Take off and landing, need of distance

Horses without skill and capacity must come closer to the obstacles and the zone of take-off and landing relatively decreasing with the dimension of the obstacle.
The take-off and landing distance are also growing related to speed and/ or height.
The spread width can decrease the take-off and landing distance.

Here you can see the difference, depending on obstacle height. The higher obstacles width of the zone on take-off side and landing side is much smaller.

Normal take-off and landing distance at obstacles 1,30m and higher

Vertical

Oxer

Triplebar

Normal take-off and landing distance for water jump

Water

This examples will show you the need of shorter or longer distance between related different obstacles.

Example No. 1 needs the longest distance, example No.2 shorter, No.3 even shorter and example No. 8 the shortest distance

Example of distance and how to calculate

Your experience as competion rider, trainer and as Course Designer will help you to find the correct distance between two related obstacles. It is not enough to use the calculate table.
Dont forget to have in mind the influence of the speed in the competion. Higher speed means longer strides. You can self calculate the length of the stride, by dividing minimum speed X m/min. with 100.
Be carefule sharp turns and small arenas can make more difficult for riders and horses to keep the minimum speed.
Here you can see how to calculate the need of the distance.

Example of possible distance between vertical and oxer, 350m/min.

Example of possible distance between oxer and vertical, 350m/min.

Example of possible distance between oxer and oxer, 350m/min.

Example of possible distance between vertical and vertical, 350m/min.

Here you can see five strides examples with same first obstacle, same lenght of strides but with different type of second obstacle.
All examples have same take off point at the second obstacle but with different take off distance depending on obstacle type.

Examples with three strides