Warm-up whinges.

Ok i cant stand the kids that consistently jump there ponies/horses 2ft higher than what the class is !! and when the pony refuses or gets it wrong smacks the pony !!

also the rude people when your warming someone up who jump the jump thinking you will just put it back up for them to smash down - i must say ive had a few strops and when finished warming someone up have thrown allt he poles on the floor !!!
 
I am constantly (and I mean constantly!!) shouting left to left to people when I warm up, and this mostly happens unaff SJing or dressage (I spose BE there is acres and acres to get out of each others way!!) And they just look at me with a blank expression on their face!!

And I also hate it when people keep jumping and jumping and jumping in the warm up - I feel so sorry for the horse/pony
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Oh, don't get me started on warm-up! My mare is also iffy when people leave a whisker between us when passing:

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Some people just dont realise that just because their horse doesnt care, it doesnt mean others dont.


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Precisely.

None of us are perfect and I admit to having inadvertantly cut someone up on the odd occasion. On those rare occasions I have apologised.
However, I seem to be on the receiving end about 1000 times as often and I can't bear the stony glares as you yank your horse up from canter to halt in half a second as a rider is headed straight towards you, fixated on the floor. Surely a 'sorry' would be more appropriate?
I have taken to calling 'look up' now if I think its necessary. It does the trick!
 
I find that getting looked as if I'm demented for announcing I'm coming into the warm up quite entertaining.

Often there's a notice with in a few feet of me saying I have to announce I'm etnerting the arm up but I still get looked at like I'm a complete monster.
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Having been on a busy livery yard with for several years I've got used to riding with lots of other horses, apparently this disturbs others as I have the confidence to go about my buisness adhering to the rules whcih seems to freak some people out. Although it's quote funny when I find someone tailing me as I navigate my way around.

Perhasp I'm the one you're all on about though, ooopps sorry if I am.

The who give way to lateral work bit is fraught with danger though, I have been told off by someone who was attempting shoulder in so thought they should have right of way, well you may have been attempting it but you weren't in it so how the heck was I supposed to know.
 
My worst warm up niggle was at dorchester show this year,

There wasn't a warm up arena!!!!!!!!!!

this is a county show and your expecting everyone to warm up by dodging lorries and tractors?! I felt really sorry for the WH as they didn't even have a practice fence.
Needless to say the showjumpers had a warm up arena, but this was tiny and I wouldn't have wanted to jump my expensive show jumper in it.
 
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when I started warming up I was pretty much on my own, then it gradually got busier, anyhoo, was minding my own business when saw this girl heading towards me, kept looking thinking, which way is she going to go, so I thought, ok, left to left, so I start to ride over to my left and so does she (to my left that is)
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in the end a screeched to a halt as she wasn't going to stop or move for anyone and for my troubles I got sworn at
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Erm...sorry...but I think you were in the wrong. To pass 'left to left' means you pass left shoulder to left shoulder.....or put another way you both should have gone to your respective right
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People walking their horses around the warm up area two or three abreast chatting as if they were out for a hack.

Trainers giving a lesson to a couple of their students in the warm up area.

People circling their horse across the back of a fence when someone is coming into the jump.

Jumps massively higher than the class that is currently running.

Most of all, down right bloody rudeness
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If ever anyone cuts me up or has a near miss, I never snarl or swear in fact I do the opposite, I usually laugh and say "no worries", can't see the point in bitching at people.

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obviously more patient than me!!

I dont compete much but when I ride with my friends they are awful.

NO-ONE except me and my friend kate know the school rules. We are the only ones who want to get something done (schooling or whatever) whereas everyone just wants to jump high or wide.

So I was on this lovely pony who is quite difficult to stay in canter with other horses cantering around (nappy) so I asked everyone to basically steer clear for a lap or two to get her started.

NO-ONE listened, I get cut up and everything. Then we jumped and I shout "im jumping everyone move please!" so this idiot halts IN FRONT OF THE JUMP! I circle and tell her to move. She is like "what? oh!" and laughs. Not funny from my point of view! My friend (kate) was jumping a quite fast horse who bombs towards jumps.

She warned that she was jumping yet the SAME GIRL halts in front of this upright. The horse squeals and goes into flat-out canter towards it. Kate had real trouble in circling her and the girl is still "what? ME?"

YES YOU! YOU ARE HALTED IN FRONT OF THE JUMP!!!!!!!
 
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I find that getting looked as if I'm demented for announcing I'm coming into the warm up quite entertaining.

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agree heartily. My friend and I (who share an instructor, but different lessons) have had the school rules drummed into us like the lords prayer by the aforesaid instructor, who competes BD

I always say "jumping towards gate" or whichever, and people look at me like Im screaming nonsense. They never say what they are doing, and if you are behind someone, and you want to jump, and they are in trot, you don't know whether they are jumping!

