Color Guard IS a sport!
Payton Shiver
October 1, 2009
Filed under Fall Sports, Sports, Uncategorized
North Augusta High School is well-known for its strong athletic programs. With a current undefeated football team, a solid baseball and softball program, and a stacked volleyball team, have you ever thought that maybe we overlook another rare group of athletes?
When thinking of a ‘sport’, the first things usually associated are hard hits, blood, crazy plays, sweat, tears, muscle, coordination, intensity, and no room for error. The Color Guard of North Augusta High is no exception.
“Beginning at the very start of this past summer, we put in fourteen hours each week,” says junior Color Guard member Elisa Meyers. “Now that school has started, we go fifteen to sixteen hours a week.” Fifteen to sixteen hours is close to the amount of time football and baseball put into their workouts each week.
“This is so silly. Everyone knows there is nothing sporty about Color Guard,” sophomore Chris Moore states. Let it also be said that Chris has not seen the intense show Guard puts on this year. Junior Chase Pardue adds, “Yeah, right. Intense show? Whatever. All they do is dance. How is that a sport?”
To be classified as a high school sport, the team in question must compete with other teams. Our risky Color Guard stole the show this past weekend at the Mustang Classic on September 26th, receiving first place in Guard competition.
“We have football Fridays, and competition Saturdays. There is no down time during rehearsal. Honestly, we make it look easy,” comments Senior Guard member Taylor Wapshott. “It’s hard to understand unless you do it.” Other seniors on the team this year include Tevin Middleton, Leah Monroe, and Brittney Barbour.
Tevin has a solo this year at the end of the band’s eight to nine minute performance. He says, “I love it. It’s my life and future. I want to help teach Color Guard in college. But it takes a lot of practice, dedication, and time. I could compare Guard to gym my freshman year. We do much harder things in Guard than we ever did in gym. Personally, I think we use every muscle. Guard is one of the hardest sports because it’s all body.”
It is a classic debate of the athletics: “We’re better!” “But we work harder!” Ever heard the annoyingly worn-out argument, “Cheerleading is not a sport”? The truth is that legally, North Augusta cheerleading is NOT a sport. Our cheerleading team is considered a club because it does not compete as the Color Guard does. “We don’t have the opportunity to compete,” says senior cheerleading captain Kayla Davis. “I think we should both be consider a sport, not just one or the other. Cheerleaders practice as much, condition as much, and what we do is similar, with dancing and moves. They throw flags in the air, we throw people.”
“Excuse me, have you seen our routine this year? We throw up people too!” retorts Elisa Meyers. “And we catch a person falling off an eight foot ladder. I’m not saying cheerleading is easy, I cheered until I was fourteen. I know how it is, and I promise you, Guard is so much harder. Cheerleaders don‘t compete, and they might lift up one person a game, maybe. We do it everyday, and we have only once chance to get it right.”
Last year for regional competition, Guard had to be up at the school at 4:30 in the morning in order to get ready for the day‘s preformance, while band didn’t have to arrive until 6:30. “It just takes a whole lot of time. You’ve gotta be dedicated,” says clarinet player Nicole Felak. “Color Guard is scored on execution. They actually have separate awards. That just shows how much they matter, and just how serious this is.”
“Throwing up a flag,” as Kayla put it, is no easy task. It takes muscle to throw the flag up, coordination to catch it upon the flag’s descent, and concentration to focus upon the counts as well as your location on the field in correspondence with your Color Guard teammates. On top of that, there is absolutely no room for error. A dropped flag (or person), missed count, or slow feet puts first place for Guard in competition completely out of reach.
Baseball is a sport that takes phenomenal hand-eye coordination. When a local travel baseball team (who shall remain anonymous) was asked to twirl their bats with a little coordination and slightly in sync, the results were just short of disastrous. After a hilarious ten minutes of watching teenagers throwing bats, screaming insults, and bruising themselves up pretty badly, we all came to the conclusion that these boys will stick to playing on the diamond, and leave the flag twirling to the professionals.
Color Guard does not get the recognition or respect they are worthy of. They receive eye-rolls, laughs, and snide remarks, when in reality they deserve the same support and respect that our student section gives to the football team every Friday night. They may not be able to run a cross country course under twenty minutes, swim a two-hundred meter butterfly, or block a punt. But you’ve hit a pretty impressive grand slam. Color Guard, keep on twirling.
