Recent content by frittSkritt

Hi all- I'm from the U.S., down in Australia and need to buy a riding helmet as I'm going to try to get back into the sport. I'm looking into ordering a Charles Owen as many of the brands available here in local stores either don't fit my head or aren't PAS 015, and I know from experience that...

I'm no fan of CMP (would take Mike E-S as a course designer over him any day), but I feel like he relied too much on the use of frangible pins as "teaching" methods. Wide open oxers on twisty turns don't test anything useful other than to scare horses who manage to put legs down into them. Same...

His riding style is really rough and almost uncoordinated. Leg flying back, roached back, not with the motion.

As a damn Yankee, curious to see what the UK's opinion on Capt. Mark Phillips' courses are. He doesn't have a good track record in the U.S.

There was a horse here in the US that got impaled by a flag, forgot where but it may have been one of Will Coleman's horses. He was fine but they stopped using fiberglass rods/poles as flags. ETA: found it. https://www.chronofhorse.com/article/prognosis-good-cool-connection

He's a strong horse, I've noticed he seems a bit rank sometimes despite his experience...

Commentators mentioned Tim added a stride at the oxers

I don't think it's the knowledge of the pins being there, I wonder if it may just be a touch too long with the striding and with them being such wide fences you have to be really stretched out to make it over.

Bummer about Doug, horse was just a little too backed off and four-footed it...

Can't wait to see Jonelle go but will probably be in bed by then! (In Oz right now :p)

Some nice riding and some not-so - nice riding... Richard was an accident waiting to happen, he was all over the place at the trout hatchery!

Thanks! I appreciate it. I'll try to see if I can find one to try here, since the only brands with the rings set like that are Herm Sprenger, Neue Schule, and Stubben. If I like it I might order one of the Jeffries or Cotswold knockoffs from your side of the pond to save some pennies. ;-)

So the NS/Cotswold universal gag reminds me of a Dutch gag in its appearance, although the rings seem to be set slightly differently (the bottom ring being inset in the middle ring, and the top ring is angled)... do they behave the same way? (We're severely lacking in creative bit options over...

Hello all! Question for all you bitting experts out there. I have a thoroughbred gelding that I'm moving up to Preliminary (BE Novice level). I need to reassess his bitting for cross country as the slow twist copper Dr. Bristol I had him in for lower levels is a little too mild and it takes...

In regards to the neck/whiplash issue... what if the rider also wore a neck protector? Rodney Powell makes one that's designed to prevent whiplash. Perhaps this additional padding will decrease the distance between the back of the neck and the vest and help prevent neck injury. (I can't...