The impact of Marching Band by Jessica - December 2013.
The first definition of sport set by the OED states that a sport is a form of pastime carried on in the open air and involving some amount of bodily exercise. Drum corps meets the first and second criteria of this definition due to the fact that it originated after WWI, and has always rehearsed and performed on outdoor football fields.
Marching Band Should Be Considered a Sport 13 December 2012 Dear Editor, I read online a blog post where the author was trying to prove a point that Marching Band is not a sport by definition. Dictionary.com’s definition of a sport is “an athletic activity requiring skill or physical prowess and often of a competitive nature”.
Reply Bennett Booker October 27, 2017 at 12:58 pm. this is so biased, someone from marching band obviously wrote this, only people in that activity would consider it a sport, ask any actual athlete like a football player, and if marching band is a sport how come most of the members of most high school bands are so unhealthy?
Marching Band Imagine carrying an instrument, but that instrument is coiled around you, and you’re wearing a thick black wool uniform. The field is scorching hot, not to mention the instrument is 50 Lbs. of pure brass tubing that clocks in at 18’ long. You also have to move in sync with others on the field, and the cherry on the cake is you have to read, understand and play an assortment.
PERSUASIVE SPEECH OUTLINE 1. Intro a. Many people say marching band isn’t a sport and that we definitely shouldn’t get P.E. credits for it but we bando’s know how truly physical marching band is. That’s why I think marching band should be considered a sport and we should get P.E.
Madeline Buehlmeyer, who has been in Foothill’s marching band for two years, considers marching band a sport based on the physical activity and dedication it requires. “I consider marching band a sport, we train just as hard as any athlete.
It is absolutely a sport. Marching band is a physical activity as much as a mental one. You have to memorize about 100 to 200 specific spots on a football field, and go them in a specific order in a specific amount of time and in a specific number of steps (that are evenly spaced as well), all while playing memorized music in time.