Trust me, the Guard has some muscle! Ever been hit with one of those flags!? It’s a pretty common Band joke that the Guard is the Band’s cheerleaders; our Guard gets insulted at the comparison.
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Okay, come on. If color guard is a sport, the debating on the debate team is a sport. Color guard, although they participate in competitions, is not a sport. Color Guard should be considered an art, similar to band. The band competes, but is not a sport…its a club, or an art form. Color guard does work hard, does sweat, does have good hand-eye skills but this does not put it in the same category of football or basketball. Its comparing apples to oranges. Color guard belongs with band and drill team.
Just wanted to “speak my mind”.
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Courtney Reply:
January 5th, 2010 at 6:19 pm
ever try guard? i doubt it…Definition of sport: •an athletic activity requiring skill or physical prowess and often of a competitive nature. that is straight from dictionary.com. Lets see…athletic activity…i’d say running 10 yards in 8 double time counts while staying in step, counting, looking above the press box, smiling, and spining is a very athletic activity. Requiring skill….um yes! My guard coach is a teacher in my school and one of our rifles was in her room, during a study hall a few football players asked her how to spin it. They tried and failed, horrbily…i’m pretty sure i can throw a football and run without any drill spots to hit or care about what foot i’m on. Competitve nature…try competitions every saturday when you compete against 3-9 groups in your class. So…tell me again why colorguard isn’t a sport?
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Courtney Reply:
January 5th, 2010 at 6:34 pm
i mean not to be mean or anything…but…i am very opinionated…and i spelled that wrong huh…oh well…
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Katye Reply:
January 7th, 2010 at 12:03 pm
Color Guard is not run by the athletic department. In terms of high school sports, (something that participating in would earn you a “letter” of a letterman’s jacket) a sport is an activity run by the athletic department. Saying that guard is not a sport is not attacking you as an athlete. Sure, guard members are very athletic and do more work that some sports teams. Being an athlete and athletic does not make guard a sport. By saying guard is an art…such as band, is not taking away from the phyiscality of the activity…it is only seperating it from the accepted sports such as football, basketball, and soccer. A dictionary may define it as anything requiring skill, but in terms on categories, in HIGH SCHOOL, color guard is not a sport.
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Courtney Reply:
January 11th, 2010 at 12:21 am
this is true..in my school you can letter for colorguard and marching band though…
Chris Reply:
February 22nd, 2010 at 12:30 am
This debate is STILL going on? Jeez. However Kayte, band and guard students also get letters for their Letterman’s jackets. Although we like to think of ourselves as the mafia, we don’t steal them. In fact they say BAND and GUARD on them, respectively.
In time like these, I like to quote Ray William Johnson: “TWO CAMELS IN A TINY CAR!”
samantha p Reply:
March 15th, 2011 at 10:27 pm
and what is this “accepted sport” thing? so now guard isn’t a sport just because people don’t accept it as one? you see what i mean when i say that people in our history have an issue with accepting anything that’s different. well that’s just fine, you don’t have to like it or accept it, but that doesn’t change the facts.
bebe Reply:
May 26th, 2011 at 3:08 pm
yall know that color guard is a sport!
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guardy Reply:
November 15th, 2010 at 7:47 pm
just saying COLORGUARD is a SPORT!! If you think its not how about you try it. “Just speaking my mind”
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Okay, the day that any of you come out and try to run with us for ONE rehearsal is the day that ya’ll can say anything that we do is easy or isn’t a sport.
I guarantee that you’ve never worked as hard as we do in your life.
It’s art, yes. It’s what emotions look like.
But it’s also the hardest sport you can find at the high school, because we combine stamina, precision, coordination, sychronization, running all over a football field, and dancing/spinning nonstop for about 10 solid minutes.
Please come and try it, and then tell me that what we do is easy and it’s not a sport.
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Samantha (: Reply:
October 6th, 2009 at 7:49 pm
just to add to what taylor says, not only do we do that for about 10 minutes during a show, we do that every day after school accept wednesday, not to mention everyday in class, and it requires practice at home as well. anyone could argue that color guard, along with dance and cheerleading, is not a sport, how ever we work just as hard, if not harder, than all those guys playing football and basket ball and baseball. but what we do not only takes the work it takes skill and discipline as well. i think people stereotype these sports as girls sports, but just because they have a stereotype does not mean there not sports.
