Talk:Color guard (flag spinning)
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[edit] Winterguard vs. Color Guard
I'm not sure if winterguard is deserving of it's own set of pages. The activity has grown significantly since it's beginning, and the "winter" form of color guard is now vastly different from it's outdoor counterpart. Thoughts? - apotheosist 17:01, 10 February 2006 (UTC)
I don't think winterguard needs seperate pages either. It is usually grouped with color guard and they use the same movements when choreographing routines. The shows do indeed turn out different in the end, but they are not different enough to be seperated.
I think that WinterGuard is deserving of it's own page. I say this because although it is the same in many ways, there are important differences. Like: The director chooses the music and has creative liberties that may not be appropriate or impossible to do on a football feild.
Winter Guard is a separate activity with a separate governing body - WGI. It deserves its own article. Chris 19:26, 17 September 2006 (UTC)
- It's like cheerleaders. There's a basketball and football season set, and just because you're on one doesn't mean you're on the other at my school. Likewise, most Guard people are in Concert Band, instead of Winter Guard. --Marudita
It seems to me like outdoor color guard actually gets the short end of the stick in this article. Considering that most high school and college bands have color guards (not to mention drum & bugle corps), I'd venture to guess that the number of participants in the outdoor activity, whether competitive or not, far exceeds the membership in competitive winter guards. I think it can all be one article, but both ends of the spectrum need to be reflected. I also wonder if anyone could come up with something more about the evolution of guard from the purely military style through the 60s, 70s, and 80s into what we have today. Orpheus73 19:10, 29 October 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Not at all the same thing
The military-style color guard is something completely different from this apparent flag twirling activity that somehow got called the same thing. I believe these two topics should be treated completely separately with their own articles and a disambiguation page. Cacetudo 14:54, 11 May 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Article separation
This article was separated from the Color Guard article in accordance with the consensus reached on that article's talk pages. I've moved the appropriate talk page comments from there to here. Cacetudo 16:17, 10 August 2006 (UTC)
[edit] 2 words
Is it colorguard, or color guard? Whichever, it should be consistent throughout the article (and title). -- Calion | Talk 20:59, 16 August 2006 (UTC)
"Color guard" and "Winter guard" are both 2 words. Chris 03:14, 31 August 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Twirl vs Spin
Twirl is a colloquial and outdated term. This article is part of the drum corps project, and no major drum corps uses the term, "twirl." Chris 19:58, 8 September 2006 (UTC)
- I've always heard just "flag corps", "color guard", or "auxilary", not even "spin". It's kind of implied that the people in the band with flags twirl/spin said flags, I guess. --Marudita
- Spin is the appropriate term to use when reffering to Color Guard. Twirling is something you do with batons.
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- Definitely -- something better than "flag twirling" needs to be substituted in the main title of the article. Orpheus73 19:35, 29 October 2006 (UTC)
[edit] sabre vs saber
Color guard is primarily a US sport. The standard US spelling is saber - NOT sabre. I know it looks fancier with the British spelling, but consult your dictionary before you edit the page again, please. Anyway, that's quite a nit-picky reason to edit the article without adding any additional information. Give me a break. Chris 01:30, 16 October 2006 (UTC)
- Okay, so I'm being rude, but what's the name of that hockey team from Buffalo, NY? Clearly it's not just a US vs. UK thing. It probably ought to be standardized on the page, but you can't blame people for not always being consistent.
- You're not being rude; you make a good point. But I'm going to trust the dictionary on this issue - not the NHL. Every few weeks someone comes in and changes half the instances on the page to 'sabre' while leaving the rest as 'saber'. If you insist on using the European spelling, at least be consistent. cdpanic 23:07, 30 October 2006 (UTC)
[edit] photos?
The photos already on the page are fine, but could anyone get ahold of a nice photo of a good competitive high school or DCI guard in action?
