Talk:Color guard (flag spinning)

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Proposed page title change

Summing up some stale discussion below about the distinction between military color guard and the marching band auxiliary (topic of this page), I'd like to propose a title change to better align this page with what I (as a naive observer) think is a more common (and accurate) term for this sport/activity: Flag Corps. In fact, this page is already the first to come up on a Google search "define flag corps." "Auxiliary (Marching Band)" could work too, but I think that's a more jargony title that would be more difficult to find. Any thoughts? Data8504 (talk) 07:36, 11 June 2017 (UTC)

The activity has always been known as color guard, as it grew out of the color guards/honor guards that marched ahead of drum and bugle corps and marching bands. The guard was usually made up of members who could not play an instrument. Guard equipment includes: rifle, saber, flag, and at times baton (drum major maces and majorette batons). The basic spinning motions taught to color guard members today (drop, push, present, lance, flat, slam, etc.) originated from the rotations guard members from long ago would complete to raise or lower their equipment. If the name of the article were to be changed it should to be to Color guard (modern). Regardless, the article could use improving. Rdzogschen (talk) 04:08, 12 September 2018 (UTC)

Article Editing

I edited this article for my English 101 class. I edited some grammar and spelling mistakes. I also added a section on techniques for people interested in color guard. Also, I added some extra information in different sections.I am hoping to add better photos that better express color guard. This article still needs revising, but I hope that I was able to make it better. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Elaina65 (talk • contribs) 15:34, 4 April 2019 (UTC)

2020-2021 Marching Seasons for the 94th Macy's Parade 2020

2020-2021 marching seasons will perform the 94th Macy's Parade on Thurs. Nov. 26, 2020.

• The Ann Richards School for Young Women Leaders "Marching Stars" (Austin, Texas)
• Trabuco Hills High School’s Thundering Mustangs Marching Unit (Mission Viejo, California)
• Union High School Renegade Regiment (Tulsa, Oklahoma)
• Lincoln-Way High School Marching Band (New Lenox, Frankfort, Illinois)
• Sound of Brownsburg Marching Band (Brownsburg, Indiana)
• Centerville High School Jazz Band (Centerville, Ohio)
• Hampton University Marching Force (Hampton, Virginia)
• University of Alabama Million Dollar Band (Tuscaloosa, Alabama) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2600:1017:B829:634C:B884:24DE:AF54:4906 (talk) 17:43, 22 December 2019 (UTC)

Techniques?

Guard member here! I would believe it to be helpful for there to be examples of different kinds of techniques, 45s, singles, doubles, rifle and sabre technique, jazz running et cetra, if just to help non-marching band or guard kids understand. Does anyone else believe this sort of edit to be useful, and if so, how should I go about this? EnbyRaven (talk) 04:20, 17 April 2025 (UTC)

This site should wander into English Version of "Flag throwing", part of the German Version Fahnenschwingen

It States also itself in his own article: One tradition that contributed to color guards in American marching bands is the Swiss art of flag swinging or Fahnenschwingen. The 1936 Olympian Franz Hug of Lucern, Switzerland, came to America and introduced flag swinging in 1937.[7][dubious – discuss] Leonard Haug, an assistant band director at the University of Wisconsin, was intrigued. Haug created ten flags representing the schools of the Big Ten Conference.[8][dubious – discuss] When Haug came to the University of Oklahoma the following year, he became the first to introduce the technique in the Southwest and formed a corps of Big Six Conference flag swingers for the Pride of Oklahoma Marching Band. The 1938 squad was all male, but the group was co-ed within two years. By 1940, O.U. flag swingers were participating at basketball games and creating innovative routines with two flags.[9] The OU color guard may be the oldest existing unit of its kind in American marching bands. As Director of the OU band, Haug wrote a training guide for flag swinging and an article for a swing flag brochure, assisting the spread of the trend to other marching bands.

Both Color Guard und Winter Guard are Subtypes / Further Developments of Flag throwing/Fahnenschwingen Not parallel. Not independent. Not coincidentally similar. Not “invented in America.” Rather: directly linked historically. — Preceding unsigned comment added by ~2026-40441-73 (talk) 23:48, 19 July 2026 (UTC)

Evidence: https://www.unesco.at/kultur/immaterielles-kulturerbe/verzeichnis/element/neckenmarkter-fahnenschwingen https://fahnenschwinger.de/ https://www.bund-bruderschaften.de/der-bhds/fahnenschwenken/index.html https://fahnenschwinger.de/ https://www.fahnenschwingerluzern.ch/geschichte https://www.fahnenschwinger-lfbw.de/Downloads/Deutsche-Reihe-2013.pdf https://www.fahnenschwingen-nwsjv.ch/geschichte/ ~2026-40441-73 (talk) 23:15, 19 July 2026 (UTC)