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Winter Guard

Winter guard is indoor color guard: teams combine dance, choreography, formations and equipment work with flags, sabres or rifle props on a performance floor. The name refers to the indoor/season format in the marching-arts circuit.

LevelMain sport FamilyDance Sport CategoryDance / performance sport

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Classification

Category Dance / performance sport

Family Dance Sport

Level Main sport

Getting started

Kurzbeschreibung Indoor performance with dance, formations and flag/sabre/rifle props.

Geeignet für Suitable for people who like music, team choreography, precision and performance.

Cost A school/club group with coach is sensible; flag and basics first, tosses only after secure technique. Team fee, equipment, costume/uniform, rehearsal time, travel, entry fees and possible WGI/circuit costs. Winter guard team, color guard programme, WGI circuit, school/college or marching-arts organisation. Indoor performance, guard equipment and season/cir…

First progress Basics after a few rehearsals; clean show run takes season training.

Fitness level medium

Was du brauchst

team/coach
indoor floor
flag
music/counts
training clothes
rules

First steps

find group
practise dance basics
learn flag spins
hold counts
walk simple formation

WGI-adjacent group, school/college color guard, dance/marching-arts programme or local instructor.

Enough spacing, progressive tosses, clear calls and safe prop handling.

Weitere Angaben

Tags indoor, performance_activity, performance, winter-guard, dance-sport, tanzsport, performance-activity, dance-performance-sport

Rules and format

Die Grundlagen

Ziel

Perform a legal indoor guard programme with clean choreography, equipment technique and team effect.

Teilnehmer

ensemble/team.

Teamgröße

by class/circuit.

Spielfeld

indoor performance floor.

Dauer

Depends on format and event.

Wertung

judging points.

Gewinnbedingung

Best valid time, placing or score in the announced format.

Ausrüstung

flags
sabres
rifle props
floor
music

Wichtige Regelpunkte

time breach
equipment/boundary breach
eligibility/class breach
safety breach

Regelquellen

Federations and sources

Federations

Winter Guard International (WGI)

Color Guard Winter Guard International · official-sport-guide · high
Start Here Winter Guard International · official-guide · high
WGI Rules Winter Guard International · official-rulebook-index · high