Stop your flag from rolling up! - How to color guard

[@bethwiggins8696]

My daughter is a freshman and I noticed her flag is often wrapped up. I agree there is no way you could explain your fix so I am glad you took the time to do this. In stead of doing Competitive Winter Guard, they are going to use that time to work on their fundamentals. A much needed practice. Thanks again.

[@SpintronixGuard]

+Beth Wiggins no problem! Glad this was helpful!

[@cryphiliac4086]

THANK YOU SOOO MUCH! I've been struggling with rolling up my flag with drop spins since day 1 and keeping my thumb on the seam helped immediately!!

[@SpintronixGuard]

💙🙏🏻💙

[@notbelle24]

This is a literal lifesaver, thank you so much. I just joined color guard and I’ve been feeling so overwhelmed and I’m expected to do 50 drop spin’s tomorrow at rehearsal and they’re hard for me to do without hitting myself let alone the flag rolling alllll the way up. I could not be more grateful for this

[@SpintronixGuard]

Good luck!!! Good skill to you too, but also good luck because I know how tricky this can feel. You’ve got this, just keep breathing!

[@notbelle24]

@@SpintronixGuardThank you so much! I just recently realized that my wrist was popped out of the socket and I remembered that my flag fell on my wrist so I wasn’t able to practice anymore today, but hopefully I’ll be able to practice tomorrow before rehearsal and I’ll definitely be using this tip, thanks for the support!

[@SpintronixGuard]

I hope you got better and were able to do your best at practice!

[@goldenthorn5188]

Keeping my thumb on the seam really helped!! Thank you!

[@SpintronixGuard]

Glad it helped!

[@sbeve6570]

this is so helpful!! i'm in my second year of guard and i've had this problem since day one, but from now on i'm gonna try this method while doing drop spins :) thank you for making this video!

[@SpintronixGuard]

You are so welcome!

[@joybennett3069]

Thank you for your fun and extremely helpful videos! I am the coach at Bozeman High School in Bozeman Montana and we love your videos! I've been working with small school guards for 20 years and I am so thankful to have you out there supporting and bringing the big world of Guard to us!

[@SpintronixGuard]

Absolutely! So glad I could help!! ❤️

[@ChrisWhite-kn7kb]

Girl...I love your videos...You are so right about rookies...We all been there that before...I will love to learn new school stuff.. I haven't twirled in about almost 20 years...

[@SpintronixGuard]

Heck yes! Get on it!! Sounds like it will be fun to pick up a flag again :-)

[@fluteplayer3592]

Thank you for this. The idea of keeping my thumb on the sean is very helpful and is keeping my flag from rolling up

[@savanahoagland9805]

As this is my second year of my high school marching band Color Guard( im a junior I started last year..our field show was Dr.Jekyyl and Mr.Hyde..with the dynamics and dances I've had this problem alot)).this is really helpful because I still have this problem..I've never had this actually explained throughly so thank you❤️❤️

[@SpintronixGuard]

You are welcome!! Let us know if you have any requests!

[@savanahoagland9805]

@@SpintronixGuard Yes thank you. I will definitely let you know!!

[@LadyVMinistries]

Thank you!! I'm training my 11yr now and struggling to correct her rolling up her silk So glad this popped up!!

[@SpintronixGuard]

You are welcome!! Hopefully these techniques help!!

[@LadyVMinistries]

@@SpintronixGuard I believe so ☺

[@sammieboo5630]

This was super helpful. This is something I always struggle with when it comes to teaching how not to roll your flags to my rookies. I am definitely going to give the seam trick a try!! Thanks so much for the awesome videos 👍🏼

[@irsiaagha6603]

This is a great vid! We spin out of the silk so that helps prevent it too

[@christinacarlin48]

thank you so much! our colorguard season has a break june-beginning of july and i started doing this over that time

[@SpintronixGuard]

You are welcome!

[@ellaashley821]

the problem is we’re told not to put our hands in the silk at all. only on the pole. any tips?

[@SpintronixGuard]

You can do the same thing! Just get your thumbs pointed along that seam from outside the silk. Then, once you’ve got it figured out how to not roll it up, simply wrap your thumbs back around the pole like normal.

[@laurenj3718]

Thank you!!! This helped so much

[@SpintronixGuard]

You are welcome!

[@mythicalstorm273]

I loved your tips! I usually tell my guard to watch how their wrist twists and if they "cue-tip" (what we call it) to purposely twist the opposite direction and it always works, but it takes time for them to understand that concept. I'm going to try to use the seam tip with my next season. Love it! Thank you.

[@SpintronixGuard]

Let me know how it goes! And I totally get what you mean about the "wrist twists" on the spins. That's where I use the wall trick with them.

[@corvo2515]

Everytimes I do a butterfly it rolls up

[@SpintronixGuard]

You are probably bending your wrists as it goes. Put your thumbs on the silk and see if you can keep them there the whole time.

[@zoemadeline6714]

Can you make a video about how to prevent getting a sail? You might not call it that but it's where the flag gets hung up

[@SpintronixGuard]

Yes!! Adding it to the list right now!

[@jalyn4929]

Thank you thank you THANK YOUUU!

[@SpintronixGuard]

You are very welcome!

[@linz.aesthetics]

hi! i know this was made several years ago, and the last time you replied to someone was several months ago, but if you see this, i would appreciate your help! i tried to do the seam trick, but i keep doing something (i’m not quite sure what it is yet) which makes the seam go to the side. when i notice, i have to rotate the pole with one of my hands to go back to the seam while spinning. it works for me for a little bit, and i definitely made progress at not rolling up the flag. however, after a few seconds, my arms get tired of doing so much and the flag roles up again. it also takes so much concentration for me to only be able to spin it for a few seconds. is this because i haven’t spent enough time doing this trick? do you know some situations that would make me accidentally rotate the pole while doing drop spins?

[@SpintronixGuard]

Hi there! We respond to comments on videos every single day, no matter how old they are :) So long as KZbin send a notification, someone will respond! It sounds like your wrists are automatically turning the pole in order to roll it up as you spin. You might be reaching too far to the front of the pole with one hand each time you transfer the flag from one hand to the other, but it’s difficult to be sure exactly what’s going on without actually seeing you do it. Try spinning up against a wall and see if your knuckles are staying flat to the wall or if there’s a change in which part of your hand is touching the wall.

[@linz.aesthetics]

@@SpintronixGuardthanks for the reply, will try that!

[@jordaensamuel7324]

Omg you helped me thanks 💛

[@SpintronixGuard]

❤️

[@frog_girl9205]

OMG THIS MAKES SO MUCH SENSE!!!!

[@SpintronixGuard]

@@frog_girl9205 I’m glad it’s helping you!!!

[@trevelynmarsh2302]

THANK YOU!!!

[@SpintronixGuard]

You are welcome!

[@juliemlynek]

Thank you so much! This was so helpful, I started winter guard this year and I have this problem. And I really want to join next years color guard!

[@TheMrDANNYBLUES]

Hola buenas noches, gracias por compartir tu conocimiento, saludos desde México.

[@SpintronixGuard]

¡De nada mi amigo! ¡Espero que estés aprendiendo rápido y divirtiéndote!

[@colterbae]

me a vet who still rolls up

[@SpintronixGuard]

Work it out!!! You can do it!!!

[@colterbae]

@@SpintronixGuard i’m gonna try your seam trick at practice tonight

[@SpintronixGuard]

Good luck! I hope it worked!