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[mjhopkins81]

#DCI2018 #Finals #VanguardCadets Performer: Mykayla (at Lucas Oil Stadium)

[th3memories]

JUL03

jeezus christ to this point we’ve only gone through the norcal shows plus a week in san jose and I’m already super dark. This experience so far has been mentally physically and spiritually exhausting but I’m really enjoying it with the 10 other people around me. I feel like we do EVERYTHING together, eat sleep shower perform laugh stress anything. we are “the one” but “in pieces”. btw they love puns. Sometimes it feels weird being the second oldest but sometimes i don’t even feel it. Instead I have too much to focus on my own playing. Sometimes I even forget about the life I once had on marimba. It’s so weird. All I can ever do is focus on my sound quality, technique and timing on the xylo and bells and dtx. My parts keep me so busy that I really do love the runs and the show we have. Although it’s so nice to actually have a second to chill out at home. Just finished eating Bon Chon with all of them and yet we see each other AGAIN on our second free day tomorrow. In all honesty I love being with people but at the same time I love my free time and individuality alone if I know we’re always going to see each other. idk but this summer I guess wasn’t one that I really expected. I’m treasuring the time we have together but idk something is a little off where I’m not at the full peak of what my performance experience would be like. Maybe I’m just so used to it or that I’m just in the back not on the instrument I thought I would be playing on. idk.... Although I’m going to enjoy this time to nap a little! 

[drumcorpswest]

Vanguard Cadets, DCI West 2014

Credits to corpsreps.com

[cjlaplaca]

People often ask me what it was like to win DCI Open Class - to become a world champion. Though I'd love to romanticize the experience as much as possible, the truth is that anyone who has ever performed their show on finals night is familiar with the same nervous euphoria that I was on August 6th, 2013. Not a single person who has ever marched drum corps needs a gemstone-validation that their limitless energy paid off that summer, because in everyone's heart is a reminder of the legacy they created. An instructor I once had would frequently say "the effort is the prize, the victory cheap and hollow were it not for the rigor of the game." I cannot think of a better phrase to describe the activity. #dci #drumcorps #scvc #vanguardcadets

[lilminimeltdown]

Tossin' a solo #vanguardcadets #dci #artofwar