2 Minutes of Marching Band Falls

[@waterbe3564]

Just the thought of giving your marching band -10 points and embarrassing yourself in the middle of a football field just gives me shivers

[@7w229]

same bro

[@PixelWolv]

Usually if the fall genuinely wasnt your fault, (ie: a friend of mine tripped on a drumstick that was dropped, and it led to 3 people falling, the recovery was still while marching and playing and the judge saw the stick, picked it up and mentioned that in his tape, didnt take any points off

[@uncle6431]

No way they’d -10 points for a fall in a high school band

[@7w229]

@@uncle6431 yeah, probably more like -25

[@idiomatic444]

Same

[@alyssar7477]

The fact every single one of the got back up and tried to recover as best as possible is so amazing I’m very proud of them

[@Enphoso]

So we’re gonna ignore the guy at 0:50 who literally said “this ground kinda comfy ngl”

[@alyssar7477]

@@Enphoso u right he do be like that lol

[@CobraAshtray]

@@Enphoso he probably just died

[@LunaPlayzFNAF]

I mean we kinda have to

[@chrislyles5803]

We have to get up and keep going

[@randomnameforarandomnerd8400]

i love how half of them just stay down for an extra second as they realize “i really just fell, didn’t i?”

[@jordinhurda533]

Man when the tenors fell on some of them It hurts watching because I fell with my cymbals and I litterly broke one of them and now the whole drum line calls the broken cymbal snaggle tooth

[@gardenolive318]

it’s so hard to get back up for some reason. I remember during one of my backwards marching (8 to 5 steps 😎😎) I fell and the helmet just 😩😩😩. i had to like think about it for a second. It’s a really weird thing lol

[@caitlinoreillyautoparts87]

no cause once during rehearsal i tripped on my flag and literally went sprawling, like i got airtime, and when i was finished falling i just sat there and laughed at myself for the rest of the rep it was so bad

[@sierra744]

I remember watching one of the guard girls fall when performing for another school a couple hours before state. I really laughed, then asked if she was alright after the performance.

[@_emma_2568]

The hours spent rehearsing that til it was PERFECT, then falling the one time you really need it perfected, is cry

[@ethansmith876]

@TheRenaissanceman65 um... Yes? I'm not sure if your dissing them because they messed up, or your surprised that bands rehearse... But yes, they rehearsed, many many times

[@ethansmith876]

@TheRenaissanceman65 No it really doesn't at all. That's why it wasn't obvious, I'm not sure if you march but you're joke was simply bad.

[@acoasting8200]

@TheRenaissanceman65 that wasn’t really a joke, or a good one at that, kinda sounded more like an attempt at a diss

[@michealpants]

@TheRenaissanceman65 Shame you aren't funny.

[@WitchKing-Of-Angmar]

​@@pinkgrape2572 So then why no?

[@kevinconnor6035]

It's magical because with the tight formations, when one goes down, they all go down in a top-flight domino effect.

[@Mster_J]

Especially when marching backwards and you can’t see that someone has fallen and it starts piling up

[@somegirlintheband]

That almost happened to me at my last performance. The dude in front of me stepped on my ankle on accident, nearly making me trip, so I almost knocked over the people behind me. Luckily we didn't fall but when I watched the video of our performance you could see my plume flick in the air when I was trying not to fall

[@webduelist]

@@Mster_J its worse than that, when your out there running full tilt you don't really know what is around you all that much. Its just a matter of trusting that if you do what your supposed to do, everyone else will to and it will all work out.

[@GemJamZ]

I hope laughing at this doesn't give me bad karma for tomorrow's game...

[@legendnomad8083]

How did it go?

[@katieparron308]

How’d it go

[@GBobbyFergison]

How did it go mate?

[@masonburnett9239]

How did it go?

[@GemJamZ]

I don't even remember what show this was. But I've never fallen before so I'm good for now. Though I still got this season ._.

