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You know the drill's crazy when you running a 100 m dash in 8 counts

2017 Bluecoats was the hardest thing Ive ever done in my life to date

The field level perspective for cadets 98 is mind boggling. I think it’s the most impressive clip in the entire video tbh

I never noticed how hard Madison scouts 2019 was

Members: "8 to 5?" Staff: "Can we do um... _(checks notes)_ 2 to 10 please? Jazz run through the battery, preferably." Battery: 😐

I love that you synced up the field-level videos with the high camera! Seeing those shots side by side really highlights the athleticism AND precision that these groups are achieving. Epic video, I’d love to see a Part 2!

3:54 is crazy, the fact that they stayed up with the weight of the contra on them while sprinting down a ramp is mad impressive

As a drum corps old fart I see this and wonder how anyone can complain about the quality of corps these days. However where are the Cavies? Great Video!

I am so impressed! Trumpet is plenty difficult to play well when standing still. Respect to all of these corps members for making it look easy.

Please do a part 2. Every year of Cadets should be on this list😂 especially 2008 and 2015

The fact that early 2000's Cavaliers is not on here at all is beyond triggering. Cavis have always been known for their drill. Especially in 2000-20005.

Hello, my name is Star 91. And Cavs 98, and Cadets 96 (last minute especially), and the expanding and contracting box in BD 97 (possibly the most perfectly executed move ever, frankly). and on and on. If you want a DEVILISHLY fun time, in Cross to Cross, find the person at the base of the 2nd cross, and trace backwards to where they start in cross 1. Shows you how absolutely sublime that sequence was.

Well I'm honored to see Cadets 2007. What made the entire show hard was that we had no ballad, and the closer was at 215 (started at 210 in the winter, then 212, and 215).

Cavaliers 2000-2006, Cadets 2000, Cadets 2008, Cadets 2005,Crown 2007-2008, Blue Devils 2008 should be in the list. These performances' drill are crazy

Those are some great picks. Definitely do Part 2 at some point lol

The felliniesque jazz run with the full wall of sound is so, so impressive.

Crown 2012 has gotta be some of the most intimidating looking drill ive ever seen.

You forgot the end of Crown ‘19, they are MOVING

I was surprised Crown 13 wasn’t here with that crazy 3d triangle spin thing

Time to suggest all these for my high school band...

I’m so glad Scouts 2019 is on here. Saw them in ATL and I cheered so loud when I realized just how fast they were moving. They were HAULING

I absolutely cannot believe that Star Of Indiana's Roman Images Championship show from 1991 is not on here. That is BY FAR the GREATEST drill ever!

The backwards speed marching at 0:53- I did a chart like that in university but it was further distanced so it was a legit run in double time. It was all of sax section running backwards with super strides with the susas right in front of us. We had already been expressing issue with the drill because the susas couldn't see where they were going and one wrong stride and it was gonna be a huge painful domino effect. Eventually we convinced the director that the chart was impossible and it was thankfully changed and the double time was made normal and the formation moved up 10 yards so we didnt need to go as far. Thank god. We all almost died lol

Phantom by far had the most difficult one in my opinion, they had to repeatedly practice running across an entire football field while playing just to practice it, the amount of skill that took to do that is insane, definitely the top 5 most difficult drill.

I got into an argument with some football jockey where he was saying drum corps doesn’t take any athleticism. I sent him this video

I just discovered this channel. I so enjoy watching the performances!! My brother was involved in pageantry from the 1960’s until his passing in 2009. He designed, wrote and instructed drill for corps and winter guards. It was his lifelong passion. He had friends across the northeast and throughout corps across the nation. Thanks for enabling me to remember him and his work.

Cavaliers 2003 percussion feature drill is my favorite, the horns pass-throughs are so incredibly tight, then just great up through the park and blow section!

Sparactus’ 90 degree jazz run at the very end is pretty killer too

2017 Bluecoats for sure on this! The 2019 Scouts clip 0:55 is fast drill, maybe not the fastest and hardest but definitely THE COOLEST 20 seconds of drill and music ever! And, yes the Cavies NEED to be here.

