The FASTEST Cadets Closers

[@jeremyquiros5483]

One of my favorite things to do for complicated drill moves (not just Cadets, but any group) is to pick a random member and follow them through the drill and see where they end up. I've spent countless hours rewatching drill and marveling at the insane amount of ground some folks cover during these sets.

[@richbrass12]

I do that too. Especially if they are tuba or bass players because they are carrying a lot

[@Corpus3414]

There is a guy in 97 BD and a lady in 14 BD that I just cant over how clean their steps were. Nevermind 98 Cadets first step off.

[@johns3106]

Check out ‘92 Crossmen for some ground being covered!

[@dwaterson21]

'91 Star's "Cross to Cross" has a tuba player HAULING ASS and its amazing

[@DominickMontalbano]

You'd love the 1985 Cadets - opening hit! (Most ground I've ever seen someone cover!) Opening scatter drill resolves to a block for the hit. A soprano player started off the field near the tunnel - and ended up near the front hash. :) kzbin.info/www/bejne/l2HblJ6bp9mMaqssi=JFy6IIlEr8aUuNOp

[@Dsol777]

I watch this only in sadness now, it's all over. Never again will we see this kind of movement on a football field.

[@rifle2563]

Jeff sacktig still writes dawg

[@chrisl83]

None of his Crown drills approach this level. Some of it almost did in 2019. Him and Gaines aren’t doing this kind of speed anymore.

[@jeoregwashington2878]

it still makes me sad

[@michaelmeyer2725]

My knees hurt just watching this. That said, at 200+ BPM the sets are clean. Amazing stuff.

[@molybdnum]

Lower body injuries as a direct result of this footage: literally dozens.

[@UofTCadet]

This comment currently has 34 likes. FHNSAB!

[@whiterice3566]

this channel is still criminally underrated, never stop bro

[@burdrchitect1680]

Please Don't. Good stuff

[@RishiJalukar]

Agreed. Also eat your cereal

[@billthorn1604]

I think the cadets are slept on bit these days, but 99 in particular is such a criminally underrated program to me. They were some amazing musician athletes.

[@KiranSundarkdog97]

I’ve heard ‘99 being described as hellish to march, but I thoroughly enjoy that year’s show!

[@sans3go342]

It's because Gino Cipriani moved to Crusaders and Jay Bocock isn't writing for them anymore. The lost that "cadets sound" for the past 20 years

[@DevinEsleck]

I can assure you, lots of 2021 cadets wanted the tempo pushed 200+

[@morgannowlen8375]

I remember watching Cadets from close backfield (99) whilst guarding drums. Twas muddy as hell & I see this Contra totally slip sideways & eat it sprawled out completely so the left side of his uni was all mud... and he got up so fast it was like an action movie gun fight when someone summersault rolls across the screen to avoid bullets & then bounces back into a run... that Contra sprinted IN-STEP back into his set... the whole thing lasted like 6 seconds tops & if you were grabbing popcorn you would have never known it happened. Where I come from, that's called HLD Baby!

[@NerdismOfficial]

What Hopkins does to a mf

[@morgannowlen8375]

@@NerdismOfficial u mean negative reinforcement & breaking a person down? good god i've heard stories

[@Taz_Woofer]

One of my favorite all time corps. Sad to see them go 💔

[@tennislibra]

2001 Cadets Guard. I’m the one squeezing through the entire horn section. “Insanity!!!” was my immediate thought at the time we started rehearsing this.

[@DWBarman]

1986 Garfield … incredible amount of cleaning last two weeks of the season! I still how no clue how I did this! Happy we made the cut 😀

[@lukascalvert6484]

In my top 5 shows of all time..amazing 😎

[@molybdnum]

Always interesting where the tempo ends up when the adrenaline kicks in - and if the battery and hornline can agree on it or keep up. I'm pretty sure 07 and 08 were both marked 208 or faster and sometimes went off the rails to 212-216.

[@stephennguyen5428]

Watching their feet at 6:20 is hypnotic... It's so clean

[@DanielRuiz-ho7et]

Yep... there's to just being "in step", there's being "in phase" - you can be in step but not in phase, and it'll look off. This is just completely perfectly locked - magical to watch.

[@Corpus3414]

Everyone knows that was the Championship performance.

[@popeyesailor9571]

Power of Ten is my favorite Cadets show. Love that piece of music. What a hornline!

