Ready...Fight!

Do you understand how tryouts work?
Basically you work your butt off all summer getting ready for tryouts. You sweat, hurt, bleed and cry because you are pushing yourself so hard. You are driving so hard that you can't really talk normally until the next morning and you want to lay in bed all day because your legs and feet hurt so bad. Then tryouts come and you sweat it out and kill yourself for two more days, but then you get cut because some one else out played you, out marched you, or out drove you.

Are you going to let them do that? Are you going to let them take it from you? Are you going to be going down the ramp come September or are you going to be watching in the stands? Everyone around you is trying to beat you, trying to take YOUR spot.

FIGHT for it!

Drive harder than anyone else, longer than anyone else. The vets will likely be better marchers than you, but you can try to out drive them. Show us that you can march with the best of us.

Do NOT listen or do things that other candidates are doing to fit in. If you are there early, then practice marching, DO NOT SOCIALIZE, DO NOT PRACTICE MUSIC (you can practice music at home and chances are you don't have a turf field in your backyard). They are candidates, which means a) that they haven't made the band either, b) are trying to take your spot, c) are probably not good examples to follow. FOLLOW the VETS and SQUAD LEADERS! Especially the ones who have been around for a long time. DRIVE THROUGH IT. Get mad, be fierce, get that fire in your eyes, show us you want to be here! If others aren't yelling very loud, then good, blow them away and yell until you can't. Yell through stretches, through the blocks, sloopy, through the final ramp and the last OH.