[@jewelspivey8507]

Continuing to march over a pile of fallen band kids only to fall down yourself is the most marching band thing I have ever seen

[@Calico_Chip]

Its cute lol

[@charliecharlie4605]

My section leader told me a few years back, someone locked their knees and feinted, we got extra points for STEPPING OVER HER UNCONCIOUS BODY like she never feinted in the first place.

[@CamIsSuper]

Lmao that's nuts! I'm hoping I won't fall this season, but I'm probably more likely to pass out anyway. 👍🤷

[@aspiringfrog9322]

My section has agreed on cinematically dragging the fainters off the field so it looks intentional

[@charliecharlie4605]

@@CamIsSuper LMAO IKR More likely to feint from fright more than anything XD

[@athenac7615]

LOL im a sophomore in marching band so im basically a rookie cause of covid and its kinda funny how passing out is so normal to everyone😭

[@christianstainazfischer]

I almost exclusively stand with my legs locked and like to march especially backwards with locked legs and I’ve never fainted. Don’t know why

[@brennanherring9059]

In high school, my band spent thousands of dollars on the Bluecoats' props from Tilt. They sent them to the wrong school, and we never got the props or the money back. I'd call that a fail.

[@marebear48]

😭

[@Graveflowerrrr]

not the tilt props jesus 😭

[@luishernandezsoto]

I know you said that you never got the props but I'm curious if you guys tried to contact the other school that got your props.

[@KDG702]

Omg. I remember competing against that school who got the props at a BOS event. Had no idea this happened!

[@micahnightwolf]

Dude at the end with the camera on his trumpet regains his composure so quick lol

[@lsubandtrumpet2014]

Thats what I call, "Quicksilver"

[@urmomsaivilo4783]

Oh look a furry

[@moorela8701]

@@urmomsaivilo4783 lego_yoda_death_sound.mp3

[@xer4730]

He really went "😐😳😐"

[@xer4730]

@@moorela8701 bro you killed yoda

[@blueberry.pancakes.]

We asked out band director if he would rather drop all of us off a cliff or all our instruments (some brand new). He took a very (VERY) long pause before someone stepped up and said “ya know what, never mind” and we moved on.

[@marebear48]

ngl i might just save the instruments😬

[@maceyhill5781]

My band director would not hesitate in saying he would drop us all off a cliff

[@UwUYT]

LMAOOO

[@dire_wolf8746]

new marchers will always come, new instruments won't

[@crescent_sun482]

oh my director would DEFINITELY sacrifice us all

[@danimal41014]

My greatest fear as a sousaphone player is falling over and hurting my baby

[@extrathicc293]

Dude I fucking dread that shit happening to my sousa

[@jameymeadows4235]

Yeah I play tuba and I just don’t want to fall or drop it down the bleachers.

[@Rubix9595RG]

lol true, like ur first thought after falling is “SHIT is my instrument alive!?”

[@Romero1st]

Yeah, sousaphone is cool

[@zeezeezeeke]

I wouldn't care if I have a broken bone or if I'm bleeding out or I'm on the verge of death, I'd just make sure my trumpet was ok.

[@parrotpepper502]

The band director at my school always says that if you fall roll away as fast as possible because nobody will hesitate in walking straight over you

[@marcopolo2418]

2:08 He rebound quick tho.

[@romeorfamily4381]

no fr he really did

[@danielvaldezpercussion]

That was truly amazing

[@TheMindaeva]

Dude did a break dance

[@WitchKing-Of-Angmar]

Or what else, lay on the ground and be a inconvenience to the band that knows you can just stand up. I mean at that point, you have to get up to get back into your line.

