Last Saturday was the High School's first winter guard competition. The group did not have a very good run and we knew we needed to chat with them about it at practice on Tuesday. The kids were very nervous and scared during warm up and I did not anticipate them being like that! I talked to them about what warm up is for and why there is no need to "freak out!"
To sum up what the staff said - We are stepping up our game!
The biggest thing we need to change is how we rehears! We will be holding all the kids accountable to do every single rep full out! So often they mark through choreography and then when we do run throughs at the end they do things so differently then what they practiced that it really effects them. This was the same thing that happened during their performance.
We jumped right in on Tuesday after our conversation with this more intense and more accountable rehearsal. I wasn't sure how they would react to it.....if they would get mad or frustrated.....but I was very impressed when we kept pushing and pushing and the kids just did it! No one was frustrated when they left rehearsal and everyone really seemed to understand why we were adjusting the way we were doing things.
Very exciting to be able to do something like that and not have a bunch of friction and reluctance from the kids. Means we can keep making them better and they wont make out right away!
Still a long road.....we will keep taking one rehearsal at a time.
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