What's your favorite sport? Mine is Marching Band.

As someone who fishes and plays marimba, I can confirm playing marimba is harder than fishing

"Why do band people get nervous, you're not going to get physically hurt if you screw up." Allow me to introduce you to military style marching band...

Marching pit, you need a LOT of strength to move your instruments, especially up and down slopes across long distances and loading the trailer. Pushing a massive instrument across field (especially for my school) requires a lot more strength and power than sports like golding. A good mallet stroke is pretty difficult to attain without exerting strength, in this case, pit practice lasts for hours on end, frequently under the blazing sun (to rehearse with the band). The hand-eye coordination for playing an instrument is INSANE. You have to control you body but also have to control your wrist or fingers very carefully. Marching band definitely deserve a high ranking

Is it a sport or an art? BOTH! IT’S THE SPORT OF THE ARTS!!

I'd say the drumline probably had it the hardest when I was in band. They always were at practice an hour before everybody else, and they had to carry around heavy instruments for a whole three hour practice which was four hours in their case. The activity has definitely changed in the over 20 years since I was in it, but I don't deny that we practiced just as hard or harder than any of the sports teams, and a few years later when the band got good they practiced even harder than we did.

My favorite sport is mental gymnastics

When I mess up my marimba piece for the 50th time: "Well... It's time to go fishing."

In 2005 DCA, the Kilties had a member die on the field after the opener.

My favorite sport is jazz band

4:44 Eric:"you're not going to die doing marching band" Me:"try doing band camp im arizona in 110 degree heat with few water breaks"

Literally did a argument speech essay on this 😂

You forgot watching the drum majors for the hand eye coordination.

Thanks for representing for West Virginia!!!

Our percussion is so small we don’t have a drum line for our shows

Yes color guard for the win

It is Spart, Sport AND Art

As a person who does both front Ensemble and is part of low brass I totally agree with this whole video

My friend teased me by saying marching band was gay. And I said “you guys are the ones who slap each others butts after a good football game”.

Just thought id say, im currently in color guard… granted im going back to woodwinds next year but hopefully stick with winterguard

yoooo im the vibe in the front ensemble pic

Bein a cowboy. I appreciate that you put Rodeo on here. I really do.

I know this video is older but I just watched it. This was hilarious!

The first band show is the Olivet Nazarene University Marching Band!!

And he’s saying this as a marine. Bravo.

my sport is watching ur vids

Marching Band is definitely a sport!!!!

Hope you got credit for the Inaugural Parade cadence today!!!

Colorguard member here :))

COLORGUARD HERE, I always watch your videos and jsut finished my first season of drum corps with crossmen

Marching band is the hardest sport. It requires just as much commitment too. I once missed a football game cause I was sick, and then woke up the next day (still extremely sick and dying) and made it through a whole rehearsal, bus ride, competition, and bus ride home, all while being extremely ill. That's what band is all about :)

Not sure how they do things now but I lettered in my drum line 🤷🏼‍♂️

We need to add points for sound and dinamics

here before “day ... of asking emc to make a gong hi hat”

As a tuba player I’m considering tuba rating closer to drumline since my horns closer to drumline weight that other winds weight

I’ve been in color guard for three years and Istg windy days with the flag is… painful😁👍

Broodwinds vs Woodass

Ooooh pride of WV in the intro

it’s a vigorous art

2:40 rip PIT 😂 upper better for the win snare gang wya 🔥

I fish a lot and can confirm esports is harder that fishing

i like the cheerleading picture. cool, that...

Sport of The Arts

So.. a spart?

If it's hot outside, your wind instrument will more likely be sharp

I hated marching band, Freshmen year of HS. The director asked one day, if anyone wanted to play the bells (glockenspiel). These were not made for marching, but sideline. So... I volunteered. Didn't have to worry about the formations and movements and I got to take nice, long 30min naps on the sidelines while the rest of the band did formations during band class. Was glorious! I still had to learn to march in sync though, for X-Mas parades and things, but that was fine. Point is, it's a sport. You move a lot, on the field. Sometimes very quickly... Eventually, I got better at moving in formations, but I still stuck with the bells during football season.

Pretty funny how ESPN thinks boxing is harder than mixed martial arts, wich is literally boxing and another dozen of martial arts combined.

me, who is in percussion: hey, we pulse. that's....something. And, at comps I have to push a huge metal cart holding a synth across the turf, and I'm a seventh grader who has to try to keep up with all of the high schoolers.

I agree marching band is a sport

Ah yes.......the glorious cowboys cheerleaders

please make a gong hat, a gongespiel, or a trianglespiel (glockenspiel made of gongs or triangles)

just heard your cadence on the livestream for the inauguration!!

It's a spart.

I march tuba so I definitely agree because tubas are only a little heavy

Its a sport of the arts

i march tenor drums and i can not wait to show this to a football player who said that marching band isn't a sport but an exercise

Rugby should be number one

Interesting to see how the mind of EMC works. 🤔 😂 🤣

Marching band is a DANCE.

Based purely on physical demand, I'd say DCI is higher than most of the sports on there. I remember the old CBS report where they attached a oxygen rebreather to a Blue Devils quad player and found during a run their BPM and oxygen output was higher than pro football players. Although most shows are only around 12 minutes, many forget the training, ie band camp, is 10-12 hours a day of mental and physical activity for months, which is as much or much more than certain professional sports do.

its like i always say. color guard is just cheerleading for people with talent

Art is just a sport with a result.

