Nic
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Are you meant to learn 2 test for 1 day. Tis not possible! I can learn 1 test, 1sj & 1xc course but I can't learn 2 tests when they turn the same way at the top, Argh!
2 tests - How the heck
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Malibu
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what si your time before eahc test, if i have enough time between test then i dont bother tryign to remember the 2nd one too much then cram it all in between the gap but if you are riding it at home or in training then surely you must have an idea? I know what you mean though hun, who are you riding the test on; the new boy? x
Nic
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Hello you,
Long time no speak. How are you all?
With DA, Got an hour & a half so might have to try learning the 2nd one then. My caller is in Greece & Mum sent us wrong 4 times the last time so need to know them!
N xx
Long time no speak. How are you all?
With DA, Got an hour & a half so might have to try learning the 2nd one then. My caller is in Greece & Mum sent us wrong 4 times the last time so need to know them!
N xx
Malibu
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just looked at my reply and am ashamed; what has happened to my typing! I am trying to write an essay and post on here ! Lol, hope you coudl make out what i was "trying" to say! I know, its been too long, will pm you for a catch up. x x x
H-J
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Yes you can! I always learn 2 tests when I go to dressage in the winter. Just learn the 1st one very well and the 2nd vaguerly. Then after the 1st one try and forget about it and concentrate on the 2nd one - You will be fine!
Nic
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Right that's the method of attack I'm going for then!
Emma123
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I can't even learn one it seems- went wrong twice on Wednesday
...I'll stick to jumping
alicedove
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I have done two but it took a year or two of trying, to get it right in the end. I reckon if you are more nervous you get more of a block. Also if you are happy about the horse, level of test, used to riding all the separate movements, then you can think more about where you are going!
Santa_Claus
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trying doing 3 different tests with under 30mins between each one, with no callers allowed!! Done that a few times. thankfully I find learning tests easy. I memorise the shapes and not the markers as that is what works for me.
I tend to learn them each individually the week before then make a point of refreshing my memory of each test just before I ride it
I tend to learn them each individually the week before then make a point of refreshing my memory of each test just before I ride it
alicedove
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Yes I think thats how I do it, I vagualy know the tests at my level anyhow, then I refresh a day before, but only the first one, then after that one's over look at next one, etc etc
MissDeMeena
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I do it like santa does.. don't learn the markers, but learn what direction you should be going in!! also you pretty much do the same thing on each rein, so then all you need to learn is what comes first, trot, canter, walk, trot say.. or trot, walk, canter, trot.. is the usual order, then all you've got to work out is the change of directions, the circles, with the odd halt thrown in!!
simple!
Also, as said, read through them both, learn the first one, but forget about the second one, do the first one, then learn the second!!
simple!
Also, as said, read through them both, learn the first one, but forget about the second one, do the first one, then learn the second!!
Nic
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That's the only way I ever ride tests. Unless I say the rhyme I don't know which markers are which!
H-J
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I do it like santa does.. don't learn the markers, but learn what direction you should be going in!! also you pretty much do the same thing on each rein, so then all you need to learn is what comes first, trot, canter, walk, trot say.. or trot, walk, canter, trot.. is the usual order, then all you've got to work out is the change of directions, the circles, with the odd halt thrown in!!
simple!
Also, as said, read through them both, learn the first one, but forget about the second one, do the first one, then learn the second!!
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Glad im not the only one who does that!! I read them back to my mum and say circle up there and she says well what marker! And I say I dont know just circle at the top!
Learning the shapes not the markers is the way forward!
I do it like santa does.. don't learn the markers, but learn what direction you should be going in!! also you pretty much do the same thing on each rein, so then all you need to learn is what comes first, trot, canter, walk, trot say.. or trot, walk, canter, trot.. is the usual order, then all you've got to work out is the change of directions, the circles, with the odd halt thrown in!!
simple!
Also, as said, read through them both, learn the first one, but forget about the second one, do the first one, then learn the second!!
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Glad im not the only one who does that!! I read them back to my mum and say circle up there and she says well what marker! And I say I dont know just circle at the top!
Learning the shapes not the markers is the way forward!
Jo C
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I'm another one who learns them by patterns, I never know what letter I am doing anything at, just know I loop from top to bottom then circle at the bottom etc
Weezy
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I do that! Up centre, left, circle in the centre, down, round bottom, canter in the middle...
Never failed me yet!
Madam_max
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Me too and if they involve RSVP they are known as 'funny' markers
Nic
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Have just printed off the Dressage Diagrams sheets too which are very helpful, will make things much simpler to learn I think!
Alex_kate
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i am currently thinking the same thing! tonight i am going to try and learn both for a couple of weeks time, im rubbish at remembering as it
helenandshadow
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The first time I did 2 tests they were both long arena and it was the first time I'd done a long arena test, I didn't think I'd remember them but I did! I learn both tests then concentrate on the first one and forget about the second one until I've ridden the first, then re-learm the second one. I remember tests by the pattern too, can never remember the markers without saying the rhyme!