[@jesuspectre9883]

Simply one of the worst designed shows of all time. Taking Shostakovich's symphony that is about Stalin's holocaust of millions of Russian citizens, and turning it into a Sesame Street celebration of the number ten, including the tenth element on the periodic table, neon. Gasp inducingly stupid. A bold, brazen breathtaking revision of history. Shocking cheerleader-grade misinterpretation. It would be like putting Gorecki Symphony No. 3 "Sorrowful Songs" about the Jewish Holocaust and putting it as a soundtrack to glory hole pornography. Breathtakingly inappropriate and unthinkable. One of the dumbest, but cleanest, well-played shows of all time. Vacuous, show-us-your-tits-in-Tijuana ignorant design.

[@drumcorpshunter535]

I love watching the Cadets run their asses off! Fantastic video as always!

[@brown55061]

97 Cadets entire drill was incredibly written and visual alone carried that show. In the PBS broadcast they had a clip of the backfield Z-pull and they are MOVING, like 3-4 to 8. The only thing I thought was faster is the closer in 08. That was purely insane. The crowd never get bought into that show but all jumped up at the end in mad respect of the drill. I saw shades of this in the 21 show, hopefully they get back to their roots!

[@DanielRuiz-ho7et]

97 Cadets was awesome start to finish... not sure if you remember the shirt they sold that year that had the musical score for the intro segment, and it was just insanity reading the shirt. :)

[@stubbyt34]

I knew 2001 had to be near the end of this one 😂 never not hyping that closer, watching bass 5 haul ass across the field in a backwards right oblique. Not to mention the amazing drill going on from the hornline just wow.

[@LJ-wo1wf]

CBC Superfan has early season footage of 2001, and that block-to-parallelogram looked impossible for about two months.

[@drewking7247]

Currently my favorite channel on KZbin right now, please keep making content

[@keyowilson5695]

I marched in 2007 and 2009. 2007 was my rookie year in drum corps, and in the tuba section, 2 were returning vets from 05 and 06. And I still cannot believe we made it through all of that. I knew 2007 was going to be at or near the top of the list. We were pushing for the tempo to be 215 the last two minutes.

[@j3nny__xP]

jeez, thats insane! i marched my first year of drum corp this summer and i can only imagine what 200 + mustve been like in that heat lol

[@ColaAnimates]

@@j3nny__xPif I may ask, which corp did you march, and are you marching this year?

[@keyowilson5695]

​@@ColaAnimatesI marched Cadets 2007 and aged out in 2009. This past summer I marched Reading Buccaneers.

[@cliffp391]

Collectively, did not like Cadets 2008, but when they just played and marched, I was in heaven.

[@Wahl95]

4:17 is such a FREAKING cool moment…

[@stubbyt34]

You keep pumping out the content that DCI fans need. Thank you 🙏🏼

[@DevinEsleck]

This is really awesome, thanks for putting it together

[@HavenMarches]

The Power of 10 deserved so much more than it got. It is literally my favorite Cadets show. There I said it. Fight me

[@jesuspectre9883]

LA Philharmonic's Gustav Dudamel said Shostakovich's 10th could only be played in reference to Stalin's murderous butchery in Russia. So, just no, dude.

[@betaomega04]

Written tempo for 2006 closer was 208. Fastest marching I know of was 2015 where they had an extended segment in the middle of the show at 230.

[@dantoes]

Love the thumbnail. Honored to be a part of many of the years on this list. Great memories!!!

[@benbillowitch9163]

when run

[@veot.2869]

Wow... and Yep. That's the Cadets I remember!!!! Didn't come to play, but did!!!!! 🌟🎺🌟

[@chasebartholomew2111]

The closer in 2018 was at 212bpm. Awesome video.

[@austinthorup1157]

Cadets: I am speed

[@queenofchristmas3845]

I marched in two of those shows. thank you for posting. 🥰

[@ianzalamea1457]

This is exactly the content I needed

[@Dropboy80]

97 cadets is my all time favorite show for its difficulty. 96 cadets was such a fun and engaging show. They didn't win either year, but I still hold those two shows in the highest regard.

[@natec.9081]

Can’t even imagine what goes through your head marching this fast, probably just, “gotta hit my dot or I’m gonna catch a tuba with my head”

[@xlea4497]

I can’t say for 200+ but when I’m running around, not much is going on up there lol.

