Color Guard Basics

Last week when I was going through my pile-of-mess in my room, I found my old notebook. Feeling nostalgic, I flipped through those pages and found my previous color guard basic routine. Sad to say, our school band does not have a full-time trainer for our section and we kinda have to navigate through our practices on our own. I went back to visit the kids sometimes and somehow noticed that some of the basics went missing as time passes. So, I am posting what we had last time so that you can refer to it if you need/want.

Note: this is the practice routine of Jit Sin Color Guard so you might not know what the name represent.

Flagwork Basics  

1. Shoulder stretching

2. Parallel

3. Angle

4. 27 Points

5. Cone & Reverse Cone

6. Flourish

7. Location

8. Sweep

9. Swing I&II

10. Double Swing

11. Swing Turn

12. Spin

13. Double Spin

14. Triple Spin

15. Drop Spin

16. 5, 2, 5

17. Start-Stop

18. 45°

19. Flick

20. Flick Toss

21. Spin Toss

22. Cone Toss

23. Single Toss

24. Double Toss

25. Parallel Toss

26. 45° Toss

Certain movements are incorporated with the 5 feet positions + Relevé, Plié, and Pointe.

Body Moves Basics

1. Gliding

2. Jazz Walk

3. Jazz Walk + Random Dance (4 + 4)

4. Trotting

5. Spinning