- last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT
Posted by: Boneless_360
i dont consider it a sport nor do i consider chess one even though i love the game.It is physical but so is walking down the street is that a sport now to?
I'm pretty athletic, and let me tell you that it's very physical. My shows (At least) oftentimes require you to right backward slide across the field in 24 steps... while playing (meaning you can't breathe whenever you like - far from it, in fact). Our shows are insane. We never score too well because they're so hard
(we get excellents, on average), but what we do has always impressed the judges.
The people in band who tell you "it's not that hard" are probably the same people who don't do it properly. "Fundementals" is the name of the game. You need to move, no matter how fast or which direction, without breath, playing, and without bouncing at all. To make stuff like that a smooth glide takes a lot of legpower.
There's a really tough part in our show. Not only do I right backward slide across the field, nearly touching the ground I've dropped my weight so low, but the show is marched in four... conducted in one... felt in three... and played in two.