@lifeline1176 The Blue Ridge Rifles stand like that because it increases the quality of the twirl along with the precision. The don't "puff your their stomach", they arch their back to increase the balance of both the body and the rifle.
lol not dissing them or anything, cuz theyre pretty good for a drill team with bayonettes. but one pointer, attention looks better when your straight up and down, not puffing your stomache out 3 feet past your legs...
There's already plenty of flashy, wtf-did-they-just-do type stuff out there. It's hard to follow and seems difficult. Sometimes it is hard, but doing the spins generally isn't hard. Doing them perfectly in time with 11 teammates is. It's much harder to notice timing differences and small slipups when you march quickly, continually flank this way and that, don't wear white gloves, don't sweat extraneous upper body movement, and don't get a big POP each time your hand touches the rifle.
Not saying there's anything wrong with a faster pace with lots of spinning and movement. It's impressive to watch and doesn't get tedious as easily. You have to concentrate harder on not dropping spins. If your mind blanks, you have less time to get your shit together. I like both styles but I hate seeing platoons doing all this crazy shit and they can't even keep their rows dressed up. Just another opinion coming from 4 years on a similar style team (Riverside Military Academy, '95-'99).
Too slow paced. Okay, so I may just be some high school cadet on the drill team. But from the experience I have, this drill is TOO slow paced. Very precise yes. But you need to increase difficulty(other then the tosses of course :D) and increase the speed.... ALOT. Especially of the marching.
Stop trying to emulate the army drill team, and try to emulate the USMA drill team.
Dynamic qualities are space, time and line. First, I'll say that I think the team does an outstanding job. Awesome performances.
Space: the team is in an almost constant platoon formation.
Time: Except for the awesome slow rifle spin, the team does not vary it's timing. This situation loses effectiveness over the length of the performance.
Line: the few formation changes change the line (change the focus); the viewers eye moves from the platoon formation.
The team's performances are outstanding, quite effective at times with jaw-dropping qualities. The consistent slow time of the routine does have it's eventual drawbacks though. It is effective, but for a short time. Varying timing and also line would do wonders for the performance.
The team members perform at a level that one can see they are well-trained and work as one unit most of the time. The demand on their skills is moderate until the throws. Their vocabulary displayed is also moderate.
Well, I think it's one of those things that they do that's tradition. Even if it looks bad to other people, it is important to them, which is why they do it.
@lifeline1176 The Blue Ridge Rifles stand like that because it increases the quality of the twirl along with the precision. The don't "puff your their stomach", they arch their back to increase the balance of both the body and the rifle.
Honeysaur 4 weeks ago
The technical difficulty of these rutines aint squat however the percision is incredible
cwinget2580 1 year ago
lol not dissing them or anything, cuz theyre pretty good for a drill team with bayonettes. but one pointer, attention looks better when your straight up and down, not puffing your stomache out 3 feet past your legs...
lifeline1176 1 year ago
There's already plenty of flashy, wtf-did-they-just-do type stuff out there. It's hard to follow and seems difficult. Sometimes it is hard, but doing the spins generally isn't hard. Doing them perfectly in time with 11 teammates is. It's much harder to notice timing differences and small slipups when you march quickly, continually flank this way and that, don't wear white gloves, don't sweat extraneous upper body movement, and don't get a big POP each time your hand touches the rifle.
davidbuckq 2 years ago
Not saying there's anything wrong with a faster pace with lots of spinning and movement. It's impressive to watch and doesn't get tedious as easily. You have to concentrate harder on not dropping spins. If your mind blanks, you have less time to get your shit together. I like both styles but I hate seeing platoons doing all this crazy shit and they can't even keep their rows dressed up. Just another opinion coming from 4 years on a similar style team (Riverside Military Academy, '95-'99).
davidbuckq 2 years ago
@davidbuckq Ever get you hat lifted in Gainesville?
yoyoofloco 1 year ago
Too slow paced. Okay, so I may just be some high school cadet on the drill team. But from the experience I have, this drill is TOO slow paced. Very precise yes. But you need to increase difficulty(other then the tosses of course :D) and increase the speed.... ALOT. Especially of the marching.
Stop trying to emulate the army drill team, and try to emulate the USMA drill team.
Criticalman 3 years ago
Have you seen either the army or the USMA? They arent like either one at all. The USMA sucks bad...there's no similarity.
RHCPBRR 2 years ago
I was a member of the BRR from 1969 - 1973, glad to see the tradition continues.
B Tefft, NGC '73
bltefft 3 years ago
This is amazing. Just wait until Rod returns then... FIRST PLACE!!!!!!!!!
jarodr1498 3 years ago
What would you recommend for additional dynamic qualities? What exactly do you mean?
largemouth10 3 years ago
Dynamic qualities are space, time and line. First, I'll say that I think the team does an outstanding job. Awesome performances.
Space: the team is in an almost constant platoon formation.
Time: Except for the awesome slow rifle spin, the team does not vary it's timing. This situation loses effectiveness over the length of the performance.
Line: the few formation changes change the line (change the focus); the viewers eye moves from the platoon formation.
jkmarshall001 3 years ago
The team's performances are outstanding, quite effective at times with jaw-dropping qualities. The consistent slow time of the routine does have it's eventual drawbacks though. It is effective, but for a short time. Varying timing and also line would do wonders for the performance.
The team members perform at a level that one can see they are well-trained and work as one unit most of the time. The demand on their skills is moderate until the throws. Their vocabulary displayed is also moderate.
jkmarshall001 3 years ago
Relax guys the posture is just a part of our style.
Soultrain05 3 years ago
I didn'mean to talk bad about you guys or anything...I just from a personal perspective didn't like the bodyposture.
But like i said in my first post...you guys drill like there is no tomorrow!=) ....I digg that!
GardeKorporal 3 years ago
I didn't mean to talk bad about you guys or anything....I just from a personal perspective don't like the bodyposture.
But like I said in my first post. You drill like there is no tomorrow!=) ...I digg that!
GardeKorporal 3 years ago
Relax guys, the body posture is just a part of our style.
Soultrain05 3 years ago
their good the the rifles...but i'm not digging the posture...theyare to leaned back!
i'm a former member of His Majesty the Kings Guard of Norway, and if i had that bodyposture my sgt. would plant his boot 10" up my ass!:P
but drilling...that u guys know!..you got my vote;)
GardeKorporal 3 years ago
Well, I think it's one of those things that they do that's tradition. Even if it looks bad to other people, it is important to them, which is why they do it.
bigtruckguy3500 4 years ago
Do you teach this team to stand with such terrible posture?
MWDrill 4 years ago