Chloe_GHE
Well-Known Member
So last wkend we had our 2nd jumping lesson and built up through a little grid.
It's really frustrating having a baby horse to teach to jump, not because he has a lot to learn but because you NEED someone on the floor to move poles/fences etc and during the week by the time I get to the yard after work almost everyone else has been and gone
so I have to wait for my lessons in order to jump atm. Am working on this and think I may have found the perfect solution as new livery also has a 5yr old and also wants to start jumping and also as luck would have it used to be a Grade A sjer - peeeeerfick!
Anyhoo the main thing we need to crack is D's tendency to poke his head up, when you come in and he goes a little wobbly if i correct him he hollows, only at first and once through he then rounds and jumps nicely (admittedly this is only his 2nd time jumping, but this is my main concern that he learns to work out of this bad habit quickly) we built up to a little double, and he popped each variation of the grid really nicely after he knew what was needed.
He did however take offence at hitting his back legs on the xpole one time and sort of shot off in a weird bouncey, bronky, humpy flid down the arena (special pony) next time through guess what?....clean as a whistle!
Video of the grid and the beginning of the flid but my 'camera mum' who was hiding in a shed at the side of the arena out of the rain didn't get the whole thing because she has a real talent at always missing the good bits
Video and report here - http://www.gifthorseeventing.co.uk/2011/09/rain-jumps-and-tantrums.html
deep heat and tubigrip on offer today and some anadins as yesterday I ran my 1st half marathon and today I appear to have 'tied up'
It's really frustrating having a baby horse to teach to jump, not because he has a lot to learn but because you NEED someone on the floor to move poles/fences etc and during the week by the time I get to the yard after work almost everyone else has been and gone
so I have to wait for my lessons in order to jump atm. Am working on this and think I may have found the perfect solution as new livery also has a 5yr old and also wants to start jumping and also as luck would have it used to be a Grade A sjer - peeeeerfick!Anyhoo the main thing we need to crack is D's tendency to poke his head up, when you come in and he goes a little wobbly if i correct him he hollows, only at first and once through he then rounds and jumps nicely (admittedly this is only his 2nd time jumping, but this is my main concern that he learns to work out of this bad habit quickly) we built up to a little double, and he popped each variation of the grid really nicely after he knew what was needed.
He did however take offence at hitting his back legs on the xpole one time and sort of shot off in a weird bouncey, bronky, humpy flid down the arena (special pony) next time through guess what?....clean as a whistle!
Video of the grid and the beginning of the flid but my 'camera mum' who was hiding in a shed at the side of the arena out of the rain didn't get the whole thing because she has a real talent at always missing the good bits
Video and report here - http://www.gifthorseeventing.co.uk/2011/09/rain-jumps-and-tantrums.html
deep heat and tubigrip on offer today and some anadins as yesterday I ran my 1st half marathon and today I appear to have 'tied up'
