Miata Mailing List: February 1995, Message #376
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   From: JEANNIE_HOBBS@HP4200.desk.hp.com
Subject: Re: Gymkhanas
   Date: Wed, 8 Feb 1995 13:37:45 -0500

>I saw niether my origional inguiry nor any responses regarding gymkhana
>experience.  Did it get on the net?
>Bill Allen

Hey Bill,

I saw your original posting and sent it on to BAMA's funkhana guru,
Brad Martinson, with a message that if he was too busy to respond
that was OK.  He just started a new business so he's pretty swamped.

I think I saw a response from someone else, too, about gymkhanas
(was it you, Cindy? or Rosemary?).

Usually our funkhanas are a blast.  We think of a theme (Hawaii,
Western, Yuppie, etc.), draw a course that will fit in the space
we have available (even a small parking lot works), and think of
silly things to have the driver/passenger do (driver drives blind-
folded, passenger puts golf balls on cones, both exchange clothes
and/or places, mock picnics (driver must exit, open trunk, get
blanket & basket, open passenger's door, sit down, stand up, put
blanket & basket back in trunk, open passenger's door for him/her
again, get back in driver's seat (timed/judged event).

For more ideas you might go to your local equestrian club and ask if
they have a brochure on their gymkhanas.  The golf-ball-in-cone is
popular, as is pole bending (weaving between poles/cones), barrel
racing while moving things from one barrel to the next, stepping through
an L-shaped obstacle forwards AND backwards, opening/closing gates,
going over a teeter-totter, etc.  Some of these, of course, would be
too easy for Miatas, since they move when and where you tell them!
But you could get some ideas going.

Hope this helps you and any others out there,

Jeannie