SHEDU FUNDAMENTAL TRAINING
Show Jumping
Official Show Jumping
Show Jumping is a classical sport class with a history in hunting and other working tasks. Show Jumping requires your cat to be quite agile and to have an excellent spatial awareness.
The best Show Jumping cats tend to be supremely athletic and will be as adept at balancing their rider as the rider is at aiding the cat in the jump.
Benefit:
Cancel the initial rolls for falls, fatal and serious injuries and refusals in ISSA & other showjumping & hunter jumping competitions. “Know your cat” section will give additional points in some of the showjumping in ISSA & other showjumping & hunter jumping competitions.
Conditions:
Tasks completion may take place in any setting that fits your plot. However each of them should be clearly done at some sort of arena that is suited for shedu showjumping. In other words you should be able to see borders (fence) of the arena and the obstacles that a cat is faced with.
Story-wise showjumping training often takes place at home cattery. But, of course, cat may be boarded at a training facility. Elsevier facility and its larger departments have their own training catteries, open for boarding.
OFFICIAL SHOWJUMPING TASKS:
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Working over ground poles on a lunging line
Free jumping
Trotting poles under the saddle
Crossrail jumping under the saddle
Gymnastic grids under saddle
Taking over wide jumps
Taking over odd shaped, complex obstacles
Taking over 1.7m + jump (larger if your cat is taller than 190 cm)
Take your cat through full course (depict the training in the arena with a few obstacles, not a single jump)
SHOWING JUMPING - KNOW YOUR CAT:
Completing the SJ KYC Jump type preference will help to determine at which kind of jumps your cat naturally succeeds better.
Each type of preference - Favorite/Best, Average or Worst has its own bonus that cat can get during the SJ competition.
Bonus or penalty points value might vary from show to show or even from obstacle to obstacle in some shows! But the principle stays the same:
The bonus depends on which type of jump you depict for your cat:
Best/Favorite obstacle type - gives solid 5 points
Average obstacle type - gives RNG roll 2-6
Worst obstacle type - gives 1 to 10 RNG
Notice: cat can be assigned with one best and one worst type of obstacle. Other obstacle types will always come out as average.
Which bonus will be implemented depends on what type of jump you will depict your cat taking on (during a particular show).
*Each official sj event will have all the obstacles marked by type for your ease.
**Notice that KYC section is not taken into account in such events as TSYN, where there are no set jumps. In such cases SJ SFT will give you a pre-determined solid bonus instead.
OFFICIAL SHOWING JUMPING - KNOW YOUR CAT TASKS:
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Test your turf: (3 images total)
Turf (grass)
Sand or dirt
Synthetic material
Jump types: (4 images total)
System - a system of obstacles
Water Jumps
Wide jumps (3 row obstacle)
High jumps - 150cm+ big single line obstacles (highest in the arena)
Type of the arena: (2 images total)
Indoor arena
Outdoor arena
Size of the arena: (2 images total)
Big
Small
BENEFITS & REQUIREMENTS
These sets of prompts are not mandatory to participate in Shedu events. However, if completed, they will give your cat noticeable benefits:
Each completed set linked to a specific discipline will cancel out the roll for the following hazards of shows in that specific discipline:
Initial roll for buck offs **
Initial roll for falls **
Initial roll for fatal and serious injuries **
Initial roll for refusals **
** Initial roll is the mandatory roll that will take place at an official event. A completed SFT makes sure your team will pass those. However in some competitions or disciplines there are additional rolls for mishaps. SFTs will not protect from those. You will need to acquire special gear and/or make proper choices to avoid those.
MINIMAL REQUIREMENTS
Literature: 450 words per task (In English or Russian language)
Art: Clean coloured sketch/ 50% + body/ Handler (50%+ visible)*/ BG + other elements if required by the particular task.
The shedu anatomy should meet the standard level according to the AP chart to qualify for these prompts.
Cats must not be younger than 4 years old!
You can place up to 5 teams of handler and cat in one training picture.
TACK on Shedus is required. Mandatory: sportive english saddle, halter or shedu bridle.
HOW TO SUBMIT COMPLETED TRAININGS
Gather your entries and comment to this LOG :
Don`t forget to link the references of the handler and the Shedu being trained!