WESTERN DRILL DICTIONARY

The dictionary listed below is taken from Starshine Drill.

When I get some spare time this dictionary will be replaced with the new Jorvick Drill Association dictionary of moves.

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BEGINNER MOVES

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✶ Box Cross: Four columns of one or more riders cross directly behind the rider(s) in front of them forming a box.

✶ Charro: A column of riders is passed through by another set of riders.

✶ Chevron: Any number of riders form a moving point or wedge. One or two riders may lead and spacing should be consistent with an oblique.

✶ Circle: A closed plane curve with every rider equal distance from a fixed center. Riders may be in a single file, pairs, or any other combination.

✶ Single File Line or Column of Ones: A single file line of riders with equal distance between each rider maintaining the same track.

✶ Column of Twos, Threes, or Fours: A column of pairs, side by side, with equal distance between each rider maintaining the same track.

✶ Company Front or Single Line Abreast: Each rider, side by side, moving in the same direction.

✶ Figure Eight: Riders form two different circles which connect but don't overlap. Riders change circles every revolution.

✶ Mock Figure Eight: Riders form two different circles which connect but don't overlap. Riders do NOT change circles.

✶ Oblique: Two or more riders with diagonal spacing. Lateral alignment may be from nose to knee or nose to hip.
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✶ Single File Cross: Single file lines crossing ahead of or behind each on-coming rider. Riders may approach from any angle.

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INTERMEDIATE MOVES

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✶ Basket Weave: Columns approach from opposite directions and weave back and forth by passing through each other. One column separates while the other column rides through and then vise-versa until all sets have passed

✶ Column Roll Back: Outside riders at the front of a column circle outwards to the read of the column. The adjacent riders immediately follow and end up reserving positions with the first riders. The next set repeats the roll. (Roll back by pairs do not reverse positions).

✶ Crack the Whip: Riders in a single line abreast circle in one direction as a unit using one side of the line as a pivot point

✶ Diamond Cross: Two lines, crossing ahead of or behind each on coming set of rider(s), proceed to a certain point, then turn 45 degrees to cross again.

✶ Four Way Cross: Four columns cross alternately. One set from two opposite columns pass by each other then one set from the two remaining columns pass each other behind the set from the other columns crossing alternately until all sets have crossed. This is not a box cross.

✶ Heart: The first set in a column separates and form a set in the reverse direction. The remaining sets separate and ride outside of the first set then turn in and form sets following the first set

✶ Herringbone Cross: Two lines of riders canted at 45 degrees ride through a similar line traveling the opposite direction

✶ Lace the Boot: Two lines traveling in the same direction weave through each other around an imaginary point

✶ Liberty Gate: A single line abreast splits in half with each newly formed set circling away from the other. The riders which were on the ends of the original line become pivots for their respective sets. Each set must complete a 360 degree turn at the least.

✶ Null and Void: Independent circle(s) crossed by a column(s) passing in front of or behind each approaching rider

✶ Pinwheel or Single Spoke: two columns of riders in a closed plane curve with every set of riders equal distance from a fixed center point.

✶ Charge: Two lines of riders abreast approach and pass through each other. Lateral spacing between riders may vary.

✶ Sweep: Riders in an oblique traveling the perimeter of the arena. Riders must travel a distance equal to or greater than half the circumference of the arena.

✶ Zipper: Riders form one stationary line, alternately facing opposite directions. The two end riders on the same end move forward and complete a 270 degree turn to pair up and travel through the remaining riders. Remaining riders will follow the original two riders

​✶ Posse Roll: Sets of riders at the front of the column circle or roll back independently to the end of the column. Prior to falling in place at the end of the line, riders reverse order. The next set follows the first.

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ADVANCED MOVES

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​✶ Double Wedding Ring: Riders in two independent interlocking circles both circling in opposite directions. Riders do not change circles.

✶ Egg Beater: Riders in two interlocking circles both circling in the same direction. Riders do not change circles.

✶ Four Leaf Clover: Riders in four closed plane curves equal distance from a fixed point

✶ Four Spoke: Four columns of riders in a closed plain curve with every set of riders equal distance from a fixed center

✶ Interlocking Circles: Multiple circles overlapping or interlocking

✶ Interlocking Fan: Two pinwheels, with distance between each rider, circle in the same direction. Half of each pinwheel will cross with the other pinwheel momentarily forming a single line abreast. During the cross, inside riders are alternately facing opposite directions and outside riders remain in the same direction.

✶ Itsy Bitsy Spider: Two lines abreast, facing opposite directions, mesh together. The end riders on the same end of each begin opposite circles. The lines complete 180 degree turs and come back to form one line. The pivot riders now become swing riders and begin circles in the other direction. A minimum of two 180 degree turns in required.

✶ Peel the Apple: A single file line formed into one large circle. The lead rider gradually moves to the center of the circle essentially decreasing the size. Once near the center the lead rider reverses the direction of the circle and passes the following riders on the outside. Spacing between riders should be consistent.

✶ Split or Double Thread: Columns of twos separated by a fixed distance cross with another column separated in the same fashion.

✶ Suicide Wheel: Riders in one line, alternately facing opposite directions, move forward into two distinct pinwheels with the four inside riders acting as pivots. These pinwheels will move in opposite directions with distance between each rider and cross through each other at two points in the circle

✶ Three Spoke: Three sets of riders with equal distance between sets circling in the same direction.

✶ Touch and Go: The front set of riders in a column split and circle back. They briefly form up with a middle set in the column and then circle back to from up the original set at the end of the column

✶ Weave: Two columns of riders approach from opposite directions and weave through each other

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DATED 09 APRIL 2021

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