Do you consider Drumline/Marching Band a sport?
Wednesday, June 15th, 2011 at
6:33 am
A lot of people that I talk to say that drumline and marching band aren't sports and are just leisure activities. What are your thoughts?
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I definitely thought of marching band as a sport the 4 years I did it. It required tons of work and involved a lot of exercise. Those that say it isn’t should try it some time. It’s more difficult than one might think to march and play an instrument at the same time, and even more so when you have to do it in sync with everyone else. Certainly we had fun, but there was a lot of work involved, and we were definitely out on the field everyday after school until at least 4:30 when most sports teams had left long before. It certainly requires as much physical skill as any other sport and I would definitely consider it one.
The motor skills required for drum line alone are enough for any sports enthusiast to give up on. When you add marching to the mix, you’ve got a sport. Not to mention the practice that goes into learning a routine and coordinating it with a song.
The idea of excluding certain movement activities from the broad term "sport" seems to be about tradition and insecurity. You keep playing…everyone loves a musician and someday you could have one of the most fun jobs in the world.
YES!! they are. people that say that aren’t in marching band.. but its TONS of work AND EXCERSICE!!
They are not a sport. They’re related to music and the performance of it, even if they make competitions of it.
It’s true they may demand a large amount of physical effort and cordination, but that’s not unusual on other performing arts. From acting to dance, or singing, juggling, play an instrument, etc., they demand the develop of certain mental and physical skills, but doesn’t make it a sport by itself.
A professional dancer may be in great shape and being dancing for two hours without even sweat, but the muscular development related to his craft may be useless if he wants to play football.
So, there is a reason why you won’t see drumlines at the olympics.
Marching band and the drumline I think are considered sports. You just as much work in this activity as someone else would if they were playing football or soccer. Some people just don’ t understand the amount of work and effert that a marching band and drumline need.
its kind of a sport because it is somewhat competitive (battle of the bands) and it requires excersise. drumline i think is more sporty than marchingband cuz they are all over the place with their dance moves and competitions. in one state it also used to take care of your P.E. credits. so i guess what i’m trying to say is that its sporty but its not considered a sport.
I think that it walks the line between sport and performing art. It’s kind of like cheerleading–they do competitions, etc., but they also back up the team. It involves dancing, but it’s still a sport. However, with marching band or drumline, there’s tons of dancing, but also a performing art, music. I would say it leans more toward sport than not sport, because it involes so much movement and is competitive, like cheerleading. Hard to say!!!