Friday, September 14, 2018

How to Spin and Toss a Rifle

Colorguard is an addition to most marching bands. The reason for colorguard is so that when the marching band goes to competition, they'll be able to score more points for adding a story line to their musical selections. The colorguard's jobs are to make the show look pretty, tell the story, and have fun.


  Learn How to Properly Hold a Rifle

In order for you hold a rifle is pretty weird. You have to know the parts of the rifle there are four main parts to the rifle. There's the Bolt, the nose, the neck, and the butt.




 Learning The Basic Spins

   The basic spins are Drop spins and double time spins depending on who teaches you. There can be many different names for the basics. Drop spins are easier and require a little muscle because they are one handed. To start a drop spin you hold your rifle with the butt to the left and nose to the right. Your right hand should be under the neck, while you left hand should be on top of the nose. After that you push down on the nose with your left hand and quickly put your left hand to your side. Then you flip the rifle around in your right hand as many times as you want until you feel confident doing them.

Learning How to Toss A Rifle
 The last thing is learning to toss. Learning to toss is by far the hardest thing ever! It's hard because you have to learn to aim(really, but not really) just so you know 100% that your rifle isn't going to come straight down and hit you in the head. There are three steps to tossing which are similar to drop spins, there's prep which means you're in starting position. There's toss you toss by pushing the nose of the rifle down really hard and while pushing down you're raising your right hand to give your rifle a little extra height then you let go(and hope for the best). Depending on how hard you push and how tall you want it to be you can easily toss a 1-8. Meaning that your rifle will spin making 1 complete circle while going up all the way up to 8 complete circles.


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2 comments:

  1. Rifle tossing hasn't been an interest in mine whatsoever. However, after reading this blog, it actually seems pretty cool. The blog itself has a couple of grammar errors that aren't difficult to fix. This is a great blog for any beginner rifle tosser.

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  2. The problem with choosing to do a process like this is it's pretty difficult to follow for the reader, even if they read it a bunch of times. There appear to be a couple remaining grammar errors (did you do a revision)?

    It is clear that you have knowledge in this field, but it doesn't translate too well. I wish that there were original images taken for this blog, that its goal was more modest (maybe just learning to do one basic spin, for example), and for there to have been more breakdown in the steps.

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