Show Jumping is better than Eventing.

I hate show jumping, when I have the choice of all the phases of eventing, but then again, someone said it earlier, I only tolerate Stressage and SJ for the XC. Although I do like a nice DAY out rather than a few hours competing.

I think I don't like Sj, because I'm bad at it xP

Although I do ADORE doing BSJA when I am saving for something
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Well, it's certainly chavvier. Fact.


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Went to Hickstead in June when staying with brother and his wife and had a fantastic day!!! Came home and said to brother over dinner what a great day we had had (expecting them to be pleased we were praising their local venue), but all we got was "showjumpers are all pikeys...etc". Said I didn't care if they were, at least they were pleasant and friendly.

I have a bit of a 'yearning' for one of those Equiport pinstriped jackets as well...

Is there any hope for me???

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I bloody well am her puce pink will clash with my baby blue!!!

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She does her range in baby blue too, perhaps you could be part of Team KP!
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well you say that but once shes out and about on the eventing scene and she see's those periwinkles............... it just could be the theme of the Spring 2010 line!?!?
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Well, SJ is easier... :P
Genuinely,for me SJ is the easiest phase,can just go in knowing my horse and I will go clear because he's a silly old bugger who's too competitive for his own good! However,this year neither my sister norI have faulted SJ... touch wood! XC scares the pants off me (nasty fall start of this year) and my horse goes lame doing dressage.
 
<font color="red"> The joy of Sjing by an eventer </font>

You are sat in the freezing cold in January waiting to jump newcomers when there are 100 in the BN and then another similar amount in the discovery.

You go to warm up in a space the size of a small stable. You can only go round on one rein and there are 30 people each yelling to have the fence exactly how they want it. You turn to jump but someone has whipped the fence up to 1.60m when the class is 1.10m. Another person is out of control in their massive gag and keeps crossing in front of you.

You then go into your newcomers and promptly have 2 fences down as you are both rusty after Christmas and you have waited for several hours and paid £16 for the joy of 2 minutes. It is then time to go home.
 
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<font color="red"> The joy of Sjing by an eventer </font>

You are sat in the freezing cold in January waiting to jump newcomers when there are 100 in the BN and then another similar amount in the discovery.

You go to warm up in a space the size of a small stable. You can only go round on one rein and there are 30 people each yelling to have the fence exactly how they want it. You turn to jump but someone has whipped the fence up to 1.60m when the class is 1.10m. Another person is out of control in their massive gag and keeps crossing in front of you.

You then go into your newcomers and promptly have 2 fences down as you are both rusty after Christmas and you have waited for several hours and paid £16 for the joy of 2 minutes. It is then time to go home.

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Ah, but then....

<font color="red"> The joys of eventing, by an eventer </font>

You leave home at 3.30am and turn up wired on coffee and bleary eyed to go for a compulsory 3.5k walk at 7am. You then get to swear at a stiff piece of wood (aka known as 'the event horse') for 30 mins in the dressage warm-up, and are in turn sworn at by someone called Camilla because you haven't given way to her and she's doing lateral work on Mummy's ex advanced-eventer (in the intro). This is followed by 5mins trotting and cantering pointless circles for the benefit of some old biddy's guide dog who promptly gives you a 5 for every movement, whether you actually performed it or not.
Then (knowing that the only chance you can now be placed is if every single other competitor is eliminated) you tackle a demolition derby of stripey poles at a half gallop on a horse who'd much rather be elsewhere (and let's face it, the jockey would too).
Finally 'the bit we all do it for' where you promptly ruin your chances of ever getting a rosette by galloping straight past the skinny one stride after the 6ft drop because your horse is such a XC machine that the concepts of 'braking' and 'steering' have somehow disappeared in the red mist. Oh, and it has been p!ssing down rain all day and even your third best pair of breeches are soaked through. Horse is coated in mud from head to toe, you've been at the event for 8.5hrs thanks to some rather unhelpful times and the tractor man has gone home by the time you need towing out. Did I mention paying half a week's wages for the privilege?

Just playing devil's (or Starman's) advocate
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OMG!!
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This whole thread has made me laugh so much!! Completely made my (very dull Friday)evening!!!

By the sounds of things, it was was started (rather personally) by people who knew something about piccy's(?) and coats that no-one else knows - and has somehow moved on...................?
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However, .....If you want to see what a chav in a coat looks like, see Mik's avatar (5th post on this thread!!!)

Sorry Mik - couldn't resist!! He/she looks luverly!!!!
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<font color="red">The joys of watching an Eventer show jumping by a Show Jumper </font>

You can
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at how they can't cope without set times and haven't mastered the phone yet to see how many in a class

You can
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at their steadfast refusal to wear a martingale

You can
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at their yellow tags

You can
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at them always putting in one less stride than they should in any distance

You can
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Not to mention their insistence on tweed, gloves and warming up on both reins, howver suicidal that may be.

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I had forgotton the tweed and stock
 
The joys of watching a Sjer try to do dressage

You can
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when the sjer realises they have never asked for trot before.

You can
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when the sjer trys to enter down the centre line with draw reins on.

You can
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when they realise that they are the only heterosexual men amongst all those women!
 
owhh guys guys!

i showjump because im too much of a wimp to go xc! ill admit it
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yes i have a sheepskin half pad, yes i have a coat with my name written on it. (should i admit this??) yes i do have a cute blingin' brow band.
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id admire you eventers. i wish i could do it but i havent got the guts.
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OMG! This gets better and better!!!

BUT..............Where is Kerilli!!!!!?
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She should be in here by now surely!!!
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Love it all..............but should be going to bed ..early start...so keeep it going quickly!!!
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OMG!!
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This whole thread has made me laugh so much!! Completely made my (very dull Friday)evening!!!

By the sounds of things, it was was started (rather personally) by people who knew something about piccy's(?) and coats that no-one else knows - and has somehow moved on...................?
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However, .....If you want to see what a chav in a coat looks like, see Mik's avatar (5th post on this thread!!!)

Sorry Mik - couldn't resist!! He/she looks luverly!!!!
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Don't worry Punk - there is no in-joke at all - it was a follow on from another thread about pictures which (I sincerely hope!) don't exist (see the 'Tabledancer' thread), and I think was started only to provide some entertainment - well that's the spirit I took it in and responded in kind!
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Knowing K she's sensible enough to be in bed. Which is where I should be if I hadn't just wandered thorugh to the fridge for another glass of wine.....
 
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Knowing K she's sensible enough to be in bed. Which is where I should be if I hadn't just wandered thorugh to the fridge for another glass of wine.....

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Just keep the bottle in the lounge hun, saves on the legs!

Was just wondering what topic Starman is going to 'wind us up and set us off on' tomorrow night as this has been soooo entertaining!
 
Irishman goes for a job at a blacksmiths.

"Have ye any experience at shoeing horses?"

"Nope, but i once told a donkey to f*ck off"
 
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Yoiks, can you tell it's not my first? And I've got a hunter trial on a dyspraxic 4yo at some ungodly hour tomorrow
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Maybe if showjumping had times.... and banned both petal boots and random verbal abuse in the collecting ring.... then it just 'might' be considered on a par with eventing.
 
Haven't read the whole thing, non of it in fact but..

I like SJ because I think it is more exciting in a competitive sense, to watch and to do. If your taking part or not, you can watch the whole class in an hour or so and get involved. .. but it's not that exciting!

Eventing I thinking is more of a doing sport, because riding XC is the best thing ever!!! But from a competitive sense you don't get to watch the jump off and have to wait hours for a result.. so that side of it is boring!

Both good in their own ways!
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