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id have to say band is a sport bc im in the drumline and we work harder than any other section.. and alot of people have to agree with that... ive played football ive wrestled and played baseball.. all are hard but for some reason i have tended to get more tired with band.. maybe not as much with wrestling but the others definetly... band is a sport bc we have to stay in shape and everything else.. and if ur not in shape ull die by the end of the show...

I Think That Its pointless to argue about this subject because everyone of you keeps trying yo attack the others... just stop.. think about thier side and be rational... All three are physical activities (that alone should classify them as sports), All three have positions and techniques to memorize, and all three take a degree of intelligence. Problem solved.

Thank you!!!! Finally some one who understands. ROCK IT OUT!!!

the difference between the sports that you call sports, and the ones you think should not be classified as sports is the physical aspect of it. Band is definatly a more refined type of competition than football or soccer. we have to do things that basketball players dont have to, and track runners dont have to think about 104 different spots to be at in a certain time. i think we should all stay open minded, and understand the difficulties and rewards all of our sports offer us.

Mmkay. I think, in a way, marching band IS a sport. Theres more to marching band then just memorizing music. Theres actual marching, learning drills, finding where you are supposed to be on the field, staying step, staying in a line, and such. Plus, some people in band don't play any instruments. Some people, guys and girls, twirl batons and flags. And its not very easy to keep in step and stay on counts at the same time. Twirling is a sport all its own.

i don't agree that band is the hardest. i think it's an insult to say that cheerleading and football are much easier. i've never been in football or cheerleading, but I have friends that are. There's just different aspects of each team that can make them challenging. all 3 require a lot of patience, memorization, & skill. cheerleading and football just require more physical aspects while marching band requires more multitasking.

ok i'm in marching band and i do not think it's a sport. yeah, we have band camp 5 days of the week in august-7 to 8 hours of standing outside in 100 degree weather (i live in south georgia). i don't think it's really a sport even though my band director insists it is. but yeah, i'm also a cheerleader and competition cheerleading is more than sport than marchin band...so there you go....:)

Umm im not going to say any one is harder then the other. Cause marching band is alot similar to drill in the military and drill sucks balls. its not a physically demanding as football and it all depeneds on the program. Marching band also requires alot of multitasking. Football is one of the most physically demanding sports there is you have to be in great athletic shape or you gunna get burned on the feild you have alot more expectations pressed on you the people dont go to the games to watch the band. In Football every play could end up being the last one you ever play in your life. In cheer its more just being choreographed but as i said in cheer it mainly is posistion dependent i would think

i used to be in band and it is not hard at all. football however like kyle said getting up at 6:30 and practicing in 80-90 degree weather for 3 hours. thats hard.

How is marching band a sport yall walk and memorize music i play football but i used to play an insturment i was first chair Bass and it was easy. not hard at all. And i get up at 6:30 and its 85 degrees in the morning and i run with my team and we physically exert ourselves until we are drenched in our own sweat and we dont end our workout until 9:30. It sucks to work out and practice everyday it sucks to have two a days or sometimes even three a days but WE do it because we love the sport and i agree with sean you mess up you die. Band people yall mess up in practice your directors tell you to do it right. We mess up our coaches jump up our buttholes make us do up downs do yall even know what those are. Band is not a sport

ok yall i play football and i used to play and instrument. its bot hard to memorize music at all, it is how ever hard to learn all the plays and defensive schemes in football. band u gotta watch ur form or what? ull get points off? boo frikin hoo in football u loose form ur but is gonna get plowed and hurt. so band is not a sport and if u cant think while u walk then theres somethin wrong now isnt there?

i agree with all of the ppl who pointed out tht reading drill charts n memorizing music is hard... bc it is!!! especially when its 70 degrees at 7 am at band camp. it sucks but we do bc we like music. marching band is a @@#$@#@ sport whether u like it or not.