[@ANXI8TY]

0:10 Damn, had to say goodbye to the entire trombone section

[@kavenxiong5521]

look more closely and you'll see there was a single trombone player who survived the massacre

[@stevenwallace773]

Slides were coming off, getting bent... you know some horns were fucked up in that pile 😬

[@chunkystew6958]

Whole trombone section wiped out

[@sc-qz9pt]

As a trombone this hurts my heart. Especially cause ik that each trombone can range from abt 2,000-5,000 dollars

[@soakedcookies]

⁠@@chunkystew6958 there’s one trombone player that is slowly backing away from what could’ve been them

[@jameswillingham8420]

god i pray this never happens to me

[@TheChiptuner]

You’re lucky if it doesn’t. In my 2 years in band I never fell but I got close a couple times, I’ve had a few people fall next to me and could’ve tripped on them if I wasn’t spatially aware lol

[@Rubix9595RG]

Same, I’m literally joining marching band next year so if this ever happens to me...imma go home and rock back and forth thinking of how much of a failure I am

[@lsubandtrumpet2014]

Same, but I'm an alumnus.

[@lsubandtrumpet2014]

@@Rubix9595RG nah you're not a failure.

[@nickac286]

But are the instruments okay?

[@jintshire4560]

Yeah hope the instrument is okay! oh and I guess the musicians too 😂

[@spookae]

But are the bots ok?

[@soundbeverage3964]

That second one made me cringe. All those trombone slides are bent. There's no recovering them

[@cyanboom807]

@@soundbeverage3964 Same, as a trombone player, that clip was my least favorite, all those slides, destroyed

[@jessicaroysdon4962]

As some one that has experienced a fall during marching band during an ice on the field moment, including falling on top of the instrument. I folded that damn thing in half. they had to scrap it. Eh things happen. (trumpet)

[@whereislamp3912]

this anxiety is heightened so much for me because I march with a bass drum with 4 other bass drums... we cannot see in front of us without putting our drums out of a straight line which isn't allowed so we basically just have to pray and play

[@AlexIsVeryBored]

Same, I play Bass 4 and my friend who is Bass 3 walked into me and I fell over today during our homecoming performance.

[@whereislamp3912]

@@AlexIsVeryBored feelsbad, in 3 years there's probably gonna be a clip of it on the internet with half a million views

[@elainedoyle6086]

My brother and many of my friends marched bass throughout the years. They have to be the most together, most practiced section out of the whole band!

[@gordonf5553]

Moth

[@kylernorman1213]

i felt that

[@phrogs_r_cool7884]

Let me tell you a story, the majorettes march in front of us and they threw baton the air and it hit the flute and the flute over and everybody fell except for like maybe a saxophone and the tube's

[@hithere2602]

Godzilla had a stroke trying to read this and fucking died

[@emma-xp6qq]

i’m a majorette for my highschool.. that’s literally a fear of mine to cause something like that LMAO

[@Lex327]

@@hithere2602 I think what they’re saying is: “Let me tell you a story. The majorettes marched in front of us and they threw their baton in the air and it hit a flute and it fell, and then everybody fell as well, except for maybe like a sax player and the tuba players.”

[@APersonOnYouTubeX]

@@hithere2602 well ur not Godzilla also it’s overused man, be craetive

[@bxtchsoup]

tubes

[@Aruesx]

Me: sees Trombones Me: that's gonna be me

[@iiorchxdii]

I know it’s like I hope that doesn’t happen to me when I’m in marching band

[@ebanimations6315]

I wish that was me. I’m just starting marching band and we can’t play trombones because it’s. “ UNSAFE. “ so I have to play a marching baritone which sucks because one, I don’t know how to play it, and two, I can barely hold that piece of shit up for more than 2 minutes.

[@Aruesx]

@@ebanimations6315 That's very interesting. If you can't hold it up for long periods of time then it's probably unsafe to bring the trombone. Your school is probably just being careful because a lot of instrument damages come from marching or pep band. When you're up in the stands you can lose track of everything and next thing you know you drop your trombone or collide with someone else.

[@ebanimations6315]

@@Aruesx I understand. But it’s not my trombone I can’t hold up. I used to be one of my top trombone players at my school. It’s my marching baritone that I can’t hold up. I don’t have that upper body strength yet.

[@watermelon86]

@@ebanimations6315 I switched to the Marching Baritone from trombone this year too, and it's hard but it really does get a lot better and easier to hold it up the longer you practice

[@SilverTheFlame]

Falling with a drum on is one of the scariest feelings ever... I speak from experience.

