Jesstickle
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Because I moaned no one writes them anymore it seems only fair to do one, so be prepared for the least significant report you have ever read...
I went to jump a CR today on a borrowed horse I have only had for a couple of months who has mostly done flat work for the last five years. In preparation for the day I have had one jumping lesson, where I jumped the dizzying heights of 80cm and the usually lazy beast tried to buck me off with excitement, and jumped maybe a grand total of 7 or 8 jumps of about 60cm spread across the whole month. Nothing like doing your homework and being sure of what you're doing eh?
Add to that the creature tends to grind to a halt in front of any fillers I get out at home and I thought I had better do something we could step over from a standstill just incase!
The day started well when the beast decided he didn't entirely want to get on the trailer and go to a party (maybe the four hours he had to stand and wait for my dressage sheet last time out put him off?) but being a good chap he eventually popped on and we drove the whole 15 minutes to the local venue. Got on him (my OH gives the best leg ups ever; which is good as the horse is huge and I am little) and we warmed up a bit. I trotted round the teeny tiny clear round expecting his lordship to stop at anything with tinsel,which was everything, but apparently not. Politely said they could keep the frilly as I was slightly embarrassed at the horse making such a liar of me (obviously I had said he'd look at everything *rolleyes*
First class was the same height, so teeny tiny, and beastly cantered, and sometimes trotted due to retard jockey, around for a clear. Given that they were hardly jumps to his extremely lanky legs this is not a great surprise.
This is the video of us stepping over some raised poles ( no need to offer CC but if you would like to go ahead, I am easy either way )
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fs9Kew1GChw&feature=youtu.be
And then we jumped off and OH took some photos rather than videod. Which is kind of nice, but as that round was much better, ie I actually made the horse canter the whole thing, it is also kind of a shame.
If you give the OH the camera you mostly get these photos (seriously, I have ten like this)
sometimes you get some like this (which would actually be nice if the camera could focus better on burst mode, can't blame OH too much for that)
So we were second out of only two clear rounds so no great result BUT we did win chocolate which I gave to my glamorous assistant for his help so that is good. Given what a horrible year I have had horse wise, longer actually in truth, it was nice to go out and pootle around with zero complications and I ended the day with a big, totally cheesy grin. Could have stayed for a bigger class but it looked like rain and I am fair weather so we quite whilst we were ahead!
Very grateful to all the lovely people in my life who have cheered me up and stopped me giving up. I feel much more like myself again these days so next time we go out we will jump some proper jumps I think
Would give you all some chocolate out of OH's stash but it's all gone already and as I am on a diet I haven't anything else to offer besides broccoli. Well done if you got to the end of such a dull post
I went to jump a CR today on a borrowed horse I have only had for a couple of months who has mostly done flat work for the last five years. In preparation for the day I have had one jumping lesson, where I jumped the dizzying heights of 80cm and the usually lazy beast tried to buck me off with excitement, and jumped maybe a grand total of 7 or 8 jumps of about 60cm spread across the whole month. Nothing like doing your homework and being sure of what you're doing eh?
Add to that the creature tends to grind to a halt in front of any fillers I get out at home and I thought I had better do something we could step over from a standstill just incase!The day started well when the beast decided he didn't entirely want to get on the trailer and go to a party (maybe the four hours he had to stand and wait for my dressage sheet last time out put him off?) but being a good chap he eventually popped on and we drove the whole 15 minutes to the local venue. Got on him (my OH gives the best leg ups ever; which is good as the horse is huge and I am little) and we warmed up a bit. I trotted round the teeny tiny clear round expecting his lordship to stop at anything with tinsel,which was everything, but apparently not. Politely said they could keep the frilly as I was slightly embarrassed at the horse making such a liar of me (obviously I had said he'd look at everything *rolleyes*
First class was the same height, so teeny tiny, and beastly cantered, and sometimes trotted due to retard jockey, around for a clear. Given that they were hardly jumps to his extremely lanky legs this is not a great surprise.
This is the video of us stepping over some raised poles ( no need to offer CC but if you would like to go ahead, I am easy either way
)http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fs9Kew1GChw&feature=youtu.be
And then we jumped off and OH took some photos rather than videod. Which is kind of nice, but as that round was much better, ie I actually made the horse canter the whole thing, it is also kind of a shame.
If you give the OH the camera you mostly get these photos (seriously, I have ten like this)
sometimes you get some like this (which would actually be nice if the camera could focus better on burst mode, can't blame OH too much for that)
So we were second out of only two clear rounds so no great result BUT we did win chocolate which I gave to my glamorous assistant for his help so that is good. Given what a horrible year I have had horse wise, longer actually in truth, it was nice to go out and pootle around with zero complications and I ended the day with a big, totally cheesy grin. Could have stayed for a bigger class but it looked like rain and I am fair weather so we quite whilst we were ahead!
Very grateful to all the lovely people in my life who have cheered me up and stopped me giving up. I feel much more like myself again these days so next time we go out we will jump some proper jumps I think
Would give you all some chocolate out of OH's stash but it's all gone already and as I am on a diet I haven't anything else to offer besides broccoli.
Well done if you got to the end of such a dull post
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