Latest news about Strides
Catch up with the latest news about Strides Software.
Updates to Strides Course Design
The latest version of Strides Course Design now has five new features to create more options for the course designer while designing the course. This should make course designing easier and more accurate. An accurately designed course significantly reduces time while building the actual course.
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Manual measuring. Use the mouse to drag around the course so you can dictate exactly where the timed track goes. Click on Tools on the menu bar and then select Manual Measure. You will then reselect Tools and then click the round you wish to measure. For further details on manually measuring your course visit www.strides.co.nz/user_guide.php?id=39. -
Pole length adjustment. You can now set the length of poles for each fence in the course, so you can specify a particularly narrow fence in a course or in a small arena such as an indoor ring you can set the poles to an exact length to allow you to design exactly to scale. The pole lengths can be entered in metres or feet. Right click on the pole and then enter the distance into the dialog box. www.strides.co.nz/user_guide.php?id=79. -
Improved measuring for Two Phases. Due to a large percentage of show jumping classes today are run as a two phase, I have now got the course tracker to recognise the finish flags from the first phase as the start flags for the second phase. When there is an absence of start flags in front of the first jump off fence the program will prompt an option to run the class as a "Two Phase". This option is a safe guard, in case you have simply forgotten to add the start flags for the jump off. -
Keyboard setting. A highlighted fence can now be deleted by pressing the backspace or the deletebuttons. The course can also be saved by pressing ctrl-S (Control S) and ctrl-P (Control P) to print the displayed course. -
Wall shape adjusted to scale. I have now refined the shape of the wall to better indicate its length and width in relation to the scale of the course.
To receive these updates, you will need to run Strides while your computer is online for at least a minute (maybe longer if you do not have high speed internet), close it and then finally reopen the program. You should now have these updates on your computer.
New pricing plan for Strides Exercises
Strides Exercises now has new prices. It is now $6.95USD ($9.95NZD in NZ) for a monthly subscription and $29.95USD ($49.95 NZD in NZ) for an annua...
Tutorial 6 – First Fence in a Course
The first fence in a course is one that should be the least influential fence in the course and the one a course designer must get right. Jump 1 should set horse and rider combinations up for the chal...
Line distances – Imperial vs Metric
Over years in the sport of jumping, I have used both Imperial and Metric measurements for measuring distances between jumps. As a rider when pacing out distances, I had always used Imperial. It was ea...
Tutorial 4 Balanced corners
Now that you have your jumps positioned allowing three strides following and approaching as well as a minimum 20m turn, it is good practice to set your jumps in line. See ...
Strides Distance Calculator Apps
Take the guesswork out of your jump distances with the Strides Distance Calculator App, NEW from @strides_equestrian_software and available now fr...
Tutorial 3 - Quick corners
In the previous tutorial I described corners that potentially give the rider the option to go wider around corners, should there be sufficient space from the boundaries. Quick corners are corners that...
Tutorial 2 - Roll back turns
In Tutorial 1 3 stride - 20m rule we outlined the need to allow 3 straight strides after landing, a turn with minimum 20m in diameter and then 3 straight strides before the second fence. In this ...
Tutorial 1 - 3 stride - 20m rule
When designing a course every corner must allow a minimum of 3 strides to and from each fence and a turn with a diameter of at least 20m. Every corner must have: At least 42' (12.75m) ...
Notifications to Users of this Site
The Strides website now sends notifications to communicate to visitors to the site. The notification bell will be visible with the number of unread notifications, w...
Strides Course Design 2021 has now been released
After many years developing and producing Strides Software, I am excited to announce Strides first major upgrade to Strides Course Design 2021, often abbreviated as Strides21. Strides Course Design 20...
Strides Exercises now has new prices. It is now $6.95USD ($9.95NZD in NZ) for a monthly subscription and $29.95USD ($49.95 NZD in NZ) for an annua...
Tutorial 6 – First Fence in a Course
The first fence in a course is one that should be the least influential fence in the course and the one a course designer must get right. Jump 1 should set horse and rider combinations up for the chal...
Line distances – Imperial vs Metric
Over years in the sport of jumping, I have used both Imperial and Metric measurements for measuring distances between jumps. As a rider when pacing out distances, I had always used Imperial. It was ea...
Tutorial 4 Balanced corners
Now that you have your jumps positioned allowing three strides following and approaching as well as a minimum 20m turn, it is good practice to set your jumps in line. See ...
Strides Distance Calculator Apps
Take the guesswork out of your jump distances with the Strides Distance Calculator App, NEW from @strides_equestrian_software and available now fr...
Tutorial 3 - Quick corners
In the previous tutorial I described corners that potentially give the rider the option to go wider around corners, should there be sufficient space from the boundaries. Quick corners are corners that...
Tutorial 2 - Roll back turns
In Tutorial 1 3 stride - 20m rule we outlined the need to allow 3 straight strides after landing, a turn with minimum 20m in diameter and then 3 straight strides before the second fence. In this ...
Tutorial 1 - 3 stride - 20m rule
When designing a course every corner must allow a minimum of 3 strides to and from each fence and a turn with a diameter of at least 20m. Every corner must have: At least 42' (12.75m) ...
Notifications to Users of this Site
The Strides website now sends notifications to communicate to visitors to the site. The notification bell will be visible with the number of unread notifications, w...
Strides Course Design 2021 has now been released
After many years developing and producing Strides Software, I am excited to announce Strides first major upgrade to Strides Course Design 2021, often abbreviated as Strides21. Strides Course Design 20...
