THIS is what I'M up against...

[trof]

[wildhorses]

1. ---

:banghead:

[auntAgonist]

2. it does look

pretty solid!

aA

[rug]

3. Have at it!

[Catshrink]

4. Just another brick in the wall.

We don't need no education
We dont need no thought control
No dark sarcasm in the classroom
Teachers leave them kids alone
Hey! Teachers! Leave them kids alone!

All in all it's just another brick in the wall.
All in all you're just another brick in the wall.

[Oeditpus Rex]

5. Are you, perchance

a redneck mother?

:7

[trof]

6. I could pass.

Jus cawl me Bubbah.
;-)

[u4ic]

7. Then imagine

being on the back of a horse...




It's called a Puissance class. I think the world record in an official class is 7'9" or 10".

(they're not real bricks, of course)

[Oeditpus Rex]

9. Humans can jump higher

than horses?

I wouldn't have thought so. :shrug:

[u4ic]

10. The official world record

is 8'3, or 2.47 m. For humans, it's 2.45 metres.

Now that's under saddle - I don't know if they've ever done anything similar for free jumping...

However, horses jump very differently from humans - who are much more flexible. A horse 'curling' over a jump is much different than a human doing the same, who can twist and contort in many ways.


Here's a video, if you're interested to watch. http://www.ultimatehorsesite.com/info/worldrecord_jump.html


edit: the official world record wasn't in a FEI class, hence the difference between the puissance record and the world record stated above.

[Little Wing]

8. I see cracks, keep at it!