Better riding key to eventing accident prevention
Eventing security officers from 22 countries pooled their ideas as well as experiences at the FEI’s sixth annual Risk Management Seminar, hosted yesteryear the Italian Equestrian Federation inwards Rome on Jan 26 as well as 27.
Over the 2 days, the National Safety Officers (NSOs) were shown a DVD highlighting proficient as well as bad techniques inwards cross-country riding. The DVD, which has been 2 years inwards the planning, has been painstakingly position together yesteryear Great Britain’s NSO Jonathan Clissold, who was a course-builder at the London 2012 Olympic Games, as well as international motorbus Nick Turner. It volition undergo around fine-tuning as well as volition live on used equally a guide for officials across the basis after this year.
“We demand to percentage a vision of the pictures nosotros desire of our sport,” said Guiseppe della Chiesa, chairman of the FEI Eventing Committee. “We demand to remind riders as well as trainers of the management the sport should live on going in, exactly nosotros too demand to lead hold something that shows what nosotros hateful yesteryear this.
“Of course of report riders should vesture crash helmets as well as back-protectors to minimise peril of injury, exactly it is much ameliorate to acquire to ride the Equus caballus inwards such a agency that the peril of accidents tin live on minimised. This DVD volition explicate what are both acceptable as well as unacceptable styles of riding as well as command of the horse.”
His words were echoed yesteryear Italian hero as well as 1964 Olympic champion Mauro Checcoli. Checcoli, who spoke at the seminar, said: “There are 2 types of safety: passive security (related to cross-country design) as well as active security (the character of Equus caballus as well as passenger training), which is the most important.
“I am a pure representative of the Caprilli schoolhouse of equitation, which was based on education the Equus caballus to live on technically right over a jump as well as solve the problems. The aim is for the passenger to live on completely soundless as well as to live on able to rely on the Equus caballus because they volition lead hold trained properly together. Horses produce non desire to autumn as well as lead hold a strong sense of self-preservation.”
FEI Medical Committee chairman Peter Whitehead spoke close the demand for awareness amid Officials as well as riders of the potential dangers of concussion.
“Sports concussions are most mutual inwards immature people, which is why it is an of import issue,” he said. “Three concussions tin effect inwards 5 times greater a peril of mild cognitive impairment, 3 times greater a peril of retention problems as well as 3 times greater a peril of depression.”
Dr Whitehead’s commission volition live on providing advice to officials as well as lawsuit organisers. “The medical officer’s labor has been made much easier yesteryear the FEI’s i autumn equals elimination rule,” he said. “I in i lawsuit saw a passenger come upward off and, inwards the initial assessment, in that place were no signs of concussion yet 10 minutes after she was non making whatever sense. It’s non odd to meet a passenger acquire at nowadays upward as well as run after their Equus caballus as well as seem perfectly all right.
“The of import number is to promote officials’ awareness of potential concussion because, obviously, the lawsuit medical officeholder volition non live on inwards a seat to meet all falls. If individual is concussed – or is suspected of beingness concussed – they should live on removed from the contest as well as they should non drive home. It is of import that all National Federations are talking the same linguistic communication on this.”
Other issues discussed yesteryear NSOs included national qualifying procedures, air-vests, medical cards, frangible devices as well as the ascension inwards arena eventing competitions. Philine Ganders (GER) provided nutrient for sentiment amongst her presentation on the cross-country manner competitions run yesteryear the High German Equestrian Federation – final twelvemonth around 4000 riders participated inwards 223 competitions. Style competitions were constituent of the cross dry reason preparation that would mostly improve riding and, ultimately, safer riding.
Swedish delegate Lars Christensson commented: “We saw the proficient results from these competitions as well as our Swedish riders who had seen them inwards Federal Republic of Federal Republic of Germany sentiment this was a proficient agency forwards for peril management as well as for learning to ride correctly. So far, our sense is that the classes are excellent. The judges’ purpose is important, however, as well as they demand to sympathise what they’re looking for.”
Annual statistics are showing that the ratio of falls to starters has steadily decreased since records began inwards 2004; inwards 2012, an average of 5.6% of the 14,950 cross-country starters had falls. Horse falls lead hold decreased to 1.85% (from 2.02% of falls inwards 2004) as well as rotational falls from 0.51% to 0.27%.
“The gathering of statistics is improving all the time, as well as that gives us to a greater extent than strength,” Guiseppe della Chiesa said. “After 2004, the charge per unit of measurement inwards falls began to decrease as well as this is at nowadays flattening out, which tells us that nosotros must proceed to live on vigilant.”
Delegates, peculiarly those from the smaller eventing nations, reiterated the value of this annual substitution of ideas. Roger Haller (USA), a technical delegate as well as course-designer, who was assist the seminar for the get-go time, said: “I meet a existent development inwards the sport hither as well as I’m impressed amongst the agency the statistics lead hold come upward on.”
Fellow technical delegate Mike Tucker (GBR), who has been closely involved amongst peril management inwards the sport for to a greater extent than than 12 years, agreed: “It’s been a tough road, exactly what I meet today is fantastic. There is as well as thus much hither for our wonderful sport inwards the future, as well as thus maintain it up. Everyone has worked really hard.”
Nations represented at the 2013 Risk Management Seminar inwards Rome were: Australia, Austria, Brazil, Canada, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Great Britain, Germany, Ireland, Italy, The Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland as well as USA.
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