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Can someone please reassure me that I'm not wrong in thinking its common sense and etiquette to announce which fence you are jumping in a SJ warm-up.

The last few shows I have been to only a couple of people have called out in advance which fence they are jumping. The lack of people doing this has led to some near misses and some very irate people (including me!
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What do fellow HHO'ers think?
 
Well, if no-one's near it on foot, or looking as if they're going to amble across the fence, or looking about to jump, then i tend to keep quiet. however, if there's lots of people on foot near the practise fences, i always call out. didn't stop some stupid woman stepping under and altering the back bar of a very big oxer on my take-off stride once, though... i wasn't terrible polite about that, must admit. nearly had a heart-attack in mid-air.
if someone else is cantering around at the same time as i am, i'll ask "going to the upright?" or something as i go past them, just in case they are too.
 
Personally I dont call out every time I jump a fence. I only do if I see someone about to get in my way or if the little bugger grooms run out to amend the fence without even looking because god forbid anyone ELSE other than their own rider should want to jump!

Some of our rings are small and can get busy so there'd be a lot of calling out if that were the case!
 
Lol! I didn't mean call out if the warmup is virtually empty! Its just the last couple of shows (unaffiliated and BSJA) the arena has been packed and people are cutting each other up and riding in front of other people to get the fence without any warning.

Although at the last Norton Heath show I landed after a fence and had to do a emergency stop as someone cut in front of it even though I did shout a warning!
 
I like it when someone standing at the other jump backs into your takeoff zone and you know they aren't paying ANY attention to you!

I usually call if there is any traffic and if I see anyone starting up or turning looking like they're going to the same jump.

I had a top showjumper once decide to use my placing rail for a trot pole while I was enroute. Apparently he thought the jumps were all his!

Worst collection ring crash I ever saw was someone turning to jump a flagged fence BACKWARDS just as someone else committed to it. . . . I think everyone in the ring had a heart attack! It was at a Championship 3DE too, so hardly beginners! I blamed the backwards jumper's father, who had her thoroughly wound up.
 
I think we should all carry a whistle with us so we blow it (no chances of "i didn't hear you shout") on approach. This really gets my goat when people are bloody ignorant enough to think that THEY are the only ones that should be allowed to warm up.

I say it again.... all it takes is a little common courtesy - it's not bloody hard!!!! AAAGGGGHHHH!! I'll go and explode now!
 
I call out if people stood by fences or other horses in the way / look like they are preparing to jump the fence.

Towerlands really bugged me the other day, people stopping by the entrace to warm up ring with horses bum in the approach for the spread (not helpful when on a 5yo who's warming up indoors for the 1st time)
 
On the flip side are the people who shout at you when your horse is clearly thoroughly wound up by the over-crowded warmup and they seem to think you might be asking it to misbehave in front of the practice fence on purpose....

I think we should all cut other people some slack TBH. Yes there are rules, yes, it is not rocket science to run a warm-up well, but when it isn't happening, if you just take a deep breath and remember other people are nervous, their horses may look fine but may feel at boiling point, and in fact they may not be doing something just to spite you (amazing as it may seem), then we'd all feel a lot better....
 
My god that was close
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That could have been a huge accident!

sammiea - it was BSJA at Towerlands on Sat that finally made me do this post. My trainer was asking the fellow people standing around before he adjusted a fence but other people were just moving to what suited them regardless of if you were jumping it at the time. People were also cutting in front of you to jump a fence even if you had just announced you were going to jump it
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Crikey Saf, that was very nearly very horrible. Maybe next time she decides to pick a fight with her horse, she won't do it right beside the practise fence. Could i hear you having a little word afterwards?
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I had someone very nearly hit me head-on when i was 4 strides from an upright at BSJA, after she decided to ignore the flags and jump it the other way. She then proceeded to try to give me a mouthful for being in her way.
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Would not have made a blind bit of difference she was having one hell of a time, I was really calm till I saw the vid and realised how close it was, oh well we used one of our 9 lives
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