[@AlexIsVeryBored]

Same 😭

[@floweralameida19]

I face planted with one of the biggest bass drums on at the very end of a parade😭

[@redrick8900]

Try playing sports.

[@alainaking7530]

As a baritone player this might be my greatest fear, those mfs cause serious damage if they hit you

[@abdulelkhatib2674]

Or when the trombones whack you in the back of the head. Or when the sousaphone player in front of you falls.

[@alainaking7530]

@@abdulelkhatib2674 yeah with that I'm really lucky my band doesn't march trombone lol I'd probably get at least 5 charges for attempted murder

[@lolamalmer]

nice pfp

[@Maw0]

I'm a mellophone player, and I am near a Tuba for most of the show, so if he falls on me, I just might go unconscious lol.

[@alainaking7530]

@@Maw0 I mean I've always wanted to test if you could actually get someone stuck head first in a sousaphone

[@ScallywagBeowulf]

I’ll never forget the time my senior year when I was at practice and marching backwards. You’d think as a senior, I’d be fine. I was. For a moment. I ended up tripping over my own feet and falling on to my sousaphone bell, bending one side completely in half folded inward. We didn’t stop for a solid two minutes before my band director noticed I had fallen and had taken my sousa off the field with him doing the normal announcements at the end of rehearsal like nothing happened. According to my parents, my band director ALSO tried to charge my family the full amount for a brand new sousaphone to replace that one, in which my parents flat out refused and I still do not know if they’ve even replaced it, being that was back in 2018. Honestly? I don’t care, because now I’m in a college marching band.

[@qime]

Ooh that hurts

[@itsbriarwallace]

This is one of my biggest fears. Sometimes it's hard to keep your feet planted to the ground. If my Sousa goes down with me, I'm not getting back up. And, it's definitely not going to look good when I eventually do get back up.

[@Sylvia-Storm]

Hopefully they’ve now given you a piccolo. Haha.

[@dawngachagirl1632]

While seeing people in marching band fall makes me feel pain at the same time their recovery is just amazing, props to everyone in these videos!

[@yusukeurameshi9837]

I feel so bad for them, I’m in band and I would cry if this happens to me during a performance

[@Maw0]

Same. The judges also record their comments in every competition, so each time you listen to it, you feel like they are gonna talk about you.

[@ghostie_boi]

I would start SOBBINGGG, I cry from just accidently getting out of time 😭

[@cameronwilliams6311]

0:20 I’m impressed with that drumline. Both shares sound as one which is always good Edit: time stamp wasn’t working

[@Spyder-xb9ie]

I didn't notice that before, but yeah, they sound more together than anything I've ever heard

[@Jaxnay219]

Yea you’re right!! There were only two of them tho so it was probably a lot easier to practice and get it right/synchronized with just the two of them.

[@miamiaaimaim380]

This is why it’s important to have good form, especially when marching backward

[@aadrienwatkins8057]

My most embarrassing band moment. Big competition at NSU that's Natchitoches Louisiana. During rehearsals as we make our way to the last position which is everyone lined up on the sideline we always turned right to march single file . Well myself and a fellow tuba player didn't get the instruction that we were turning left this time and we were on the the end so we ended up marching about 6 or 7 yards in the opposite direction of the rest of the band. Packed house but I think my embarrassment drowned out the laughter of the crowd.

[@jewelhavins8735]

Brooooo Louisiana homie! But uh, this one time at show case, my freshman year, we were marching our third movement and this senior trumpet accidentally slipped, rolled, and got right back up and marching- all in time, and in the right spot. It was amazing

[@aadrienwatkins8057]

@@jewelhavins8735 I definitely had my fondest memories in band.

[@jasonwillows5239]

0:48 I love how the dude just continues to lay there, he just gives up

[@Maw0]

Relatable.

