Tuba Players Athletes?

MaryAnn · Post by **MaryAnn** » Mon Mar 07, 2005 2:32 pm

bloke wrote:For a tennis player to hit a baseball l-o-n-g with a bat, all he needs to do is to use no wrist control whatsoever.)

heh. I know what you mean!! A pitched fast ball isn't as fast as a good serve, and you don't have to "control" it to keep it inside the baseline. Just whap it! And you know where it's going to be, more or less, when it arrives in the hitting zone.

I was a USTA certified official in 1995 or so.

When I was in high school...that was before Title 9, and there simply were no sports for women. Nothing. In grade school I was on the track team and the volleyball team, but the opportunities disappeared when I went to high school. Later, in college, I was varsity softball.

MA, who probably would not have been a linebacker anyway

Mark E. Chachich · Post by **Mark E. Chachich** » Mon Mar 07, 2005 2:39 pm

soccer (the real football!) - goalie
basketball
cross country runner
volleyball
bicycling

while in graduate school:
floor hockey - goalie (intramural league, University of South Carolina,
team name: Worst Nightmare)

Mark

windshieldbug · Post by **windshieldbug** » Mon Mar 07, 2005 3:02 pm

Seems way too long ago
Distance Runner

CrossCountry
Track (distance, quarter)
Even did a marathon (once, that was enough)

Everything aerobic helps.

chevy68chv · Post by **chevy68chv** » Mon Mar 07, 2005 3:26 pm

I played football, basketball, and ran track in high school. Its kind of weird, but a lot of people didn't even know I was a band geek...

Biggs · Post by **Biggs** » Mon Mar 07, 2005 4:33 pm

Co-Captain of my school's Ultimate Frisbee team. Most people don't count it as a real sport, but then again most people haven't experienced competitive ultimate...

check out http://www.buda.org for more info

leehipp · Post by **leehipp** » Mon Mar 07, 2005 4:55 pm

This is kind of going in the other direction but it is still interesting to know.

Malik Rose (formerly of the San Antonio Spurs and just traded to NY) played the tuba through high school. He has made noise in the past about getting out for our excellent "Tuba Holiday" that Ray Grimm organizes every year but has always ended up with NBA conflicts.

Some of us in the Symphony got together with him for a commercial once and got him to play a few licks with us (off camera!).

Whenever I get the chance at our Youth Concerts I mention the fact that Malik studied music in school since he had become such a popular personality in San Antonio. The kids always "ooo and ahhh" over that.

He also plays some trombone...

Dean E · Post by **Dean E** » Mon Mar 07, 2005 5:36 pm

Swimming and weights beginning in my mid-20s. These days, occasional swimming, weights, yoga-type stretches, and distance running. I've run the Army 10-Miler almost every year since 1992. I turn 57 this week, and, since you were wondering, it feels pretty good when I consider the alternatives.

Rick Denney · Post by **Rick Denney** » Mon Mar 07, 2005 7:42 pm

Jonathantuba wrote:One of the reasons I learned to play tuba at school was to get out of sports!!!

Absolutely.

Rick "who didn't miss the bullying" Denney

Arkietuba · Post by **Arkietuba** » Mon Mar 07, 2005 7:52 pm

I played football for couple of years in high school. I had to quit because my knee was screwed up. I could still play football but I would just have to play through the pain. I realized that I wasn't that great of a defensive tackle and I was much better at the tuba (and playing the tuba didn't involve doing 200+ push-ups a day).

Kevin Hendrick · Post by **Kevin Hendrick** » Mon Mar 07, 2005 9:39 pm

Rick Denney wrote:
Jonathantuba wrote:One of the reasons I learned to play tuba at school was to get out of sports!!!
Absolutely.

Rick "who didn't miss the bullying" Denney

Same here!

Charlie Goodman · Post by **Charlie Goodman** » Mon Mar 07, 2005 9:51 pm

I played ice hockey for quite a few years, but not on the school team, partially because I didn't want to put up with the time commitment, but mostly because there were maybe three redeemable humans on the team.

Oh, and Biggs, nobody here should be debating the merits of Ultimate Frisbee... Carol Jantsch plays at Michigan, and she does the tuba side of things better any of us.

winston · Post by **winston** » Mon Mar 07, 2005 10:26 pm

fpoon · Post by **fpoon** » Tue Mar 08, 2005 1:37 am

Sorry about this, but I don't know how to do those quote things if someone wants to explain it...

Larry R, you said something along the lines of "band should be a sport" and to that I have to say WHAT?!?!?!?

Granted, my high school marching band was freaking serious (much more serious than my college band). I'm talking 8-8 practices at band camp with an hour off for lunch and an hour off for dinner, etc. 10 hours of band, outside, in the Georgia heat and humidity in July-August. HORRIBLE!!!! At least, thats what I thought until track practice came around. Even as a thrower, I was worked SO MUCH harder than I was in band. The running, the puking, ah brings back memories. And this was for a thrower again mind you. If I had been a long distance runner, I probably would have died. Laps around a track or lugging a tuba around, even with a Nazi overseeing you? I'll take the lugging any day of the week.

So imagine hitting folks in pads, in that same heat and humidity, and I think you'll agree that high school band isn't so tough... In a lot of ways, its harder than it SHOULD be, but it still dosn't have crap on track, much less basketball or football.

DCI, now thats a different story. And a lot of high school bands (maybe college, I don't know) try to model themselves after that stuff, but at least in my experiance, it still dosn't come close to varsity athletics.

Will · Post by **Will** » Tue Mar 08, 2005 2:31 am

I did mostly cross country and long distance in track. I wasn't fast, but no one could last longer than I could after a mile. I was one of those crazy guys who volunteered to do both the mile and 2-mile in a track meet, and actually enjoyed it!

I've never done anything more physically and mentally demanding than cross country, including football, basketball, and baseball. All that running really helped my lung capacity and usually kept me healthier.

-heads

Will · Post by **Will** » Tue Mar 08, 2005 2:34 am

fpoon wrote:Sorry about this, but I don't know how to do those quote things if someone wants to explain it...

Just click the quote button at the right corner of someone's post to quote that person. You can edit what you want to quote when it takes you to the "Post a reply" page.

-heads

Rick Denney · Post by **Rick Denney** » Tue Mar 08, 2005 10:29 am

fpoon wrote:Sorry about this, but I don't know how to do those quote things if someone wants to explain it...

Put {quote} in front of what you are quoting and {/quote} behind it, but instead of the curly brackets I'm showing, use square brackets. That's the quick and dirty way. If you press the "quote" button to respond to a message, it will put the whole message in a quote with the name of who your are quoting from, and that's what I usually do. But I edit down that quote to just what I'm responding to. The reason I do that is that these posts are editable. On another forum, I responded to a post with something that seemed witty at the time, until the person I responded to deleted his post. Then, mine looked foolish, and it also took away information that might have been useful to someone else. By the time I realized what had happened, others had piled onto me for being foolish. So I quote just enough so that my posts will stand on their own.

Rick "who learned posting tactics in forums far more combative than Tubenet" Denney

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