Shoulder and flat positions on flag - How to color guard

Right shoulder

• Flag pole should be straight up and down directly in front of the nose and belly button.
• Right hand should e wrapped around the tab in a thumbs-up position.
• Left hand should be wrapped around the bottom tip in a thumbs-up position with the pinky finger off the edge of the tip (or flush with the end of the tip, or showing the bottom tip, depending on your guard's technique).
• The left hand should hold the flag in front of the belly button with a fist width between the body and tip.
• Both elbows should be boxed.
• This can be switched to left shoulder by reversing the hand positions.

Right flat

• Can be achieved by starting in right shoulder position and lowering the flag so that the pole is parallel to the ground.
• Silk should point to the right of body.
• Bare pole should be centered at belly button across body.
• Elbows should be boxed (NOT like the diagram!)
• This can be switched to left flag by pointing the silk to the left and reversing the hand positions.