r/WGI

I've been a member of an independent winds organization for the past 3 seasons, and we are attempting to amp up our recruitment strategies to increase our size and overall reach.

In the past, the group has hosted "interest clinics", educational clinics during the season, some social media outreach posts, some direct outreach to prospective members, but mostly word-of-mouth. The strategies that we discussed doing are tabling at marching band shows, presenting more to local schools, social media posts including member testimonials, and directly creating relationships with local colleges.

Has anyone had success with recruiting or any new recruitment strategies that we should be utilizing?

Hello! i currently live in utah but my family is planning on moving to Goodlettsville (which is right outside of nashville so its great) and ive seen some videos on obsidian and im in love. in utah, we dont have indoor winds or very many indoor programs at all so this is really eye opening for me and i would LOVE to participate but would like to know any/all information yall could give me about this wonderful program. Would they even be willing to accept some random outcasted kid from utah who only has 1 season of marching band experience? let me know!

So, for context I personally have winter guard experience, and at my new school we have a color guard for summer but we don't do competition things. I want to give my team the same chance I had but we dont have the money to pay for the really fancy things, my las year of winter guard the director let me preform for free because my family was struggling. I dont want to take money from the team I have now every year for a sport. Now I have been thinking about this for a while, and I found the cost for our states indoor prefomance things are around $600, I am still looking for music licensing places, and we normally just reuse our flags and uniforms. I also found that you dont need a floor for it if you dont want to and as I said we dont have a lot of funding for it so I feel like we could opt out on that. The main thing I'm worried about is getting like bus transport as well as a practice space, and getting the idea to stick with our directors. My team currently doesn't know much other than basics, and we are also not aloud to use rifles anymore because the school said they looked like guns so we have air blades. I would like to teach them more advanced things for the winter season so that we can make a good show, and I am really excited to see if this plan can come to life.

The only video we had of it disappeared from the internet recently.

Hey guys! Im heading into my senior year of high school and I’m really hoping to march an open class group this year, I live in the Florida panhandle so there’s not a whole lot of plausible options for me but I’ve already registered for I3 auditions and Q-school and ill likely audition for frontier as well whenever they announce any information for the next season. I was just hoping to get some tips on anything that could help me make an open class line, I’m mainly going for snare with quads as my backup so anything regarding those instruments in specific would be nice, but general information is also much appreciated!