[@morgannowlen8375]

yah, the only thing you can count on is pushing with every micron of your body

[@didierlabossiere4726]

Damn, you have to be a track athlete to march for The Cadets!!!! Still the most innovative corps I've ever seen 😊😊😊😊

[@Menapho]

I don’t know how they do it 😮 I’m sorry no corps consistently moves at breakneck speed and plays as if they are in concert. One of the Greatest to ever hit the field 👏🥂❤️🎼

[@austinthorup1157]

My theory is that they speed up the closers to keep from going over max time

[@danedufour1118]

actually, the composition of shows and time parameters go through many phases before making it to the first performance...after that most shows take on a life of their own during the course of summer and speed limits are broken through organic means.....you would be shocked at how fast some of these (and other) shows were performed Much Faster at full run-through rehearsals where corps really hit their peak performances. Slowing down or speeding up a show is done other ways. All of it is awesome to revisit!

[@bean217]

^^^ This, and Tom Aungst loves to push tempos

[@cicook7]

Well done with the BPM for us all to see. I still think a couple years have been left out of the challenge... let me know if you need help in what I am talking about ❤

[@lawrencecicatelli5552]

Brilliance.

[@as_sv9788]

Another fantastic vid!!

[@nathanwalker2602]

In 2019 we we at like 208 for a bit of the closer. Not a whole substantial part of that, but we were above 200 for a good portion.

[@DevinEsleck]

I don’t care how many comments I leave; Cadets 2008 is one of the most fast paced and difficult closers of all time

[@DV-mq5fv]

Amazing!!!

[@imag1n342]

2:50 PLEASE tell me someone else hears this too, that old DVD theme from something long in my childhood that I barely remember.

[@richbrass12]

Whenever I look at Cadets closer drill what I always look for is the tuba that is usually at the end of the drill. They are really running

[@thefabianflores]

you should make a video where corps make their own logo in the drill!

[@Sforzando_DCI]

Ooooo I like that!

[@jadenbyars6028]

If you do please add the kaleidoscope drill from crossmen 2016

[@jadenbyars6028]

We make the cross like 3 times and then spin it around

[@xlea4497]

It’s just all going to be crown sets lol.

[@pengua5069]

im curious to see a list of fastest tempos ever marched period. i feel like it would be mostly cadets and some crown. BD, boston, and scv would have their moments probably as well

[@Cavie1974]

Yes, that would make for an interesting list. I think Cavaliers have had a few pretty quick ones too.

[@pengua5069]

@@Cavie1974 yeah them too!

[@darrinthorpe9292]

See? You don’t need any props, or dancing drumlines, or amplification to be incredible! And they used BUGLES! The drill and the color guard used to tell a story. Now, it’s gone. So sad.

[@BrianLanders]

wow, Prosperie got one heck of a workout in 2008 trying not to get run over!

[@lmj2k]

I always go back and watch this closer just to see all the shit-dodging he has to do.

[@djninjamusic]

Lol, I take almost sadistic pleasure watching these videos of the field judges running for their lives while trying not to get run over by a horn, guard member, or drummer 😄

[@spencer3048]

never forget in 2015 when the cadets marched 226 in the watlz section because 2+2+6=10 🙄 source: 2015 was my rookie year

[@KevinD21]

Wow such a cool video! The Cadets really know how to fly.

[@andrewbaker7717]

So fast that we had to include decimals

[@DevinEsleck]

Wish there was super like on KZbin

[@as_sv9788]

I would love to see a list of the fastest overall! Crown 19 I think is at 204 I'm sure there are some other great ones over 200!

[@samsignorelli]

Renegades in DCA was close to 220 at one point in a show, IIRC...don't remember what year it was.

[@scvanguard1]

RIP Cadets. FHNSAB

[@maxwellr2533]

1 2 3 4 I LOVE DRUM CORPS

[@morgannowlen8375]

Hooooooraaaaah!

[@YHNG-e8n]

I'm Cav fans, but I also miss Cadets, their drill are unique and energetic, thats what a drill should be

[@Mrsredhead01]

Respect to the fastest drill/running/getting out the way of getting bashed of the field percussion judge 2008 cadets show 👌5.04

[@jbu999]

Had to check my playback speed to make sure it was on normal

[@obinnanwakwue5735]

RIP

[@asdf072xxp]

Cadets do death-defying drill better than anyone. It always makes me tense up when that snare in 1992 missed the direction change. That could have easily been a pileup.

