Turn One Obstacle into Many!
If you are a host of any obstacle competition, after a few events you start drawing a blank on how to change things up and keep people raving about your events and coming back! Here’s the deal, you don’t have to reinvent the wheel. The key to having new obstacles is to strategically change the old ones.
With my husband and I owning an event and trail riding facility called Von Holten Ranch that is located in north central Missouri, we host events for numerous organizations. In the past, we spent countless hours racking our brains trying to think of obstacles. In this article we'll reveal how we created more obstacles from one obstacle.
Some may call it barrel board pinwheel, some may call it wind the clock, or your organization might have a whole different name. I will refer to it as wind the clock, because that is what I first learned it to be named. If you have two barrels and place a timber, board, or PVC pipe that is to be picked up by the rider with the equine traveling around a centrally located barrel with one end in your hand and the other staying stationary on the other barrel, then you have a wind the clock obstacle.
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By Brandy Von Holten
Brandy is a ranch owner, horsewoman, instructor, competitor, judge, equestrian event host, a wedding host, a black belt in martial arts as well as a former biology teacher ranging from college to middle school for 11 years. She is driven, ambitious and confident. Operating out of her family ranch in Mora, MO, Brandy and her husband David are in the business of hosting a wide variety of equine events.
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