Show Jumping is better than Eventing.

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And MysteryGirl, any suggestions?

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You're the expert here!

Ummmm, a few wine-fuelled suggestions
1) Dressage is better than SJ and Eventing put together
2) Showing is better than dressage
3) Endurance beats everything else

Anything appeal in there?!?
 
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And MysteryGirl, any suggestions?

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You're the expert here!

Ummmm, a few wine-fuelled suggestions
1) Dressage is better than SJ and Eventing put together
2) Showing is better than dressage
3) Endurance beats everything else

Anything appeal in there?!?

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You need more wine hon
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Nah, none of them could even be open to debate
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I was thinking "I'm a better rider than Mark Todd" or "Katie Price is the best thing to ever happen to equestrianism."

I'll sleep on it.
 
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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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Aww thanks Spotted cat!!! I assure you ....it was taken in that way too by me!! Beats watching CSI or somesuch !!!

Anyway - If eventers can 'Do it three ways for three days' Show Jumpers can't be better - can they................
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How about all female Eventers should get massive boob jobs - safety (more natural and less neck injuries than Point 2) and to make a few extra pennys to pay for the ridiculous cost of it? Plus I think it would raise the profile of the sport especially if Zara Phillips went to 32FF.
 
You know, i almost said that earlier but i thought my motives would be questioned. Obviously, i would want to see it happen only for the matter of safety, not for any other reason. ahem.
 
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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?

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Love it!
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OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOH Have only just read the original Tabledancer thread!!!!!! I was way behind DOH!!!

You can't put porny piccy's on here!!!

And who said anything about mediocre? Eventers are NEVER mediocre!
 
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Nah, none of them could even be open to debate
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I was thinking "I'm a better rider than Mark Todd" or "Katie Price is the best thing to ever happen to equestrianism."

I'll sleep on it.

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ok so maybe some predictably bad suggestions there!

How about 'a riding hat is merely an ornament when schooling' or 'why bother getting my horse's back/teeth/tack checked?' or 'what you you think of concealed cameras in the ladies changing rooms?'

Would any of those start a debate do you think?
 
showjumping is the BEST
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although i do enjoy a bit of xc...i definitley prefer sj.

and i personally don't think i am one that is a 'bling' wearer with my name on everything... lol
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bah HAH HAH HAH. LMAO
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Why has no one picked up the true *joy* of showjumping - the ladies fashions?!!! I give you (a) skintight white breeches with no underwear / dayglo thongs (b) blinging loopy earrings entangled with hats (c) a physical aversion to hairnets ... do I need to carry on???

IMHO (a) is far more physically dangerous than a mere fixed obstacle to encounter... airbags or no airbags!

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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

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at their steadfast refusal to wear a martingale

You can
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at their yellow tags

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

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when they beat you

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Excellent
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OMG I did laugh. My daughter does BE as her first choice and BSJA during the winter. BSJA mummies are far chavvier, louder and downright critical of their offspring than BE mummies. The times I have bit my lip when a mummy standing next to me makes the comment 'You can tell she events, she cant showjump properly and goes at it far to fast, it does not sit on its hocks properly ........' When my daughter and her eventer have just done a lovely clear round after her daughter got two down etc. Shut up you stupid cows, get your kids doing some proper flatwork, wake up and smell the coffee.

Rant over.
 
Love Gamebirds description!! Brilliant!

Im an eventer AND a showjumper, although eventer at heart I have to say. Show jumping isn't exciting enough, there's no adrenalin rush. Show jumping sucks, you go all that way and can drop a pole in each class - what a waste of time. At least you get to do 3 totally different things at BE.

I have to also say that I find the people in BE FAR FAR nicer than those who do BSJA!! A lot of BSJA people are rude and so snobby (or chavvy). Its all about how you LOOK in BSJA, nobody cares what you look like for BE (yes, I have just arrived home from BE in filthy muddy jodphurs and a sugar beet covered XC top...classy?!).
 
showjumping is the BEST!!!! everything about it is sooooooooo much better than eventing
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oh n most showjumpers don't have their names on everything only their sponsors
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they have their names on the lorries lol

oh and showjumpers are so much nicer than eventer in my opinion and no offence to you eventers
 
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I don't mind SJing it's the SJers that are the problem
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c wat u mean. i dont enjoy eventing - i only do it so i can get away from the snobs that think they're the best, then fall off cuz they can't ride and tell the horse off because of it!

*sprints away, never to be seen again*
 
Well I enjoy seeing eventers attempt to showjump at bsja shows. It gives me a lot of amusement, they fill out the classes so there's more prizes down the line but there's no danger of being beaten :)
 
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Well, it's certainly chavvier. Fact.
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Showjumping IS chavvier. If you want to win any money back to cover entry fees / diesal then IMO showjumping IS better. BE organisation (and website - the BSJA website is dreadful!) is so much better however. I've found that BE people are generally more polite in the practice ring and have better behaved horses! (after having to leave the practice ring twice over the weekend at a BSJA event...).

There's a definate 'issue' with eventers who showjump. Everybody jokes we're rubbish at showjumping. After competing over the weekend (winning 2 classes as an "eventer"), the eventers won several classes beating the showjumpers.
 
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Are they the ones in the tweed jackets?
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Yes, tweed jackets, skull caps with the peak of the cover bent upwards, brushing boots & 5 point breastplate. They are usually called names such as Camilla or Charlotte & a double barrelled surname, or are still called by a childhood nickname relating to a type of animal, they still refer to their mum as "mummy" lol
 
Just because you show jumpers are jealous that we eventers can participate in your sport but you can't play our BE game! ;)

FWIW I don't have a double barelled name but do wear a skull cap, my tweed and my 5 point breatplate out show jumping.

SHOOT. ME. NOW. :D
 
Never saw this thread the first time around but it has really made me giggle, :D

Especially Gamebird's "The joys of eventing by an Eventer" so so so true!:D
 
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Why has no one picked up the true *joy* of showjumping - the ladies fashions?!!! I give you (a) skintight white breeches with no underwear / dayglo thongs (b) blinging loopy earrings entangled with hats (c) a physical aversion to hairnets ... do I need to carry on???

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...and some sort of funny coloured jacket. With insignia/names/bling nestled in.

I cringe a little when my chap comes to BS - he cannot be trusted with inappropriate comments. Last outing:

Chap: "Is Toni Terri here?"
Me: "Er, no. She does stressage."
Chap: "Right. So, is Katie Price here?"
Me (confused): "Babe, she does stressage too - we've never seen her before! Why are you asking me about Katie Price?"

Thoughtful Pause

Chap: "Well, it's just that there is enough bling round here for both of them...."
 
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