[@tbyrd2926]

Totally had this happen when I was in high school… tuba player went straight down, face planted, then had the other 11 tuba players march right on top of him, his back was bruised from the ppl stepping on him 😂 😂 Guess you could say our director taught us well? The show must go on! Made for an INCREDIBLE video though & he was a really great sport about it lol

[@Maw0]

You have 11 Tuba players? We only have 1.

[@tbyrd2926]

@@Maw0 we had 12 tubas, huge high school!

[@Maw0]

@@tbyrd2926 No kidding. I only got 1, we used to have 5 though.

[@kelseyreagh]

As a tuba player , that sounds like something that would happen to me

[@Maw0]

@@kelseyreagh Sounds like the tuba player at my school.

[@gonzaloquispe8403]

I love it when there's just a big pile up in one corner that's so funny to me 😂😂

[@ZachTNT]

This makes me glad I’m in pit to be honest 😂😂

[@SimmiXAmora]

Same😭

[@Taylor_1227_]

Yeah definitely 😭😭

[@caellumwoodward]

Same Here.

[@itsmax6245]

My friend in pit broke her foot trying to get off the field one time, maybe it's just her luck tho

[@SimmiXAmora]

@@itsmax6245 I could honestly see this happening to me. I swear my legs almost give out pushing the synth off the field.

[@nicolelowery2909]

The best part is the show kept going and they recovered as best they could and just kept going. But I hope laughing at this doesn't give us karma for tonight or tomorrow's performance 😂

[@TheSoftballstar1261]

I'd have to admit, most of these bands are REALLY good, musically!!

[@LeakyJAZZ]

My sophomore year, I was marching second bass, and we were marching backwards, and I hear something behind me. Of COURSE the colorguard put the props in the wrong spot. Now the other 3 basses behind me were able to stumble around it, I was the only one who marches with proper technique, especially backwards, so you know the moment my ankle hit that foot on the prop, I went straight down. My bass drum came unhooked, and smacked me in the face. I got up very quickly and carried my bass as I caught up, hooking it back on as we marched

[@jazlynsolano3137]

Congrats! but you're supposed to march on the ball of your foot with your heel in the air, not too high, though. Our fouth bass "died" last year crab marching on his heel.

[@LeakyJAZZ]

@@jazlynsolano3137 yeah. I was backwards marching, not crabing, but either way, my heals were off the ground, but that didn’t keep them from hitting the foot of the prop. I was just saying that because i didn’t bend my knees, I wasn’t going to unknowingly step over the prop.

[@AlexIsVeryBored]

@@LeakyJAZZ I march bass 4 even though im super weak. Today at our homecoming preformence I fell over because my friend who plays bass 3 was going way too fast backwards. Took me like 10 seconds but I got back in the line, since its kinda hard to get up with a big ass drum.

[@m-419]

I feel like it'd be justified for the other basses to yell "watch out" or something. Plus the music would prob hide it.

[@DreamyDreamer2314]

That is literally my worst fear when marching. Aside from the overwhelming fear you might get hit in the back by another bass.

[@haleyjusthaley.3197]

1:01 NEVER run in uniform lmao

[@jimmyj956]

Why?

[@haleyjusthaley.3197]

@@jimmyj956 that’s what we were told, increases the chances of falling

[@cocobeans1234]

One of my sectionmates is gonna try to do a flip in the middle of the game, director said he could do it if he can do it in uniform

[@haleyjusthaley.3197]

@@cocobeans1234 I mean fair lol

[@cocobeans1234]

@@haleyjusthaley.3197 we also jazz ran in our previous show for rocket man

[@WassamelonSeed]

This is like one of the little fears that float in the back of my head every time i am performing on the field 😂

[@Maw0]

Same. I also feel like I am about to fall when I backwards march.

[@sheilawarner9550]

Its easy to fall especially if the grass is wet

[@Maw0]

@@sheilawarner9550 We actually use astroturf, which is slippier.

[@itsbriarwallace]

It's funny how my immediate reaction to these is, "are the instruments okay?". Those things are so expensive. Falls like that are great ways to bend, snap, and completely destroy your instrument. Especially those trombones who made a dog pile among themselves.