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I might be new to color guard, but honestly, I didn’t know i had some of the muscles I have to use for spinning and tossing the flags. Not only does it take skill and muscle, but it requires mental power and focus to understand what the hand positions are and knowing the counts.
Everytime we spin a flag, or a rifle or saber, we have to consider counts, move our feet, think about hand positions, control the flag, and follow the person in front of you.
From experience, those flags are not eay to move! Honestly, cheerleaders and even band, doesn’t work as hard as we do. I’m an alternate, and I work twice as hard as some people on other teams. I admit that the cheerleaders have tons practice and they need mental power to memorize chants and they need the athletics to do the majority of their stunts, but that is nothing compared to what the Color Guard does.
And I’m only a rookie.
I pretty much love color guard, and i can feel every muscle working EVERY day, even when we are “just” dancing or stretching, or when I’m at home. Not only do we put in hours and hours of practice at school, we are also required to practice on our own time. I’ve b=never worked so hard for anything, including doing drill in ROTC.
The Guard’s spirit and motivation is equal to our mental and athletic abilities.
<3AnnaMarie
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I’d like to invite anyone who thinks its not a sport to come to our practices one day. Be prepared to have about five minutes of down time for the whole 3 hour practice. We continually move, dance, and spin. First of all, memorizing drill sheets are hard. It may take up to two hours to learn 10 sets. And 10 sets only amounts to like 30 sec. of routine time. Second of all, I’d like to see the people dance who say its easy. Dancing may look easy, but that’s only because we make it look that way. And third of all, spinning is so hard. I remember as a freshman picking up a flag for the first time and making a complete fool out of myself. Flags are hard to spin. I got hit in the face my freshman year with one, and it knocked off my front tooth. Sebastion got hit in the face with a rifle, and his front tooth got completely knocked out. Its not easy. I am completely sure that anyone who says its “easy” wouldn’t even be able to get a rifle to go around once. But this year for winter guard, we all have to successfully be able to throw a five. Don’t say its easy when you don’t know. It definately isn’t. When you put in as must practice time as we do and do all the things we do, and still think its easy. Then, okay. I’ll respect your opinion. But since you don’t, I really don’t think you would know.
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Have you ever marched four and a half yard lines in twenty counts while keeping your feet in time spinning in time, not dropping it, counting, and watching all 189 other people around you to make sure you’re matching? No, you haven’t. Not to mention the tempo is like 16something so thats like two and a half counts per second. You people don’t realize how hard we work, how many hours we spend, and how much times this takes to get it right. If debating is a sport, how many laps do they do for people being late?
How many push ups do they do for people being lazy, not counting, or not moving their feet in time?
You compare cheerleaders pompoms to our six foot flags? Really?
-.-;
I’m not saying anything against cheerleaders because some of my really good friends are on the team, but you can ask Oliva or Samantha, who both tried out for cheer leading their freshman year but decided to do guard, which one requires more time, muscle, coordination, and commitment.
You people are very closed minded.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lPa-GiLEE6k
Do this, and call it easy.
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Kudos to Payton Shiver for an amazing article. I think I should be on the band’s/Guard’s Top Ten List of Most Liked People. (: (: (:
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Katye, I hope you realize you opened up Pandora’s box with that comment. I have a feeling Taylor was thinking about you when she gave me a quote for my article, you might want to watch your back…
Another point to be made is that most sports only last for one season; Color Guard started practicing last May and will still be competing in February and March. Does any other team do that? I think not.
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Hi,
I just wanted to add a comment of my own. Until four years ago my family had never been involved in marching band or color guard. So I had not really given much thought to it either way. But let me say, very emphatically, that not only is color guard one of the most rigorous workouts but I’m sure that not everyone could do it. I have so much respect for these young people in color guard and marching band. Not only do they have unbelievable endurance to spend weeks and weeks in 90-100 plus degrees, they have remarkable coordination. They march, play, count and perform with flags, rifles and sabres ALL AT THE SAME TIME! And added to all of this is watching and following the drum major and making sure that every movement is precise because those instruments AND FLAGS AND RIFLES CAN SERIOUSLY INJURE SOMEONE! Just ask one of the guard members who was hit in the mouth with one and broke his tooth. Not only did this member leave, call the dentist and go in to have it fixed, but he came back to the practice field to finish that evening’s practice. That’s the kind of passion and discipline these kids have for their “sport”.
