Color+Guard

Color guard is a club at L-S that does all kinds of different things with flags, wooden rifles, sabers, and props. The Color guard is the group of people that you see in the parades twirling the rifles and flags. Color guard is a very active club because they have practice 3 times a week on school days its 6pm-9pm and on Saturdays its 8am-11pm. It is also great if you have good hand-and-eye coordination, but if not it can get painful because in color guard you have to concentrate on catching all of the equipment. Depending on the toss you need enough strength to throw it up and the catch it firmly at your waist. Color guard can also be very dangerous because if one person is concentrating TOO much or not enough and their object is in the air, it could fall or hit them and possibly give them major injuries possibly a concussion. Just ask my awesome friend Tori. She can find any way imaginable to get hurt in color guard and in any other area. A little while ago(2days), she tossed a 5 pound wooden rifle and she had it hit her forehead, OUCH! But if your guard is good enough you might make it into the higher ranking and if you win you get a snazzy trophy!!! Unfortunately the school doesn't give money to the indoor guard so they are very dependable on their fund-raisers they actually have about 3-4 of them a year,in outdoor guard though the school gives them some money but nowhere near enough for the season so they also have TONS of fund-raisers. Tori says, "color guard is really fun even though it is also very dangerous to not only the guard and in outdoor band members but the people within a 10 foot range!!!"

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