Yeah I be sure to remind everyone of this including sophmores and juniorsianhart said:EDIT: NO SODA!
I grew up playing the trumpet in Florida, where we frequently marched in 80 degree weather for parades. At one point, so many kids were passing out during these that the county instituted a rule whereby all band members had to be resting for 1/2 prior to the start of the parade and were required to drink gatorade and take salt tablets.Hotspur said:So this past weekend I had a freshmen sax player get heat exhaustion almost heat stroke,and it was only a carwash. I wonder how well they will take the summer practices. It didn't really shock me that someone would get it (I was ready incase someone did and I knew what to do); but what concerns me is the fact that the person said nothing to anyone and know one noticed it happening, and the signs were all there nausea, not sweating, very strange behavior, for goodness sake they were shivering in the middle of summer. I'm just glad I looked up and saw it before it got worse. You know I'm not a drum major or a section leader but yet I'm the only one noticing that. Also this really isnt showing very good unity for a marching band. I would like to know if there is anything I can tell my section (though I'm not the section leader) that may get some sense into them? Any advise is very appriciated.
Except for the marching band they ought to outlaw the military.jazzbluescat said:Except for the military they ought to outlaw marching band.
Outlaw them both.littlemanbighorn said:Except for the marching band they ought to outlaw the military.
Naw Man, I like Sousa's stuff, and the Marine Band and the Army Band that play fifes and drums, very cool.hakukani said:Outlaw them both.
I didn't mean don't play marches, they're fun to play (and I played plenty in the Hawaii County Band). I meant outlaw bands that march---and the military.jazzbluescat said:Naw Man, I like Sousa's stuff, and the Marine Band and the Army Band that play fifes and drums, very cool.
Are you a hippie?hakukani said:I didn't mean don't play marches, they're fun to play (and I played plenty in the Hawaii County Band). I meant outlaw bands that march---and the military.
Naw, I'm too young. You had to be 18 by 1969 to be a REAL hippie.jazzbluescat said:Are you a hippie?
What about New Orleans-style marching bands? Reading Bechet's autobiography made me wish I was born a hundred years earlier in New Orleans.hakukani said:I didn't mean don't play marches, they're fun to play (and I played plenty in the Hawaii County Band). I meant outlaw bands that march---and the military.
Cool and far out, Man, peace.:flower:hakukani said:Naw, I'm too young. You had to be 18 by 1969 to be a REAL hippie.
Ms. hakukani is a real hippie.
Not just mid-west, the HS bands around here try to emulate either drum&bugle corp style marching or Florida A&M dancing. The parents love it.Gandalfe said:I used to love marching band, but then maybe that was a mid-western US thang. In high school it meant that you got to travel and compete in yet another event. Done correctly a marching band is a thing of beauty. Anyone here see the movie 'Drumline'?
I saw a lot of soldiers go down for heat exhaustion/strokes. One of them told me, the next day in the hospital, that he didn't understand it. He said he had two cups of coffee that morning! :shock:
