Six Week Personal Exercise Program My weakest sport is Football. My weakest areas are strength, fitness and speed. The skill related fitness required in Football is Agility, Power, Co-ordination, Balance, Speed, Cardiovascular fitness and Muscular endurance. Agility is needed to dribble past an opponent; Power is needed to withstand pressure from an opponent and to shoot with strength; Co-ordination is needed to be able to have the ball under your control; Balance is needed to be able
Anxiety in Drum Corps The football field may be considered a space for football, but it is also a performance area for the marching music performer. The performer who uses the same space as football players is a member of a drum corps. Marching musical performers experience the same nervous anxiety ticks as other athletes. The purpose of this paper is to discuss the effects of anxiety has on performers of drum corps. Drum Corps Drum Corps International (DCI) defines drum corps has a drum and bugle
generally is very noticeable in every band: the gender imbalance. The gender imbalance is can be described by looking at a band and noticing the people in each section. Some have all males or at least a great majority of them, like percussion (which is drums) or low brass (tubas, baritones or trombones). While others such as high woodwinds (flutes or clarinets) have a majority female population. There are a few sections you may be able to look at and see this, such as trumpets or saxophones, but even this
The roar of extreme sound emanates from a football field. It is clear that this is not an ordinary high school marching band playing at a football game. These are Drum and Bugle Corps, boasting an instrumentation of all brass and percussion instruments. This arrangement of instruments can create an enormous amount of sound, sometimes louder than a rock music concert. Due to their thorough auditioning processes, they have a group of musicians, who can play extremely well, all of whom are brought together
DCI, an acronym that not too many people know the meaning of, but for those who do, you’ll soon learn that it is more than marching band. Started over three decades ago, Drum Corps International has “delivered the message of ‘excellence in performance and in life’ to over 7.2 million young people” (Drum Corps International About). That motif of excellence is echoed throughout their 60 day tour around the country. While learning their music, drill and visuals, the participants learn something more
Being in band and playing music is beautiful, peaceful, and deadly. I will never forget that day when the band went rouge. They destroyed everything in their path. No one made it out… except me. 1 Day Earlier… “Ok band, let’s head outside for marching band!” yelled the band teacher. “A flat, E flat and F sharp, A flat, E flat, and F sharp, A flat,” “Would you stop! That’s annoying!” I said. “Well if you want to get a good grade in band Hunter, then you have to know the right notes!” Alex
Army Cadets at Newcastle Under Lyme School often use their .22 ranges and find it extremely hard to see what their shoot total is mid-way through the shoot. Problem Army Cadets at Newcastle Under Lyme School often use their .22 ranges and find it extremely hard to see what their shoot total is mid-way through the shoot. They cannot view the target through the sights on the rifles, as the sights are iron sights. A solution is required whereby this problem can be cured, and the individual
that decisions made by these authority figures, while callous and arbitrary at times, are only made with the intent of enhancing the military. At the same time, the responsibility that Jessep and Cole had were the same. The objective of the Marine Corps and the Naval Academy is the same. All total institutions are vital in preparing soldiers for war.
