DCD is as all other design programs used internationally, based on Microsoft Visio. This ensures easy exchange of drawings! With the help of the numerous capabilities of Microsoft Visio, we can use our own creativity to create a unique drawing!
DCD is composed by Frans Berings, (With thanks to Hector Loyola from Puerto Rico, international course designer and Visio expert.) who has more than 45 years of experience as a national course designer at KNHS (Royal Dutch Equestrian Federation), he is instructor and trainer of jumping horses and is Internationally certified Course Designer FEI 1.50 mtr
Show Jumping Course Design Program
Strides software is designed to make all aspects of Course Design and Jump training easier for you. If you are a rider use Strides Exercises to explore jumping exercises to improve your horse's jumping style and ridebility. For course Designers and trainers, Strides21 provides cutting edge technology to assist in designing the best jumping courses and jump exercises. For the part-time course designer, Strides Lite provides a more cost effective option to design courses.
In cooperation with the USEA, the USEF Show Jumping Course Advisor Program was introduced in 2004 to raise the standard of show jumping course design in the United States. Initially, the program focused on show jumping courses for FEI and Advanced level competitions. The goal of the program was to ensure the standard of the courses throughout the country and to deliver courses that provided the same technicality level they would expect to find at the championship level.
A computer can neither compose a successful music hit by itself, nor can a computer design a course plan by pressing one of its buttons. In our sport ideas, feelings and experiences of course designers produce successful courses.
I use Acuro and think it works great, especially the measurement function that gives precise distances and course length!The program is easy to use and simplifies my work before and during the shows!
International course designer and technical delegate Olaf Petersen offers tips and inspiration for show jumpers and course builders of all levels with the assistance of Ludger Beerbaum. In this DVD, Petersen shows the various types of course design and offers insight into: Design of combinations--what seems easy and what appears to be difficult
Distances--how to analyze and pace them out, and ride them successfully
Water jumps--how to tackle them
Design of lines for classical courses, speed events, and jump-offs
Influences of fence design- how horses react to color, decorations and wing design
Safety--improved construction of obstacles and safety cups
No jumper rider or aspiring course designer will want to be without this wonderfully instructive DVD.
World and European Champion Olaf Petersen is an international course builder and member of the FEI Committee for Show Jumping. He designed the courses at the Olympic Games in Atlanta in 1996 and the Olympic Games in Athens in 2004.
I started show jumping at a very young age. Once, when I was competing in the children's category at the Spanish Championships, I approached the course designer and asked if I could be in the arena to help him set up the fences. That's when my career as a course designer began.
This is my first Olympics as the course designer, but I was involved with the Rio 2016 course as a technical delegate, assisting with setting up the course and arranging walk-throughs with the competitors.
When I was first asked to design this course, I decreased the pressure in my other career. I decided when I was young that I would have two, having studied economics and worked in the infrastructure business.
Once, at the show jumping World Cup in La Coruña, I got a distance wrong. There was one extra stride in a double jump. The horses were landing too far from the second fence after jumping the first, which threw off the rhythm.
I need to keep my mind calm to take these decisions under pressure. Sometimes there are only 20 minutes to make changes. Having a team to help is great, but, as the course designer, I have to be ready to take responsibility.
During week III, FEI Level III course designer Anderson Lima of Mexico will take over the course designing duties in the WEC Grand Arena. Lima is a respected designer with experience working at top-level competitions worldwide in such countries as Brazil, Canada, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, Germany, Guatemala, Mexico, Peru, Spain, Venezuela and the United States. He is well known for his complex tracks at the 2003 Pan American Games in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic; the South American Games in Sao Paulo, Brazil; and Spruce Meadows in Calgary, Canada.
The plan for a jump course starts with the design of a track. Once you have a general idea of how your track will flow around the arena, then you can add the jumps. A course should travel across the entire space available, have approximately the same number of fences off both leads, and have an equal distribution between vertical and spread fences. The primary objectives of a good course include:
A jump course is basically made up of straight tracks and tracks that are circular, semicircular, or slightly curved. The size of your ring, both the length and the width, will set the outside boundaries for your course and will determine how long your lines can be and how wide you can make the turns. There is no reason not to utilize all of the space available to you, so try to design your track so it travels across and through the entire space. Keep in mind that wider, more sweeping turns create smoother rounds. The more advanced the rider and the more schooling the horse has had, the more turns you can include in the course and the tighter you can make the track.
How the rider approaches the first fence is important for establishing the pace that should be maintained for the remainder of the course. In training scenarios, you can start on any fence, and in fact, you should practice all the possible placements so you are prepared for whatever may be set by the course designer when you go to a show.
Course Design OrientationThe orientation of the course you design should match the orientation of your arena as it would typically be viewed from the vantage point of the in-gate (vertically or horizontally).
When the course design (and your arena orientation according to the in-gate) is horizontal, whichever lower corner the track points to is the correct lead for the first fence (so if the track points to the lower left corner, the first fence should be jumped off the left lead). When the course design is drawn according to a vertical orientation, the correct angle when drawing the first jump on the course is still determined by the track the horse will take across the middle of the fence; but, in this case, whichever upper corner the track points to is the correct lead for the fence.
This course is designed to introduce the student to the basic care of horses. Topics include techniques of grooming, braiding, bandaging, equipment care and maintenance, and basic first aid. Other topics will include evolution of the horse, different breeds and horse activities available to the rider today. Student will be assigned one horse and related equipment to care for and maintain throughout the semester. Three lecture hours and three practical lab hours. 4 credit hours
This course is designed to provide students with a background which will enable them to evaluate a horse, rider and design a program to provide optimum results. The course will address three main areas: (1) understanding the mechanism of the horse and its functions, (2) defining and understanding the rider's position and its use, and (3) applying these concepts in actual labs. This course satisfies the proficiency requirement for Written Communication in the disciplines.
Senior National Course Designers who wish their name to be put forward in order to attend an International Seminar later in the year for the purposes of being upgraded should apply in writing to Laura Murphy in the ShowjumpingIreland office.Course Designers wishing to upgrade must submit their Log book with their application in order to sit the exams. Course Designers must bring their Log Book to any Seminar they attend to be stamped by a member of the Course Designers Committee.Course Designers of Regional and National level who wish to gain experience and upgrade their status may apply for financial assistance towards their travel costs to attend relevant shows in order to work under more experienced Course Designers at venues either inside or outside their region. Those wishing to avail of this financial assistance may apply to the ShowjumpingIreland office. It should be noted this form must be signed by the Senior Course Designer and the Senior Judge officiating on the day. Download the form here. Venue InspectionThere will be Venue Inspection spot checks throughout the year.
Prove your talent and win every tournament Trot, gallop and jump show your skills on the course The worlds biggest cities are waiting for you and your horses Exciting and challenging courses with water obstacles and oxers demand perfect timing and team work from you and your equine companion.
Can the two of you master the challenge The show jumping simulation from the HorseWorld series Following the successful horse simulation game HorseWorld 3D comes HorseWorld: Show Jumping, with even more fun and more challenges for all horse lovers In addition to the caring for the horses in the green meadows, youll have to face exciting tournaments and derbies all around the world.
Dont forget to customize your mighty steeds mane according to your taste Happy with your new gear Then make the most of it at the next tournament Build and design your own tournament courses If the games riding tracks become too easy after some practicing, we have the perfect solution for you: simply build your own courses With our building tool, you can easily create tracks and obstacle courses for your own tournaments and competitions. 2ff7e9595c
Comments