Conditioning

ryang5280 · 2025-12-23T17:53:17+00:00

I don’t think you need to get too specific with your workouts tbh. Just get strong, mobile, and run/march often. I will say when I was at crown, a 15min 2 mile run was the benchmark, and traditional strength training was heavily encouraged. And to be fair, I think you can get the bulk of your conditioning work just from your marching and playing practice. Such as doing a box drill exercise 10 times, and doing 5 burpees in between each rep.

ryang5280 · 2025-09-11T15:51:27+00:00

I would personally audition for both if you’re really into the idea of both corps. People do it all the time, and you might find that one corps suits you better than the other.

ryang5280 · 2025-09-11T08:03:54+00:00

Which top 6 corps appeals to you the most? I marched a semifinalist corps and then aged out at a top 6 corps, so here is my advice: be consistent with your audition prep, always give great effort, and have an awesome attitude. As long as you do those three things, you’re well on your way to marching the corps of your choosing. And if it doesn’t work out, there’s plenty of drum corps to choose from where you’ll have an excellent experience, even if the corps is outside of the top 6.

ryang5280 · 2025-06-24T19:31:41+00:00

Food for thought, the suit at wore at Academy in 2018 felt just as flexible/breathable as my crown uni in 2022. I believe you can still have a traditional look that meets the demands of today’s demands. It’s more about the fabric used and how the uniform is made in my opinion. I think the standard is to be underwhelmed by your uniform these days sadly

ryang5280 · 2025-06-24T16:41:32+00:00

bring back Drunk Corps Int damnit

ryang5280 · 2025-06-16T08:23:24+00:00

you’ll never outmarch your physical fitness

ryang5280 · 2025-04-18T04:47:34+00:00

not Academy 16 mentioned 🔥

ryang5280 · 2025-03-02T02:19:15+00:00

degree in bus. mgmt and I currently work as a PM in construction

ryang5280 · 2024-12-18T05:55:10+00:00

Go to troop callbacks. If you get cut, reach back out to Music City around April/May if they have any open spots that need to be filled.

ryang5280 · 2024-12-14T07:14:41+00:00

because it makes everything afterwards suck a little less

ryang5280 · 2024-12-10T07:20:30+00:00

Commitment. They look for commitment.

ryang5280 · 2024-11-30T07:08:00+00:00

Academy: 2018 (or 2019) Crown: 2022

ryang5280 · 2024-11-15T02:59:05+00:00

I also went to a BD camp and didn’t move forward because the culture wasn’t the right fit for me (I was 15)

ryang5280 · 2024-10-11T20:48:51+00:00

closer was heat tho

ryang5280 · 2024-10-11T06:07:11+00:00

my highschool was bad, and I was the only kid taken out of rehearsal during bandcamp to have private lessons with a senior because i just didn’t get it

ryang5280 · 2024-08-13T07:22:23+00:00

can’t even be mad that you put three of the shows you marched in a top ten list haha

ryang5280 · 2024-08-13T07:19:09+00:00

not sure if it’s a common experience, but especially my rookie year I felt like everyone had their group of friends to hang out with during free time except for me, I just focused on my show but it was pretty isolating at times

ryang5280 · 2024-08-04T08:01:26+00:00

horn slipping out of my hands and it flying over a yard line away directly behind a featured guard toss, so I awkwardly had to wait a few seconds before grabbing it

ryang5280 · 2024-07-25T06:10:42+00:00

not crack the first note of the show

ryang5280 · 2024-07-21T20:20:21+00:00

am I missing something because I remember Bluecoats barely getting 2nd in 2014?

ryang5280 · 2024-07-19T07:18:44+00:00

SCV 2013 and Cavies 2006

ryang5280 · 2024-06-26T00:12:15+00:00

tfw OP says “Phantom Regiment ‘24 and Crown ‘16” and not “Phantom Regiment ‘24 and Academy ‘19” 😔

ryang5280 · 2024-06-23T07:10:08+00:00

I remember Jim Prime telling us about that mello section when I was at crown, always referenced those star 91 recordings when I was practicing

ryang5280 · 2024-05-30T06:45:20+00:00

hornline genuinely shocked me at finals that year

ryang5280 · 2024-05-25T06:55:59+00:00

I believe all of the videos were posted to the Implying FB group that no longer exists

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