[QUOTE=flyracing;5215403]
I know I’m sad, but can someone please help me out with this one?
OP, your last fence was beautiful! Congrats on your horse’s progress![/QUOTE]
Holy crap, you’re AWESOME!!! I was secretly wondering the same thing… yet was too embarrassed to ask!
…whispering and this thread makes me afraid to ever voice my opinion… or offer advice… or post pictures or videos…
[QUOTE=flyracing;5215403]
I know I’m sad, but can someone please help me out with this one?
OP, your last fence was beautiful! Congrats on your horse’s progress![/QUOTE]
Don’t click here unless you want to be spoiled!
[QUOTE=meupatdoes;5215387]
Alright everyone, there were some requests for pictures so I brought the video camera along to the lesson and cajoled Trainer into taping a round:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i9q-EXvZ_5w
Curious individuals may now see how the horse is going in an up-to-the-minute update as well as how our schooling sessions normally go and what the facility/jumps are like etc etc and so forth.
Those paying attention to detail may note that I am wearing a CO hampton helmet with a large flap chewed out of the originally beautiful dove grey velvet, an unfortunate modification which occured when the beloved helmet was left in reach of the beloved horse on the trailer one day.
Barnbum I hope you like it.
Normally I ride in an “unmodified” helmet but tonight I wore that f*cker just for you.:lol:[/QUOTE]
That video was oh so equally enjoyable as the first. :winkgrin: I really do like your pony, he’s sweet 
and I really don’t care about your helmet, I just know you do, which is why you wore the chewed up CO. Thanks for thinking of me before your lesson last night. I’m flattered! 
You really are a nasty little thing. Hopefully by the time you’re my age, you’ll have outgrown it. Please don’t imply that I’ve ever tried to bash you off the boards. I don’t know who you are, I’ve never PM’d you, I’ve never followed you around.
BTW, my original post was to point out that you can’t differentiate between the homophones week/weak. Give it another 10 years, maybe you’ll be able to then.
[quote=tidy rabbit;5214963]I have an IRH helmet. Does that make me less of a rider? Just curious.
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My IRH is my “short-hair” helmet. I also have a GPA and a CO AYR8. I actually don’t care what brand of helmet I have on my noggin as long as it is comfortable and protects me. To be honest, the CO feels like it’s the cheapest of the three. I’m sort of counting on the certification…they wouldn’t certifiy it if it wasn’t safe, right?
[QUOTE=RugBug;5216125]
My IRH is my “short-hair” helmet. I also have a GPA and a CO AYR8. I actually don’t care what brand of helmet I have on my noggin as long as it is comfortable and protects me. To be honest, the CO feels like it’s the cheapest of the three. I’m sort of counting on the certification…they wouldn’t certifiy it if it wasn’t safe, right?[/QUOTE]
I was talking anecdotally to a mobile tack store owner at a horse show the other day and she said over in Europe they are coming out with a rating system instead of just a certified/not certified like we have here.
The GPA’s get one star, the CO’s get 3 stars.
“Over there” there is apparently also a new 5 star helmet (no idea what brand) that a horse can step on it and there will be no visible damage to the hat. It is not in the US yet and apparently it costs like $1,000.
So consider the anecdotal nature of the source and make of that what you will. The CO is the only helmet that fits my head so I am stuck with it either way.:lol:
Interesting. My CO sure feels and “sounds” cheap. (I put it on and it makes these “I’m-not-really-all-that-well-made-noises” like glue separating, etc.) But the polystyrene does feel much more expanded than my old GPA.
I actually prefer my GPA but refuse to pay $600 for a new one. When I bought it, it was only $300 and I was still gasping at the cost. The new “less expensive” version is not the right shape for my head. The CO was about $279 on sale and the AYR8 is only model that fits me. The other COs are the wrong shape… although I didn’t get the opportunity to try on the Wellington Pro.
[QUOTE=RugBug;5216255]
Interesting. My CO sure feels and “sounds” cheap. (I put it on and it makes these “I’m-not-really-all-that-well-made-noises” like glue separating, etc.) But the polystyrene does feel much more expanded than my old GPA.
I actually prefer my GPA but refuse to pay $600 for a new one. When I bought it, it was only $300 and I was still gasping at the cost. The new “less expensive” version is not the right shape for my head. The CO was about $279 on sale and the AYR8 is only model that fits me. The other COs are the wrong shape… although I didn’t get the opportunity to try on the Wellington Pro.[/QUOTE]
You know you’re old school when you remember the days where $300 for a helmet was an UNGODLY price.
Styrofoam must have gotten endangered or something…:lol:
I love the way the COs look actually, but they don’t fit me. The GPA fits me the best, but I hate the way they look.
OP - your horse is too cute. He is going to be a super cute hunter if he can keep that pace and jump so nice. How is his step going down the lines? And I’m not asking to be snarky … just truly curious. My last 3’6" horse had to carry more pace and I was always jealous of those who could lope around the course.
[QUOTE=Diva98;5216315]
I love the way the COs look actually, but they don’t fit me. The GPA fits me the best, but I hate the way they look.
OP - your horse is too cute. He is going to be a super cute hunter if he can keep that pace and jump so nice. How is his step going down the lines? And I’m not asking to be snarky … just truly curious. My last 3’6" horse had to carry more pace and I was always jealous of those who could lope around the course.[/QUOTE]
Haha, honestly, at this point, your guess is as good as mine.
We don’t really get to jump courses unless we go off the property. You could maybe set up a five stride in that ring but a whole course? I don’t think my trainer even has that many jumps, to say nothing of space in the ring.
He did pretty well schooling off the property in Jan.
