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Championship honors Saturday Arrowhead Stadium at Kansas Cit Mo.The Santa Clara, Calif., Vangua has practiced at OHS, and t Madison, Wis., Scouts at OU. The t five finalists will be on nation public television Saturday nigl televised by both channel 11 and 19Watch either group of 128 youi people rehearse, and it’s a lesson discipline.• Anyone who makes a mistal does a dozen pushups at the fii available break. It’s an unspoke self-imposed rule among marchers• After rehearsing a segment times, they rehearse more, co tinuously running to reset the ms ching pattern.. Not a minute of pra tice time is wasted.• Sweat runs down their bac and arms, sweat that can ruin bra instruments. Everyone wears glov all day, even in 105 degree heat.• Instructors constantly ins on better intonation, rhythi dynamics and ensemble from t players even though it is the sar llVfe minutes of music the corps h played since January.“If you're going to sweat and wc hard, why not do it with the best asks Teena Dwyer, a flag beat with the Vanguard. She faces wr surgery for carpal tunnel syndroi when she returns home, a result constantly flinging flags in the a “At least then it will pay off.”The Vanguard schedule is grti ing. They warmed up this morni with stretching and spiritual exi cises before breakfast. They pract ed all morning, broke for lunch p: vided by their own chuck wagon a practiced until 5 this afternoi Their preliminary performance is 8:30 tonight.They went to Central Heights Hi School southeast of Princeton practice Thursday night, a sessi that lasted until 10:30 p.m. as \ most of their rehearsals this we However, four buses of other coi members from smaller corps tl compete in a different category, eluding a Quebec corps, found th way to Central Heights to watlt; Though their comments were French, they obviously were i pressed.
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Ottawa Herald
Ottawa, Kansas, US
Fri, Aug 19, 1988
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