Color Guard Moves & Techniques : Singles in Color Guard Flag Routines

[briannalove14]

*correction*my team calls them baby tosses and it does not matter rather or not the stopper is tapped on we use weights in our flags it helps when we are teaching the new kids =)

[briannalove14]

my team calls them baby toss and it does not matter rather or not the stopper is taped on my team we use weights in our flags i helps when we tare teaching the new kids =)

[HugzTiem]

Grrl, you need to tape those stoppers :P

[Ch3ls3aaaa]

this is exactly the way i was taught, idk what happened with you guys :D

[poohbearkfc97]

do you get afraid that you wont catch the flag?

[YashiWashiBabe]

My guard calls it a hip toss, and we catch it different but that was gnifty.

[PeaceFlagPenguins11]

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[broncolady6]

Hey thanks for making this video, it's really helpful. (: I'm new to guard and I only have practice once a week until band camp. I'm not doing guard because I'm flute section leader but I find it really fun and I'm considering it for Senior Year. Anyways, Thanks again. (:

[anotherrashleyy]

Honestly, every guard is different. If that's how she learned, then that's how she learned. I'm sure to someone else your way of doing things would be wrong too. Just be open minded, that skill will make you a better person as well as better at colorguard.

[rlbowen11]

I thought she did well. It's a basic move that can be altered to whatever need you have in your routine. The farther down the silk you hold to toss, the higher your flag will go with less rotation. Again, I think that this toss can be created to look however the music persuades it by changing the placement of your hand and the moment of release. When I teach my girls this toss I call it a silk toss as it is so versatile. I just explain what I want where when it is incorporated into a routine.

[markdayle16]

That's easy

[reinapatel96]

Coolness.... I do flags too

[gruntgrunt90]

at our school we do pole hit tosses. its different from that but what you did looks really cool :)

[allmondblossoms316]

@jessmart76543, for my school, we call this a Cisco toss, and it isn't supposed to go very high in the air. A "single" rotation is all it needs.

[cherryjep22]

okay, for everyone who is leaving bad comments: Is this YOUR routine??? umm..no, i dont see your profile as the one who posted it so obviously it is going to be different then YOUR routines..b/c its NOT your routine.

[guardgurl100]

colorguard is awsome expervillage actually helped me on my audition for colorguard thnks!

[mylifemystory11]

@blargatharga: i agree with you. im also in color guard and at my school we call these poptosses. my release is different also. but she teaches this video really while.

[RosieRestricted]

@mylifemystory11 thats what you call a pop toss? In my color guard a pop toss was having your left hand on the top where the tape is in this video (our Guard decided that the tape is cheating) and your right hand is palm up and you just push up and catch it depending on what happens after it.

[LittleAwesomeKk]

Please explain better. I don't understand. translation: you suck.

[beccaheartsrandom]

@LittleAwesomeKk

translation:your a jerk.

[caterinafan123]

in our guard we call that a silk toss

[dancingpinaygirl]

the stupid transcript keeps me from seeing the aactual video!

[april0101]

This helped a lot, thanks!

I can't believe I forgot how to do a basic single AGH.

[robertjmassengale]

can i please see your video on "free hands"?

[L8RH8RZ5802]

Thank you. lots of color guard routines and techniques are different. so be nice people! i dont see any of YOOOUR color guard videos on here. and i think her techniques is for the was she was taught.

[smartcandies103]

how come everyone makes it look so easy but then the first time i tried this, i FAILED

[nikki82709]

lol This is for all the critics: thing is, she's teaching BASICS...this is youtube...it's FREE...she's not trying to sell you anything where you actually have room to complain about the quality of her work or saying you didn't get what you paid for...you're NOT paying! lol...she's just trying to show beginners some very basic things...it's all in fun, so stop complaining smh If you'd like better videos, you could very well make some yourself =) It's called YOUtube for a reason, y'know =)

[czar93]

Personally I feel there is no need to criticize her technique at all. Everyone has a different style and it's about doing things outside the box is how guard was created. Got bored just walking around carrying flags all day in the military =p To us with suddle variation to a few things in my guard call this a Lofty toss just saying

[jessmart76543]

I got all the basics down, i just can't figure out how to do singles. Like, I push down on my left hand and then i lift with my right, I tried several ways and I still can't get it up in the air high enough

[wildkyoshirosan]

shouldnt your hand be into the silk more?! THATS WHY ITS SO DIFFICULT FOR YOU.

[21rockrock12]

Hey you guys I liked her video I think it was pretty smart of her to put all this on you tube. I am in color guard and love it when people try to help each other. I am also trying to win a scholarship for school so that I can keep teaching my high school group. It would really help me out if some fellow color guard members banded together to watch my video. And I promise I am not spam.

[scenecolorguard]

i hate people that come on here and critisize. really they not have better things to do.

[XxBLACKDAISYSxX]

This is for critiques. Every school has different techniques of doing things. Like this is right at my small hicktown school, but bigger schools have more professional ways of doing things.

[mzzkeke14]

You all need to stop hating on this young lady. At least she is doing something to help others. Hell i dont see none of yall with your own videos teaching people. And yall say she bad mhm i see you still watching her videos.