[@nathanfryar3773]

I’ve been marching for 4 years and have never fallen. I expect that to change because I laughed at this video. 😂

[@nagdia]

i’ve been in it for 2 months and have fallen twice 😀

[@WitchKing-Of-Angmar]

I've been Marching for 5 years and I've fallen twice. We have some awful transition moves. Live spinning around to face back and then taking a sharp left, then coming back, and spinning the other way. Dizzy as hell, I caught my foot under a grass bridge and fell forward

[@TheSoftballstar1261]

That happened to me Freshman year of HS back in 2009 at a rehearsal! I ran into one of the staff members! I'm a flute player btw.

[@Maw0]

That's really interesting. Is Flute hard?

[@TheSoftballstar1261]

@@Maw0 He got in my way accidentally, but it can be hard.

[@Maw0]

@@TheSoftballstar1261 Oh ok!

[@siaperformanceedits5885]

This is like studying for that one test, but then you fail

[@captaindeadeye788]

Going into my 4th and final season of high school marching band and this is bringing back memories of the times we've had slipups. Like when an upper classman walked into me and I fell to the ground and them got back up in seconds.

[@Maw0]

Going into my Junior year with this, and it hits a lot of spots as well.

[@procrastination2204]

Imagine the judges tapes if something like 0:05 happened in a competition and the whole section just collapsed into a pile on the field 😂

[@REIN-carnation]

Seeing people trip over other people in videos like this cos they aren’t looking behind them makes me so happy to be in a show-style, high step, band, that turns in the direction they’re marching. I’ve only ever accidentally fallen down once, which was recently, when I spun too hard and fell down. I, thankfully, was not holding my trumpet.

[@ametoyukiyi7512]

It hurts to see backwards marching fails, you can accidentally take out a whole section of the band just with a single mistake

[@Maw0]

Right. That almost happened to us before, but they train us not to lose our footing.

[@ametoyukiyi7512]

@@Maw0 I can't backwards march to save my life rip Pretty neat that your band is more disciplined

[@Maw0]

@@ametoyukiyi7512 You kinda have to unless you are pit or percussion.

[@ametoyukiyi7512]

@@Maw0 Aha my high school doesn't do field shows unfortunately, our band director focuses more on parades The most we do is march forward lmao

[@Maw0]

@@ametoyukiyi7512 Ah! Yours is the exact opposite of mine.

[@Imnotnotjarrett]

I love that they just keep running into the pile because there backwards marching and can only hear the music

[@MexicanCrusader]

No you can still kinda hear people around you, maybe that's not the case with bigger band idk my bands only got like 20 something people

[@literallymythirdaccount7950]

It's the background music while they struggle to recover for me 💀 I love how quickly they recover tho

[@oliverhale7508]

Whoever designed the frictionless soles on the Drillmasters has a sick sense of humor

[@bubbsies]

I fell with my sousaphone at a contest one time, it was the most traumatic experience in my life.

[@greencheek123]

this is one of my number one fears in marching, band right next to forgetting where my dots are and doing the wrong choreo

[@aa1bb2cc3dd4]

0:35 - Damn that girl gets right back up and gets into position and doesnt miss another beat.

[@paigechrist2478]

Really impressed with the one at 0:28 though! They got right back in step that's amazing

[@zedzen3690]

its really unfortunate for him cause it looks like he tripped over a cone on the field

[@paigechrist2478]

@@zedzen3690 true.. things like that happen and it's soooooo stupud but the way they handled it was fantasic

[@horrorstorygenix]

This video is the definition of “The show must go on”

[@jintshire4560]

Damn, that was a crazy fall hope everyone okay! Oh and the musicians too I guess

[@belynw4457]

I just hope those trombones are okay

[@bloppalicious]

*not me casually getting "scared" because im in a marching band*

[@theongardiner6208]

love how the drummer at 0:54 just lays there in defeat

[@user_28373]

The fact that I’m seeing this before my game on Saturday makes me nervous

[@liamhavely3914]

No because literally I’m laughing when they fall but my heart is sinking at the same time because of the instrument😀✋🏻 (I’m sure laughing is going to give bad karma next time we’re marching 💀✋🏻)

[@themultigoat6710]

As a percussionist falling over is never about you It’s always about your poor baby drum

[@DreamyDreamer2314]

That's what I'm saying!! If you fall or run into something you better be checking your drum immediately!! Finally I've found someone who agrees with me.

