Warm ups - no manners at all?

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Why oh why do people think that it is okay to:
a) constantly cut across my circle in dressage warm up in what i can only assume is an effort to steal my area of ground that I had been working on for twenty minutes
b) walk right next to a jump at 0.0000000001mph in a busy SJ warm up
c) suddenly sit on a jump that has someone cantering towards it
d) canter in one direction, then suddenly yank their horse on a right angle so they are cantering into me so I have to yank MY horse on a right angle to avoid a collision
e) utterly refuse to obey the left hand to left hand rule
???????

it. drives. me. mad.

sorry, rant over. :|
 
I've recently started BS again after a long break from affiliated eventing/SJ/dressage and actually I've been pleasantly surprised so far by the warm ups. After the stories i've read on here about BS warm ups in particular, I was apprehensive about taking my 4 year old out and about but maybe the others recognise that I'm a grumpy old cow and keep well clear?? No doubt depends on the venue as well... At many, better stewards would be a big help and more concrete rules need to be put in place and stuck to.
 
take it with a pinch of salt
once nearly collided with someone jumping jump the wrong way - i can tell you i shouted like flaming hell 'RED RIGHT WHITE LEFT and can you not see people are jumping it the OTHER way?'
people these days tend to go out to shows and do there 'own thing' which is ok, but you need to do your own thing and have awareness of what is going on aroudn you!!
 
Tell me about it. Yesterday I could see this girl was having trouble so I said to her that I would go right to get out of her way she thanked me and then proceeded to turn a circle and ride into me! And then said I should learn to get out of the way and not go in collecting rings!

Also someone was about to put an upright up and it was a 1m class and it was already at 1m10 so I asked if I could pop it once more then they could carry on the woman said that was fine and then as I came into she started putting it up saw me coming and then ran in front to the other side and shoved it up to 1m20. She then said I didnt ask her clearly and 3 people said to her "the girl asked and you said OK"
Some people really dont think!!
 
that's why Millie wears a red ribbon in the warm up- she doesn't kick but gets extremely wound up by people barging her around.
 
I think that's my biggest pet hate from warmup rings, people putting the warm up fences up and up and up...it's really annoying when you're on a baby horse and someone else in your 55cm class whacks the jumps up 6 holes to the height of the intermediate!
 
actually, i disagree, I hate to see some one doing a circle in a busy warm up arena; especially if the arena is on the small side.

No problems what so ever with them circling if warm up is in a field or large enough to have plenty of room, but i cannot abide people who think that the circle they are doing is their "area" and no one should pass through. Dosent quite work like that.

I hate people who collide though, especially at events - there is one HORRIBLE person in EI, not even a pro - a sportsman competitor - who constantly rides over me and forces me off the way i am going. Really really narks me as she always does it - its not so hard to look up when warming up really!
 
I was in a fairly small dressage warmup on Saturday, and was v pleasantly surprised how civilized it was. There was up to 10 people in it at a time, and obviously as it was dresaage working on both reins and on circles etc.

Go on only_me - tell me who it was and I'll tell you if I've had the same experience.

Fiona
 
i irritates the hell out of me!!!! one think you've not mensioned is people changing the height of the jump when your trying to warm up! im like "hello that jump isnt for your personal use!!!"
At comps people probs call me every name under the sun as i will shout "left to left" if some one is in lala land!!!
 
I agree with only_me - people who think that the piece of ground they're working on is somehow "theirs" are infuriating and just as bad as people who hog the warm up fence.
 
agreed, nobody "owns" that particular area of the field or arena for their warm-up time!
people obliviously cantering circles on the landing side of the SJ warm-up fences drive me crackers though, have had a very close shave on landing over a big oxer and it wasn't funny at all.
i think the very worst are people in the dressage warm-up with a v long schooling whip sticking out sideways so you have to give them a 4' clearance, after my good mare got smacked hard across the face by some effing idiot (on purpose?) when warming up in an indoor at BD, she was always nervous in warm-ups. people using their heffalump warmbloods to shove us into the walls didn't exactly earn my undying gratitude either.
fwiw i find that riding with "soft eyes" (a Mary Wanless idea iirc) makes a huge difference in warm-ups.
 
I HATE it when people use my horses backside as some sort of breaking system! One show a novice rider decided to use my horse as a break, crashed right into him, and turned around said something then realised the owner of the horse was watching who i knew, oops!
Also I broke in a big Irish sports horse for someone and took it sj as 4 yrold. It was one of the horse first time out and he was being really good, then somebody jumped the practice fence, couldn't stop, went flying into the horse I was riding, me and owner wasn't too pleased as I had ages getting him nice and chilled.
 
i hate working in arenas...i think its one of he reasons that i like to event as it gives more space - you can usually find a little corner all on your own :D

it bugs me though if someone is hogging a particular space- you can't do that in a working in unfortunately. but my real bugbear is people who 'medium canter' their 19 hand warmbloods at your nervous 4 year old...not fun on ANY level! everyone has the odd near miss every now and then but i don't mind if they yell a quick "sorry"- its the ones who glare at you as if you are in the wrong for being there! the worst i have had recently has been unafil SJ- people jumping the fence the wrong way and parents adjusting darling little jimmy's girth on the track, right in the way! :mad:
 
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