#coursewalk

[nicepix4u]

#henrikvoneckermann #rider #coursewalk #doha #alshaqab #professional #showjumper #violet (at Al Shaqab Equestrian Centre Doha Qatar) https://www.instagram.com/p/CBNBX-OilG5/?igshid=qfpcuo5wjazm

[timothyfoxxclothing]

@_amy_powell_ looking great in her @timothyfoxx Tweed Earwarmer 👍🏻🙌🏻👌😍 Posted @withrepost • @_amy_powell_ Holding horses for the course walk was the closest I got to riding whilst I was home 😂 #ihavemyuses#coursewalk#ponycuddles#welsh#joules#timothyfoxx#home#mullacotteventcentre#mullacottequestriancentre#ilfracombe#northdevon @timothyfoxx https://www.instagram.com/p/B552aJkBgAf/?igshid=a69z8u0hf4yp

[seat-safety-switch]

If you watch closely enough, our ancient primitive instincts are still with us even today. Just visit your average parking lot. You’ll see resource hoarding, border conflicts, and the loudest screaming of racist slurs you’ve heard since that radio DJ got crucified in the bad part of town. That crucifixion, by the way? Happened in a Home Depot parking lot. We’re onto something big here.

Psychologists believe that parking causes so much stress for us because it combines the private (our cars) with the public (where we park them). On top of that, it offers the greatest risk to damage to our very expensive personal property. More recent research has also identified that nobody can fucking park between the fucking lines, fuck.

There is, however, something beautiful that happens to a parking lot when the species of man finally surpasses its most base urges and builds a brighter future for all. I speak, of course, of autocross. Once thought to be solely the domain of men wearing complicated shoes and doing infinitely long coursewalks, autocross is now enjoyed by anyone who delights in turning their car in tight circles around a traffic cone from high speeds.

For years, I’d been autocrossing. I poured over photos of other builds in the hope of catching a glimpse of their secret wheel alignment. When it was my turn to take the cones home that week, I took the plastic on them all down a thousandth on my buddy’s lathe. In my weakness, I slept properly, ate well, went to the gym and even tried to learn how to drive a little better, all in the hope of taking home a dinky plastic trophy. The parking lot was beginning to win, again.

Even polluted, with effort you can regain the purity and joyful essence at the core of autocrossing. This joy comes in the form of bringing to autocross an incredibly shitty car with no prep whatsoever. Sure, you might not win, even if you’re the only vehicle in your class, but anyone you manage to beat with a 1977 Dodge Aspen on 35-year-old bias-plys will really have it coming to them.

[medjai-takashima]

I have forgotten sneakers this time(汗) #coursewalk #suzuka #sgt #supergt #brm #watch #chronograph #racing #pureracingspirit (Suzuka Circuit - English)

[adorable-earthling-blog]

Course walk at sunset bringing the goods 👌 Couldn't have had a better weekend. Still so proud of my boy and our efforts, and to place at all in our first ever eventing competition together too! 😲😎💪 #horsesofinstagram #coursewalk #eventing #sunset #equestrian #crosscountry #xc #horse (at Monarto Equestrian Center)

[paint-pilot]

lrk3de day 1 updates:

- the start list is...disappointing. idk who im rooting for all my faves aren’t here!!

- i’m aware that i paid too much for the official event hoodie but also it was kinda worth every penny. this thing is currently enveloping every fiber of my being in warmth

- since i saw that article about baucher bits last week i splurged on one for Jazz, maybe it’ll be an improvement from his current setup?

plans for tomorrow:

- dressage! eventing and freestyle

- thoroughbred museum - supposed to be really cool!

- some sort of trakehner event a friend recommended?

- idk if coursewalk is supposed to be tomorrow or saturday honestly but im vibrating with excitement

[transperceneige]

Michael Jung posing with fence #17 of the 2018 Badminton XC course

Walked the stunning course @bhorsetrials this evening ☀️👌🏼🐴 #eventing #coursewalk #big #nicebuild #kingsam #teamjung

- Instagram update | May 2nd, 2018

[deadinsidedressage]

Anonymous Barn Drama #28

The Worst USPC Show Jump Rally, Literally Ever: Part 2

You’ve Never Seen a Little Kid Truly Devastated Until a Whole Team of Them Are DQ’d

Well, the Rally rolls around.  Let me start with a really brief breakdown of how Rallies function: 

Everyone has to arrive before a certain time, you can overnight or morning of.

Everyone has to set up all their stalls and tackroom/feed room between specific time parameters (generally it’s roughly an hour to do so)

Parents are not allowed. At all. Ever. Trainers are not allowed outside of the warm-up ring.

