Recent content by Kokeloke

For everyone who says that they wouldn't buy the jacket until they go higher... I have ridden at 3* and broke my vertebrea off an Introductory (85cm) horse :rolleyes:

Wow if I thought that showing a photo would have caused such a fuss, I wouldn't have posted it. Firstly there is no way you can have the so called 'proof' that everyone is after because at the end of the day, there is no possible way in this world that you can replicate two falls to be...

I don't care what people think about how the jacket was advertised using this photo but what this shows is that there is a fair percentage of rotational falls where the jacket would come into effect. At the end of the day I firmly believe that if Faith did not have the jacket on, she would be in...

I can only give you my experiences about the air vest. I am currently nursing a fractured L3 vertebrae that was caused from a fall off the a young horse at an event. My horse tripped / napped / did something which spat me out the front door a couple of strides after a small cross country fence...

Like Hen said, you need to work out why you are nervous and mentally, how does a competition differ to when you are schooling at home. What type of horse to do have? A schoolmaster or a greenie? A schoolmaster is worth their weight in gold to get over those first time nerves. I used to...