actualgirltrombone Posted October 20, 2006 Report Share Posted October 20, 2006 So, to all you kids out there who live in other states... do yall have something like the 8 hour rule here? Here in TX, there is a rule that if you want to participate in UIL competition, you can only practice 8 hours a week plus one hour before preformances. Is there anything like that anywhere else? I'm especially interested to know if Indiana has anything like this. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
manuel_pablo Posted October 20, 2006 Report Share Posted October 20, 2006 From what I've seen on calendars, Lawrance Central usually practices 8 hours a week with a performance almost every Saturday. The only exception was on the week of the ISSMA State Championship, in which they practiced 14 hours during the week. However, two weeks after that, they only have 2 hours of practice for the whole week. The week of the Indy regional, they will only have 6 hours. Avon seems to pracitce 9 hours not including practice time on football game days and competition days. On ISSMA State week, they practice 19 hours not including the practice time on competition day. From those times, I'm implying that ISSMA does not have a 8-hour type rule. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PitStar Posted October 20, 2006 Report Share Posted October 20, 2006 monday 445-630 tuesday 4-830 wednesday off thursday 4-630 friday 4-5 *game day Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Haltom Tuba 08 Posted October 22, 2006 Report Share Posted October 22, 2006 If I remember correctly didn't bands in the gulf coast area of TX get 10 hours a week last year due to the expectance of hurricane rita and all the evacuation going on? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G'townPIT Posted October 22, 2006 Report Share Posted October 22, 2006 and what about during the school day? we only get 1 and 1/2 hrs every other day because of a double blocked schedule. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skippy Posted October 22, 2006 Report Share Posted October 22, 2006 If I remember correctly didn't bands in the gulf coast area of TX get 10 hours a week last year due to the expectance of hurricane rita and all the evacuation going on? Yeah, it was something like that. It was only a couple of weeks, and I don't think it made that much of a difference in our rehearsal schedule. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arabella Posted October 22, 2006 Report Share Posted October 22, 2006 I'm really glad we have an 8-hour rule. I love band and everything, but when you've used all eight of those hours and you have a football game and a contest every week, it gets a liiiiittle tiring. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skippy Posted October 23, 2006 Report Share Posted October 23, 2006 I'm really glad we have an 8-hour rule. I love band and everything, but when you've used all eight of those hours and you have a football game and a contest every week, it gets a liiiiittle tiring. You don't know what tiring is till you've done drum corps. Sorry. 8 hours A DAY Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arabella Posted October 24, 2006 Report Share Posted October 24, 2006 Hey just because drum corps is more work doesn't mean I don't get tired. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skippy Posted October 24, 2006 Report Share Posted October 24, 2006 Then drum corps would kill you. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mculbert07 Posted October 24, 2006 Report Share Posted October 24, 2006 Then drum corps would kill you. Owned I heard that schools in Indiana and other places can start learning their drill as soon as the previous school year lets out. Imagine if we could do that here... and on top of that, no 8 hour rule. We could all take over the world. Or, at least... BOA Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skippy Posted October 24, 2006 Report Share Posted October 24, 2006 We already have. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arabella Posted October 25, 2006 Report Share Posted October 25, 2006 Then drum corps would kill you. Haha I think you're right. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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