well im not a band-person, but i dooo think that some people consider it a sport... ANDD CHEERLEADING IS EFFIN HARD...you dont even know. so dont say that about football being easy so itd be called cheerleading. i think it should go like this: if cheerleading was easy, itd be called football. if football was easy it would be called marching band. if marching band was easy, itd be called water-girl. :D

omg yes marching band is way way way hard and who is to say its not a sport its an activity just like football track cheer leading and what ever else.... in sports just being the fastest or the strongest dosent cut it being smart does to and let me tell u learning the music memorizing it and memorizing the blow charts is alought of mental work and if your a majorette or colorgard member its just as hard i would know iv been a majorette since i was 6 and in band since 5th grade iv also been in many sports and love them all sooo whos to say what is and isent a sport if u havent dun it then i gess u cant say o this is harder than band u try it once and see if u can do it.......

some ppl dont know how hard it is to learn the show your gonna march..i'm a pit player in the Triton Hawks Marching Band and i've watched our band practice..i dont know how they can memorize the music and the marchin chart thingy lol....i know i couldnt lol...but thats me some ppl it might be easy to but fir me i know it wouldn't lol

oh my goodness!! I totally agree with that!

I don't understand why the drummers in marching band think that playing the drums is so much harder and is a sport when the other instruments in the marching band are equal. Not one section is more of a sport than another. There is one marching band at a school. The band would not be good without the drums granted. But the band would also be bad if there was no saxes, or no clarinet section.

i understand were everyones coming from but marching band a sport really? i mean yeah you sweat a little in marching band but your not doing the suicides, sprints and up-downs a basketball, football or baseball player etc; would be doing. in my opinion it takes a little bit more talent to play a song on an insturment then to catch a ball but like.....i don't know marching band just aint a sport it's a talent? Don't take offense im just being honest.

i understand ur point bc ive never played football a day in my life, but ive seen kids get severly hurt b4. but, marching band is allowed to b called a sport bc we can get hurt too. personally, ive been ran over w/ a bass drum, ive gotten 2 concussions bc i got ran over w/ tubas, and ive been knocked off a drum major podium tht was 9 feet tall. just like basketball n football, we get hurt too. marching band is physically demanding as well. my school purposely got small-large uniforms so basically if u cant fit a large, u cant march. n our colorguard instructor will not let anybody over 122 on the field either.

personally i think your on crack, football is a million times harder than marching band?? for instance, i got a fractured coller bone just from warm ups, and im sorry but it &@#@&* me off when people say that they know that ne other sport is harder then football, and they could just through on the pads and get out there, im here to tell you, ur DEAD WRONG, football is by far the most physically demanding sport there is, and marching band shouldnt even be aloud to be called a sport

all sports r hard work, but if there was an order, id say 1) marching band 2)cheer 3) football. in football, yeah u can get hurt very badly, n cheer u can get a concussion, but in marching band u can kill some1... im being serious.

i played football and i would say cheering is harder

IN ORDER TO SAY CHEERLEADING IS EASY.. YOU MUST BE A CHEERLEADER AND IF YOU'RE NOT A CHEERLEADER THEN SHUT YOUR FACE!!

i really dont agree...i think if cheerleading was easy it would be called football

marching band does take much effort... but just no where near as much as others. much respect to those in band yall!!!

sydney has a point. football is very demanding. drumline IS a sport. and i think cheerleading is even more demanding than football. and i'm a guy. instruments are way too easy to be considered a sport

band is not a sport, but drumline is. sorry, but year round we train. we always come in before the band and are the last to leave. winter drumline always have harder charts and work although the week and weekend. we work hard to keep our title of number one drumline in the state. if golf is a sport, drumline deffinately is.

ok i used to play an insrtument and it is not even close to the difficulty as football is or wrestling because those are probally two of the most phyhsically demanding sports

Im kinda getting ticked off becuz some of u ppl just think its drumline that does the work. Im gonna quote this.... "One band, One sound"... Thats that! Marching band takes as much work as any other sport does. Theres not just on section. We are a complete band.

