What is your competition nemesis?

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Everyone in all disciplines has them. For eventers it might be coffins, or trakheners, or bounces into water. For showjumpers it could be 1 - 2 stride trebles with a spread in the middle, or airy uprights. For me (dressage) its bloody walk pirouettes. I HATE them.
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If at all possible I'll not enter tests which have them.
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So, what's yours and how do you deal with it?
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I dont think I used to have one but now it's trakhenhers
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I am currently dealing with it by telling myself my horse cannot possibly make the same mistake three times.....
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depends what horse i'm on!
Mary = dressage
Tink = showjumping
answer - give my self a kick up the back side, both horses can do it i just need to ride properly.
 
Coffins! In my experience the horse doesn't ride 'just like its a simple rail' if the rider is a useless sack of potatoes having a panic attack about her impending death from three strides out
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I lack faith in my own ability and consequently forget to breathe an awful lot when SJing! I need to do it v regularly to feel half way happy as I am utterly convinced that the world is pointing and mocking me! I know what to do now to sort out my dressage and I am good at XC, but SJ troubles me.
 
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It's simply panicking. I am so paranoid about getting it right - Z deserves double clears and wins etc but it's just me that holds him back. I look totally calm but actually I'm not

I don't have the balls to go with him (he's much better at SJ than I am) and so therefore I hook which instantly lowers his jump by 5cm. This also means that I get pinged miles into the air and land flat on my bottom looking up at a bemused ponio!
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For me its trakhenhers ...if you are going to fall at one, it's usually a nasty fall.
It has made me seriously doubt my own ability...
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very big square parallels in sj, particularly if 1st part of a double or treble. probably because i rode a very honest but unscopey mare for a long time, and she really struggled with them. i just try to really concentrate on the rhythm and keep using my legs within the stride i have, but it doesn't always work!
i get more nervous about BE sj than anything else, and like Spotted_Cat i forget to breathe sometimes, not a good habit. if i could sing a note i'd sing my way round to keep myself breathing in rhythm, but my singing's so bad i'd probably get banned!
in dressage - flying changes. i over-ride them like a muppet.
xc - big fences with ditch towards (like Centaur's Leap sort of thing) - again, i over-ride them like a total prat. last time I jumped a big one I can remember the horse, in mid-air, feeling quite surprised, in a "why the hell did she do that?" sort of way. horse jumped fence well in spite of rider, kind of thing.
crikey, i have quite a few hang-ups. my poor horses!
 
Oxer rails xc, probably after breaking my jaw in 4 places after a HF, that gives me the willies a bit
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Like Kerilli, square oxers as the first part of a double in the sjing.

Nothing in dressage...... yet.
 
I rather too inclined to show-jump open poley oxers on a XC course - that one in the Int at Belton never fails to scare me. If it was a table of the same dimensions I'd attack it like hell!. Nothing else really, although like most eventers BE SJing isn't exactly my favourite place to be
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DR - panicking and feeling sick
SJ - panicking and feeling sick
XC - panicking and feeling sick

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lol ok seriously...

DR - left rein canter is still very poor.
SJ - not much phases Tara to be honest - the height scares me once I go over 90cms but am getting better the more I do
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XC - need to ride the fences more instead of being a passenger - although have only been once so a bit early to say!
 
Well up until recently it was only in XC and it was a rail to a step down or a downhill rail to ditch - basically anything you can't see until you've jumped, or are jumping, the rail (this is prob due to riding a mare who is honest and will jump anything but does not like to be taken by surprise!)

But just recently it's changed to showjumping and it's simply SPREADS!!! Why do they always have to put them as the first fence?! I'm practising.....
 
I don't do much dressage, but cantering across the diagnal without changing leg is so dam annoying! I ended up with Pickle doing flying changes I didn't even know he could do!
 
DRESSAGE!!!!! - Free walk!

SHOW JUMPING!!!!! - Those stupid jump 4 joy hanging fillers or gates with no poles on top and those stupid stiles that are pointless.

You only get them unaffiliated normally stupid pony clubs who think they are a good idea, the course should be technical and more than 9 jumps rather than the actual fences flimsy imo!

CROSS COUNTRY!!!!! - doubles of skinnys with only the one stride in between and jumps over something into water - I fell in once
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and will never forget it!

Eventing in general I suppose - ah well it wouldn't be fun if I got placed every time now - would it?!
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The little white balls they put on driving cones. They always ruddy fall off! I hate twisty courses with Pip, you just look at it and know there is no chance of keeping him going fowards and balanced. Once he backs off, he is so hard to drive. I know if I drove better it wouldn't be a probelm
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Its such a mental thing down, after one down, more are bound to follow. Getting the line right at speed is so damn hard.
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Says me
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