[@DeathWishesXOXO]

My freshman year someone fell and it caused a domino effect on two others and they stopped right in time before another fell

[@radioactivetiger2278]

I've tripped marching across a cross walk. Tripping with a bass drum or quads is the most painful thing you could ever do

[@trubrianha]

I really had to watch this the day before my first game as drum Major

[@Maw0]

Good luck!

[@Jurgensen1]

Those Sousa fails hit home, as a Sousa player myself

[@ramennoodles5348]

SOooo Im in band and im looking at this like Me: Dang, I gonna look good playing a trumpet

[@BrainDent]

this hurts my soal, especially since i almost had a fail in my last halftime show. we were playing believer and there is a part where we lunge our left legs out and then lean back together. i was focused on playing loudly because one of our 1st part members was gone because of covid so i ended up fumbling and almost fell sideways. otherwise very good show

[@Ropinanridin]

That one dood with his drums who just gave up was a mood 🤣

[@katiepetersen8185]

I did this the other day at practice. I am on the color quard and I have a really fast set backwards. I biffed it so hard. My band director left her mic on and when I say she almost blew out eardrums out with how loudly she laughed, I'm not kidding it scared our drum majors

[@jamestargin2957]

I've never fallen down during an actual performance, but I have fallen down at least once in practice every season (only two seasons so far, but still). First season I got run over by a Sousa, second season I was backward marching over a small hill and directly after down a small hole (losing my balance and falling over, causing my section leader behind me to break into laughter).

[@itsbriarwallace]

I'm a horrible person. When you said you got run over by a Sousa, I laughed too hard. I am a Sousa, and I'm always told to just run anyone over who's in my path. I would never, but the thought of just plowing through someone is hilarious to me.

[@FiscalFrieze224]

Now as a drum line member, I KNOW the first one hurt

[@joeybucklin6697]

0:40 the recovery was so smooth they got right in time it probably awarded them recovery points lol

[@gustafsone]

I feel so bad for the kid at 00:28. That was not his/her fault at all! Why was that stupid cone on the sideline of the field, anyway?? Of course it was going to inevitably get knocked over at some point, which placed it inside the actual field where this poor kid marched right onto it while moving backwards, so there was no possible way to avoid it. I'm pre-emptively made at the judge(s) who might have docked the band on drill for this, and I'm legitimately pissed off at the person who thought it was a good idea to put a fucking cone on the sideline right there! Also, I may or may not have face-planted during a show back when I was in high school, so this sort of thing is a sore spot for me, lol.

[@bigidiot5338]

that was definitely a football game and not a competition, the orange cones are there for training and stuff i think it just got left out and that happened unfortunately, but since its a game theres no judges to worry about :) they wouldnt have those yard markers like that if it was a marching comp

[@gustafsone]

@@bigidiot5338 Hey, you're pretty smart for being a big idiot! Yeah, I think you're right about that not being competition, but I've seen some really weird crap happen when I was in high school marching band depending on which school we were visiting. I agree that any competition that isn't a friendly and actually counts would definitely have the field free of any tripping hazards unless self-inflicted by the band themselves (I've seen a show with 2 or 3 people tripping over a trombone that fell on the ground after the player lost his grip).

[@pianopeach]

It was actually a friendly high school competition, though the band featured is the UMaine band. We were invited as guests to inspire them, or something. :D This would have been 2009ish. I can't remember which school, exactly, but not too far from Orono, ME.

