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Where should I start?
The core components of our platform are the “Masterclasses” we offer which cover each of their topics from start to finish! Whether you’re learning for the first time or want to level up your game, these courses are a great place to begin!
- Marching Masterclass: The most updated version of our teaching relating to the fundamentals of drill!
- Foundations of Excellence: Fill in the gaps while we finish updating the Marching Masterclass with our original “Snap & Pop” material that helped teams ascend to the next level for many years!
- Rifle Manual Mastery: All commonly-executed rifle manual movements with a competitive edge!
- Competition Color Guard Masterclass: Our approach to executing competition-level color guard!
- Unarmed Exhibition & Armed Exhibition Masterclasses: Learn exhibition drill skills and techniques from the ground up!
If you’re here as an individual, might we invite you to check out the following individual-based “Masterclasses” as well!
- Find Your Voice: Tips, tricks, and techniques to level up your command voice! This isn’t your typical “go yell at at tree” training!
- Forging a Champion – The Definitive Guide to Solo Exhibition: If you’re an armed soloist, this is an entire full-length ebook on designing, practicing, and executing solo drill! You don’t want to skip this!
We have a ton of best-practice articles designed to help you succeed. Here are a few we recommend checking out first!
- Reporting In & Out at Competitions: Never guess again! Here are the reporting statements we actually use and teach!
- Video Review Process: Just like sports teams break down their game footage, so should a drill team be studying their work periodically!
- Partner Practice: If you’re always practicing as a platoon or flight, you’re doing it wrong. Here is how we use partner practice to our advantage before “blocking it up” and drilling together!
You can also navigate our platform by using any of the category buttons on the home page! Most of these are self-explanatory. If we had to choose our Top-5-Most-Important-First-Reads, we’d pick these articles in particular!
- Practice Structure: Our approach to MOST practices during the school year!
- Bad Alignment & How to Fix It: Sick of talking about alignment? So are we. But the fix might surprise you!
- Fixing Errors & Mistakes During Practice: How do we actually get better? Here’s our approach!
- Active Vs. Passive Recruiting: In order to have a team, you need members. Here’s how to seek out and find the best candidates!
- PT & Drill Team: To get better, we need to get stronger. But you might be surprised at the lasting damage you can do by using PT the WRONG way at practice!
And lastly, if you’re here to kick your team up to the highest levels, check out these articles to learn the methods we use to build top drill teams from the ground up!
- Three Traits for Team Commander Selection: Putting the right cadets in the right positions is key to a championship team. How we choose the best commander for the job might surprise you!
- Competition Conduct – Marching Everywhere: Top teams treat every moment they are visible as a performance. Are you maxing out your impression with the judges and other teams?
- Three Differences Between Local & Regional/National Competitions: While competing successfully at the local levels is akin to playing checkers, moving to the next level is much more like chess. The board looks the same but the rules and pieces are different.
- Fall-In Procedures for Regulation Drill: Top teams know you don’t win meets on the drill floor; you win them before you even take a single step onto the deck. Here is how we set our teams up for success. WARNING: This is one of those things we recommend you do EXACTLY as described. We’ve field tested this one for years and every single tactic is specific for a reason!
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