I_A_P
Well-Known Member
well it didnt exactly go to plan. i have spent 24 hrs feeling totally crushed and disapointed.
last week i had the lesson with laura renwick and riding in front of a set audience made me sick with nerves...needless to say didnt do mcuh good-basically the long and short of it is, she felt a bit excited so me worrying about her getting away with me spent most of the time holding her too mcuh and not beng confident to push er foward.
Anyway then had a lesson weds night to get confidence back which it did depsite injuring myself twice in the process.
Friday i popped her over a small fence at home just to keep things going.
Dressage i got 38.1 a truly bad score for us when recently we have been doing well the last marks out have been between 30 and 32 as well as placings unaff dressage.
Although compared to other marks in the class it was in top 1/3-1/2. She was just very tense which is unlike her, felt much worse than it looks on camera but made her a little hurried where normally she has fantasic rhymical paces,
This combined with the ground having very long clumpy grass and being pretty riough didnt do much for our balance. Anyway going to put that down to an off day as she is normally very good.
sj- well what can i say very few clears on the day she went in feeling a little excited-totally different to MK where she was lovely, had the first 3 down, was getting ever so slightly close and then knocking with her back legs (at least the front were neat for once!!)
and the last 2, again slightly close. thing is she wasnt really listening 100% and i didnt have as nuch hold as i would have liked.
I felt like i rode it as well as i could as well which made it worse, as i went in with no nerves and trying to be as positive as possible!
i dont know whether me carrying a whip wound her up or not, i dont normally carry one but took it in as a back up in case she felt a bit hesitant after our lesson.-she was the opposite!!
so felt completely disapointed and decided not to go xc as the ground was hard and i thought the course was quite easy and we wouldnt gain much from doing it, especially with keysoe next weekend.
So sad as have worked so hard on it recently and felt like a massive kcik in the teeth, im going to see how it goes next weekend then have a serious think. in the meantime im going to jump her as much as i can little and often this week just to try and get her listening to me.
any words of wisdom and comfort greatly received!
a few piccys
the bay in the background
last week i had the lesson with laura renwick and riding in front of a set audience made me sick with nerves...needless to say didnt do mcuh good-basically the long and short of it is, she felt a bit excited so me worrying about her getting away with me spent most of the time holding her too mcuh and not beng confident to push er foward.
Anyway then had a lesson weds night to get confidence back which it did depsite injuring myself twice in the process.
Friday i popped her over a small fence at home just to keep things going.
Dressage i got 38.1 a truly bad score for us when recently we have been doing well the last marks out have been between 30 and 32 as well as placings unaff dressage.
Although compared to other marks in the class it was in top 1/3-1/2. She was just very tense which is unlike her, felt much worse than it looks on camera but made her a little hurried where normally she has fantasic rhymical paces,
This combined with the ground having very long clumpy grass and being pretty riough didnt do much for our balance. Anyway going to put that down to an off day as she is normally very good.
sj- well what can i say very few clears on the day she went in feeling a little excited-totally different to MK where she was lovely, had the first 3 down, was getting ever so slightly close and then knocking with her back legs (at least the front were neat for once!!)
I felt like i rode it as well as i could as well which made it worse, as i went in with no nerves and trying to be as positive as possible!
i dont know whether me carrying a whip wound her up or not, i dont normally carry one but took it in as a back up in case she felt a bit hesitant after our lesson.-she was the opposite!!
so felt completely disapointed and decided not to go xc as the ground was hard and i thought the course was quite easy and we wouldnt gain much from doing it, especially with keysoe next weekend.
So sad as have worked so hard on it recently and felt like a massive kcik in the teeth, im going to see how it goes next weekend then have a serious think. in the meantime im going to jump her as much as i can little and often this week just to try and get her listening to me.
any words of wisdom and comfort greatly received!
a few piccys
the bay in the background
