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INSTITUTE FOR CEREMONIAL STANDARDS Doctrine Clarification Series DCS 20-001 Competitive Timing Logic in Military Drill Performance The Structural “Why” Behind Time Limits Time limits in drill competition are not arbitrary administrative constraints. They are structural safeguards rooted in physiology, motor learning science, program design theory, audience psychology, and adjudication reliability. When timing windows are inflated without structural justification, performance density …
This is what is needed to judge drill meets properly. THe WDA Adjudication SYstem.
Armed/Unarmed When speaking in terms of drill and performance, vocabulary deals with the amount of different movements displayed in a routine. For the body there is vocabulary for your feet, the head, arms and hands, and the torso. When armed, vocabulary adds on the manipulation of the piece of equipment (sword/saber, rifle or guidon). Vocabulary means each individual movement. A …
‘Our drill team does a Stomp routine for our program this year.’ ‘Our drill team does cheer-like movements and we sing/chant throughout our routine.’ What is “Military Flavor” This is a term that we cannot define so that it is crystal clear. We can define it, but it is more of a subjective term. Military flavor is a “uniform.” Why …
‘We won with 13 million points! Second place had a score of 12,000.” I pose this question to you all: In all of the military drill competitions across the USA, and probably into other countries as well, what do the scores mean? What do the point gaps mean? I have an answer: The scores and point spreads mean nothing. Then …
For decades the only requirement to be qualified to judge a military drill competition was graduation from a service’s Basic Training. That’s it. You’re now able to rank and rate and assign a score to what you see on the competitive field. And what’s better is if you are a Drill/Training Instructor or on an honor guard. Somehow, you are …