Color Guard Research Paper

The question of our childhood seemed to be one that we can all recall: “What do you want to be when you grow up?” Typically, we would say things like, “I want to be an astronaut,” or, “I want to be a princess.” As kids, we think big; however, as we get older, we figure that these aspirations to be a ballerina, to be the president, become more farfetched. Instead, we set more day-to-day based goals. Our goals change all the time. My goals freshman year are completely different than what they are now. Now, some of my goals are to enhance my color guard skills, improve my health, and avoid senioritis. I have been doing color guard for about five years now. I have learned the dos and don’ts of the sport. Not only that, but I have learned how to …show more content…
They saw my potential and my talent; but, the difference between my new coaches and my previous coach was that they pushed me aside because I was “doing just fine.” This didn’t demotivate me; it just made me work a little less. Ever since my first coach left, I felt as though I had plateaued. Last year, my junior year, I looked up to all of the seniors. They were able to do amazing things. Now that they have graduated, it has hit me that I have very large shoes to fill. This has motivated me into wanting to enhance my skills. Being able to toss very high tosses is looked greatly upon. I have always been able to toss high; however, I stopped trying to get upper level tosses because people kept saying I was okay where I was. Now, however, I want to push myself even harder than freshman year to be able to do what not many people my size can do: toss an eight. I have all the tools I need to succeed with this goal. Now, I just need practice. I will take home my equipment every day and practice for about thirty to forty-five minutes. By the end of the first quarter, I want to be able to toss a solid seven. Then, by the end of the first semester, I want to toss a seven and a half. Hopefully, through constant practice, I can achieve this goal by …show more content…
We also hear about every single other class having senioritis. Personally, I think senioritis hit me early. Maybe it was because my sister was a senior, and it rubbed off on me. It struck very hard last year. I was unwilling to put in the work for my grades, but I still expected top notch grades. During summer, I told myself I would try harder in school and not let senioritis affect me. So far, things are working out like that. I realized, even though I am a senior, I still have to work just as hard as I have in the past. I want to avoid senioritis because being lazy and trying to catch up at the last minute was not healthy at all. I stayed up late every night trying to do the work I should’ve done during the day. Then, I would have to wake up very early for zero period. I would be exhausted day in and day out. Since I waited to the last second to do my homework every night, I became very stressed, which is not good for the brain. I am able to measure how hard senioritis has hit because I can compare it to my work ethics from last year. Senioritis is all about our attitudes towards school. Once I develop the correct attitude, avoiding senioritis will be a very attainable goal. I think this goal is realistic since I can control whether or not I have senioritis. Avoiding senioritis is not too difficult for me to achieve, yet it is still something to challenge me. This goal is timely because I am trying to last all of senior year