Guard Equipment
The fabric portion of the flag
What is silk?
A multi-rotation pop on a flag
What is a pop toss?
The ballet position set is at
What is first position?
A half rotation in which the equipment rolls off your thumb without losing contact with your hand.
What is a thumb flip?
The number of times GEMR has been to championships
What is 6 years?
The weapon equipment in guard that resembles a sword
What is a sabre?
A toss that rotates parallel to the ground over your head
What is a parallel toss?
The ballet position standby is at.
What is second position?
A circular motion created by the movement of both hands.
What is a carve/cone?
Indoor guard performance that doesn’t go along with the band.
What is winterguard?
An commonly used guard equipment for ballads
What is short flags?
A toss that spins once in the air before being caught
What is a single?
Toe to knee.
What is a passé?
A movement that consists of consecutive hand grabs in which one hand “drops” the equipment into the other hand
What is a drop spin?
This woman invented flag spinning and changed colorguard history.
Who is Peggy Twigs?
The part of an equipment that is found on both the top and bottom of the flag
What is stoppers?
A toss that spins twice in the air before being caught
What is a double?
Toe push out to point.
What is a tendu?
A weapon technique involving both hands that follows the pattern is bottom, bottom, top, top.
What is a double time?
Another well-known name for the USC Trojan Marching Band.
Spirit of Troy
A piece of guard equipment that is attached in the back, this equipment also made an appearance in GEMR's Firebird show.
What is wings?
Starting in a shoulder-hip angle, then raising the flag to a right shoulder while sliding your right hand down to the bottom of the flagpole and tossing it vertically in the air. Then, clapping while it is still in midair and catching it in the same shoulder-hip angle it started in.
What is a prayer toss?
Step - together - step.
What is a chasse?
A motion in which the equipment rotates in front and behind the person.
What is a flourish?
This band won first place in the WAMSB world championship in 2019 with 80.9 points?
What is Chinelos Drum Corps?