This has to be one of the coolest helmet cams we’ve posted in awhile. First, you get to watch Ingrid Klimke and FRH Escada JS deliver a double clear trip around the Luhmühlen CIC3* cross country course. Second, you get to see how a lot of the fences that caused trouble for the CCI4* rode from the rider’s point of view. It’s especially interesting to watch Ingrid navigate the first water complex at 4abc where so many riders fell or retired yesterday. Third, you get to hear how Ingrid talks to the mare throughout the course. I love how she rolls her tongue before the fences to get the mare’s attention back on the task at hand. If we have any EN fans who also know German, I’d love to know what Ingrid is saying to praise the mare. I think it might be “super horse” and “super mare”? Go Ingrid.
Update: EN reader Maggie Miller answered my call for German translation help! From Maggie:
- “Fein” (fine)
- “Super”
- “Spitze” (excellent/top class/amazing)
- Then after the water complex and the hedge right after, she says, “Läuf jetzt!” (run now)
- After the finish line, she says “geil” (cool/awesome) and as the reader wrote in the comments “super maus” (super mouse — mouse is a common term of endearment … people often call their kids that)
- The rolling of the tongue is actually the German version of “whoa” and is a great cue because it is so distinctive and different from other sounds.
