Help!! Long arena test!

[Ample Prosecco]

I will do but may not know it by tomorrow morning! Although actually it seems quite straightforward to remember, once I worked out where the movements actually go.

 

[Roxylola]

It reads it out loud to you so you just need a speaker or headset and phone

 

[Ample Prosecco]

Oh wow. Even better!

 

[EventingMum]

I recently helped a couple of riders with this test prior to the Scottish BE90 champs at Blair. IMO it's a nice test that rides well, as a previous poster said just remember the give and retakes. Good luck!

 

[teapot]

Long arena tests are so much nicer - enjoy! (Just ride the centre line, they can go on and on and on...)

 

[silv]

I have not ridden in a short arena for years, it would be very difficult I think. All my tests here are in 20x60 same with my one at home. It is difficult to remember the new letters so just think of them as the "inbetween markers" this is what I do. draw out a plan in your head and memorise it. Good luck you will wonder what you worried about once you have done the test.

 

[doodle]

I made these when they started asking for 15m.circles in a 20x60. I properly measured everything out. But actually I tend to go from "the new marker" to the "other new marker".

Also learned that it is R S V P from top right when you are at A.

20 x 60 is so much easier tho. I now struggle in a 20 x 40!

Urgh sorry it is saying is file too large.

 

[iknowmyvalue]

I had this realisation about 2wks before my regionals, it is actually quite a nice test and not too bad to learn. I just remember the extra letters as “that funny letter” and “the other funny letter”, which my dressage instructor (who is a very good rider and a listed BD judge) admitted she also does

 

[Ample Prosecco]

@ycbm you are a star. Brilliant session in the Ash arena and the test rides beautifully. If only Lottie could produce that kind of work in a comp!! One day. Icing on the cake was vet, Claire (who is based there), coming into the arena to lunge another pony and saying how good Lottie looks!

Though she gave me a heart attack walking back to the lorry suddenly coming up hopping lame. Stone in shoe. Phew! Those stones in the Ash are quite big! She somehow picked one up on exit.

 

[ycbm]

I wish I could have been there to read it for you but I'm in Manchester. Glad it went well, I wish they would get the stones out of the grit in the "Ash", it's a great foot conditioning surface other than that.

 

[Dasher66]

If you lay out a dressage arena with White House guttering components, crucially with big gaps at the corners and where the letters are, you can school “outside the box”. ie practice all the school movements without training your horse to lean on the fence or cut the corners.