@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...
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).
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.
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.
@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 3 weeks ago
The technical difficulty of these rutines aint squat however the percision is incredible
cwinget2580 1 year ago
@davidbuckq Ever get you hat lifted in Gainesville?
yoyoofloco 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
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
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
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
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
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