So was I breaking the eight hour rule when my freshmen despritly needed help learing how to march and I stayed after school to help him? It was just two out of 6 so it wasn't really a sectional it was an individaul one on one thing... And do swingstionals count? We stayed after to practice tuba swings can they penalize us for that? It had absolutly nothing to do with our marching show....
I don't think pushups are really necessary. My band used to do them but then the band revolted and just refused to run laps or do pushups. The directors couldn't kick them all out so they relented. Since we are doing band for the love of it we usually behave and those who don't get publicly embarassed not physically tortured...