At the Concord show the wind was pretty strong and when it was time for me to toss, I tried my best, but he was to my right and the flag disappeared to my left.
This is sad because this is how the wind is in Utah. It's very windy during the day and dies down at night. It sucks for smaller division bands during comp season because we almost always have to deal with the wind since we perform earlier in the day.
My high school band had same massive tarps for our show this year, an at our first competition it was hella windy, to the point that it (and don’t quote me on this because I didn’t see it directly) picked up a band dad during setup. We ended up having to habe band parents stay on the tarps for the performance to keep it down. Thankfully, we didn’t get any penalties, and actually had a couple of judges that were thankful that we did, and we went on to win the competition.
I would argue that props are everything that isn’t held in you hand. Instruments: not props. Drumsticks: not props. Mallets: not props. Rifles/flags/sabers: not props. Giant things on the field that are there to help define the theme of the show: props.
