Bud Houston posted this sequence the other day, and I thought I would give it a whirl and see how well Belle and I could do this with distance handling.
The handling problem I encountered failing to wait for Belle to commit to the current obstacle before I moving on to what was coming next. In particular, Belle's line from 3 to 4 is not a given--I have to maintain pressure on her line until she is committed to that jump which for her was when she was in the air. If I turned too soon, she pulled off the jump in confusion. The other thing I had to remember was to not under-handle the wingless jump. At the very least I had to keep my arm out and look at it while moving toward 6. However, if I encountered a sequence like this in a trial setting, I would not opt to stay out of the pocket. I would support Belle to 4 and start moving laterally to the left wing of 6 and do a FC as in the video. If the course called for me to be on the right side of the teeter, then I would add a blind cross between 6 and the teeter.
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