[@cloud_boba7]

My band director: “RECOVER, RECOVER 😭😭😭”

[@jonathanmeraz2077]

thank god i wasnt the only one😭

[@orisoapperson8608]

Last year at our last comp the saxophone section leader went straight up tumbling backwards during a flutter run Also a bass drum got their head stuck in it

[@zaclanderos1624]

0:53 I love how he just stay laying in the ground like: well, at least I tried

[@amyl3766]

Man I remember older band students telling us to save your instrument and roll if you tripped. “Your body will heal, but your instrument won’t!”

[@rareformb7554]

The funny part is Dmx lead me here for marching bands and now this lol

[@Pharry_]

Better title: epic marching band recoveries. I mean seriously most of these people did a great job of reacting to their screw ups.

[@kierand4583]

karma came for me i watched this and laughed and then at the next practice somebody stepped on my foot while i was marching backwards and i feel backwards

[@mariaochenas3634]

The marching band getting up and moving along like nothing happened is the dedication that football will never have.

[@targetparkinglot1254]

omg in one of my sets i have a really big backwards march and i’ve fallen 3 times so far doing it. thank god it’s only been while practicing and never a game yet

[@Anonyarts]

It's nice that they got back up and tried again

[@veib1628]

2:01 I love how she fell a 2nd time

[@benxvariety8878]

I very much needed this thanks for brightening my day! and for making me realize that this could happen to me a as a fellow marcher

[@TheCookieCook]

To those who don’t know why it’s really hard to fall in marching band is because of marching. If someone doesn’t march the entire show is ruined. When you’re on the field, it’s actually not as hard as you thought because you’ve practiced for HOURS. There are two different styles of marching and the each have pros and cons. Bent knee marching makes it harder to keep in time but easier to keep your balance. Straight leg marching is easier to keep in time but a little more difficult to do it correctly. Some high schools don’t allow kids to do straight leg because if you lock your knees your feet will fall asleep and you will fall. Marching is such a weird thing to get right guys. But if you do it for really long like most of the people in the video it shouldn’t be that hard. But nobody’s perfect.

[@timmcclymonds5155]

I couldn’t help laughing out loud at some of the pile ups but total respect as previously noted for getting right back up and marching on

[@ReniTube]

I'm nervous for my first game today especially since I don't have all the songs memorized yet and I was absent because of covid but this made me feel better :) thanks

[@highfunctioningpsychopath2453]

I love how all of these fails still are better than my band’s performance without fails

[@justusstaley6180]

I’m at band camp right now

[@earlviney5212]

Quit this crap and join dci much more rewarding

[@lilyona2900]

what is band camp im in 7th grade and wanna learn whats comming up

[@justusstaley6180]

Lilyona Wilson it basically just marching for a week and playing as a band

[@lilyona2900]

@@justusstaley6180 dang

[@lilyona2900]

@@justusstaley6180 at leas its still 2 years away for me

[@soapybagle]

Sucks and I feel bad for them, but the fact it becomes like a domino effect like something out of a cartoon is so funny

[@OtsileM]

To my fellow klutz, I'm with you in spirit.

[@gennycar]

If you march, falling is literally domino’s.

[@seansdr3743]

0:18 even though they only had two the snares were holding down man

[@RishiJalukar]

That’s some really fun music though!

[@TheMr.riddle]

It's funny when they're going backwards and they unknowingly fall on each other and it creates a massive pile up

[@earlviney5212]

This vid made my day. I'm glad I marched drum corps when I was younger and not band

[@kitariauthor5943]

The amount of second hand panic and anxiety I got from watching this-

[@missmamas23]

I’m just sitting here like “stop rolling through 🗣” Heels off the grounddd First game tmr !! - Drum major 😊

[@nagdia]

good luck mate!! don’t fall off your podium haha

[@engineergaming4201]

This is less funny when you've been in a marching band, knowing all the hard work put into this.

[@skywardsights_]

Whats the first clip?

[@AlexD-ib7kw]

I’m pretty sure it’s crown 2017

[@RuRuRupert]

2:07 the face he made is giving me a chest cramp from how hard im laughing