Michen
Well-Known Member
Thanks to everyone for the help and encouragement after our horrendous day at Calmsden.
Bog had a couple of weeks of physio and chiro, then went for an SJ lesson and it was as if it never happened. No confidence lost there, and I was sort of OK.. straight after I was going to just enter 90's again but as the doubt set in I decided to just stick to 80's until I was completely bored of them.
Anyway, we toddled off to Broadway and jumped an easy double clear on a (as is now the norm) crap dressage but a good confidence giving run. Not much to say about it really, I felt a bit flat afterwards, I think just from the lack of progression from 90's.
On to today, decided to do the 80cm at Elmwood for one more easy run then move back up. Boggle was super relaxed, he felt nice in warm up and then did a big spook during the test at some walkers behind a hedge...turd. I actually had thought the good bits of the test would have made up for it but we sat 3rd way down the section. I'm getting pretty despondent about the dressage, as his schooling has improved so much and I'm having regular dressage lessons, yet last year with no effort, no warm up and no focus from me he always sat comfortably mid way through the section (unless a disaster happened). I'm not sure what's going wrong and have to say it left me a little frustrated today.
Not to worry though, the crap dressage didn't matter as I then went on to manage to mess up the SJ. By going wrong. Again. Who knows how I function in daily life, it must be a miracle. Proudly patting my pony joyfully after a nice round (bit wonky in places again which I have figured out is 100% me most of the time having consulted with my human physio about it, but sometimes us when we get slightly wrong), oh wait... the last fence. 10 time faults and sack the idiot jockey. Video below for your amusement.
XC was fun, Boggle was overly relaxed in the warm up... weird. A slap down the shoulder with the whip out of the start box to gee him up a bit he took great offence to and then made the most of his snaffle, no martingale and no neckstrap by rocketing all the way around the xc, jumping everything with gusto in particular the brush fence after which this particularly attractive photo was snapped, I was turning to laugh with the fence judges who were giggling at his over enthusiastic jump and my shout of "holy sh**).
So not sure where to next, ground is hardening. Offchurch Bury always has super ground but the 90 there is not an easy one (for my benefit not Boggle)… I am really frustrated by the dressage as to actually be putting effort in and getting worse marks seems ridiculous. But hey, my jump riding is a lot better and at least I am out there doing it despite broken ankle and horse fall in the last 6 months. I am annoyed at myself for still being wimpy though, especially having watched this pony fly around a BE100 with such ease, and I can't even get us competitive at 80...
Any feedback re the sj always appreciated, I dare not post the dressage its just too depressing! I'm not getting the same sense of achievements after doing 80's, because it's well within my comfort zone. Equally I don't really want to do anything other than a super easy 90. Oh and it would be nice to actually be even vaguely competitive in the dressage like we were last year!
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Bog had a couple of weeks of physio and chiro, then went for an SJ lesson and it was as if it never happened. No confidence lost there, and I was sort of OK.. straight after I was going to just enter 90's again but as the doubt set in I decided to just stick to 80's until I was completely bored of them.
Anyway, we toddled off to Broadway and jumped an easy double clear on a (as is now the norm) crap dressage but a good confidence giving run. Not much to say about it really, I felt a bit flat afterwards, I think just from the lack of progression from 90's.
On to today, decided to do the 80cm at Elmwood for one more easy run then move back up. Boggle was super relaxed, he felt nice in warm up and then did a big spook during the test at some walkers behind a hedge...turd. I actually had thought the good bits of the test would have made up for it but we sat 3rd way down the section. I'm getting pretty despondent about the dressage, as his schooling has improved so much and I'm having regular dressage lessons, yet last year with no effort, no warm up and no focus from me he always sat comfortably mid way through the section (unless a disaster happened). I'm not sure what's going wrong and have to say it left me a little frustrated today.
Not to worry though, the crap dressage didn't matter as I then went on to manage to mess up the SJ. By going wrong. Again. Who knows how I function in daily life, it must be a miracle. Proudly patting my pony joyfully after a nice round (bit wonky in places again which I have figured out is 100% me most of the time having consulted with my human physio about it, but sometimes us when we get slightly wrong), oh wait... the last fence. 10 time faults and sack the idiot jockey. Video below for your amusement.
XC was fun, Boggle was overly relaxed in the warm up... weird. A slap down the shoulder with the whip out of the start box to gee him up a bit he took great offence to and then made the most of his snaffle, no martingale and no neckstrap by rocketing all the way around the xc, jumping everything with gusto in particular the brush fence after which this particularly attractive photo was snapped, I was turning to laugh with the fence judges who were giggling at his over enthusiastic jump and my shout of "holy sh**).
So not sure where to next, ground is hardening. Offchurch Bury always has super ground but the 90 there is not an easy one (for my benefit not Boggle)… I am really frustrated by the dressage as to actually be putting effort in and getting worse marks seems ridiculous. But hey, my jump riding is a lot better and at least I am out there doing it despite broken ankle and horse fall in the last 6 months. I am annoyed at myself for still being wimpy though, especially having watched this pony fly around a BE100 with such ease, and I can't even get us competitive at 80...
Any feedback re the sj always appreciated, I dare not post the dressage its just too depressing! I'm not getting the same sense of achievements after doing 80's, because it's well within my comfort zone. Equally I don't really want to do anything other than a super easy 90. Oh and it would be nice to actually be even vaguely competitive in the dressage like we were last year!
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