[I was going to make a joke related to a ball getting stuck in a sousaphone, but I couldn't figure out how to not make it sound dirty.]
It's the Troopers! The "marching tuba" is technically a "contrabass bugle" or "contra" for short. Troopers are the Troopers Drum & Bugle Corp, from Casper, Wyoming. Some good friends wore that uniform way back when.
In my one parade esperience with a Sousaphone, I found that adolescent boys saw the big bell as a spitball target.
Oddly enough, these war tubas, which are actually listening devices rather than sound projection devices. They were used to detect the sound of distant aircraft.
I played Cymbals. Only because I was the only one that could spin them around while marching. Which I didn't mind because I was playing the Tri Toms and it was a LOT easier to walk a mile in thick polyester while toting these around then it was a Tri Tom. Plus, the kiddies were always impressed.
My local club just adopted a no-drones policy, inspired by the below US Youth Soccer document. Anybody seen this?
Don't these folks proofread their policy statements? The first sentence is most likely missing a word, and the second was obviously edited without rechecking the spelling or structure. Maybe providing a safe environment? USYS isn't providing the air or anything. The use (of unmanned aircrafts) are not to be at activities of events? And aircraft is already plural. I didn't even want to read the rest.
Well I liked the fact that they are committed to providing an environment. And if you quit there, you missed the part where they banned drones at board and committee meetings. (Maybe that means no more droning on ...)
So, to be clear, drones are not allowed anywhere at a US Youth Soccer match? Even off the field? I was AR2 at a game last week and there was one, but it was behind the parents and probably 30 feet up. I notified the center and told him if it finds its way over the field, I'd let him know. It never affected play.
Yes, but mind you, US Youth Soccer matches are a smaller universe than you think, and your games probably don't fall in that category. They include competitions under the direct authority of USYS, such as "the National Championships, Regional Championships, National Presidents Cup, Regional Presidents Cups, ODP regional and sub-regional camps, and interregional events, ODP National Championships, regional and National League competitions." Most of the USSF-affiliated club matches most of us are calling are under the aegis of state associations, which in turn report to USSF. That means that particular memo doesn't directly affect most of us, but we need to be aware of similar policies adopted at our state and club levels.
Nothing about drones in the Cal South rules (yet). I don't give much hope to them fixing the grammar and syntax errors.
Gotcha. Thanks. I don't see anything in the documentation in the games I do. But we did note it when we reported the score, etc.
This is why they should not be allowed. You don't allow unsecured goals to fall on the players, and you should not allow unsecured aircraft either.
The space around the field, on the field, and stretching upwards to lets say 20,000 feet where planes may start to fly, is for players and referees only.
Hmm, I've reffed at a field on the flight approach to a local airport. Sometimes planes come over pretty low. They're not drones though. The writers of this document make IFAB look like Pulitzer Prize nominees.
We have a college field that is under the small aircraft approach path. Of course, the time of day when weekday games are scheduled is also the time of day when the FedEx feeder planes are all coming in, sometimes as low as 500 feet or so when they cross the field. Nobody seems to stop playing, though, unlike the time that I was doing Veterans Cup in Hawaii. The fields are near Pearl Harbor. The Blue Angels were practicing. When they came over at, roughly, 1,000 feet, everybody stopped to look up.