tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11443998.post111651495153169900..comments2023-10-17T07:13:00.912-04:00Comments on The LOUD Tour: The journey...Shawn C.http://www.blogger.com/profile/10521896444489221658noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11443998.post-1116611912950177142005-05-20T13:58:00.000-04:002005-05-20T13:58:00.000-04:00People were complacent. People didn't want to work...People were complacent. People didn't want to work as hard. Hell people weren't showing up half the time!!!<BR/>Anonymous, i don't know in what bubble you marched Brigs during the championships years, but we weren't in the same bubble, that's for sure!<BR/>I was complacent too, i mean after 4 years of NEVER losing ANY show. You can't help but say: this is way too easy. Winning became boring as hell. Why work?<BR/>I was focusing of doing my job the best I can because i hate knowing i could of done better. But not everybody did that. It's a fact. Some individuals agreed to suck because we were so far ahead of the game. It's an attitude hard to control so it's nobody's fault really. And because te majority worked their ass off anyway it didn't show that much.<BR/><BR/>Just my 2 cents... or my .001 cent Canadian ;-)Christine Hingrayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04900116648634616092noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11443998.post-1116591484606013742005-05-20T08:18:00.000-04:002005-05-20T08:18:00.000-04:00Anonymous.....Who are you? I have no problem with...Anonymous.....<BR/><BR/>Who are you? I have no problem with your opinion or your view of me. One thing I have never done is let up at pracitce ever during the season, I can not and I simply will not.<BR/><BR/>The 2001 and 2002 in my opinion had so much more room to grow, we did enough to win by a good margin, but never got where we were really capable of going despite what the score or the spread said. Both corps were on fire early in the season and both corps managed to win depite the intensity being turned down for most of the season (speaking from july to mid august)<BR/><BR/>The same thing happened in 2003 just to a different degree. Part of it was bringing down the overall intensity at rehearsals and to make the show and the corps more accessable to the fans and such. This was a good idea and needed to happen. Our level of performance was very good (especially at prelims) it just wasn't rewarded.<BR/><BR/>Last year was something entirely unique to all of us. To bear going through that tough of a winter was unbelievable. The desire of the membership that was there helped to make that corps what it is. The intensity was there for a while, you can ask the instructional staff as well, but after that 1st show it went into a serious lull.<BR/><BR/>I think it went there because of things beyond our control. Shows being cacelled and rained out, this is something you can't control, and you do lose your competitive edge when you are not competeing. We manage to pull out of a pretty serious dowfall toward the end of August and the results were pretty damn good. The performance at finals had moments in it that were simply unbelievable.<BR/><BR/>And that is what I am going for this year. To increase those moments. Those moments only come at the will of the membership. Pete touched on that last weekend.<BR/><BR/>That being said...I have never given up and I will never give up in practice. To me it sounds like the people around you never gave up, but I know the people around me surely did at times. My will isn't strong enough to control theirs, and that leaves me with a very deflated feeling. That is when my ego shines through. This year no july-mid august lull, and then go see what kind of performance we can deliver in finals...nothing short of phenomenal...that I'll guarantee.Shawn C.https://www.blogger.com/profile/10521896444489221658noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11443998.post-1116538854346590092005-05-19T17:40:00.000-04:002005-05-19T17:40:00.000-04:00Shawn,I felt a little revolt in my gut for the ear...Shawn,<BR/><BR/>I felt a little revolt in my gut for the early part of the post where you said we didn't have enough desire or were complacent in at least some of the Championship years or where you said we lacked "it" in those years. I've heard you say we didn't have the work ethic in some of those years until, well, now! Some of your comments attribute our attitudes with what I think may have been "your" attitudes at the time. That's OK! We are all guilty of being ego-centric on occasion. Our work ethic especially last year was one of the great things about last year even though we didn't win the championship. That was what made 2nd place able to be tolerated. That and what Wayne said after the finals performance last year.<BR/><BR/>Anyway, I found myself agreeing with many things you said by the end of your writing. I consider you a great asset to our corps. That being said, I have to say that the God given right or prophecy comment was a little much in that we did some God given hard work to earn it. Also, I don't remember anyone expressing that thought of prophecy.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com