But if all of this does not convince you, go upstairs either beside or on top of the press box during a half-time show to watch. It’s amazing!
Maybe all of you critics should go over one day after school and just sit in on a practice.
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Some of you need to take a pill and relax. Look again at what Katye said. While her tone was bombastic, sarcastic and condescending (normal for Katye, really), she went out of her way to acknowledge the hard work of the color guard:
From there, we get:
All what critics? All 2.5 of them (let’s agree to call Katye a half critic)? Me thinks thou doth protest too much.
The only people who truly disparaged what the color guard does were the boys in the second paragraph of the article. Labeling something a sport or not is an age-old (and tired) argument, but the fact that what you do is or isn’t a sport doesn’t make it matter any more or less. Saying that something isn’t a sport isn’t an insult (at least, it doesn’t have to be). I don’t think that car racing, golf, cheer leading, darts, billiards, band, ping-pong, and many many other things aren’t sports. It doesn’t mean that they don’t take skill, sweat, and hard work. It doesn’t mean that Tiger Woods isn’t an athlete. It doesn’t mean that Tony Stewart isn’t talented (he’s an out-of-shape blob, but still talented). It doesn’t mean I don’t appreciate them.
Color guard is hard and demanding; color guard is not something I could do; color guard is still not a sport.
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Chris Snider Reply:
October 7th, 2009 at 9:40 pm
James, if you’re gonna make a Hamlet allusion, at least get the quote right, “The lady doth protest too much, methinks.” (Act 3, scene 2, line 254 – I did in fact know the Act and scene location, but I had to look up the line in case you’re wondering.)
Second, I imagine by “critics,” Mrs. Wapshott was referring to “Everyone knows there is nothing sporty about Color Guard,” “Yeah, right. Intense show? Whatever. All they do is dance. How is that a sport?” “They throw flags in the air, we throw people,” and “If color guard is a sport, the debating on the debate team is a sport.” That’s a tad more than 2.5. In fact, it’s four, and considering this article is only a few hundred words long, that’s a pretty significant number.
Considering that ping-pong is in fact a sport (an Olympic sport for that matter, along with chess), I believe that not labeling color guard as a sport is indeed an insult. (They should at the very least get P.E. credit, considering they do more than any P.E. class.) And you used a double negative in your line “I don’t think that car racing, golf, cheer leading, darts, billiards, band, ping-pong, and many many other things aren’t sports,” making it very ambiguous and unclear. (The same can be said about “Saying that something isn’t a sport isn’t an insult,” and “It doesn’t mean I don’t appreciate them.” Sorry, grammar Nazi.)
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James Reply:
October 8th, 2009 at 8:32 am
Chris, if you’re going to be an academic snob, at least count right. “If color guard is a sport, the debating on the debate team is a sport” is not from the article, it’s from a comment on the article. “Considering this article is only a few hundred words long” really doesn’t matter in that instance. Additionally, the “we throw people comment” wasn’t critical at all–Kayla was actually saying that both activities are sports and defending color guard.
Also, when you resort to coming after the grammar in an argument, you’re making what’s called an ad-hominem attack where you attack the person making the argument, not the actual argument. It’s a sign of weakness in a counter argument. Embarrassingly, the first double negative was a proofing mistake, but the other two were intentional and easy to follow. Don’t worry though, everyone loves a grammar Nazi.
Me still thinketh thou doth protesteth too mucheth.
Also, the Olympic standard for “sport not a sport” isn’t exactly an exacting standard–you pretty much prove that with your chess example (seriously, chess?). I can see why the guard and its mafia defenders have such sensitivity about the color-guard-sport thing since many people do disparage by not counting something as a sport. I’m just saying it doesn’t have to be that way, color guard isn’t a sport, and the people on color guard work incredibly hard and deserve our admiration and respect.