I would say having swam competitively and was in marching band I would say both are harder than football. Think of the parades in the hot a$$ weather in that terribly hot uniform, the week + camps outdoors in the scorching weather and you had to have everything memorized before camp. swimming 6 days a week 2 x's a week and meets time management was a must. I would take the hardest football work out vs the hardest swimming work out any day....

Marching band is a sport, we get a sports credit for doing it at our school. For comedy club we made a video of football players and marching band kids switching places. Some quotes from the football players when they did band: “y’all do this every game” “how do you guys do this the whole game”. Also, I March Sousa but I also do color guard, marching Sousa is harder.

or a marching tuba

I marched drumline at a Texas 5A (now 6A cuz I’m old), I marched with an Open Class WGI line, a World Class WGI line, and then 2 years of DCI Div I (1st and 3rd place). I also played Lacrosse and I’m currently a mid level USATT ranked table tennis player. My rankings are: 1) lacrosse. I was a Middie/Attack so not only are you running the length of the field the whole time, you’re also trying to keep body and soul together while 6’+ dudes with 6’ poles whack and beat the crap outta you. Needless to say, broken bones and concussions came with the territory. 2) Marching band/WGI/DCI. This one edges out table tennis for me cuz even though it’s a 12 min performance, I played bass drum and also marched a corps known for its challenging drill. 3) in a close 3rd, we have table tennis. This will be the hardest collection of 1-3 meter sprints strung together anywhere. While this is going on, you’re hitting a 40mm ball going at incredible speed with lbs of heavy spin with a small racquet with a near 0 margin of error. All while trying to out smart your opponent. The workouts for table tennis are high intensity and tournaments can last typically up to 10 hrs.

6:36 I'm a tubist in my high school marching band, I also play tenors in my school's drum line, I find this sentence very infuriating

Band has definitely changed since I marched in high school. I remember carrying my snare around for hours, sore muscles, achy feet, cramped forearms, two a days, sweating through my uniform, parades that went on for days... learning cadences, show music, competition music, solos, and choreography for all of it every year... I can just imagine how much more difficult it's gotten with time and expectations of the crowds, judges, etc... Marching band definitely is a sport.

Bakh in the thumbnail. Nice.

this was a such a good video

I beg to differ for Front Ensemble on the Nerv category!!! Front Ensemble is more individual on sound (Especially Electronics, Rack, Bass/Tam-Tam, Timpani, Drumset, Aux)... Plus, the director(s) or techs always changes our parts the most.

I do horseback riding and marching band and they are both most definitely sports. Riding and marching band both require strength, endurance, and flexibility.

I saw the pride of west virginia picture and I started screaming “WVU WVU WVU”

I love playing for everyone for marching band, so that means it is not nerve racking for me

Sounds like it's a Spart

I play drum set in my marching band and holy crap! I have to haul a 450 pound cart across a huge turf field because we can’t use the track😡

Marching Band is a sport. Period.

As someone who’s on JV mountain biking team, drumline can be harder tbh

Me with my clarinet doing flutter steps: if dance and cheer are sports, so can band be a sport, also some people in sports do less than marching band hehe

AYYY WVU MARCHING BAND

I play snare, but I also race. Aka auto racing

Marching band is true Sport and art

So I’m a percussionist and I believe that winds should have gotten higher than percussion because they have to work their arms for horn angles and also they don’t get to breathe as much as percussionists do.

I mean ESPN shows DCI finals soooo..

as some one who sucks at marimba and has never fished i can confirm its harder

Joe montaña... yes

GOOD morning !

Marching band is like running but you can only belreath every once in a while.

Should I get some tenors EMCproductions?

Watching the drum majors with a bad front ensemble? @5:25

Lol my drumline friend just sent this to me. (I'm in the color guard) He says he agrees with you.

In my opinion, marching band is a sport. People in my hs always say “marching band ain’t a sport” well to them I say “Yeah well if marching band isn’t a sport, then dance isn’t a sport.” We have a popular dance team.

Hi, former golfer and percussionist in marching band here...why in gods name is golf so low!? It’s the hardest thing I’ve ever done. Played all 4 years in high school and I hated (but also loved) every second of it. Most frustrating thing ever. The only reason I don’t say marching band is the hardest I’ve ever done is cause I went to a small school with almost no funding for band and all the stuff we performed was so so so so simple.

there heavy

MARCHING BAND IS A SPORT! GET AT ME, BRO!

There is a video on YT showing a tenor player being tested with a vitals monitor in drum corps. 11 minute duration of heart rate, equivalent to a 100 sprinter. But that lasts seconds. Not 11 minutes.

Winds need more on strength... especially low brass. I want you to hold a marching baritone at attention at 10 degrees above parallel for 12 minutes and then repeat for a 3 hour rehearsal just for a challenge. Also you didn't factor in the breathing control wind players have to use while also doing typically more complex and faster moves then the drum line. Aka we are out of breath and still have to hold notes forever usually at close to the top of our dynamic range.

You forgot drum major

It may only be a 10 minute or so performance sure but most people don’t realize those long year round practices that get you there. Carrying around 35 pound tenors all day in the summer heat definitely takes some endurance. Don’t even get me started on band camp if you were part of a super competitive program. If you are doing winter guard/indoor percussion competitions you don’t get an off season like most high school sports.

"Why do band people get nervous, you're not going to get physically hurt if you screw up" didn't you march Crown with the dude broke his leg during finals