Who are the Cavaliers?

crazy how crown had the #1 brass while simultaneously having some of the hardest drill possible

Adrenaline RUSH!!! Hard to believe I used to do that 😃 Now I struggle to walk Great Memories Here! Wonderful production. Thanks for taking the time to share this.🦋

Great idea for a video! Love the Scouts doing the “Grinder”!

This channel makes probably the best DCI videos on youtube right now

Fantastic vid as always! Wish there was more for 80's, 90's, and 00's rehearsal and field level stuff out there. But maybe pt 2 doesn't have to have it!

never truly appreciated jazz running impacts until our director made us do it at 140 probably the most winded ive been after a run

This really needed more Cavies... anything from the 2000s

Lmao I love how the dude in scv 2017 is running. Dude was the monster from temple run

I know they made it look easy, but Cavaliers 2002 should definitely be on this list.

Here's just a few on my list 😉 Cavies '92, movement just after ballad 🏃🏃🏃 Star '91, cross to cross Crossmen '92, end of ballad SCV '03, towards the end, from the "worm" to the closing block BD '07, ripple prior to drum feature

Spin Cycle (Cavs 2004) is the peak of technical drill and no one will convince me otherwise!

So I assume you’re doing a separate video that actually includes The Cavaliers and some of the Insanely difficult stuff they’ve been doing visually for the past 35 years? Maybe that video can be filed under hardest and cleanest.

Great video. Not only do these kids march their ass off they are playing music that is out of this world. I agree with posters down below that a part 2 is a must!

Please do a part 2!! My personal suggestions would be: SCV 2018 - Closer Cavaliers 2011 - Closer Phantom Regiment 2008 - Closer

Just wanna say, even if only by technicality, Star 91 really should be on the next video! What they did in finale was incredible.

0:16 the mallets were playing the sfx for this man sprinting to his spot

AMAZING! Countless hours of practice went into each of these outstanding performances! Complicated big moves on top of playing wind instruments...WOW!

The absolute meat-grinder that was Scouts 2019, looking forward to more like these!

Missing Cavaliers' 2000 Niagara on a hardest drill list???... criminal! The list is also heavy on post 2000's. While these are definitely some of the hardest ever done, what about relative hardness? The first Z-pull or Toilet Bowl was VERY hard at the time

Anything Star of Indiana!!!!!!

14 BD? I literally laughed out loud at that one

This reminds me that we're getting closer to Night eat in Winston Salem,NC. I haven't seen a show since 2003, I'm so excited 🔥😎

I love going back to watch the Phantom running hornline videos for their 07 shows.

Top 10 most satisfying videos.

Can I just say that I am ever so glad that in my day (late 1980s) we didn't have sets on the field like those stairs! I would've quit in a week rather than fall while running down those things.

I remember the first time I saw Phantom’s 2007 show. The last 1.5 minutes of it was the biggest adrenaline rush

I think Cadets 1998 was the show I saw in Ohio where someone fell in the death spiral and a bunch of others fell like dominos. Scary to witness that and why it is my vote for THE most difficult and dangerous drill.

Fun trip down memory lane

i kind of thought star of indiana's 91 show would be on there

How is star 91 not in this?!

Great video. Cadets 2000 finale is up there as well…this compilation was well done!!

Stonehenge is such an impressive show. I heard they got a perfect field visual score that year.

First, Thank You! ( In my best Kanye voice) I'ma let you finish but, Cavaliers 2003 Spin Cycle was probably the hardest visual program of all time! And, I'm a Cadet! The Hardest ending. Cadets 2008. I used to watch them kill themselves in rehearsals. But, they got it!