To me, sport not a sport is like the Supreme Court statute for pornography: I can’t give you a definition, I know when I see it. I can’t give you a definition of a sport, I just know when I see one. Arbitrary? Absolutely. Better than constantly rehashing this stupid sport-not-sport argument? I say it is. Then again, here I am rehashing it. Doh, stupid hypocrisy.
You do make an excellent point about the PE credit, though. I wonder if there’s a way to make that happen.
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*sigh* To be honest, when I noticed your retort was just parallelism, I stopped reading. Emerling says I can’t have slap fights on the internet no more, and what Ling-Ling wants, Ling-Ling gets. (Although I did notice you reused that Hamlet quote. I feel the desperate need to tell you that by “protest” Shakespeare meant “to protest one’s love” not “to complain.” Just thought you might want to know that before you throw it around some more.)
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Good lord. Looks like i did open up Pandoras box. Just because color guard isnt a sport, does not mean that its easy. The word easy never came out of my mouth. Sure, color guard works hard and requires coordination. Just because most people don’t consider it a sport, doesn’t make you any less of a person or mean that color guard is easy. It’s not a big deal. Sport or not, it’s an opinion.
Thanks for all the support of our website and the comments.
keep them coming.
and payton…thanks for helping me open up pandora’s box.
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hahaha I got a good laugh at these article replies. Thank you Payton for making my day. I just have one last thing to say though. Fighting over the internet is like [censored: comment hilariously referenced students with mental disabilities]
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Chris Snider, I love you.
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Chris Snider Reply:
October 11th, 2009 at 11:10 pm
Gracias, just sticking up for the people that basically define our show.
(stuggels to hold in all the stuff I would like to say to James and Kayte, such as ad hominem isn’t hyphenated, you have several ad hominems yourself Mr. Fallacious -if Mrs. Creamer could only see this-and and considering the amount of hooplah, I would say the sport/not sport thing is a big deal.)
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OMG….People….this is the biggest debate at NAHS…….I think we should take this to the board personally. If it gets this big of a resonse online think about what would happen if you had a room full of cheerleaders and colorguard members. It would be an all out cat-fight.
But, myself being a colorguard member….It is a sport…….just as Elisa, Taylor, and Becca said….i greatly open the door for you to come and try…just try what WE do….its not easy… last year we were practicing, the was blowing, and the flag came back down to soon and hit me in the head..I had to walk around school for a week with a black eye.
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Hay if u think color guard is easy and not a sport then join it. I dare u, just try to make the cut to be on it after tryouts. Just watch on how many people will change there minds.
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this article was fun to see
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Is it possible to letter in Color Guard?
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Katye Reply:
January 7th, 2010 at 12:06 pm
NO. And we are not saying color guard is easy, it is not easy but being easy doesnt make it not a sport. Playing piano well is not easy, but yet; playing piano isnt a sport. It takes skill and this doesnt make it a sport.
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Chris Reply:
February 22nd, 2010 at 12:43 am
Correction: YES. Same goes for Band.
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samantha p Reply:
March 15th, 2011 at 10:08 pm
why even compare it to piano playing? that is an instrument that requires no physical activity. just because you don’t believe in it doesn’t make it so. just because you don’t think guard is a sport doesn’t make you right. it is by definition a sport. piano is not, and neither is any other activity that does not require physical activity. just like white people back in the 80′s and early 90′s didn’t think black people were really people didn’t make it so. same here. it’s all based on opinion, and you are entitled to opinion but this question requires an answer based on logic.
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Katye Reply:
March 16th, 2011 at 1:13 pm
Samantha,
You cannot possibly compare the issue of “is color guard a sport” to the issue of race and by the way, the decade you are referring to was not the 80′s and 90′s. And in regards to your earlier comment (which could not be published because of the foul language used), funding for sports is given based on the amount of money made for the school and the benefits of the sport in regards to profit. The school system is run by financials and football and baseball recieve more funding simply because they bring in more money. Arts such as band and colorguard do not get much funding because they don’t make the school any money. Band raises their own funds because they know they need a certain amount of money to attend competitions and to purchase uniforms. BY DEFINITION (FROM WEBSTERS DICTIONARY) Color guard is:an honor guard for the colors of an organization. Defined by Wikipedia? Color guard is: Modern colorguard has evolved over the years into a form of entertainment that’s a form of dance theater. It uses props, along with movement, to express dynamic passages in the music accompanying the show. A colorguard is traditionally the visual representation of the music. Modern colorguards use flags, sabres, rifles, batons, swing flags, airblades, and a few other pieces of equipment, as well as a mix of ballet, jazz, modern, and contemporary modern dance.