Then we had our Baby Green Hunter Moment, then in August we went to a little schooling show and did two trips HC which he was good but super looky and then he had his schooling show where he was champion in the 2’6" Baby Greens, and there you have the sum total of this horse’s “course” experience since we came to TX in Dec '09.
How this all shakes out at the bigger heights time will tell, but if I were to guess I would suspect he will need a skitch more pace than he had to the oxer and maybe more along the lines of how he came in to the vertical. Also, horseshow rings will THANK THE LORD be bigger so that will affect the stride and we’ll be able to hunt a little more.
In the meantime I am doing my level best to comply with my trainer’s instructions to get the change done BEFORE the turn but I have pointed out to him that life would be easier if he would extend his eff ring. :lol:
Someone used the phrase “takes a licking and keeps on ticking.”
The point is that you DON’T want your helmet to take a licking and keep on ticking. Once that helmet has done its job by protecting your head in a fall, it’s no longer going to protect you. Honestly, if we wanted to be safe about it, the damn things should disintegrate once you take a fall in them. If it “looks safe,” people think it is, but the protective internal layer has been compressed – and it only does that once. It’s not going to do it again.
Now, I’m as guilty as anyone and I don’t replace my helmet after each fall – providing that I don’t fall on my head. If my head hits the ground hard, though, it’s getting replaced. That’s why I’ve started riding everyday in a cheap IRH and keeping my expensive helmets for shows. And hoping that I don’t fall on my head at a show.
The problem with having just show helmet is that you can spend $$$, and if you don’t show a lot, you may end up wearing it >100 times before it has to be replaced just because you’re suppose to replace tham after X amount of time.
'Tis why I’ve decided to ride in my “show” helmet all the time. It’s gonna have to be replaced anyway…I want it to get as much non-crash use as possible.
[QUOTE=RugBug;5216743]
The problem with having just show helmet is that you can spend $$$, and if you don’t show a lot, you may end up wearing it >100 times before it has to be replaced just because you’re suppose to replace tham after X amount of time.
'Tis why I’ve decided to ride in my “show” helmet all the time. It’s gonna have to be replaced anyway…I want it to get as much non-crash use as possible.[/QUOTE]
I’m much more likely to fall off at home than at a show, so I’d rather go through cheap helmets, even if that means I don’t wear my expensive that many times, numbers-wise. But to each his own.
The cheap and the more expensive helmets are tested to the same standards… though I am guilty of “saving” my nicer helmets, I am starting to think like RugBug, I want to get more use out of them before replacing them on time.
Apparently you can’t dear, I said it makes my week, as in seven days. Maybe you should read slower.
:lol::lol: good one
Well, day-um. Guess I should’ve put my glasses on before I read your post, what with my age and all.
Still, I’d much rather mis-read something once in a while than be nasty.
[QUOTE=RugBug;5217076]
Well, day-um. Guess I should’ve put my glasses on before I read your post, what with my age and all.
Still, I’d much rather mis-read something once in a while than be nasty.[/QUOTE]
you act like people can’t go back and see you behavior on past posts, namely the one where I learned who you were because you harassed me for days on end about nonsense :rolleyes:
[QUOTE=barnbum81;5217121]
you act like people can’t go back and see you behavior on past posts, namely the one where I learned who you were because you harassed me for days on end about nonsense :rolleyes:[/QUOTE]
Oh for crying out loud.
Why don’t we revisit that thread since you keep yammering about it and see who behaved how.
(Conveniently, several posters on THAT thread devoted considerable energies to dissecting what complete crap my schooling program was with this same horse so the calls for updates on this thread may be cross-applied.)
Either way, I uh, don’t think RugBug was the harrasser on that thread…
In other news, try to hush up now.
You are going to get the thread locked with your incessant yammering and I personally am looking forward to the day when somebody randomly resurrects it again and then certain people make their snide little comments and other people ask for pictures and I have footage of the same horse I was ruining last year and schooling terribly in the meantime loping around the 3’6" at a show.
You learned who I was? WTH. Who’s the stalker now? :rolleyes: I’ve never felt the need to “learn who someone was” that posted on a BB. I really don’t care that much.
I’ve never harrassed you. I did respond to a number of your posts during a particularly special time. I invite anyone to do a search on my posts/your posts. I’m pretty confident it won’t be seen the same way you see it.
[QUOTE=meupatdoes;5216626]
Haha, honestly, at this point, your guess is as good as mine.
We don’t really get to jump courses unless we go off the property. You could maybe set up a five stride in that ring but a whole course? I don’t think my trainer even has that many jumps, to say nothing of space in the ring.
He did pretty well schooling off the property in Jan.
Then we had our Baby Green Hunter Moment, then in August we went to a little schooling show and did two trips HC which he was good but super looky and then he had his schooling show where he was champion in the 2’6" Baby Greens, and there you have the sum total of this horse’s “course” experience since we came to TX in Dec '09.
How this all shakes out at the bigger heights time will tell, but if I were to guess I would suspect he will need a skitch more pace than he had to the oxer and maybe more along the lines of how he came in to the vertical. Also, horseshow rings will THANK THE LORD be bigger so that will affect the stride and we’ll be able to hunt a little more.
In the meantime I am doing my level best to comply with my trainer’s instructions to get the change done BEFORE the turn but I have pointed out to him that life would be easier if he would extend his eff ring. :lol:[/QUOTE]
Yes, I remember the trials of schooling in tiny indoors. One of my old trainers renovated a QH barn and the indoor was tiny! We could only jump single jumps all winter. It made the first schools of the spring very interesting. Especially when I moved up to the 3’6" for the first time.
Even with more pace, he is going to be very nice. What is his breeding/background? I for one will be sincerely interested in how his showing goes next year. Good luck with him!
PS - he looks small…what does he measure?
PPS - sorry I am so nosy. I am horseless right now and living vicariously.
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