Niagara Falls diamond cutter 🐐and it's not even close...heck, any show from 2000 had absurdly difficult drill

Blue Knights 2008, I know I'm a little biased, but I remember specifically marching 2.5 to 5s while pumping so much air through my horn. And that wasn't even the toughest drill knowing what some of the other corps members were marching. Honestly though I loved the intensity of that drill it really pushed us all.

the new corps don’t have big drill moments like this no more

You can tell this is modern because apparently, NONE of you have heard of Michael Gaines and The Cavaliers??

That poor guy in the 2017 Santa Clara Vanguard. LMAO

Imagine running through the drill for the first time and going to the next set and seeing your spot on the other side of the field with 16 counts to get there

Seriously? Nothing from the Zingali-Brubaker era? Or from Michael Gaines? So I guess we're defining "hard drill" as "who can jazz run the fastest?"

Drill masters could never

Nice to see the camera quality didn’t change

2015 cadets was crazy hard. They don't stop!

Needs Star it’s last 2 years and the 2000’s cavies those two were activity changing shows-simply Astounding

rip to several knees being able to bend

I marched with BAC in 2018, the clip you put in the video is the ONE set that I wasn't sprinting. haha Opening sets of Sensemaya had me doing 3 to 5s backwards, then had 3 to 5s HORIZONTALLY in both the end of the opener and the closer. I marched 5 seasons of corps, but that was easily the hardest show I ever did, also a hell of an ageout. ••|•|•••

These are good but there are several from the 90’s early 00’s of cadets and cavies that would blow your mind.

Crown ‘12 could have featured the very first move to show after the announcement. It’s honestly probably the hardest single movement for the whole corps. 6 to 5, crabbing straight to the left, at 196bpm, from a complete standstill, with a 25lb snare drum strapped to me, required a degree of explosiveness that I was just barely capable of by the end of the season lol

I was there in 2017 Santa Clara vanguard drumcore show.

Santa Clara Vangaurd the guy just dashed for his life

Wow, that is a great video. Who ever did this, is certainly a pro.!!!

I feel bad for that one guy sprinting across Lucas Oil just to play one lick.

Should have been titled, "DCI's most tiring drill" lol Where's 2008 Cadets? (last minute of show) Some others: 1989 Suncoast Sound, 2010 Phantom, 1997 Cadets, 99 Devils (especially backing that block in the ballad), 2004 SCV, 2000-2004 Cavaliers...there's just too many to name. SCV had a LOT of really difficult drill throughout the years. If I had to pick a "hardest overall show", I'd have to go with 2012 Carolina Crown "For the common good". The demands that were placed on each performer throughout that entire show were just insane.

No disrespect to the kids today but most of the 2022 shows were missing a lot of this. Hopefully this kind of movement returns more often. Just one old guy’s opinion.

Spin cycle

Where would you place Star of Indiana '91 going from Cross to Cross during the finale? These were very impressive, BTW.

Moving at any sort of fast speed while playing is literally one of the hardest things ever

Yes indeed! I’m surprised you didn’t have a piece from the cadets 87 Appalachian springs in there.

Dude, Cadets should be on this for every year.

*Watches video* *Immediately goes to comments to say where is cross to cross and sees 3 other comments right away*

How about Cavaliers

Please please please do a part II!!!

That was absolutely 💯 % Amazing!!

This video should be called “Hardest DCI drill that there is a field level video of and also you don’t have to be playing while moving”

Cavaliers 007, Samurai, XtraordinarY

DCI should dig in to the archives and find the film the deleted of SCV 1991, Fall of Saigon. Baritone whip, and a full corps side flip as a massive cross through at 210bpm are just a couple of the Myron drill pieces.

Why doesn’t the guard have flags in Crown 2012? Is that some DCI thing they do where the guard does their choreo without their equipment when they do drill?

Hardest drill doesn't mean fastest...BD 2014 where they rotated a long front that's at an angle -- and thus hiding SOME people who may be out of line -- and then rotating it to the vertical. Yes, they end up on a yard line, but HALF of the line is going backwards and can't see it...and it still ends up laser-straight.

Where is that Bluecoats footage from?? 👀✨