By stating that color guard is not a sport, any of the supporters of that idea are not saying that you do not work harder than baseball players. We are not discrediting the long hours of hard practices that you guys go through. We are not saying that we value the ART of color guard anyless than if it was considered a sport. I go back once more to the defintion of a high school sport; a competitive activity run by the athletic department. The colorguard and band and all other forms of art at this school are NOT governed by the athletic department. And you don’t see any of the band members complaining that band isn’t considered a sport, because they know they have nothing to do with the athletic department. Band and color guard are a great part of the football games during half time, but other than that, they do not associate with the athletic department.
And opinions are opinions. There is no right or wrong in opinions, its very rude to tell someone that their opinion is blantantly wrong.
Just because people say color guard is not a sport does not mean that you guys aren’t atheltic and skilled and dedicated. I am in no way taking from you the fact that you guys sweat at practice and work hard and compete. That is not in question. The fact that it’s not considered a sport at North Augusta High School does not mean that you do not work hard. Those are two very different issues that should be viewed as that.
Your passion for the art of color guard is impressive, and its obvious that it’s important to you. Maybe you should look into color guard in college.
Why does the “Color” Guard not wear the school’s colors? And if you are going to wear different colors than the schools, why pink and green?
Not criticizing, just wondering. (Ok, maybe criticizing a little.)
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Chris Reply:
February 22nd, 2010 at 12:42 am
Because their outfits correspond to the show that they are performing. My freshman year, they all dressed as pirates. This year, there was a green, purple, orange, pink color scheme to the show, so they matched it.
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Questions pertaining specifically to Color Guard, like lettering, should be asked to Mr. Piner, Color Guard Director. I’m only an author with an opinion! (: As for the uniforms, I’m not completely informed and I’m not a member of Color Guard, but I do have a guess. When a certain team wears a uniform, it’s to distinguish who is who. In an athletic event such as football, teams wear different color uniforms because it’s a contact sport with a lot of movement from both sides. However, the idea behind band and Color Guard is that they have a theme, and they perform separately, and are also introduced as, “North Augusta High School Color Guard.” It’s a different sport than ones usually advertised. Guard is based on execution, and I’m sure originality.
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haha i’m getting into this conversation and i don’t even go to NAHS…i don’t even know where that is…i’m just doing an english report on the subject and this is really helpful!
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ok heres the thing! i do color guard. now you tell me does your football team get yelled at for being outta step? for being a hair of a second late? get push up for being late? do they stand in one position or 35 mins without end while your instructors talk? do the soccer players have to make sure they are balanced while spinning and smiling? does basketball get “left right left right” repeatedly screamed at them? i think not. yes color guard may not be considered a sport in high school or even accpeted as a sport in society, but i bet you my guard could run circles around the basketball football and soccer team! i dont even go to NAHS and i find this offensive. what ever happened to if you cant say nothing nice then dont say it at all? color guard is a art, its also a sport. its the SPORT OF THE ARTS!!!!!!
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I was so mad when I saw some of the first comments but now I’m laughing at myself for being so mad(:
Just thought I’d let you know that breaking your wrist and still having to smile through blood, sweat, and tears, AND STILL STAY ON COUNT while doing the correct work is very hard(: When football gets hurt, they immediately get taken out and the entire game is stopped. In guard, You never stop. Ever.
But can someone give me a link to the show they’re talking about? Throwing people in the air and falling off a ladder sounds AMAZING! I’d love to see the show
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Ashley Reply:
February 23rd, 2011 at 11:19 am
agreed
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colorguard is EVERYTHING…MAth, science, language, history, sports, performing arts, and etc. how? well hea u go
Colorguard is Science:
It is exact, specific and it demands precise execution. A designer’s drill is a chart; a graph which indicates x and y coordinates for constantly changing geometric shapes and forms in both time and space. Our equipment and props are always pushing the laws of physics with force and speed, action and reaction. All of this with an incredible control of time.