[TEAMJACOB8808]

u dont do it rite u spost to cach it in attention

[tuskinohime]

@TEAMJACOB8808 you can catch it either way, it all depends on the work

[lindsaaaaaaayyx3]

@Torridangel26543

well its easier to get the flag around if you grab in the middle...but you are supposed to catch it facing up

[hammybby]

how the hell do you toss you have to grab in the silk or else its not right way o.o

you guard sucks man v

[chrisenglehart2011]

in our color guard.. you are not alowed to touch the silk AT...ALL!! our guard drops for even grabing the flag at the silk ..only time our guard alowed to tough the silk during the show like this year..is to tie the silk for an effect later in the show like during our percussion feature after time warp

[czar93]

@chrisenglehart2011

Not to sound rude, but in that case how the hell do you to a peggy toss or dogshow spin...? I'm really curious

[chrisenglehart2011]

@czar93 we do not use those in our show but your names for your moves and our names may be different most the stuff we do in our shows are umm drop spins, slams, the basic toss, helicopter, helicopter toss, behind the backs which were when you bend over and do a helicopter behind your back, im just naming a few we were to use in our show this past year the behind the back we didn't use cause the guard couldn't do it and move at the same time im not on guard i'm doing it in college

[SoullessSloth16]

singles? in my school we call them tosses ;\ but then again they have different names for everything everywhere. but that's pretty cool. I can never catch it tight-tight like ye did. I need more practice x\

[lumpy12321]

YOU PEOPLE ARE JERKS. Just sayin :] She's pretty good. Im not in colorguard, but I handle a flag pretty well, I've practice with her routines, and my colorguard is amazed! they believe Im a natural, but I have a trick up my sleeve, and it would be these vids. So dont insult. Everyone does it differently.

[colorguardchick95]

oh dear.

if you need help with colorguard...

please ask someone that actually nows how to do it.

[lindsaaaaaaayyx3]

you failed......you grab in the middle of the silk and you catch it facing up! :p yeah some expert you are

[CountryGirl2056]

she uses cheat tape ! At my school we use 6 foot poles and we grab at the end of the pole..it looks alot better then at the cheat tape

[flamingmelody]

Of course different people are going to teach it different ways... as a non twirling observer it looked bona fide to me. Half of y'all don't even know what your talking about but you just have to follow what the person before you commented...

[xxsykotiKidiotxx]

that pole looks really long to me long is mine is like 6 foot and person below me at my school we call your single a one and a half

[childishyoutubber]

in my school we catch singles straight up and down... and we put our hands in differant places. it looks like she's doing a quarter toss.....

[Ashe2Ashe]

My. My her teqniques suck!!!!!!!!!!!! i wasn't taught to do them that way eighther. I for one agree with anyone else who will make a video to help others...... just not her.

[BlargaTharga]

Okay, this comment is meant for all the people bad-mouthing this young lady. You cannot tell if she is right or wrong unless you happen to be her. Her terminology and technique are different than most of yours'. It's even different than mine. I know that move as a slam toss and my release is different. But am I going to criticize her for being different? No.

Oh, and it was funny when her silk came untaped.

[surfandsun94]

She released at the wrong spot, AND she caught it wrong. She's twisting her wrist too much. and you're supposed to catch it at the same spot where you set for it.

[hapaboy81]

Technique and catch points vary from guard to guard. There isn't necessarily a set universal standard... Judges expect consistency in technique throughout the performing unit and solid catches.

[lurlurcat22]

What the hell? Shut the fu** up. She looks pretty damn good to me. At least she took TIME to make videos. If all you're gunna do is bitch about how much she sucks then why are you even watching the damn video? Jesus H. Christ If you know so much make your own video damnit.

[treday211]

THIS SHIT IS GARBAGE

[poppuyyh]

you caught it wrong. Actually I think everything you teach us is wrong.

[childishyoutubber]

i think this lady sucks.

[rifleman002]

look at 0:55 seconds. her flag became untaped.. LOLOLOLOLOL

[DiZoftheH34RTS]

Lord. 15 years and she hasn't had enough time to perfect her free hands/release point? Don't toss the flag way out there. You're supposed to not move.

[StrawberrySauceX]

those are close to wind up tosses. You start with a peggy spin (or a money hand as some ppl say) then you release instead of flat.

so it goes; down, money hand, over, toss :]

[dancecutii]

that's not what our singles look like, they go behind your back and then make a circle haha.

[childishyoutubber]

....um ok u have weird singles

[MonsterrLady]

we call that thing near the tab a dollarbill-in. and ur flag is gross its not even stable at the top its coming lose and falls down we tape ours(not ghetto way tho) it actually looks nice but thanks anyways....

[FabbIV]

ya suck

[kawaiitchoyato]

dear god.. i agree. FREE HANDS! but these vids are so old i don't think anyone cares. all the ones i have seen so far [which is only 4] are improper technique or just lack discipline.

[audrizzleyernizzle]

FREE HANDS FREE HANDS FREE HANDS

that's all i need to say.

[ladysquier]

her technique hurts my wrists. =(

we learned a single by releasing when the silk was upright, not upside down.

