Our new band director(we got him last year) writes his own drill which is sort of cool, but the problem is that he only thinks of what the pictures look like, not how you get there. So we get all of these carzy moves where I have to squeeze through a tiny hole.(It's not easy with a bass drum!(I know my user name says tenor but I'm playing bass this year))Also, last year he had percussion sprinting, yes sprinting, across the field last year so they could hit their spots. Thank God I didn't march last year! Post your problems too.

I hope you mean jazz-running when you say sprinting...

Anyway, I haven't had anything crazy this year, but last year first semester we had a move where we had to fly back while playing some sweet stuff. Also two years ago second semester I was at the end of an entire battery pinwheel. That got my legs movin'

big moves are no fun, I think the worst is when they write the drumline into

a) a file, or
b) spaced 5+ yards apart

during a long roll. They really like to put the drums in a file during long rolls.

Last year our drill killed me. I'd come off the field winded. This years drill is too easy though. The entire opener the battery moves to the right. Since I play bass, and we face right-field, I basically march forward the whole time. The tempos aren't challenging at all either. The only challenging drill we have is in our closer. Ironically, we learned it in the least amount of time too.

We don't even pinwheel anymore. About four years ago, the onld drumline instructor's daughter was on the outside of the pinwheel and she had to move so far cause we had a hage drumline taht year that she tore every tendon in her knee and her skin was the only thing holding her lower leg on

This year we had to pass through the color guard...not good. We were moving back and right and they were moving forwards and left-I hated marching blind into a spinning death trap

This year we have trumpets and baritones breaking snare ranks instead of going around us (which would make more sense having the form go around the drumline) and we're jazz-crabbing and 180 while playing a roll-heavy passage with 5-lets and fast triplet rolls. We're killing the competition with demand/exposure points, though

Hahaha nicely put dvdwinter9 I know that feeling.

Haha, we happen to have a move where we are directly behind the colorguard, which is usually a pleasant experience, they provide good company when we stop, and well heh... you know.

Anyway, they have these violent cloth flag thingys which are really painful, and on that move we happen to be going left as they go right and we almost always are hit by five or six flags. Wouldn't be so bad if the end of these flags didn't have some hard black ball thingy on the end which are quite painful. Pretty inconvenient seeing as this move requires a lot of focus too.

This year's drill is pretty easy to me, even if it's my first year on the field. The only difficult things are a fast clarinet/high drums pass-through, one or two parts where I'm crabbing/running at 6-5, 160 bpm or so, and a reaaaalllllly slow change from a horizontal line to a diagonal. That last one's probably just me, though.