I don't think marching band is a sport at all. Drumline and DCI now those come close to it. It just all depends on how hardcore the line is but usually our drumline always intimidates the band physically and mentally they can't keep up. Thats why there is the drumline and then there are the wanna be people who cant handle a real sport so they do band.

if marching band isnt a sport then why do we practice more than any other sport out there and why do we have a field and how come we have a millon competitions if we arent a sport i wonder

I think marching band is not a sprot but i also think it takes heart, persiverance and stuff like that cause my sister is a drum major and the hours she practices is enought for me

marching band is not really a sport for those who play intruments such as flute, clarinet, and etc.

marching band is a sport for those that have to lug a huge drum and tuba around. it just depends.

but DRUM CORPS DEFINATELY IS A SPORT! THERE'S NO DOUBTING THAT.

All these ppl talking bout marching being hard and *#$&. Do you people even comprehend the pain and $%$& we go throught during varsity football camp? I mean it goes on the whole year, but camp is when we really get our butts kicked. I mean c'mon. You guys march around with flutes and **!#. We sprint and hit and roll and all those nifty things so when it comes game time we can win, and all you guys have to do is blow on ur instruments. So don't think that for one minute marching band is a sport. Its not. Its a... club. And dont say that its harder than football... cuz, haha, its not even close to being as hard as golf.

Ok, marching band with the trumpets and stuff isnt a sport. But competetive drumline (that i am) is a sport. We do have dedication and we do work long hours to be good so ya marching band not a sport but drumline is.

Okay so I've cheered played volleyball ran cross country and I run track and dance. Not to mention I'm a manager for our football team so I'm at all the practices, drills, and meetings. So therefor I've had a taste of it all and to me, band is not a sport and not even close to being as hard as football. Our team is out there getting hit and hitting each other at practice till about 8 o'clock every single night. And plus...most band memebers have a hard time running the track. If band was a sport as you say, running around the track would be a piece of cake. I give you credit because you have alot to remember and learn from sheet music but its still not sport.

you think cheerleading is easy..haha take a step in my shoes for one day just one day and see how easy it really is. it isnt you have to work hard getting stunts down to a T and one little mess up you get sent off to do 50 pushups then run through the routine again.(thats just on my team but seriously its harder than you thing) you try memorizing every movement in 60 8 counts to preform it in 2mins and 30 seconds. ive done marching band and its hard. but seriously i would rather have to go through band camp again than i would cheer camp. our camps are brutial. again dont diss unless youve tried it atleast. and again..dont compare marchingband to football OR cheerleading.

nah marching band isnt a sport.......anyone can play an instrument and walk around on a field haha

Ok so i did cheer for a little bit and i think that's a sport. Why wouldn't marching band be a sport? we ahve to wake up @ 4 in the morning be at the school by 5 30, stay on the field untill 7 30. go to school, have sectionals, memorize tons of sets. memorize our music, its takes physical AND mental endurance, its the same as football. they have to memorize plays and drills which requires both mental and physical endurance. Seriously its hard work! especially for the drumline. they have to march with freakin heavy drums. i'm a woodwind and its really tough for us flutes (and piccolo players!!!!) to do hip switches. So for everyone who doesn't think marching band is a sport, ponder what i've said and try it out for yourself before you make judgements. you sound really stupid if you haven't tried it out yourself and you just assume it's easy.

I think you just like drama...just my opinion.

I think you just like drama...just my opinion.

Okkk i keep gettin messages about this.... heres what it is..

i dont care about band AT ALL....but band probably doesnt care about basketball, there for......call it what you want but when you can play four 8min quarters....holla at cha girl! =]

i dont think marching band is a sport, there is no score, no points. But i admit it takes perseverance to do marching band, before i quit band i played the quads and that was no walk in the park. So, marching band is more than a normal activity but not enough to be a sport.

