marching band, is it a sport? Options

[*anubis*]

it's not a sport....

blame me for being too literal but a sport is like.. baseball, basketball, cross country--those kinda things..

marching band? ehh i don't think so

[*tweeak*]

you would rip your mouth open........

oboes have enough issues stitting

[short_stop08]

Yeah. It's competitive and it takes hard work out there. There is no rule that says every sport has to be very physical.

[YourSuperior]

Yes, I consider marching band to be a sport. All that physical stuff we do. HECK, it better be considered a sport.

[CrazayChristian]

^but it's still not a sport...a sport has to have goals...players...action....it has to have variables. in marching band you march a show the same way everytime. you learn something, get it down and perform it. a sport can't be something you memorized. there's no doubt that it's physically demanding..but c'mon the halftime show to a football game is not a sport.

Depends on what you're doing, I've seen points of where it's a face off, where you literally stand there and have to do something better than the other school.

Goals=Scores

Players=PLAYERS

Action=A show where you are physically and mentally challenged.

You play a show the same way everytime, And what do you call "football plays" I'm sure memorizing plays and doing them the same way evertime has nothing to do with it. Where you learn it, get it down, and basically perform it. So, a sport CAN be something that's memorized.

Sure, you can say that the Halftime game isn't competitive, (Even though even in the stands (little known fact) We actually throw taunts at eachother in music, somtimes see who can play one song the fastest, strongest, loudest. We actually do this)

What about Gymnastics? They memorize a routine, and perform it. Olympic SPORT. *Cough*

[YourSuperior]

^alvin, no one is debating whether it's physical or not.
doing sit ups is physical.  is it a sport? no.

Who said anything about debating?

I think it should be considered a sport though. We do too much work, physically and mentally.

[CrazayChristian]

Well, I feel I've successfully disproved basically everthing you've said...there for I here by dubb Marching Band a *ding*

SPORT!

[*RiC3xBoy*]

oboes have enough issues stitting

Not to mention how easily you would brake/snap your reed.

[DullStringedGuit...]

HAHA no

wat exersise do u get out of it?

[CrazayChristian]

^Try reading to forum...


Arms, Legs, cardio, resp, mental. Some of us are in better shape than half the althletes

[SillyCourtney]

Well, I feel I've successfully disproved basically everthing you've said...there for I here by dubb Marching Band a *ding*

SPORT!

Wow, I feel like I don't even need to say anything because of everything you've said in here. You said all that I was going to say. Thank you oh so much. You are awesome. Maybe now people will consider what us marchers do a sport. They better.

[Shahin]

Maybe now people will consider what us marchers do a sport. They better.

I don't.

[ktsou11]

yea! there's physical activity! and our band director made everyone sign this liability form so

[rajinkajun2000]

Marching band is definately a sport. We compete, train, and exert more concentration than almost everyother sport out there. If an olympic sport can consist of sending hot metal stones across ice, marghing band should qualify.
Besides, we grow closer than the army, we are smarter than the football players and cheerleaders combined, and most bands have their own football team that could beat their schools official team, we rock, and it is totally a sport

[CrazayChristian]

Wow, I feel like I don't even need to say anything because of everything you've said in here. You said all that I was going to say. Thank you oh so much. You are awesome. Maybe now people will consider what us marchers do a sport. They better.

That makes my day



Marching camp is T-Minus 11hours 57minutes 34sec away!

[*tweeak*]

it's a great workout, though. i lost 5 pounds last week at band camp (which was grand, by the way)

Depends on what you're doing, I've seen points of where it's a face off, where you literally stand there and have to do something better than the other school.

Goals=Scores

Players=PLAYERS

Action=A show where you are physically and mentally challenged.

You play a show the same way everytime, And what do you call "football plays" I'm sure memorizing plays and doing them the same way evertime has nothing to do with it. Where you learn it, get it down, and basically perform it. So, a sport CAN be something that's memorized.

Sure, you can say that the Halftime game isn't competitive, (Even though even in the stands (little known fact) We actually throw taunts at eachother in music, somtimes see who can play one song the fastest, strongest, loudest. We actually do this)

What about Gymnastics? They memorize a routine, and perform it. Olympic SPORT. *Cough*

but...who has "face offs?"


[james]the idea of this thread makes me despair and want to cry [/james]

shut up james, i hate you

[james] *visceral loathing and repetion of 'moot'*[/james]

[turbulent]

well i wouldnt truly consider it a sport, but i cant say cuz i dont really know how much hard work is put into it to deserve that title.
im undecided, but if you truly believe its a sport it probably is cuz its probably alot harder then any sport ive done

[*tweeak*]

we were working a whole hell of a lot harder at camp than the football team who was using the other half of the drill field

[`SWTWiNKLE3YES]

eh, undecided but i never thought of it as a sport. >.<

[lost_lil_hawaiia...]

YES!!! sometimes the direcrtors wife makes us do pushups and run b/c the other people arent doing what their suppose to....so yah....

[CrazayChristian]

Well, I don't find alot of sports amazing, does that make them less sporty? no.

You CAN do it, you just don't.

The fact remains that every sport memorizes something and hones skills to work the game. Plays, Movments, all of this to make a game work.

Same with marching band.

[*mipadi*]

I don't really see that the big deal is. Sport or not, marching band is still not only a lot of fun and a great activity, not to mention an activity that requires skill and some physical effort. Whether it's a sport or not is pointless; being a sport would not make it superior that it is, nor would declaring it not a sport making it inferior to what it is. I don't see why the magic status of "sport" makes it any more or less of an activity.

I don't think it's a sport--which, I'd like to emphasize, if I didn't do it enough above, does not make it less of an activity. It's just a different class. Marching band isn't a game, you don't score points, you don't try to win. (Yes, I know many marching bands compete, but competing does not automatically equal a sport; one can compete in chess, school achievements, or Odyssey of the Mind, and those are not sports.) It's not a sport like golf, or football, or baseball. Again, this doesn't make it less of an activity--certainly not inferior to those sports--it just means it is classified differently.

[*RiC3xBoy*]

Again, this doesn't make it less of an activity--certainly not inferior to those sports--it just means it is classified differently.

I do agree with you that it does seem to be classified differently, but it really comes down to the definition of a sport. Any by definition, a sport is a...

Physical activity that is governed by a set of rules or customs and often engaged in competitively.

Since marching band fits the category, it should be considered a sport.

[CherryDrPepper]

Marching band is totally a sport!

In my band, we run 1/2 a mile at every rehearsal (we have a two rehearsals a day for two weeks before school starts). We also do 100 crunches (only in the morning rehearsal) and so much more cardio.

You try "walking" of marching at 200 beats a minute!

[*tweeak*]

I don't really see that the big deal is. Sport or not, marching band is still not only a lot of fun and a great activity, not to mention an activity that requires skill and some physical effort. Whether it's a sport or not is pointless; being a sport would not make it superior that it is, nor would declaring it not a sport making it inferior to what it is. I don't see why the magic status of "sport" makes it any more or less of an activity.

Of course it doesn't make it superior. I can't stand most sports, as it happens. I was merely curious to see if anyone had anything intelligent to say

^ I hardly doubt your band marches their show at 200 beats per minute.

Is that what you were saying?

yeah...and if they do, it can't be for very long at all. 3 seconds of 200bpm does not equal much