What do you think of this course for an Intro??

[H-J]

Just been looking @ Poplars website and looking @Intro course.

Look substantially bigger then last year and they have added lots of PN fences!!

Nice course - but is it really an earlier run Intro??

Have a look - http://www.poplarparkevent.com/intro.htm

Your views??

 

[KatB]

Not a particularly friendly course IMO!! Looks trappy, and first few fences not very inviting....

 

[hollyzippo]

I think it looks ok- water not very inviting if you have a water phobe but ok apart from that

 

[lizzie_liz]

as an early event, think it could be kinder, and agree with Kat B about first few fences

 

[jemima]

I want a go!

I don't fancy travelling all that way in my lorry though.

 

[charlie76]

I think it looks ok, the first water looks a little like a swamp!

 

[BBs]

Bit trappy in a couple of places. I would question some of the pics due to them having Novice and PN boards on and NOT orange Intro.

 

[Bossanova]

The intermediate looks lush- would be right up Boss's street

Agree intro looks trappy

 

[Kelly1982]

Also agree with KatB but then i am a SJer so solid fences scare me anyway

 

[H-J]

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Bit trappy in a couple of places. I would question some of the pics due to them having Novice and PN boards on and NOT orange Intro.

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I agree - guess I will just have to wait till I get there to see what the actual course is like!!

Should be fine though - after the way they schooled yesterday!! If in doubt Spidey trots in and pops over! She has the most amazing scopey jump!

 

[BBs]

TBH pictures and courses can change so much from year to year unless its a course that runs 2-3 times a season.
Mattingley for instance, the fences there are beautiful every year, but they change the course the whole time!
I would be interested to see the pictures from say EWW or ER.com from PPark than PP's own website.
MKEC is the same. Their fences on their website havent been updated for ages, when i know they have far more new fences now.

 

[evsj]

It looks great to me but then I have been deprived of xc for a while!!

 

[Thistle]

some of the larger fences are adjustable so may be lowered. We did a schools comp there last year that was 3'3" and it had loads of the novice routes on (like the first water) and a couple on Intermediate eg 2nd water out over palisade and the final horse shoe, still up at it's intermediate height. Some of the fences in the wood can be a bit gloomy but they seem to jump OK.

The first water is a little stream so it gurgles and moves!