Exercises with Options

beardie1234 says:

I also set up the sequence with 6 weave poles preceding the jumps. Because of Tru’s independent weave pole performance I was able to get downstream in time to get the fronts and blinds but I found it a hard slog on my legs. I much preferred the rears and I think Tru gave me tighter, faster turns with them. No question at a trial the rears would win with me! The challenge sequence was challenging! Initially I had trouble getting Tru to ignore jump #4 and do the backside of 3 because picking him up on my left after 3 required me to get too close to Tru doing the backside. In several reps I had to calibrate how far was far enough to get the backside without the off-course and still allow the left-hand pickup. Then I found it much easier to get the curl than the slice over 5 because I am so slow at accelerating after rotations. In the end we sort of got them both but I wasn’t really happy with our performance of either of these options (and the number of reps it took to get them accomplished). So I experimented with doing a distance backside of 3, and picking up Tru on my right over 4. I asked Tru to slice #5 while I did a reverse spin which tightened the turn and gave me decent lines for the ending sequence.