First competition next month !

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Armas

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I can not believe we have come so far since January next month will see Armas entered in to his first local SJ club competition. We are entering it to see how he will perform and its smaller jumps than he is currently capable of.
Yesterday was a lousy day pouring with rain this is a video of yesterdays action and preparation for the upcoming competition. I think given the wind & rain he performed very well.

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Please take this as advice, I am well placed to comment given that I compete at the Club levels you describe!
Club shows (at least in my part of the world are few and far between), therefore you are doing the right thing in getting Armas out and about, the season is very intermittent,( for those of you who are watching in the Uk , and there is a distinct lack of clear round jumping et al!!)
Please first find out that Armas is on the correct Liste, ask the Club, if he isnt then he could be non classified, or disqualified, and I know you wouldnt want that.
The most important piece of advice I am going to give you is, please see that he is entered in a small Preparatoire class, ie, NOT a Grand Prix or the like where TIME is the decided factor.Little by little, slowly slowly, he needs to feel at the atmosphere, see the fillers, get used to new arenas.
Also, I would like to see your trainer and rider concentrate more on landing after the jump and going round the corner, as if to another fence, but in a more collected fashion rather than stop on the corner, and appear disunited.PM me if you want.
I know you have come far, and I applaud you, but as I said, I do have experience in France and of the training System of some of the coaches, take your time and you will keep his confidence, rush him at this stage and you will destroy his faith and that would be a shame.
 
Thanks for the free lesson :p

Interesting to see Armas struggling a bit jumping from trot; he's far more comfortable in canter and visibly grew in confidence until he started to get tired and strong towards the end. I personally think he needs to continue working on strengthening his back & quarters through pole & grid work in trot as you know he's scopey and can jump the bigger heights.

Only when he was tired he became disunited and agree with JWhite that stopping him after each jump is not ideal, however I think the dreadful conditions were a contributing factor to doing so as I don't remember him doing that in previous lessons. I like the instructor who is very mindful of the horse and a quiet effective teacher. Poor lad was really struggling to hold the very wet reins! I'd also put stirrup leathers up a couple of holes as when instructor said lighten your seat earlier coming round, lad had difficulty in maintaining as stirrups are so long.

He's made amazing progress and wishing you the best of luck at your show. Pictures and updates please!
 
JCWHITE said:
Please take this as advice, I am well placed to comment given that I compete at the Club levels you describe!
Club shows (at least in my part of the world are few and far between), therefore you are doing the right thing in getting Armas out and about, the season is very intermittent,( for those of you who are watching in the Uk , and there is a distinct lack of clear round jumping et al!!)
Please first find out that Armas is on the correct Liste, ask the Club, if he isnt then he could be non classified, or disqualified, and I know you wouldnt want that.
The most important piece of advice I am going to give you is, please see that he is entered in a small Preparatoire class, ie, NOT a Grand Prix or the like where TIME is the decided factor.Little by little, slowly slowly, he needs to feel at the atmosphere, see the fillers, get used to new arenas.
Also, I would like to see your trainer and rider concentrate more on landing after the jump and going round the corner, as if to another fence, but in a more collected fashion rather than stop on the corner, and appear disunited.PM me if you want.
I know you have come far, and I applaud you, but as I said, I do have experience in France and of the training System of some of the coaches, take your time and you will keep his confidence, rush him at this stage and you will destroy his faith and that would be a shame.
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Hi and thank you for the tips. Its just a small local competition and we are entered for the preparatory class. My trainer tells me the jumps are a maximum of 80' so Armas should be able to handle them well. The main goal of the day will be to see how he handles him self and a different arena. Armas copes well with crowds and enjoys people. It seems that Iberian horses love crowds.
I will of course take some video of the day.....
 
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