Weekend plans :D

I did more jumping today and put my brave pants on and jumped him over the half barrels set out in the arena. He had issues at first due to being scared of them but we eventually got over that.

However due to my bad seat, I did fall off. We did a little course and finished on the barrels, he cantered the last few strides and did a rather large jump over it. I can't sit a jump like that clearly and as he cantered away I slipped off. Only a bit sore on my bum/right hip as I landed hard on that side, BUT I got back on and did it again and all the other jumps. Sat up this time and stayed on somehow as he was getting excited about it being dinner time so he got a bit strong and more energetic.

Sadly no photo or video of the fall/jumping. It was apparently a brilliant jump he did. :D
 
What a weekend for us !

Started off with a trip to somerford to meet up with my daughters old pony Perky, we haven't seen hi since we sold him about 5 years ago. He looked amazing , tears where shed . While we where the , we took the IDs around he farmride, both fab as always.
Then, that night out foal arrived about 9.30pm, a beautiful big strong bay colt - Frank. Absolutely over he moon. Then today I had a lesson on my young girl and we jumped a small course of jumps . My instructor thought it was hilarious, as she started off jumping a metre over a tiny cross pole . She settled and jumped perfectly, so proud of her.

Happy Easter everyone ����
 
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I used my horse as a semaphore station...
 
Auslander said:
We were at Tweseldown schooling yesterday too! The yellow one was very good, and jumped everything nicely, without any silliness, and the spotty one was very naughty and nappy indeed!
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Auslander, I think I may have seen you guys as we were finishing up near the new water, ( I was leading back my blue and white (grey) horse, and think you guys were walking back to the parking when we finished ?
We had an awesome morning, my nerves very often get the better of me and I had a couple of wobbles initially over some of the bigger fences, but horse was a good boy, if a little green after no XC all winter.
but once I settled down he went very well and we worked on lots of technical stuff, ended up jumping some of the intermediate fences - which he was clearing easily !!- eek :-!!

my friend and trainer is trialling some brand new technology from the USA and we had a device fitted under our girth and also on my hat, it was really interesting to check it all out afterwards, showing loads of data on gait, bascule height over fences, transitions, speed, stride length and loads of other stuff apparently.
 
monte1 said:
Auslander, I think I may have seen you guys as we were finishing up near the new water, ( I was leading back my blue and white (grey) horse, and think you guys were walking back to the parking when we finished ?
We had an awesome morning, my nerves very often get the better of me and I had a couple of wobbles initially over some of the bigger fences, but horse was a good boy, if a little green after no XC all winter.
but once I settled down he went very well and we worked on lots of technical stuff, ended up jumping some of the intermediate fences - which he was clearing easily !!- eek :-!!

my friend and trainer is trialling some brand new technology from the USA and we had a device fitted under our girth and also on my hat, it was really interesting to check it all out afterwards, showing loads of data on gait, bascule height over fences, transitions, speed, stride length and loads of other stuff apparently.
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cant edit post now but here is link
 
Lévrier;13527896 said:
Well thats put paid to my weekend plans - got as far as my lesson, J was absolutely brilliant & I was so so pleased with him - then right at the end I came off over a fence. Thought it hurt a bit -3 hours in Gloucester A&E and cracked ribs diagnosed, incredibly painful and the codeine isn't touching it! So annoying when he was such a total star, love him to bits :)
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Ouch, oh no, sending healing vibes ..................
 
monte1 said:
my friend and trainer is trialling some brand new technology from the USA and we had a device fitted under our girth and also on my hat, it was really interesting to check it all out afterwards, showing loads of data on gait, bascule height over fences, transitions, speed, stride length and loads of other stuff apparently.
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This sounds really cool Monte! Your boy is looking awesome - are you doing the ODE on the 29th/30th? We are schooling at T'down on Thursday eve, so excited :D
 
LeannePip said:
This sounds really cool Monte! Your boy is looking awesome - are you doing the ODE on the 29th/30th? We are schooling at T'down on Thursday eve, so excited :D
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thanks , we had a blast !
it is really cool technology, we are meeting up one evening this week so we can review the day and the video footage and I can (hopefully) use it to help me with my jump position etc

have a great time Thursday, it is brilliant up there, loads of fence and technical combination options to work with.

not sure about 29/30th ODE yet, have too much going on at the moment !-but want to aim to get to one ASAP
 
Sounds like everyone has had a pretty successful weekend! Well done to everyone who was competing. NLeP, I just love your pony, he's so gorgeous!! Monte, that technology sounds really cool, was it useful?

Following my last thread, had a great XC lesson at home on Friday, working on my confidence and also me not firing him at fences, just waiting for it to come to us. Jumped a few things that were a bit worrying for me, but after a quick wobble pulled it together and actually rode and Henry flew them! I have a good plan going with my instructor, so will just keep working on that :)

H had Saturday off as I was visiting family. He was a total nightmare to hack on Sunday, so our usual 45 minute route turned into a 1.5hour ordeal, featuring spinning, speed reversing, reversing into hedges, due to some fishermen (it is a fishing lake, he sees them every time...) followed by a particularly offensive bin bag...

However, he redeemed himself somewhat yesterday by being a total star at the closing meet of our local bloodhound pack. He is still not the greatest at standing still, but we're getting there, and the brakes seem to have fallen into place rather nicely. It's helped his canter and jumping (neither of which he could really do when I got him) immensely and has definitely helped him find forwards gear! I'll add some photos to bore you all as there were a lot of photographers out!




 
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