Presentation

MIM Construction AB
Mats Bjrnetun
2016-02-05
 Use of MIMSAFE SYSTEMS

Where?
When?
Why?
How?
 Where?
Course Designers choice
 When?
Increased risk of short duration rotation
 Why
The timing aspect
The mindset aspect
The chance to react aspect
 Rotation - Demolition
Rotation Demolition
Jumping curve is upwards at first hit Jumping curve is downwards at first hit
Horse is close to fence Horse jumps of too early
One major hit create the rotation Demolition can go over in rotation
Rider follows the horse Rider separates from the horse
Time between hit on the fence and ground contact is short Time between hit and ground contact is often longer
Rotation is straight forward If a rotation it is in any direction
More likely to give serious rider injuries More likely to give serious horse injuries
 Mindset
Behavioral Science of the Rider
Calculated Risk or Opportunity?
Only way to win is forward
Behavioral Science of the Horse
Energy Conservative (Calculated Risk)
Survival Instinct
Townend fall at Lexington
Fast rotation
 Chanse to react
No chance of improvement from rider
Normal athlete reaction time is 0.5-0.8 sec
Fence Contact Phase important to prevent fast
rotation
Contact forces needs to be lowered to
decrease rotational speed
 How
Lower contact forces
Shorter contact time
Optimized force direction
 Principal rotational fall
The horse is traveling forwards and upwards
while approaching the fence.
Coming in too low the legs get trapped in front
of the pole.

CoG

At this point the horse impacts the fence and

all major forces acting on the horse have the
opposite direction as the speed of the horse.
The speed of the impacting legs quickly slows
down and stops.
The horse keeps moving forward.

CoG

As the ligaments stretches the forward speed

translates into a rotational speed. The rotation
itself takes time to develop and the forces
acting on the horse will be considerably lower
when the rotation is visible.
 CoG

By this time the rotation has Force

developed and the rotational speed acting on
will only increase with gravity. If the horse
original speed of the horse was not
extremely slow the increase will
only be a fraction of the total
rotational speed. There is no return
as the horse will continue its
rotation until it hits the ground.
At this point the horse starts
bending its neck to the side to
protect its head and neck.
The horse hits the ground.
Gravity at 300m/min

Time (Hundreds of a second)

 Principal recoverable fall
The horse is traveling forwards and upwards
while approaching the fence.

Hinge
 At this point the horse impacts the fence and
all major forces acting on the horse have the
opposite direction as the speed of the horse.
The speed of the impacting legs quickly slows
down.

Hinge
Rotational Speed

The fence is driven forwards together with the

impacting horse. As the fence rotates around
a hinge its speed forward shifts into a speed
towards the ground. As the legs are never
completely trapped the rotational speed is
Hinge reduced compared to a non breakable fence.
The horse will have a good chance to
recover from the would-be dangerous
rotational fall. The total rotation of the
horse will only be a fraction compared to
a non breakable fence.

Hinge
 Demolition fall
The horse has not interpreted the obstacle in a
correct way and ends up landing down into the
fence. There is a relatively long period where
both horse and rider feels the mistake.
This makes the rider less
reluctant to stay on the
horse when it loses its
balance. The risk of having
a fast rotation where the
rider gets trapped
underneath the horse is
less than when the rotation
starts while traveling
upwards approaching the
fence.
 Energy at 300m/min
At the low speed 300m/m or 5m/s the energy is equal to a center of
gravity fall down to the top of the fence of 1,25m. The fall of a horse into a
fence like that is almost impossible, the actual center of gravity fall
distance before reaching the top of the fence is much less than 1,25m and
could be accounted to demolition falls.
If the center of gravity fall distance from the top of the jump curve is
0,25m before reaching the fence the fall energy level is 20% of the forward
traveling speed energy.
Thus using a vertical energy to take away the total energy to prevent a
rotational fall is to sub optimize the use of frangible fences.
Statistics show that often there is no fall energy at al before hitting the
fence. The jump curve is still moving upwards.
A recommendation is to use the, in most cases, more than five times
higher horizontal energy to activate the frangible fence.
(Notes from Anders Flogrd, MIM Construction)
 Rotation - Demolition
Rotation Demolition
Jumping curve is upwards at first hit Jumping curve is downwards at first hit
Horse is close to fence Horse jumps of too early
One major hit create the rotation Demolition can go over in rotation
Rider follows the horse Rider separates from the horse
Time between hit on the fence and ground contact is short Time between hit and ground contact is often longer
Rotation is straight forward If a rotation it is in any direction
More likely to give serious rider injuries More likely to give serious horse injuries
MIM Post&Rail-kit
Generation 2
Function
Function is limited to horizontal
release.
Solid from vertical force,
Using MIM Clip with indicator
gives correct judging and no risk
of unexpected release.
 MIM Post&Rail kit
Generation 3 (stabilizing offset)
Function
Function is limited to horizontal
release.
Totally solid from vertical force
Using MIM Clip with indicator
gives correct judging and no risk
of unexpected release.
Allow the horse to slide over
without release that results in 21
penalty points.

Usefull for:
Fence into water
Coffin (first element)
 MIM Table-kit
Generation 3 (stabilizing offset)
Function
Function is limited to horizontal
release.
Totally solid from vertical force
Using MIM Clip with indicator
gives correct judging and no risk
of unexpected release.
Allow the horse to bankwithout
release that results in 21 penalty
points.
 MIM Wall-kit
Generation 3 (stabilizing offset)
Function
Function is limited to horizontal
release.
Totally solid from vertical force
Using MIM Clip with indicator
gives correct judging and no risk
of unexpected release.
Allow the horse to slide over
without release that results in 21
penalty points.

Usefull for:
Fence into water
Coffin (first element)
Trippel brush (third brush)
Gate
Wall
Generation 3 (stabilizing offset)

Negative Offset

Post

WALL

125mm or 5
 Reversed pin
Generation 2
Function
Horizontal to vertical release.
Traditional pin
Generation 1
Function
Function is limited to
vertical release.
Totally solid from
horizontal force.