{"id":2798,"date":"2010-02-22T21:32:02","date_gmt":"2010-02-22T21:32:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/?p=2798"},"modified":"2010-02-22T21:32:02","modified_gmt":"2010-02-22T21:32:02","slug":"testing-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/?p=2798","title":{"rendered":"Testing times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was trying to explain, to a person whose knowledge of horses is limited to &#8216;big, bites and kicks&#8217;, what is involved in learning and riding a dressage test.<\/p>\n<p>I failed in my attempted explanation.<\/p>\n<p>This evening I&#8217;m sitting on the couch trying to familiarise myself with the dressage that will be the first phase of Tom&#8217;s and my first one-day-event in four weeks time.<\/p>\n<p>So bearing in mind I couldn&#8217;t describe what&#8217;s involved to someone in person earlier, how do I write down here what&#8217;s involved?<\/p>\n<p>Hmmm.<\/p>\n<p>Here are the primary components:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The test (BE 90 Dressage Test 91) takes part in a 20 x 40m arena<\/li>\n<li>The test should take approximately 6 minutes<\/li>\n<li>The test comprises 15 ridden movements that are marked, and four non-ridden marks<\/li>\n<li>Each movement will be marked out of a maximum of 10 points, to a total of 200<\/li>\n<li>The layout and markings of the 20&#215;40 arena look like this:<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/wp-content\/Arena20x40.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-2799\" title=\"Arena20x40\" src=\"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/wp-content\/Arena20x40-192x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"192\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Arena20x40-192x300.jpg 192w, https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Arena20x40.jpg 415w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 192px) 100vw, 192px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And if you&#8217;re interested in the exact movements, they&#8217;re here:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/wp-content\/BE90_-_DRESSAGE_TEST_91_20091.pdf\">BE90_-_DRESSAGE_TEST_91_(2009)(1)<\/a><\/p>\n<p>So, we&#8217;re clear now?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was trying to explain, to a person whose knowledge of horses is limited to &#8216;big, bites and kicks&#8217;, what is involved in learning and<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2798","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stuff","two-columns"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2798","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2798"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2798\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}