You have 3 rides in a Show Jump Rally: Equitation, Take Your Own Line, and Normal Knockdown w/ Jump Off

The morning competition starts (or at times the night before, wholly dependent on whose hosting the Rally & official times, OR both) everyone has to do official jogs and get their horses passed for competition. This literally involves SOME version of everyone being in a line for way too long.

Horse Management judging breaks down like this:

Your tack trunk/feed room/WHOLE setup is judged all at one time. You can regain points if you can prove they just missed something, usually your Stable Manager helps walk them though.

Your cleanliness of stalls & overall well-being of the horses is generally judged at least once more in an unannounced walk-through, sometimes they do 2 or 3 walkthroughs

You have an official judging of you cleanliness and turnout ONCE the whole weekend, other times you are just given a safety check before riding. 

You are judged on the condition of your horse, tack, & boots an HOUR after your last ride of the day is completed (Rallies are generally 2 days of riding)

NOW, keep all the above in mind.  So, let’s start with the night we all roll in. We’re allowed to bring in the tack trunk but not set it up, are allowed to set up the feed room since we have to feed and at this Rally everyone had to be there by 8pm or something stupid like that because it was SUCH a big Rally that we needed to start riding ASAP in the morning. The horse I brought is on the smaller end, BUT has horrible, horrible ground manners. Charges the stall door when opened, kicks at anything and everything, and desperately wants to bite everyone to death. Obviously none of the kids can or should be handling this horse. Which also means... I can’t help them because I’m too busy keeping this horse from going on a murder spree. Now the OTHER upper level riding brought a 17.2hh RIGHT off the track OTTB. Literally, it’s been maybe 2 full months AND he was raced up until the end. He’s TOO big for his own good and just the flightiest, stupidest motherfucker. Clearly none of the children can or should handle him either. Which means SHE also cannot help any of the children.  Our Stable Managers (SMs) consist of one 17 year old and one 7 year old. The 7 year old is useless. Cue one 17 year old trying to user 8 horse & rider combos down to jogs with the appropriate footwear, helmets, gloves, and competitor numbers. Cue all but one of the 6 children combos not being used to leading their ponies EVER and therefore this being an impossible task. Imagine my 17 y.o. SM singing “The Impossible Dream” and sobbing as she tries to herd one thousand cats that are just spraying piss and that’s probably a pretty close mental image to how this went down. We all end up being cleared, BUT we’re not cleared until almost midnight. We’ve been in that line since 8:30. All those kids were tired. I was tired. My friend was tired. The two green jackasses were somehow NOT tired and had never ceased their shit.  So it’s day one of riding. We have the EQ & make your own course rides. Already in the morning everything is a clusterfuck. One of the ponies does not have a breakaway halter and NONE of the ponies have emergency contact on their halters. If you do not have these things, you lose points. We make tape tags and realize we’re already off to a bad start with our Horse Management (HM) score. At some point between either taking the 6 children to get either their coursewalks in or hot chocolate OR a group pee break... the pony without the breakaway has a... different fucking halter on...  The only way that pony had a different halter on would be if a parent came into the barn and changed it. Parents are not allowed in. The entire team will be disqualified, not allowed to ride, and sent home if someone finds out a parent came in. We’re paranoid as fuck and make the pony another tape tag. We pray this doesn’t happen again. But it does. Approximately three more times. Two of which happened inbetween judges coming through so we lose a total of 4 points for this pony’s halter because the two times they come through the pony has a different non-breakaway (-1) and non-tagged (-1) halter. Jesus fuck.  They started with the super high classes, came down to about 3′3 (1m) at this Rally before then building back up from the trot poles. Idk what the method to their madness was, but I just remember we had a pretty long time before we needed to actually get ready for inspections and our first rides.  During ANOTHER break for either food or peeing or the kids wanted to look at the people selling sweatshirts... we come to find a pony has disappeared. The three young adults are FREAKING THE FUCK OUT until the little girl who belongs to that pony goes “Oh, he needs to be lunged before I ride him so my trainer probably came in and took him.” What. The. Fuck. 

Again, if this was discovered we would ALL be disqualified and sent home. The official ruling at the time was that if a horse needed to be lunged it could be lunged by anyone on the team who was a C2 or above BUT couldn’t be lunged by someone not on the team. I was a C3, my friend was a C2, my SM was an HB. One of us could have legally lunged that pony...  Oh and it should be noted that the trainer who lunged the pony ended up not even being the same trainer we had paid to coach our team. One of these girl’s mom’s literally paid her regular trainer to drive a 1 1/2 hour distance to lung this pony ILLEGALLY for 30 minutes.

