Drum Corps Endurance Study: Star of Indiana 1993 DCI

This is a clip that originally aired as part of the 1993 DCI World Championships broadcast. It's shows results from a study that was done by a professor at Indiana University to see the physical demands of a modern Drum & Bugle Corps show. They hooked up one of the tenor drummers to a device that monitored heart rate and oxygen intake and then had the corps do a full run of the entire show (approx 11 minutes). They picked a great show to test as the whole second half clocked in at 192 BPM accelerating to 208. Star of Indiana made history with this show and it's a great window into how physically demanding drum corps can be.