millitiger
Well-Known Member
So Vinnie has been home for 3 weeks now, been to a little dressage show and jumped him twice at home so decided to go to a xc clinic with a trainer I have never been taught by before and a place we have never been before.
Got lost so arrived with approximately 3 minutes to spare but the people running the clinic were very welcoming and friendly which put me at ease
Started in the arena and Vinnie got a bit introvert so just tried to push on and keep him thinking forwards.
Went out into the xc field and he shrunk up a bit more and went a bit green on me. In hindsight, I needed to push on and really give him the confidence that I wanted to really do this and that I was super-confident about everything but instead, I reverted to riding him like a very green, spooky, backwards baby which meant he morphed into a very green, spooky, backwards baby
Long story short, I managed to get jumped off twice in about 15 minutes
He went very green, very slowly and then propelled himself skywards over the fence in slow motion and landed at standstill- unfortunately I did not, and carried on to the ground!
This was one of his more sensible jumps over it...
Then went over to the water and because I wasn't riding positively, Vinnie misread the step in, thought it was a ditch and that he needed to clear the entire water jump!! Yet again, I was jumped off but thankfully Vinnie succeeded in clearing the water jump without going in the water so I stayed dry
Take off... as you can see by my face, I had no idea we were about to clear the entire water!
Gave myself a serious talking to as I sat on the floor, got a leg up and finally started riding with a bit of positivity and giving my poor horse some sort of direction- he was very pleased and started to jump much better, really taking me to the fences and jumping with his ears pricked
Still a few 'special' moments though if he wasn't sure so we just went higher
Love this one, I am smiling and it looks like he is too! By this stage our positivity was at a new level and I was actually struggling to find the brakes!
Vinnie and my mum sharing a 'moment' when I wasn't looking!
And because if all else fails, we can always just do dressage with his poncy trot
So despite falling off TWICE I felt the session was really useful and just what I needed to get back into the groove.
I really got on with the instructor so we are going back in 2 weeks for a private lesson and hopefully then we can start as we finished this session
In other news in the household, Millie has had her foal a few days early and he is a rather large and cheeky colt- went to see them today and I'm already in love!
Warning- lots of cute foal photos if you follow the link
http://www.horseandhound.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?p=11874863#post11874863
So been a bit of a hectic week, I'm going to see baby again on the weekend and may taking the flying Vinnie out to some show jumping if I can find anything small on locally.
No food on offer as I had an enormous pub lunch so no dinner required- good job as my bachelorette flat doesn't seem to contain any food at the moment!
Got lost so arrived with approximately 3 minutes to spare but the people running the clinic were very welcoming and friendly which put me at ease
Started in the arena and Vinnie got a bit introvert so just tried to push on and keep him thinking forwards.
Went out into the xc field and he shrunk up a bit more and went a bit green on me. In hindsight, I needed to push on and really give him the confidence that I wanted to really do this and that I was super-confident about everything but instead, I reverted to riding him like a very green, spooky, backwards baby which meant he morphed into a very green, spooky, backwards baby
Long story short, I managed to get jumped off twice in about 15 minutes
He went very green, very slowly and then propelled himself skywards over the fence in slow motion and landed at standstill- unfortunately I did not, and carried on to the ground!
This was one of his more sensible jumps over it...
Then went over to the water and because I wasn't riding positively, Vinnie misread the step in, thought it was a ditch and that he needed to clear the entire water jump!! Yet again, I was jumped off but thankfully Vinnie succeeded in clearing the water jump without going in the water so I stayed dry
Take off... as you can see by my face, I had no idea we were about to clear the entire water!
Gave myself a serious talking to as I sat on the floor, got a leg up and finally started riding with a bit of positivity and giving my poor horse some sort of direction- he was very pleased and started to jump much better, really taking me to the fences and jumping with his ears pricked
Still a few 'special' moments though if he wasn't sure so we just went higher
Love this one, I am smiling and it looks like he is too! By this stage our positivity was at a new level and I was actually struggling to find the brakes!
Vinnie and my mum sharing a 'moment' when I wasn't looking!
And because if all else fails, we can always just do dressage with his poncy trot
So despite falling off TWICE
I felt the session was really useful and just what I needed to get back into the groove. I really got on with the instructor so we are going back in 2 weeks for a private lesson and hopefully then we can start as we finished this session
In other news in the household, Millie has had her foal a few days early and he is a rather large and cheeky colt- went to see them today and I'm already in love!
Warning- lots of cute foal photos if you follow the link
http://www.horseandhound.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?p=11874863#post11874863
So been a bit of a hectic week, I'm going to see baby again on the weekend and may taking the flying Vinnie out to some show jumping if I can find anything small on locally.
No food on offer as I had an enormous pub lunch so no dinner required- good job as my bachelorette flat doesn't seem to contain any food at the moment!