year as a lifeguard at Magic Springs and Crystal Falls. After my brother, Tyler was living out his biggest dream of marching with a World Class Drum and Bugle Corp. He had spent the summer touring and competing with the Crossmen Drum and Bugle Corp. My family and I took a trip to Indianapolis, Indiana to watch Tyler compete with The Crossmen at Drum Corp International World Competition. It was a three day competition that was being held at The Lucas Oil Stadium. On that hot, August, Friday
A Missed Opportunity Every time we had visited Williamsburg, my mother had always wanted to see the famous Fife and Drum Corps. Dressed in full costume of red coats and tri-corner hats, these re-enactors parade down the Duke of Gloucester Street playing their instruments in a “call to arms” of the town’s militia. These men have always been one of the main attractions of Williamsburg and one of the symbols of the colonial area. They perform only once or twice a week and by either bad luck or
watching every move and to see if everyone is on step or to grade the quality of the music. According to Musicedmagic, there are semi-professional organizations such as the Drum Corps International (DCI) that compete almost every night of the summer and according to Halftime Magazine, in 2005, ESPN2 broadcasted a video of the tenor drums player Jordan Thomas on how hard he worked. Also, I have searched on the ESPN page “marching band” and I found articles on marching bands there; and many people come to
Farewell to Manzanar by Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston is a riveting about a women who endured three years of social hardships in camp Manzanar. Jeanne Wakatsuki was born on September 26, 1934, in Inglewood, California, to George Ko Wakatsuki and Riku Sugai Wakatsuki. She spent her early childhood in Ocean Park, California, where her father was a fisherman. On December 7, 1941 Jeanne and her family say good bye to her Papa and her brothers as they take off on their sardine boat. The boat promptly returned
rebellious towards those people directly linked to my personal and home life. I inherited this responsibility by way of my father’s absence from the family home. Notably, while little more than a toddler, my Father permitted a negative pull of the “streets” pressure him into a number of profound mistakes. The mistakes resulted in my Father being incarcerated, where he remains even today. Prior to this life altering incident, I was a content, yet a coy child enjoying a home with two loving parents
(Source 2) At the age of thirteen he began working in order to earn money for college. He was a shoe shiner, an elevator boy, and a paper boy. He attended the all-black Armstrong High School, where he acted in plays, was a sergeant in the Cadet Corps, and earned good grades, graduating at the age of 16. Lawrence was a very well educated man, but he did not have the best education until he was in college. He started college at Virginia Union University, an all-black school, where in 1951 he received
some of his father's legacy. By 1909 he was virtually penniless and was living in homeless shelters and sleeping in bars. Ironically at this time, Hitler's... ... middle of paper ... ... The nazi party vote went up dramatically after the Wall Street crash in 1929. It went up to 18% in 1930 and in 1932 the nazi party gained 30% of the vote. This forced a political runoff and a deal was made with Hitler to make him chancellor in exchange for his political support. He was appointed as chancellor
without training brought dancing to the streets. This “street dancing” quickly became popular in the early 70’s. The hip-hop style dancing was “meant to be popular in the original sense of the word, meaning that it was for the people and not the academy.” At this time this street style of dance wasn’t being called hip hop until a certain DJ put hip hop on the “map”. Kool DJ Herc was the first DJ who made a unique genre of music that complemented tis new style of street dancing. At his local parties he would
Zamperini was born January 26, 1917” (Biography.com Editors). He was raised in New York, and when he was two years of age, his family moved to Torrance, California (Grossman 106). Before they moved, Louie climbed out his bedroom window and ran down the street naked (Grossman 106).
“ Thus; began the Survival style, the “52 Building Blocks” better known in the streets as 52 Blocks, Jail house rock, Jail house boxing, Comstock, 52hands, Etc. (Most of the younger freedom fighters were trained by those released from Jail, or the martial arts instructors from the community-Alternatively, from both) The 52 Initiation When these brothers were released From Jail they began teaching the younger brothers in the Knowledge of themselves and the Twine style of Boxing called
Leadership Analysis of George S. Patton, Jr. Chase W. Seegmiller Western Kentucky University Introduction As said by Old Blood and Guts himself, Almighty and most merciful Father, we humbly beseech Thee, of Thy great goodness, to restrain the immoderate rains with which we have had to contend. Grant us fair weather for Battle. Graciously hearken to us as soldiers who call Thee that, armed with Thy power, we may advance from victory to victory, and crush to oppression and wickedness or our
A History of the 714th Tank Battalion, 1942-45 The men of the 714th Tank Battalion served their country in its greatest time of need. A key element of the 12th Armored Division, the 714th fought in harsh conditions against a desperate German enemy for five consecutive months, driving the Nazi Armies from France and back into the German heartland. The 12th Armored Division was activated on 15 September 1942 at a freshly built Camp Campbell, Kentucky, and soldiers from across the nation began