This is where the real fun begins. Formal inspections. So, as stated in the last part of this story; my friend and I are competing at a lower level than the children on our team which means we have to leave to do formals and ride before them. WHICH MEANS we cannot help get any of them ready. We are not able to get any help while tacking up our horses because of aforementioned issues with the horses themselves BUT ALSO a) My SM is literally have to babysit 7 kids b) These kids don’t know how to tack up c) Even if my SM could help, she wouldn’t have time to help 2 riders AND have enough time to get 6 kids ready. She starts trying to orchestrate 6 kids getting ready when both of us upper level girls are about halfway through getting ready. We with her godspeed and leave.  We both end up having GREAT formal inspections, both get a lot of exceeds standards and no loss of points. We ALSO both have amazing EQ rounds. We’re feeling like we’re on cloud nine! We go back into the warm-up arena to cooldown and all 6 children are THERE, so that’s GOOD. When our horses are chill, we leave and prep for the upcoming follow-up inspections.  What we learn upon returning: There wasn’t a single child who didn’t manage to get at minimum 5 points off. This is thanks to none of them knowing how to put ANY tack on their horse, insisting they HAD to have their standing martingales on (NOT LEGAL TACK, -1 AND REMOVED), and apparently readjusting a bunch of shit on their horses after the SM had put them in line for their formals and since they didn’t know what the fuck they were doing they just fucked it all up.  My favorite is the girl whose trainer insisted her horse needed SMBs put the SMBs on backwards. As in the part the fetlock clearly goes in was on the front of the ankle. She was the oldest kid too.  What we learn upon ride scores being posted: All of the kids were at minimum 90 seconds over optimum time (factored into the EQ score) because they apparently refused to canter and the trainer being  used as the coach for our team thought there was somehow a different optimum time for ponies despite IT BEING LISTED THAT OPTIMUM TIME SHOULD BE DOABLE FOR PONIES and the THERE’S ONLY ONE OPTIMUM TIME. So, we’re already completely fucked over for placing in this competition. Both teams are so dead last it’s laughable because there is no way in hell we will ever catch up to any of the other teams. We’re just in competition for who between our two teams will be second to last.  We manage to be successful in not racking up anymore bad points for the “turnback” inspections (which are basically, hey is your stall clean did you clean your horse and did you clean your tack again). Miraculous. HOWEVER... during the inspections of our tack trunk/everything else we manage to earn over 20 negative points PER TEAM.  PER GODDAMN TEAM. So all the stuff that we didn’t have that that one mother offered to buy? She didn’t. She bought like one tube of neosporin and called it good. The grooming boxes we wanted to go through with the kids? Yeah, none of the kids had the right brushes... or wash buckets and sponges... OH AND, when they checked the overall cleanliness of the stalls, well that was after the one competent SM had trucked 6 kids down to get their formals done and she hadn’t had time to pick out 6 stalls yet. Cause... none of those kids were going to do it. In fact they straight up refused.  So we are SUPER fucking deadlast.  Second round of rides are Take Your Own Line, I grew up knowing that if you didn’t want to put any effort into designing a course you could just redo the EQ course and it was FINE. No one CARED. You don’t get extra points for creativity. Right so, all 6 kids want to come up with some special course. None of these kids understand crossing their line. Apparently when they have the coach review their courses he doesn’t notice it either. He ALSO doesn’t notice that the start/end line is just the middle of the direction and you have to pass it FACING the gate to start and pass it AWAY from the gate to end. He ends up okaying 7 courses that are going to get disqualified for crossing the line or not entering the start flags.  Now, side note: I hate this coach and did not pay for his coaching and refused his coaching. I try and point out the start/finish line but he fucking hates me back so he insists he’s correct. I’m like okay whatever I’m repeating the EQ course but making sure I cross this way instead. SIMPLE.  My friend gets DQ’d for not crossing start before going over her first fence. All 6 kids get DQ’d for that OR if they make it past that they get DQ’d on their 2nd or 3rd fence for crossing their line.  I had a really super round if anyone cares.  We end up doing a team/club dinner when we’re dismissed for the night and it consists of 6 children sobbing about the unfairness of the world because they were all DQ’d and had the worst EQ scores I’ve ever seen at a USPC Rally thanks to the optimum time shit. The coach is too ashamed to show his face.  BUT WAIT, IT ONLY GETS BETTER ON DAY 2 OF RIDES!

[naturalpetresveratol]

How to walk a showjumping course like a pro

How to walk a showjumping course like a pro

The saying goes prior preparation prevents poor performance and this is certainly the case when it comes to competing horses.

Here, top showjumper Louise Pavitt, who competes up to five-star level and also has pony and junior European medals to her name, shares her advice on how to make the most of your showjumping coursewalk experience to help maximise the chances of producing the best round…

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CRUK Intern activities 💃🏼💃🏼

[crosscountryapp]

Fix those start box nerves!