Colorguard is Mathematical:
It is rhythmically and metrically based on the subdivision of time into fractions which must be done instantaneously. We have angles and degrees, both acute and obtuse, sequences, ranges, and hypotenuse.
Colorguard is a Language:
It is a visual picture alive with message and meaning. We use interpretive phases, sentences, and words many times with music which creates a most complete and universal language, to be recorded for others to see, feel, and understand. It is a language which is recited and shared many times both near and far.
Colorguard is History:
Colorguard can be influenced by the environment and times of it’s creation, or it can reflect the past as well as the future. It can send us to a far away country or bring us closer to home. We are rich in our heritage and have forefathers as well.
Colorguard is a Physical:
It requires fantastic coordination of fingers, hands, arms, feet and legs; in addition to extraordinary control of the back stomach and torso; all of which are called to respond instantly to the sound the ear hears and the sight of the eye see. Colorguard surrounds around endurance, ability, strength, and balance.
Colorguard is a Sport:
A game which we play with others in which we share and we shine. Competing with ourselves to perform better each time.
It allows us to learn more on our inside on confidence and fear, self-esteem and self-image; as we get better on the outside with performances, people, expressing our feelings, and sharing our dreams. It is a chance to realize our attitude is what makes us or breaks us, not anyone or anything else. It is a kind of mind set with an increase awareness which challenges us to realize the potential in our selves.
Colorguard is Performing Arts:
It is a show which can be entertaining and enlightening! With directing, acting, producing, managing, and touring. Colors, fashion, flair, excitement, piazz, sophistication, and subtlety. Always realizing the traid of performance; audience, performer, designer.
Colorguard is Educational:
It allows a human being to learn how to take all of these things; some dry and technically boring, some difficulty and challenging; and use them to create EMOTION! The one thing that our world needs.
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I’m on color guard and I have to say that it is a sport. We aren’t as active as some across the country, but we work our butts off just as much as any of our other sports teams at the school.
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ARE YOU KIDDING!! GUARD IS A SPORT! I WOULD KNOW! i have been in this SPORT for 10 years and my feet would love to argue this to. 12 hours practices, long camp weekend, hearing “thats not right, do it over, try harder” Have you ever heard the saying people who do not do guard do not understand. how about you spend time at one of my practices! you would die. we run like other sports, compete like other sports, we are to a sport. and a debate team, are you really comparing guard to a debate team! you must be insane in the head. i just want to speak my mind. trust me i can go on and on about this. im even doing a 10 page paper on it.
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ok, to everyone who thinks guard is not a sport—
it is!! if you don’t think so, that’s your own opinion, but opinions really don’t matter with this question. if you “think it’s in the same category as football or baseball”, it is not. but that doesn’t make it unacceptable as a sport. it is a sport!!! by definition colorguard is a freaking sport!! i can’t stand people who say “i don’t think guard is a sport cuz it’s not the same as football or baseball”. it has nothing to do with other sports. guard is a sport, no matter what anyone thinks or says to try and say it’s not. like i said, by definition guard is most definitely a sport, and to think anything else is just stupid and biast. ok, guard is also an art form like band. it is an artistic sport. but it is a sport. just like dance or drill team or marching band or track or football or baseball. and to those who try and rebute by saying that if guard is a sport, then so is chess or some lame thing like that. chess does not require physical activity, only mental activity. it is a GAME. people, get your facts straight and shove aside your opinions before you post responses that are based on opinion. i’m saying my opinion based on a fact, so don’t try and use that back on me, either. i don’t play nice when there’s something that i’m really passionate about and i hate that people take their own biases against something and use it to try and tear someone else down.
i don’t care what anyone else says, i KNOW COLORGUARD IS A SPORT. not think, not it’s my opinion, i KNOW. stop trying to player hate on guard until you try it for yourself, because the second you pick up a flag, rifle, or sabre, YOU WILL UNDERSTAND
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Color Guard is NOT a sport. Cry more please.
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sallysamtally Reply:
March 30th, 2011 at 1:54 pm
Color Guard is a sport. So no reason to
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Hannah Reply:
September 21st, 2011 at 8:18 pm
hahaha I like you sallysamtally!
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