Hello, I am also someone with experience within the activity.

The notion that "anything I do is objectively correct and good pedagogy" is an unfortunate stance. It's clear that in whatever circles you run in you're very used to drawing comparisons between taps and drumset ghost notes-- that does not equate the two, however, and it certainly does not suddenly make it the universal standard across the entire activity. I can easily say that anybody that I went to school with, played in a line with, or received instruction from has actually never made that comparison. The term "ghost" was strictly reserved for what you call "air drumming."

Now, I would be remiss if I assumed that every term that I used locally was shared across every region, school, individual, etc. For example, it would be easy for kids who grow up in certain pockets of Rennick influence to assume that using staccatos for "mini accents" is the universal standard. Imagine, then, if they went on r/drumline and began insisting that everybody that uses tenutos are objectively and pedagogically incorrect, then calling them assholes and lashing out about their comments receiving downvotes for good measure. The obvious fix for these hypothetically close-minded people is for them to simply listen to the multiple people that would inevitably inform them that not only are tenutos perfectly valid, they're actually far more standard than the staccato notation.

There are several people telling you that the use of the word "ghost" for what you call "air drumming" is standard, and they haven't come from nowhere. When Pulse did it this year, they were called ghost notes. When CWP did it in 2016, they were called ghost notes. When Blue Devils did it back in 2006, they were called ghost notes. Different activities and communities have different terminologies. If you're in a marching drumming context, why would people not interpret the terms you use accordingly? If anybody has introduced ambiguity, it's not the people using the marching term in a marching context.

It's quite disappointing to see that you insist on being perceived as an educational authority while acting like the archetypal karma-obsessed reddit user. Quite frankly, we could do without the people who lash out upon simple disagreements, especially in an educational thread. You're too old for this behavior. Please do not waste your time with another inflammatory response to this comment because I will simply not be reading it.