And by the time you realise they aren't, there is no time for a good canter transition or whatever. Im easily spotted in a warm-up arena. Just look for the one calling out "are you jumping?"

answered by "what??!"

which often ends up with me shrieking "ARE YOU - OH NEVER MIND!!!"
 
I hate it when you have someone hogging both practise jumps at SJ and jumping them a lot bigger than the class so nobody else gets a look in!!
Also at a show, there was a tiny (and i mean tiny, could have only been about 20 by 30m) warm up area for showing classes, show jumping and showing. There was also a tiny piece of rope next to where hoards of spectators came in. We were there with both horses so my ned was all wound up, prancing everywhere, chucking it head around and reversing into other horses- it was a nightmare!! Als there was loads of space at the other side of the show but 'horses weren't allowed past this point'!!
 
Grrr how annoying!

Having never warmed-up over jumps (I either do dressage or jump competitively at riding school, where you get a few practice jumps in the ring) I havent experience much issue with over-jumping. But the worst one is cutting up.

I thought I annoyed a few people when I stopped - although not on outside or inside track but out of the way (shaking before my dressage) for my mate to give me some diet coke! I spent the next ten minutes apologising profousely to people who said they didnt mind!
 
Warming up at any bsja seems to be impossible... There's a succession of people with loud trainers hogging both jumps, doing a x pole, then a normal jump then a bigger jump then a HUGE jump, so I try to join in at the 'normal' jump stage & shout 'jumping!!!!!!' & then they put it up anyway as I'm on my approach even though they can't have failed to see/hear me.

Then I keep trotting round while they're having their puissance, and finally off they go and another trainer puts the jumps back to cross poles. Gaaaah.... Then by the time you've got cut up a few times, someone has crashed thru the jump & someone's refused several times & kept trying again, you're running out of time.

Cat got whacked across the face really hard with a schooling whip at Harolds Park BD once & the rude cow didn't even apologise. And at BD why is there ALWAYS someone's loud mum/trainer shouting, 'inside leg to outside rein'???? Is it in the rulebook that someone HAS to do this at all comps??
 
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I also don't like people who keep their horses on livery at a yard and then ride where people are trying to warm up. I was at a local level prelim dressage and there was 2 liveries riding where I was warming up, my horse is a youngster and very hard to relax and on numerous occasions I had a person doing flying changes on the diagonals staright at me........this did not lead to a very relaxed test!

The yard where i keep my girl runs dressage and showjumping. When the dressage is running there is a 40x40 surface to warm up on and they only allow 4 people at a time onto the surface. If you want to start warming up before you can use the surface there is a massive field to use. Us liveries unless competing are under no circustances allowed onto the surface, we can use the field but it is huge, we are not even allowed to ride in the woods just behind the arena as this may distract those doing their tests!
 
Warm up rings are awful places. The only warm ups I find ok are BE ones - the pratice SJ's have markers on them so they cannot be made any bigger than that which stops the usual BSJA trick of someone putting them up bloody massive so nobody else can warm up!

I also warm up on both reins at BSJA although I've also noticed most others dont which is odd. I also like to do circles etc. too but not much chance of that. I hate that the usual left to left pass seems very dodgy at BSJA too.
 
Warm-up Whinges...ummmm.

My stupid mare is a complete PIA when it comes to warm ups. She knows best. Obviously. We have to snort, leap and we can't possibly do anything over than a canter - preferably sideways. And just to make sure, incase people aren't staring at me enough already she has a bit of a breathing problem and sounds like a steam train going round. People just stand there open mouthed staring at me.
 
riding stallions at shows is a nightmare!! despite all the bsja ribbon in their tail and the discs on their bridles people still brush past you with inches to spare, cut you up and i ahve even had a girl stop dead in front of me..... on a bloody mare!!
 
Oh I'm so glad it's not just me!!
Had a complete nightmare at BD at Towerlands earlier this year - and the warm up is HUGE! There were "names" all over the place, practising their medium canters at speed on their huge horses, and expecting all of us to get out of their way. After the 6th near miss, my poor 5 yo decided he couldn't cope, so started spinning away from anything within 15 ft of him and taking off at speed in the other direction!
And when I asked the girl who had cut me up three times if she could give me a bit more room as he was a baby, she snarled that they are all babies!! So I pointed out that they weren't all losing the plot about it though were they.
Bless him, I had to take him out of the warm up and walk round the car park to warm up instead - disastrous tests and it's taken him 6 months to be able to even cope with attempting to go back into a warm up again.
Makes me so mad that people can be so RUDE!!
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I also had some people deliberately hit my old TB with their whips as they passed - which was a nightmare as I couldn't carry one and he freaked every time! My trainer thought they were trying to take out the opposition - a very backhanded compliment as they thought he was working in well!!
 
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