To help lower level riders prepare for their cross country and have a great experience, we worked with two of Australia's leading coaches to create Virtual Guided Course Walks for this week's Sydney midweek and weekend events. 

Riders can buy them on our website for just A$5. (That's  GBP 2.70,  Euro 3.50 or USD 4.60). They get

the course map

photos of each jump

expert insights from an accredited coach

videos (EvA 80cm)

minute markers

"...watched the course walk with Fiona, damn fantastic! Especially for this weekend where we will only have time to walk the course once, and a bonus to see the minute markers already done too" New user Cherie Luck

The pioneering "experts in your iPhone" are Fiona Hughes (right) who walks you round the Introductory EvA 80 course with photos, audio and videos and Sandy Lucas, 2012 NSW coach of the year, who walks the EvA 95 and EvA 60 (Preliminary and Newcomers) courses with audio and photos.

“I slept much easier knowing I already had a glimpse of the course and got some really good tips about lines, what to look out for and the water option which I wouldn't have realised! We had a great run going double clear to take 2nd spot in the B division" Leah Brown

Riders click through from our course library and pay by credit card using the leading secure e-commerce site gumroad It couldn't be easier.

Courses are locked before publishing so they cannot be on-shared.

We have a page and video on our website which explains step by step how to create a virtual guided course walk. While several coaches have created these very generously for free in the past, we now have a way of compensating them for their time and expertise - so riders can feel more confident and prepared in the start box and cross the finish with a smile on their face! 

Coaches, contact us to sell your own virtual guided course walks

To listen to guided course walks just go to our library and type guided into the search box

[nicepix4u]

#janikasprunger #cannes #jumpingdecannes #equestrian #rider #portrait #sunshine #coursewalk (at Jumping de Cannes - Longines Global Champions Tour)

[aycaramba7]

Beautiful sunrise while walking xc at #chatthills this weekend ☺ #nofilter #coursewalk #uaeventing #collegiateeventing #sunrise #rolltide

[seat-safety-switch]

“Mortadello,” the cheese counter lady at Wilmington’s says to me with no small degree of impatience. 

It’s not that the grocery store was a bad place to go, per se. I just didn’t want to be there. As I gently push my cart around corners, respectfully obeying the extents of my space envelope and the personal property of others, I begin to feel that it is more like an extended bout of parking than some kind of supermarket barrel race of yore. You don’t need me to tell you that I hate parking.

Ahead of me, I see some autocrossers. They are noticeable because of their tanned calves, toned from endless coursewalks and staying in a runner’s stance at the primo marshaling spot, getting ready to run if that Corvette gets sideways on them again. They are chatting about the lines they took through that tricky bit in the produce section, because of course they are. As I approach the argument is heading well past “crescendo” and into “call the police.”

I decide to take any excuse I could to break up the monotony of pushing a badly-aligned shopping cart around, and Get Involved. As I had been trained by SCCA officials, I throw a pillow on the ground and squirt them both in the face with water while loudly scolding them.

“You two are fighting like a pair of NASCAR drivers,” I yelp.

In the background, a record scratches as the in-house grocery store DJ slips in an unmopped puddle and falls, fracturing his C4 and C6 vertebrae. The two autocrossers pause for a moment, staring at the prone man, and then resume their argument, this time specifically regarding the unfairness of multipliers for classing.

It’s probably better this way. Last week, I decided to stop going to the Rallycross Grocery because the all-terrain tires on my shopping cart wouldn’t stop debeading.

[theoriginalmayweedharley]

#horse #horses #equestrian #showjumping #competition #coursewalk (Taken with Instagram)

[paint-pilot]

lrk3de day twoooo: - this shirt. that is all. my mom found the matching c4 belt later lmao. - coursewalk with Joe Meyer was so awesome! incredible information, i really felt like i learned a lot. also he autographed my program lol - but also. i walked a total of 9.4 miles and 23k steps today (Joe walks FAST) so that shirt is definitely an accurate statement. - i only caught a few dressage rides. blegh at the 1st place. boyd martin is on my friend’s horse’s half-brother and in third or so so that’s who i’m rooting for now. lauren kieffer’s last horse was also really cool. - my horse’s adult rider is so sweet? she was showing me this autographed book she got from Tik Maynard after talking to him about working with a sensitive horse (i.e. Jazz) and then like 2 hours later she came up like “i felt like i shouldn’t show that book off to you without getting you one so i chased down the author and got you one” and i just ????? [string of heart emojis] - my team got an invite to an American Trakehner Associating meeting and awhile the competitors that were supposed to be there didn’t show, we still had a little fun since they were photographing a 23-year-old stallion and three of his yearling and 2 year old offspring. really cool!! - we’re gonna try and set up by the head of the lake tomorrow wish us luck 🤞🤞