“Building a safer future for our sport” has taken on a new literal meaning earlier this month, as a team of UK course builders lead an FEI Frangible Seminar in Victoria, Australia. Lead by BEDE
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The USEA Foundation is honored and excited to announce a second grant of $250,000 from the Manton Foundation to help fund frangible technology on cross-country courses at eventing competitions in the United States. This funding
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In a significant move toward advancing rider safety, the FEI has announced the creation of the Equestrian Safety Vest Working Group (ESVWG), a global initiative designed to evaluate and improve the effectiveness of protective equipment
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The U.S. Equestrian Federation (USEF), in collaboration with the United States Eventing Association (USEA), has announced a new national review process for innovative frangible cross-country jump designs. This initiative aims to support and streamline the
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“You wouldn’t necessarily look at this and think it’s frangible, would you?” asks Stuart Buntine, director of event organisation company BEDE Events. He’s gesturing to a wide, particularly solid-looking table, which will be placed out
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The highly anticipated Consensus Statement on Concussion in Sport has been released, following the successful conclusion of the 6th International Consensus Conference on Concussion in Sport held in Amsterdam (NED) in October 2022. Published in
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If you’ve ever attended a Landsafe Equestrian clinic put on by Danny and Kelli Warrington, you know the basic concepts behind the idea of falling in a safer way that could help reduce risk of
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This editorial was co-written by Ema Klugman and Elena Perea, MD. We have come a long way in the last several years in terms of helmet safety in our sport. In 2010, Allison Springer rode
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On June 1, 2021, the USEA instituted a new policy: at training level and above, a competitor who has 20 or more jump faults in the show jumping phase of an event must compulsorily retire.
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PAS, VG1, ASTM, SEI, EN1384: these abbreviations represent just a few of the helmet standards tested worldwide. The more certifications, the greater the variety of situations in which a helmet has been tested, so theoretically,
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In 2003, Virginia Tech placed the first sensors inside football helmets to measure head acceleration data that could characterize concussions. Nearly two decades later, the university’s Helmet Lab is on the cusp of adding equestrian
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After a dark cross country day at the Bramham International 4*L last month, course designer Ian Stark remarked that the sport of eventing is at a kind of crossroads. As the current qualifications stand, Ian
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What do you get when you combine an aviation engineer, a successful amateur rider and a galloping event horse? The answer, it seems, is the man who has made a massive contribution to the work
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Lucinda Green MBE certainly needs little introduction. A World and European eventing champion, multiple-time Badminton and Burghley winner, and an Olympic medalist, she can these days be found running the Lucinda Green XC Academy and
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A number of riders have shared with us their opinions about a recently proposed rule change by the USEA concerning the increased number of MERs to move up to Preliminary, Intermediate and Advanced. As of March
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The Online FEI Eventing Risk Management seminar will be held this weekend and viewable on a free livestream from the FEI. A variety of topics will be covered during this annual session; the full agenda
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Earlier this month, EquiRatings began posting a series of metrics that each rider can calculate for themselves. By making these data points easy to understand and calculate, the idea is to use the information to encourage rider
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In the wake of last weekend’s tragedy, both the eventing community and its governing body have moved forward with a positive, constructive momentum that spells, in no uncertain terms, that the time for action is
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Social media’s ability to facilitate communication cuts both ways. We’ve all seen comment threads driven off the deep end of rational discourse by rising tensions and personal attacks. But we’ve also seen threads where the
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We’ve come a long way in making our sport safer, but we’re not done. Not even close. The subject of safety is nuanced and multifaceted. At the end of the day, it’s about personal responsibility.
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Having a Madison Avenue fashion industry background coupled with a lifelong love of horses, one very big item that’s always been on my bucket list is to join the hunt. More than wanting to check
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This post was originally published on Emma’s blog, OTTBs and Oxers. With all of the back and forth on safety in eventing after the euthanization of Boyd Martin’s Crackerjack at Les Etoiles de Pau, Doug Payne’s
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An open letter regarding frangible technology has been circulating this week, written by UK course designer and builder David Morton in response to the death of Maxime Debost. The 29-year-old French eventer died as the
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