I just want to let you all know....

SmartieBean09

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How grateful I am to this forum for allowing me to meet one of the greatest friend I have in my life right now...

VickiJay and I met in December when I was on the look out for a Micklem. Fortunately for me, this led to us finding a great friendship and amongst other things, a new yard for my new boy.

After losing Jamin, I lost all confidence, to the point of being unable to even lead a pony. Dazzle came to me by chance and I wanted him to be my saviour. Unfortunately, I moved to the c***est yard that left both of us miserable and me, even less confident than before.

Fast forward a long time and we are now at a beautiful, peaceful yard in Berks. Also there, is my fab chum Vicki, who by the way has a special talent for installing complete woosies like me with unfound confidence. Now I haven't jumped a sizeable jump for 15 years and not so long ago fell to pieces at the thought of pole work. Last week I decided that enough was enough, there is a great saying "if you always do what you've always done, then you will always get what you've always got" so, with that in mind I decided it was now time to "donn the brave pants" and tackle my fears.

Well thanks to the miracle worker VickiJay, here is a picture of me
jumping my boy today. Please excuse the fact that I am clutching on for dear life, there is lots to work on but you know what....I don't care... Look at us ping!!!!!!

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Apologies for sizing.... I've just learnt to jump again, learning how to re size photos comes in later ;-)

I'm still on such a high!
 
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What a wonderful happy post :)
Well done to you and Vicki. Have a great summer with Dazzle :cool: He is lovely !
 
LIKE :D Well done, overcoming a confidence loss is horrible, especially if it's gone because a horse is. I'm there, and I've not had the guts to really face it.
 
Thank you all. Lolo, you've brought a tear to my eye because it's so hard to move on from something you've loved so much, to the point that you lose confidence because you think that there will never be another quite like the one you have lost. No one could be as nervous as I am...sorry, was! ;-) So if I can get through it then believe in yourself because it will happen. You just need to wait for that switch inside to let you know that it's time. It will happen. I promise x

Madam Min, it wasn't a mahoosive fence but for me, it may as well have been 1.10 (which VJ pops over whilst having a chat!) I'm scared either way to be honest. But it was sizeable for me and I am so proud and over the moon. Here is me standing next to the fence after..

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You know what... Scrap what I just said about it not being mahoosive, it was! Just not to some and so I was just playing it down but actually, 3 months ago I was practically in tears at jumping a raised pole so for now I'm going to revel in the glory that this fence was actually huge and we cleared it....twice! ;-)
 
Awww mega wub for this post :)

You and Dazzle are wonderful and you rocked jumping today! To think that a matter of weeks ago you asked me if I could make the pole on the ground any smaller!

I'm so proud of you and it's been ace watching you grow, become more confident and learn to love your pony. He is fantastic :)

You didn't mention our plans for you to go to dressage in a few weeks or the fact the next step is cross country schooling, oh yeah, and riding Bug!!

Thinking about how smiley you were after has made me smile a lot today.

Go Shelley & Dazzle xxxxxxx
 
woo hoo! What a great post to read. well done Shelley, Dazzle and Vickijay :-) Where can I get some of those brave pants? Do they do them in Ride-Away? x
 
Vickijay said:
Awww mega wub for this post :)

You and Dazzle are wonderful and you rocked jumping today! To think that a matter of weeks ago you asked me if I could make the pole on the ground any smaller!

I'm so proud of you and it's been ace watching you grow, become more confident and learn to love your pony. He is fantastic :)

You didn't mention our plans for you to go to dressage in a few weeks or the fact the next step is cross country schooling, oh yeah, and riding Bug!!

Thinking about how smiley you were after has made me smile a lot today.

Go Shelley & Dazzle xxxxxxx
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Dressage, cross country??.....ssshhh Vicki, shhhhhh!

On a serious note though, thank you so much. Had it not been for you, I wouldn't have done it. I'm still wearing my smile by the way too!....from ear to ear!

I'm sure there will be lots more to report soon and who knows, maybe one day I can venture over to "competition riders" ( or whatever it's called now) and post a report. ;-)
 
It's just so lovely to read threads like this, and I'm so glad that things are going so well for you. Long may it continue :)
Having recently lost my mare and discovered that, having jumped nothing else for 2 years, whilst I was comfortable jumping decent heights on her I turn into a gibbering idiot on approaching a fence on anything else, I know a little how hard it is to lose something that is such an integral part of your life and existence and how lost you feel in the aftermath.

ps. That fence looks fairly chunky to me, you can certainly allow yourself to be proud ;)
 
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