Drum Major's Flourish

The Drum Major's Flourish, filmed at the 2009 Turriff & District Pipe Band Competition on 7th June

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[DMDavey1949]

Interesting year-old comments re flourishing in proper parts. If Fillydawg and ZJH89 are still around, they might be interested in knowing that EUSPBA DM Contest Rules stipulate that flourishing may be done only in the forte.

[Fillydawg1]

@ZJH89 There's a PM on here?? My email tho is Panors77@aol.com

[Fillydawg1]

@ZJH89 You can SEE the "drumcorps" influence on all the SoCal mace folks really. In marching style especially.  Most do American facings and a stiff armswing to the seam of the pants actually. Which puts their swinging arm out of phase with their feet,etc.

[ZJH89]

@Fillydawg1 Very nice. Maybe we can continue this conversation via private message. I feel like we've spammed this poor guy's video long enough, haha.

[Fillydawg1]

@ZJH89 But the same circuit with the same folks in Chino and San Diego also. Never did the Queen Mary. Way after my time.

[Fillydawg1]

@ZJH89 Costa Mesa to be honest. I was back in the 80's DM of LAPD and then later the Anderson Royal Canadian Highlanders. Well...actually assitant to Ron Mountain, the walking mustache. (RIP)

[ZJH89]

@Fillydawg1 Yeah, I know what you mean. I'm not saying that everything they do is great and ground-breaking; they still have a lot to learn about style and efficiency when it comes to competing in this context. And speaking of how many times you can break the mold, you can break it as many times as the RSPBA allows. lol Where is your local games? I take it somewhere in SoCal, so maybe the Costa Mesa or Queen Mary Games?

[Fillydawg1]

@ZJH89 Actually...I've SEEN many blindly go in at my local games, but I digress. As far as "breaking the mold" I guess it depends on how many times you wanna break it? Look at DCI and tell me that's still "drum & bugle corps", eh? I come from the perspective of respect of the mace and the military uniform, rather than turn the mace into a twirling toy. Don't get me wrong though, I've flourished my ass off in the past, but kept it in perspective, if that makes any sense?

[ZJH89]

@Fillydawg1 You misunderstand the situation. They're not just blindly going into competitions without any sort of guidance. They're getting instruction from world class drum majors, i.e. drum majors that have actually placed in the finals at the World Championships in Glasgow, one of which has actually won the title in 2007. If no one broke the mold and just stuck with tradition for the past 20 years, we would still all just be doing front throws. If you're happy with that idea, that's fine.

[Fillydawg1]

@ZJH89 BTW...at least on THIS video they're doing a left handed beat time and their kilts are on straight, LOL.