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Jun. 27th, 2005 12:38 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
hellisonFor my own reference really, the course I jumped yesterday (very roughly), but also on the off chance anyone was wondering what I meant by 'doglegs'. A dogleg is basically an angled turn, so you have to go
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It was tricky in parts, particularly the turn to no. 3. I missed it the first time because I jumped too far to the left of 2 and couldn't get back on track.
Other people had the problem that if you jumped 2 square, the horse sees no. 6 as the next fence. Got the angle right 2nd time round tho ;)
The treble combo was quite odd too, in that it was 3 strides between each, normally its 1 stride then 2 or 2 then 3.
In the 60cm round, we stopped after 5, didn't have to do 6 and 7, tho in later classes a few people had the problem again that after 6 the horses naturally took 2 to be the next jump.
So a tricky one. We didn't do too awfully (apart from falling off) got the line to no. 3 right 2nd time round, but were too slow going into the treble, got a bad take off to the 1st, stumbled over the 2nd taking it down and leapt hugely over the last - all because I couldn't get a good rhythm going into it. Still, its all learning and it was fun - plus good to know that I did actually have the nerve to get on a completely strange horse at a strange arena and jump a course. And that I didn't fall off over the jumps ;p
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