[@DevinEsleck]

I’m pretty sure sforzando wanted to march cadets

[@Sforzando_DCI]

In high school I did But then I marched somewhere else and I am very happy with my decision

[@xlea4497]

@@Sforzando_DCI where did you march, and what?

[@DevinEsleck]

Crazy that in 1986 cadets were running around the field while all the other corps were trying to catch up

[@samsignorelli]

When we saw the speed drill in the 84 show, we were floored, even though they were taking very small steps relative to later years.

[@danagiles5100]

Welcome to the Track meet that is the Cadets closer...enjoy...

[@morgannowlen8375]

Geez; humbling.

[@jeffgray7922]

I've seen all of these shows, of course, but I never knew that 2007 and 2001 were faster than 2008. 2008 just SEEMS faster I guess because of the awesome drill. 1999 I can see being faster in the end.

[@Mfisher36]

How tf does 2007 now straight up win?

[@TheRailwayDrone]

Sad you didn't include Cadets 2000 in this.

[@Sforzando_DCI]

Not my fault. They weren’t fast enough

[@TheRailwayDrone]

@@Sforzando_DCI I guess. My legs hurt marching it though.

[@immahockeyfan]

I clock 200 at the very end of '05 Cadets! What do you think? youtu.be/gyNFR

[@erroneous3493]

hoping the cadets crank it above 200 tis year.

[@jonb7700]

I feel like most of 1993's entire show was above 200bpm

[@danagiles5100]

I am surprised 2012 didn't make the cut.

[@subzerace4252]

Oh hell no

[@samsignorelli]

Here's one you missed kzbin.info/www/bejne/iqSTf6Ssg7R6h5I 1984....the 4:53 mark....I think it's faster that anything in the posted vid.

[@Sforzando_DCI]

The video is, Fastest Cadets “Closers” 👍🏻

[@samsignorelli]

@@Sforzando_DCI Oops....you're right. I was tired.

[@khaderach19]

I'll keep saying it. Cadets 07 should've won.

[@Corpus3414]

Everyone who knows, knows that is a fact.

[@nickhoath278]

Cadets are fast - but who's the fastest? Cavaliers?

[@HarBoch]

When ur in the pit section…

[@blakman7]

Cadets 2000 ending was at 208bpm

[@shadowbanned2596]

Would rather listen to a Scouts sub 6 show than anything today. Bring back the g bugles and some risky solos. No one remembers a perfectly in tune full corps whole note or a perfectly played unison passage. Or even the fastest marching ever, just not as fun as screaming solos and all 64 horns playing at 100%.

[@sharonridings7418]

FHNSAB

[@stevebayt145]

Just gives a headache trying to follow with no enjoyment.... Rather watch Spirit Let It Be Me 1979 or Danny Boy or something nice and beautiful pictures to beautiful sounds, Not just chaos. Speed is just annoying. slow down and make pictures for a while and play recognizable music. fast is yuk

[@stevebayt145]

how about ice castles madison 1980....or elsa phantom 79 or my heart belongs to me blue 1979 or anything but this modern headache inducing mumbo jumbo with bizarre music that is totally unrecognizable. where did garfield applachian spring ending go..

[@burdrchitect1680]

It's 2023. They don't even March like this anymore. I was introduced as a teen during the 2000s and it had got me hooked and miss drill that this. I've watched the 70s 80s 90s and love and respect the era. I actually have a some favorite show. But if those style of shows were put on the field kids would not even be interested at all. They'd be bored real quick.

[@MarkSpinney]

Why comment “fast is yuk” on this video? Many people seemed to enjoy it for several decades. And going fast is kinda what Cadets were known for because they were successful at it.

[@rock27272727]

Not featured: any nuanced design whatsoever

[@MarkSpinney]

What were you expecting from a video entitled Cadets fastest closers?

[@highstimulation2497]

I ALSO love that 93 and 98 are there!

[@queerbanist]

They HAULIN

[@highstimulation2497]

Love that 97 is there. hi fellas:)

[@DanielRuiz-ho7et]

If you marched 97, loved watching you guys at Finals. My then-bando notes had you guys as winning :) That closer was just nuts - tempo, intervals, musical demand, and then end in a damn Z pull... love it!