IndieandElsie
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Does anybody know if you can wear rhythm beads while competing?
Can you wear rhythm beads while competing?
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piebaldsparkle
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What competition?
Most rhythmic pony?
Most rhythmic pony?
Enfys
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You or the horse?
IndieandElsie
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IndieandElsie
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What competition?
Most rhythmic pony?
haha we'd win that one
showjumping and dressage?
piebaldsparkle
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Well both can be done with a neckstrap, so suspect you wouldn't be stopped, but you would look a right plonker.
pixiebee
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Well both can be done with a neckstrap, so suspect you wouldn't be stopped, but you would look a right plonker.
why would she look like a plonker?
piebaldsparkle
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Shantara
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I'm planning to wear mine! He seems to listen to them and concentrates a bit more. Mine's only a little local show, so it should be fine
Pearlsasinger
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TBH, if you need rhythm beads, you're really not ready for a dressage test.
SarahRicoh
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Am i being thick? What are rhythm beads and what do they do?
YorksG
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If you are entering any sort of ridden competition, I would think that the judge would take a dim view of you using an artifcial aid to keep the horse rhythmic. I would expect if you were competing in dressage that YOU would be imposing the rhythm, rather than the horse and the beads.
rhino
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Giant horse necklaces, the 'jangling' is supposed to help calm the horse and keep it in a rhythm
piebaldsparkle
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£20+ string of beads & bells that according to a site "Provide, a soft, musical ring as you ride, horse beads help you and your horse to relax, focus and find a rhythm, and of course they look beautiful too!"
Shantara
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£20+ string of beads & bells that according to a site "Provide, a soft, musical ring as you ride, horse beads help you and your horse to relax, focus and find a rhythm, and of course they look beautiful too!"
I made mine myself
cost less than £5 and I had fun making it too!I know it sounds namby-pamby, but Ned's a pacer (when he gets excited) and it's helped him
SarahRicoh
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Thankyou i had no.idea they existed!
Amaranta
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piebaldsparkle
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I made mine myself
I know it sounds namby-pamby, but Ned's a pacer (when he gets excited) and it's helped him
LMAO that takes matchy, matchy to a whole new level!
Have to say though the 1st thing I noticed wasn't the beads, but your horses long front feet!
Shantara
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LMAO that takes matchy, matchy to a whole new level!
Have to say though the 1st thing I noticed wasn't the beads, but your horses long front feet!
Oh, that's not even the half of it, haha!
And he's not mine, I just spoil him with a polo every now and again! (Not to mention a truck load of accessories!) I think the farrier will be out soon, another horse had them done the other day, so he'd probably have had them done that day too. I don't know XD I'm only there once a week!
IndieandElsie
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I'm planning to wear mine! He seems to listen to them and concentrates a bit more. Mine's only a little local show, so it should be fine
mine will be local too
my horse just seems to find them comforting and she's such an airhead they help her concerntrate too x
IndieandElsie
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I made mine myself
I know it sounds namby-pamby, but Ned's a pacer (when he gets excited) and it's helped him
MY GIRL IS A PACER TOO, woo haha
and your rhythm beads are lovely x
Angelbones
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Honest to goodness I thought rhythm beads were an 'intimate accessory' from shops with blacked out windows
IndieandElsie
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So because i need rhythm beads to help SOOTHE my horse and calm her down, i shouldnt do dressage right.
I dont use them for 'helping with rhythm' i use them because i have a nervy horse and they were recommended funnily enough by my dressage instructor
Shantara
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LMAO that takes matchy, matchy to a whole new level!
Have to say though the 1st thing I noticed wasn't the beads, but your horses long front feet!
Can safely say, yes, they have been trimmed! (Just got back from seeing him)
OP: Good luck
Let us know how you get on I don't think you'll look silly at all!
Hollycatt
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Honest to goodness I thought rhythm beads were an 'intimate accessory' from shops with blacked out windows
ha ha - I am glad I'm not the only only for whom that sprung to mind
IndieandElsie
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Honest to goodness I thought rhythm beads were an 'intimate accessory' from shops with blacked out windows
haha that made my day thank you
CambridgeParamour
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Honest to goodness I thought rhythm beads were an 'intimate accessory' from shops with blacked out windows
Me too, don't worry!
sandi_84
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I made mine myself
Oooh what did you use and where did you get all the bits to make one? I'd love to make a set for my boy, and I like to make stuff too so it'd be for me aswell
Honest to goodness I thought rhythm beads were an 'intimate accessory' from shops with blacked out windows
Ha ha ha ha ha! So glad I had swallowed my mouthfull of coffee before i got to this post, LMAO
Spotsrock
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I'd feel too silly to wear them in public. I'm not particularly traditional and have completed jumping courses in walk and trot singing twinkle twinkle to s, but hippy beads i'd draw the line at. What's next, flowers in the name and tail for eventing? If the sound really helps perhaps u could attach a couple of discreet little bells on the bridle or saddle? I would expect to be marked down severely in dressage and scare other competitors in jumping warm up.
Shantara
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Oooh what did you use and where did you get all the bits to make one? I'd love to make a set for my boy, and I like to make stuff too so it'd be for me aswell
Ebaaay
You need about 200 beads and I used a fine bit of leather string I would totally put flowers in Ned's mane and paint Native American stuff on him if I was allowed XD