Impulse

Buena Park, CA United States
Founded: 1998

Active Junior
Open Class

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The Impulse Drum and Bugle Corps is an Open Class competitive junior drum and bugle corps based in Buena Park, California.

Impulse formed in 1998 in Anaheim, California. The original intent was to field a corps that would offer an irreverent fun-filled performance reminiscent of Velvet Knights and Bridgemen. Thus the use the exclamation point as a logo and the yellow and black uniforms.

During its first season, Impulse stayed within California, but in its second season, the corps toured to the Pacific Northwest and as far east as Wyoming and Colorado.. In 2001, the corps traveled into Illinois, Michigan, across the Canada–US border to Ontario, and to its first DCI Division II World Championship prelims at Buffalo, New York, where it placed 9th of 12 corps. Over the next several seasons, Impulse was a regular visitor to the eastern half of the U.S. and to DCI, and Impilse was a Division II Finalist 2003-05. The corps relocated from Anaheim to Buena Park in 2004.

In 2006, the corps, fielding fewer than 60 members. moved to Division III and won the DCI Division III World Championship at Madison.

DCI held the 2007 championships in Impulse's home state, just down the road from Buena Park at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena. Sadly, not only did the corps fail to recover its former size, but its performance did not meet the previous years standard, and the defending Division III Champion fell to a 6th-place finish.

After finishing 18th of 23 corps in the newly formed Open Class at Bloomington, Indiana in 2008, Impulse remained in California and marched a short season of only two to three weeks from 2009 thru 2015.

Impulse returned to the DCI Championships in 2016 and '17, placing 14th and 15th in Open Class,

[Impulse Youth Arts Organization; Dave Strickler; Drum Corps International ]

Members (36)

Member Name	Section	Years Involved
Arenas, Rafael	Euphonium	2001
Arenas, Rafael	Contra	2002 to 2005
Arnold, Evan	Sopranos	2000 to 2002
Baba, Joey	Baritone	1999 to 2008
Carl, Julian	mellophone	2001
Fernald, Amy	Cymbals	2004 to 2005
Finnell, Brianna	Drum Major	2007
Gonzalez, Juan	Color Guard	2000
Groh, Charlie	M&M-BOD-Toilet paper dispenser	1999 to 2005
Jones, Natalie	Drumline (cymbals)	2004 to 2005
Julian, CJ	Mellophone	2001
Julian, Carl	mellophone	2001
Keys, Corkie	Color Guard Instructor	2000 to 2001; 2004 to 2005
Mathis, Chris	Contra	1999 to 2002
McDermott, Sean	Visual Caption Head	2006
Meade, Dave	Executive Director	1998 to 2004
Minor, Jesse	Soprano	2001 to 2002
Moores, Patrick	Baritone	2001 to 2003
Morales, Brian	Pit	2003
Padilla, Israel	Sopranos	1999
Pivoda, Emily	Soprano	2005
Rivera, Andrew	Drumline (bass)	1999
Robison, Timothy	Soprano	2002 to 2008
Rountree, Christopher	Baritone	2000 to 2002
Scipio, Ronald	Baritone	2004 to 2005
Spraker, Kyle	Soprano	2001 to 2002
Spraker, Kyle	Trumpet (yes we're Bb now)	2004
Tanabe, Michelle	Snare	2003 to 2004
Tucker, Star	Colorguard	2002
Vella, Ethan	Battery (Bass 3)	2017 to 2018
Welke, Chris	Visual Staff	2017
Wilcox, Clifton	Mellophone	2000 to 2001
castro, john	Mellophone	2008 to 2009
de leon, javier	Mellophone	2002
hendricks, corwin	Tenors	2002
shao, sonya	hornline	1999 to 2001