Weave entries/exits from Courtney Keys' UKI Midwest Cup Masters Series Jumpers
01 Oct 2021
I always enjoy running Courtney Keys’ courses. She has a really good sense for appropriate challenges for the venue and level of competition. At a “Cup” competition you should expect challenges like you’d find at a national event. This course had some obvious and more subtle challenges.
Here’s the course map (you’ll see in my video the weaves and jump 7/16 were rotated more parallel to the back of the ring)
![Courtney Keys Masters Series Jumpers Courtney Keys Masters Series Jumpers](/static/556c55d735ba5b5aac05b6bd9fc1cb7d/95118/midwestcup-masters-jumping.jpg)
Before reading on, what areas would challenge your team? How you would handle it?
From my memory these were the most common failure points:
- The spacing/location of jumps 4/5 was challenging to threadle for the big dogs with with dog on right (I pushed Snap! to the far wing and curly-q’d the far wing).
- Hitting the weave entry/without an off course or refusal
- The distance from 12-13 caused some wrong sides on 13 and even some off courses to jump 17.
- Dropped bars/wrong sides on jump 14.
- 16-19 was a long line and wrong side/bar down on 17
Here’s video of Snap! and me with two camera angles! There are some good moments and I’ve added comments on my handling mistakes:
I wanted to set this up in my much smaller back yard so I came up with a smaller version that has some of the same challenges as Courtney’s original course:
![70' x 60' Setup in Feet 70' x 60' Setup in Feet](/static/06ffb85e4d14431c25cc57714990166e/8c557/2021-uki-midwest-cup-masters-series-jumpers-setup.png)
![18m x 21m Setup in Meters 18m x 21m Setup in Meters](/static/595d703bca75dc682aa225eb16f60632/8c557/2021-uki-midwest-cup-masters-series-jumpers-setup-metric.png)
Here’s my version that approximates her sequence:
![Sequence #1 Sequence #1](/static/f4a752ecd2e5edfcc1fe6111a601d920/8c557/2021-uki-midwest-cup-masters-series-jumpers-1.png)
I’ve shot a lot of video of us practicing on it, maybe I’ll put it in a video and add it here in the future.
Once you’ve mastered that sequence then give these a try:
![Sequence #2 Sequence #2](/static/b83c5f11577d665767ea4fe6aaca8bc7/8c557/2021-uki-midwest-cup-masters-series-jumpers-2.png)
![Sequence #3 Sequence #3](/static/c8461c1bf3019e6d0b9dd736fe271a25/8c557/2021-uki-midwest-cup-masters-series-jumpers-3.png)
![Sequence #4 Sequence #4](/static/b003c360077a655cad1a96e50fcb0115/8c557/2021-uki-midwest-cup-masters-series-jumpers-4.png)
I hope you’ll set these up and conquer the challenges!
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