News Items - Equestrian Vaulting Australia

News Items - Equestrian Vaulting Australia

NEGS Comp March 09

Krystle's Tech Test on Sam at NEGS Competition March 2009.

Australian National Vaulting Championships

CVI** International and Australian National Vaulting Championships held at SIEC 9-12 October 2008.

135 Competitors from around Australia, New Zealand, Canada & USA attended the event.

Congratulations to the National Champion and winner of the CVI** Tristyn Lowe from Canberra and to the National Team which was the South Australia Vaulting Academy.

Nine vaulters represented Sydney Vaulting Group including our first entry at this level in Team Events. Below is the Team Freestyle performed on Lord Louis, our awesome teams horse.

Krystle Lander did us proud coming 4th in the CVI** with her personal best score. Below is Krystle's freestyle performance from the final round of competiton. Krystle is performing on Sam our amazing Arabian Warmblood gelding. Also competing on behalf of SVG in the CVI* were Clare Watts, Mellissa Thompson and Jayme Lennon, who's performances we were all amazing.

One outstanding performance was from 11 year old Eliza Wark-Chapman who excelled in C grade to win the class. Eliza will now step up to B grade, making her one of the youngest competitors in Australia to be competing at this level. Below is Eliza's freestyle on Sam.

Our most adored team member was our new horse Santa, who after less than 3months training was used solely by the N.Z team in the CVI* Competition. Santa is a very talented 17.1 hh warmblood with an outstanding temperament who stepped up to this level of competition taking the unfamiliar freestyle routines in his stride.

Another crowd pleaser was the pas de deux performed by Chelsea Light and Eliza Wark-Chapman, who came second place to the outstanding performance by the two A graders, Emma Moulds and Samantha Young from SA. Chelsea and Eliza's combined age was still less than either of their competitors.

CVI* had the highest numbers of B grade competitors in event in Australia. Clare & Mellissa fared well against the strong competition.

Protocol Day Sept 08

Mell Individual Compulsories

Protocol Day Sept 08

Krystle Individual Compulsories

Protocol Day 20th Sept 08

Thanks again to Robyn Bruderer for assisting with our competition preparation. It really is beneficial and we become aware of new things each time. Hopefully we can learn from these new experiences.

Vaulter Task:

Below is the video of the team compulsories. Each vaulter is to add comments on the blog - just click on "comments" tag. Please list 2 things you did really well in your compulsories, and 2 things you would like to improve. Try to make the things that you would like to improve, achieveable by the Nationals in October. (So that definately excludes things like performing triple somersaults!).

Your reward will be that I will post the next video that I have of you. i.e. your individual compulsories. After you leave comments on your individual compulsories then I will post your freestyle. Ok lets see if we can get some good feedback happening. (And it gives me a bit more time to get all the videos loaded on).

Team Compulsories

Giselle compulsories