May 24th- Rocky:The full corps showed up yesterday afternoon- now drum corps mode is in full swing! The best part of having the full corps here is having the food team here making us food. It’s great just going up and getting handed a plate of cooked food rather than making and eating the same PB&J you’ve had for the past week.Fortunately, our schedule hasn’t changed that much. We now have 15 minutes of stretch in the morning with the full corps, which is nice in that we get a good stretch before the day, but annoying in the fact that we actually have to be somewhere right on time. Morning block is the same, PT/ Point Drill then subs. I feel like we did point drill all day today.For those of you who don’t know what point drill is, I’ll do my best to explain. We play ‘chop’ building exercises like 8/25- 8/200 with rolls, triple strokes, etc. playing exercises aimed at giving us chops to play stronger and easier. On top of that we have to march in whatever direction the staff says, and change directions whenever they choose. The hardest part is if you mess up. When you mess up (miss a direction change, don’t count, fall out of playing, etc.) you have to run out of the moving block, do a pushup and then get back in. The problem is that if you weren’t counting when you were out and mess up again you have to do another push up. Oh, and did I mention that every 15/ 20 minutes they make us put our drums down and run to a random tree 100 yards away, or do even more pushups? This goes on for anywhere from 30 minutes to an hour. I would say it’s the most physically and mentally taxing thing that happens in drum corps, but worth it. At the end you always feel extremely accomplished.We’ve pretty much learned drill for the entire show, excluding the closer, now- all 160 charts of it. Things are starting to get harder as we start putting more music with it. But we are beginning to clean what we have so far, and it’s making us better. Still pushing forwards!