[HaroldandFred]

It doesn't make any sense to catch the flag in a different position than you tossed it in. You are just wasting more energy and putting extra movement in routine when it is not needed. If tossed it with right palm up and left palm down that catch it that way.

[xnoodlesrulex]

sorry kiddo but you need to catch tosses with your hands opposite when you toss . it keeps it from spinning extra . there are certain tosses when you catch how you toss but i takes more effort to cleanly stop a toss if you toss your way .. pick up a flag and try it .

[latenitemice]

no it makes sense. stops over rotation. plus its easier. and its really not that much extra movement to flip your hands around because you'd get points off if you technique was that bad. dont talk about something you havent tried.

[lolzgrl12]

i agree with them your not very good in explaining or technique. and in ours our angles are different for singles we start with the tab beig in between our boobs at hip shoulder andgle. and we say down out to help everyone release at the same time.

[shortybud]

Yeah, um, the technique totally sucks.  The catches are weak and the hand placements at the end of the toss is completely wrong.

[jmarts731]

did anyone else notice that her tape at the tip of her pole comes undone and the flag is not attached by the end of her video?....lol

[swimmachica]

that was a pretty bad single, no offense

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[mustbetuesday88]

the technique is not good enough to be teaching others... the angles are off in all the videos and hand placement is wrong in most of the routines and there are no good catches

sorry if that sounds harsh but its true. please dont try to teach people until you can do it yourself.

[teengonecrazy]

i love flag it's soooooooooooooo fun anyway i like this move but we don't have it

[Aesthewen]

okay this is gonna sound strange, but it helped me. My captain had told me to spread my feet apart, a bit farther than shoulder width when i am prepping for a toss, and all the way through. it reduces any bounce and jerking motions. not sure how, but it worked for me. then after a while you can move them back to a normal position

[crazyfrog10279]

okay so ur left hand will be pushing and the right hand will release. so push hard and then release. try to always release above your head so that it twirls up. make sure that your flag lands with silk to the right. keep the correct posture, dont lean and shoulders down. keep the hip shoulder angle meaning that your left hand will be in front of your shoulder and the right will be directly in front of your hip. keep the dummy tape at your center and after spinning return to the same posture.

[falloutkristina777]

is my team the only one who puts their free hand at their stomach in a fist???

that is how we do it.

and it looks alot better.

[tinkabella211]

I did flags for years and I was really good. It took me for ever to get this toss right. Your just starting out so i would have to say doing tosses are about haveing confidence and not being scared your going to hit your self in the face lol.

Now to get it to rotate i would usually take what this chick calls her free hand and use it to give you more power with the spin... that was my problem.

good luck!!

[sxilxi05]

okay, so i watched a lot of your videos, and i think that your technique is not good enough to be teaching others. The color guard that i am involved with goes to WGI in the Scholastic World division. Doing basic tosses like you are, you have to be particular with how you are doing them. your right hand should be half-way into the silk and catch solidly on the correct shoulder-hip angle. I am not someone who is just messing with you, i have been involved with guard for years and am now a coach.

[xxkels2010xx]

I agree. I've watched your videos and you do not have great technique to be teaching people how to spin. I need to put some videos up...

[XxBLACKDAISYSxX]

@sxilxi05 You should make tutorial videos!

[cherished09]

I'm trying to teach my guard how to do this... right now they can all DO the toss, just not very high. I can toss it the highest out of everybody. these were some really good pointers, i think ill use them to teach the freshmen!

[penguinslovemi]

hehehe tat was good

exepct the flag came untaped but props to u for gettng up infront of pplz and doin that

[flagtwirler07]

pop toss

[lifelives1690]

bogger tosses are better, not ones {they are boring}

[roel780]

Her flag may have come un-taped, but she continued to spin and toss, and catch every time. You don't have time in a performance to re-tape your stuff. And yes, almost all (well, any good performance) performances will have these tosses in them.

[kahnitababybabe]

hahah her flag got untaped!

[YakakoSato84]

Omg, my guard does this, and we do it way better, no offense

[BaBiiDoLLxo0ox]

pointer:: if you grab in the middle of the silk and at the tape & then toss it is effortless and goes up much higher. & if you want more visual effect to it you can go the prep which is [[from right shoulder]] down, flat, up, flat & grab, toss.

[bcbbjk14]

ummm.... i think your flag broke at the end....

[kazangan624]

Wait-any routine? Not technically. Our colorguard at school does not do these at all. Well, that could be b/c we have alot of beginners on our team and some middle schoolers!

[Candifrogs]

We have beginners at my school and they do it way better then she does. Maybe its because we take our time teaching and yet have our preformance ready for the games... so thats not a reason

[kazangan624]

Wow! You're really good! I've always tried to figure out how to do that-first I tried throwing it like a pretzel toss with one hand, then just "throw", then I tried throwing it like a baton! Thx for the help!!! :)

[xtearzxnxrosezx]

I dunno if this will help you at all but when my squad does this we (almost) always do 2 drop spins and then (when you're couting to 8) toss it up on 5! It makes it way easier because then you already have the momentum to get it up!