Impulse Drum and Bugle Corps

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Impulse Drum and Bugle Corps

Impulse Drum and Bugle Corps logo
Location	Buena Park, California
Division	Open Class
Founded	1998
Director	Aaron Zeilinger
Championship titles	2006 (Division III)
Uniform	Black short-sleeve jacket w/yellow yoke, collar, left sleeve & upper left 1/3 of front w/stylized black exclamation point Black Jumpsuit Black shoes and socks Black baseball cap w/stylized yellow exclamation point
Website	www.impulseyoutharts.org

The Impulse Drum and Bugle Corps is an Open Class competitive junior drum and bugle corps. Based in Buena Park, California, Impulse performs in Drum Corps International (DCI) competitions. Impulse was the 2006 DCI Division III World Champion.^[1]

History[]

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Impulse was founded in Anaheim in 1998 with the intent of recapturing the playful, off-beat attitude of such recently departed corps as the Bridgemen and Anaheim's own Velvet Knights. In that vein, the corps adopted a stylized exclamation point as its logo and dressed in bright yellow and black uniforms.

During its inaugural season, Impulse competed only within California. In its second season, the corps traveled to the Pacific Northwest and as far east as Wyoming and Colorado.. In 2001, the corps toured into Illinois, Michigan, across the Canada–US border to Ontario, and to its first DCI Division II World Championship prelims at Buffalo, New York, placing 9th of 12 corps.

For the next few seasons, Impulse became a regular visitor to the eastern half of the U.S., attending the Division II Championships at Madison, Wisconsin in 2002 (12th), Orlando, Florida in 2003 (8th), Denver, Colorado in 2004 (6th), and Brockton, Massachusetts in 2005 (6th).

In 2006, the corps, having fewer than 60 members. moved to Division III and won the DCI Division III World Championship at Madison. When, the following year, DCI held its championships in Impulse's home state, the corps not only did not recover its former size, but its performance was not up to the previous years standard, and the defending Division III Champion dropped to a 6th-place finish at Pasadena.

Since finishing 18th of 23 corps in the new Open Class at Bloomington, Indiana in 2008, Impulse remained in California, marching a season of only two to three weeks, until their return to national competition in 2016.

Sponsorship[]

The Impulse Drum and Bugle Corps is sponsored by the Impulse Youth Arts Organization, a 501 (c)(3) musical organization that has a Board of Directors, corps director, and staff assigned to carry out the organization's mission. Byron Baba jr is the President and Executive Director, and Aaron Zeilinger is the corps director .^[4]

Show Summary (1999–2021)[]

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Gold background indicates DCI Championship; pale blue background indicates DCI Class Finalist; pale green background indicates DCI semifinalist.

References[]

External links[]

• Corps website
• DCI website