Arlington Regional 2007

[borchnork]

  marcomac29 said:

yeah it's a nice stadium...

 

 

but the turf is like.... 1000 degrees!

isn't turf alway ungodly hot?

[GuitarJoe]

When i was in uta's marching band, our rehearsals were from 12-2 (something like that), and i remember that if you stood in one spot for too long your shoes would start to stick to the turf.

 

some guy said the field temp was around 115-120, but i'm not sure if he was being serious or not.

 

 

i got a nice tan tho.

[Danpod]

  borchnork said:

isn't turf alway ungodly hot?

That it is. Even when the weather held a slight breeze, astroturf was my least favorite to march on.

[Xenon]

I only ever practiced on turf, so I don't have anything to compare against, but yes it could get pretty hot at times.

[mbui]

During my sophomore year of high school, it was so hot that the cymbal section made eggs on a pair of cymbals. We let it sit out on the field for about a half an hour. We were gonna go for a cinnamon roll (from those Pillsbury tubes) but we didn't think it'd go over that well.

 

By the way, the eggs turned out great.

[borchnork]

  mbui said:

During my sophomore year of high school, it was so hot that the cymbal section made eggs on a pair of cymbals. We let it sit out on the field for about a half an hour. We were gonna go for a cinnamon roll (from those Pillsbury tubes) but we didn't think it'd go over that well.

 

By the way, the eggs turned out great.

I think i'll hafta try that some time.

[aaron067]

  gavinrh said:

is akins the band with the cavaliers drum major uni's and jed maus as a marching tech or assistant or whatever?

Count 1 - I'm not sure about that

 

Count 2 - Definitely not. Akins is in south Austin and Berkner (where Jed teched) is in Richardson.

[bossman]

i've always been on concrete fields in high school, and if we weren't on concrete it was astro turf. they both have pros and cons.

[gavinrh]

concrete screws up knees. Richland marches almost exclusively on concrete.

[bossman]

same here...

[borchnork]

Centennial as well.

 

there's now some explanation for why our whole band has or is developing knee problems.

[the terminator]

thank god we don't, our director makes sure we don't

[BassoonPadwan]

We don't march on anything BUT concrete. Except for performances. It's my last year in marching band, and I'm fine right now........ I guess I'm one of the lucky ones that made it out okay.

[bbcheez]

our practice field is actually grass. but the ground is really uneven so every once in a while you find yourself going down an inch or two while marching.

[borchnork]

  bbcheez said:

our practice field is actually grass. but the ground is really uneven so every once in a while you find yourself going down an inch or two while marching.

yah, that would be one of the reasons we don't use our grass field. There's a bunch of GIANT ditches that could be potentially worse for you than marching on cement.

[bossman]

I remember when i was @ one school in Missouri they had this huge hole. And i was back marching at 208. Long story short the hole gave me a hug, and my contra and i were drenched in mud.

[mbui]

QUOTE (bossman @ Sep 16 2007, 08:55 PM)

I remember when i was @ one school in Missouri they had this huge hole. And i was back marching at 208. Long story short the hole gave me a hug, and my contra and i were drenched in mud.

Off-topic but....

I saw Westfield on Channel 2 on Friday night. Albeit you guys were performing a stand tune at the game...the band sounded great!

[bossman]

oops my bad. i thought we were still talking about the surfaces.

[manuel_pablo]

  bossman said:

oops my bad. i thought we were still talking about the surfaces.

I think he meant his post about Westfield was going to be off-topic.

[marcomac29]

Somehow my band director got the schedule to Arlington regional...

 

 

 

 

All that i remember is that we (mansfield) go at like.... 9 AM!!!!!

 

 

 

it sucks

 

 

 

but i remember that, and that Frisco is in the last block, but L. D. Bell is the last to perform.

[bossman]

BTW: Here's some trivia for you. UT Arlington hasn't had a football team in like an ice age.

[capncrunk]

  marcomac29 said:

Somehow my band director got the schedule to Arlington regional...

 

 

 

 

All that i remember is that we (mansfield) go at like.... 9 AM!!!!!

 

 

 

it sucks

 

 

 

but i remember that, and that Frisco is in the last block, but L. D. Bell is the last to perform.

our band director got the schedule too..

we go right after richland

[bonepit06-07]

Connally was orginally signed up but we pulled out since it was the same day as SAT'S

[radchad]

Hebron wasn't that good.

The whole DDR dance part made it evident that they spent a LOT of time on that opposed to other important parts of the show.

 

It was cool, but not phenominal. >_>

 

 

 

I can't wait to see the bands this year. I believe LD Bell is going. I heard they earned the privelage of performing last due to the win last year.

 

Does anyone know if Reagan is going this year? I know they dropped out of it last year.

 

Others that I would think would be there(who knows if they are):

 

Haltom.

Richland.

Keller.

Bowie.

Marcus.

Boswell.

[radchad]

*Berkner H.S. TX

Clear Brook H.S. TX

*Colleyville Heritage H.S. TX

*Coppell H.S. TX

Elkins H.S. TX

Fossil Ridge H.S. TX

Frisco H.S. TX

George Bush H.S. TX

*Haltom H.S. TX

*Hebron H.S. TX

Judson H.S. TX

*L.D. Bell H.S. TX

*Mabank H.S. TX

*Mansfield H.S. TX

*Marcus H.S. TX

Martin H.S. TX

McNeil H.S. TX

*Newman Smith H.S. TX

Northwest H.S. TX

*Owasso H.S. OK

Plano West Senior H.S. TX

*Pleasant Grove H.S. TX

Princeton H.S. TX

*Putnam City H.S. OK

*Richland H.S. TX

W. Charles Akins H.S. TX

*Westfield H.S. TX

Winnsboro H.S.

 

 

That's the list. Just found it.

Basing it off last year and experience.. the ones with stars are the EXPECTED for a spot in finals.