Band is soooo haaaaard. lol

So basically you say that bands compete.. i do agree.. btu wind players basically they compete to see how lame their lives are...drummers comete to see hwo kick *@@ they can be and how loud they can be.. thas why i'm a drummer.

huh i dont get that..... but anyway band is a sport because we compete, just like you compete to see who can jump the farthest or who can kick the ball the hardest, we see who can play their instruments better and make better formations on a field

Ok the actual band is nto a sport. the drumline is. there you have guys and girls carryign freakin drums that can weight up to 60 pounds and we dont complain.. band isn't a sport cuz all they do is harry a stupid peice of metal that the breathe through. Band is NOT sport... drumline is.

WE are freakign marching all the time!! We march but that doesn't mean that we're all freaking lightning speed! Some of us go at a different pace than others and like to take our time! Plus we're marhcign not running unless we have or unless we forget our music then we run a lap but still we're marching not running don't get it confused!

Umm ok if it is a sport and you claim you march all the time then why do some girls and guys at my school have a hard time runnin a lap in the gym but yet yall march all the time?? lol =\

Alyssa you know i'm waiting for you to respond to Alexandra and Jessica

i agree with all of you. our band talks about it all the time. nobody outside of band doesnt understand that it really is a sport. we even learn how to BREATH right. crazy crazy.

Marching band IS a sport! We even march durign band class DURING SCHOOL! Marching band is very physical you have to be able to MARCH on top of that sitting there for 6-8 hrs doing band camp going over the basics over and over again! Also you have to remember sets which way you go where you are when to stop how many counts this move is and where you go afterward what visuals you have, when you move and don't move remember music and when to come in being very freaking precise about almost everything! You have to be technical on how you march for ex: backwards marching you have to be on toes forwards marching you have to roll the feet sideways or diagonal marching your feet are in the direction you are marching but your upper body is facing the sidelines! And we go to games and play for our teams we march during half time we go to competitions and compete so MARCHING BAND IS A SPORT!!

marching band in a sport just like cheerleading. peopel might not thing that it is but it is. marching band is A LOT of hard work.

i like the last saying... so true. we do more than they do(athletes) everyone thinks its easy, but its, not. especially when you have 30 sets for a 3 min song! we are more than a sport, way above it.

The correct saying is "If band was easy, they would call it a sport." So if band isn't a sport, that means it is so much harder and above sports. We should have our own category. It's below ourselves to be calling it a sport. LOL

It took me longer than it should have to read your apparent inability of grammar, but please, tell me. Who said Cheerleading wasn't a sport again? I don't see that comment anywhere. So please don't get too defensive over nothing, yes?

i dnt really think high school cheer is to much of a sport but obviously u have never heard of all-star cheer....it's way harder than being a marching band we have long practices with a lot of conditioning and learning new roughtines & guess wat....we dnt say cheer's but we tumble like gymnast’s do & on top of that we through girls our same size in the air & still have to do allot of jumps & fast dancing plus running around to different formations that really takes a lot of energy...& we do all that for three hours each practice band practice is not harder than that....oh & so wat if there are fat cheerleaders there are fat ppl in high school football basketball & volleyball i play basketball too & i get way more tired at cheer practice than i ever had in my 7 years of basketball u really dnt know wat ur talking about when u say cheerleading isn't a sport

haha wtf....u say cheerleading is not a sport cus it's not grammatically correct no 1 cares & no ppl dnt say it's a sport cus they want to be friends with the cheerleaders i dnt care if im friends with my skewl cheerleaders & i dnt cheer 4 my skewl either i just have a good reason 4 cheerleading being a sport & if u actually read why ppl say its a sport they have actual reasons to support it

ok, well, I'm not saying band isn't hard, but I wouldn't say, "If band was easy it would be called football." lol I think everything is hard in its own way. lol