khalswitz
Well-Known Member
So, we've been invited to go out dressaging with a friend. Normally we have to hack to our venues, so this is quite a nice chance.
The venue is running BD and unaffiliated, of which my friend is doing the unaff p15 and n24. It's her first attempt at Novice, and she was trying to encourage us to have a go at a Novice as well. Until last weekend, and our first attempt at BD, I was well up for a Novice attempt - he's been scoring 65-69 in Prelim classes since January unaff, and to be honest scores better in the long arena tests as there's more to do and keeps him better focussed - but our BD debut gave us a bit of a shock with scores of 59 and 60, partly because he needed a wee it urned out, but it has made me reconsider attempting anything higher until we've established ourselves at BD Prelim.
So I was considering then doing the p12 and p15 affiliated, whilst she did p15 and n24 unaff - however this is going to mean getting her to take us up quite a bit earlier, and she hinted she might just do prelim then if we wouldn't do novice. So feeling a bit guilty.
What would you do? Movement wise, he can do everything in the N24, but if he gets a bit tense due to new venue/new level etc then we'll likely end up even worse scoring than we did in the BD prelim as I know the jump to Novice is a reasonable one (less than Novice to Elem I'm told).
First world problems, I know, but have a Chocolate Button and indulge me
The venue is running BD and unaffiliated, of which my friend is doing the unaff p15 and n24. It's her first attempt at Novice, and she was trying to encourage us to have a go at a Novice as well. Until last weekend, and our first attempt at BD, I was well up for a Novice attempt - he's been scoring 65-69 in Prelim classes since January unaff, and to be honest scores better in the long arena tests as there's more to do and keeps him better focussed - but our BD debut gave us a bit of a shock with scores of 59 and 60, partly because he needed a wee it urned out, but it has made me reconsider attempting anything higher until we've established ourselves at BD Prelim.
So I was considering then doing the p12 and p15 affiliated, whilst she did p15 and n24 unaff - however this is going to mean getting her to take us up quite a bit earlier, and she hinted she might just do prelim then if we wouldn't do novice. So feeling a bit guilty.
What would you do? Movement wise, he can do everything in the N24, but if he gets a bit tense due to new venue/new level etc then we'll likely end up even worse scoring than we did in the BD prelim as I know the jump to Novice is a reasonable one (less than Novice to Elem I'm told).
First world problems, I know, but have a Chocolate Button and indulge me