ann-jen
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Well I've just got back from my third lesson and I can't believe how well Jenny went. I've been religiously practising our "homework" from the previous lessons and it must be paying off.
We started todays session with a line of 6 poles on a canter stride up the centre line. Walked and trotted over them without mishap asking for a halt at C and then changing the rein. Then she put the 2nd pole into a small cross pole and we came again. I was expecting the sight of the jump to fire Jenny off but she just trotted up, popped it and stayed in trot and achieved the halt at C - gobsmacked. She kept on doing it too so not even a fluke! She then put the 6th pole into another cross so it was a 3 stride related distance with 3 ground poles in between the 2 crosses. We managed to pop down the line and stay in trot.
We then tried it in canter - asking for a canter transition over the 1st pole. Jenny just stayed in a nice rhythm through the line and even when she started putting the jumps up a hole at a time she never changed - didn't speed up at all so we called it a night on that.
I am so pleased with Jenny - I know we only jumped about 2 ft tonight but it was in control and I was dictating the pace for the first time in ages. Even when we used to jump BSJA I think Jen still set the pace most of the time. I can't wait til my next lesson - I can't believe how quickly we seem to be progressing considering at one point I thought our problems could never be sorted out! Just shows what finding the right trainer can do. I know we'll probably still have setbacks but I just feel so positive at the moment for the first time in ages regarding jumping. You never know we might be back BSJAing again even!
We started todays session with a line of 6 poles on a canter stride up the centre line. Walked and trotted over them without mishap asking for a halt at C and then changing the rein. Then she put the 2nd pole into a small cross pole and we came again. I was expecting the sight of the jump to fire Jenny off but she just trotted up, popped it and stayed in trot and achieved the halt at C - gobsmacked. She kept on doing it too so not even a fluke! She then put the 6th pole into another cross so it was a 3 stride related distance with 3 ground poles in between the 2 crosses. We managed to pop down the line and stay in trot.
We then tried it in canter - asking for a canter transition over the 1st pole. Jenny just stayed in a nice rhythm through the line and even when she started putting the jumps up a hole at a time she never changed - didn't speed up at all so we called it a night on that.
I am so pleased with Jenny - I know we only jumped about 2 ft tonight but it was in control and I was dictating the pace for the first time in ages. Even when we used to jump BSJA I think Jen still set the pace most of the time. I can't wait til my next lesson - I can't believe how quickly we seem to be progressing considering at one point I thought our problems could never be sorted out! Just shows what finding the right trainer can do. I know we'll probably still have setbacks but I just feel so positive at the moment for the first time in ages regarding jumping. You never know we might be back BSJAing again even!
