Bernster
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Apologies if the pics come out big on the screen, can’t quite get the hang of posting pics although I have worked out how to resize them to post on here. Result!
Having finally dried out after last weekend’s camp, I thought I’d do a quick report. When you get training from the likes of Ros Canter and Caroline Moore, I think that warrants a separate thread!
Off we trundled to Boomerang for a weekend of 5 star training with 1 star camping haha. Slightly apprehensive as I’ve never camped in a lorry before. In short, the riding and tuition was awesome. The camping, not so much. 3 days of relentless rain and being damp and chilly. Yuk.
Loved Ros Canter. We did brilliantly in both her grid and xc sessions, jumping bigger than I’ve done before and really gaining confidence. She’s very down to earth and I loved that she was open about her nerves and how she deals with any loss of confidence. Some interesting exercises in the grid work, and then the flat lesson with Caroline, using serpentines over cavaletti and poles to change direction and bend. The hardest bit of the flatwork was getting past the VERY SCARY wallabies on the way in!
Nearly didn’t make the xc session after torrential rain the night before. But had a talk with myself and decided that, if a world class rider was out there ready to train me, I couldn’t let a bit of rain put me off. So glad we did despite getting soaked through. We splashed around the xc course and put some nice combos together, working on getting him in front of the leg (the main focus for the weekend).
Got pushed way out of my comfort zone in the sj with Caroline and was worried that my confidence was slipping away. However, she got us jumping a biggish (for us) course twice over inc a water tray, a triple and double combination. Despite a few blips (my nerves mainly), we did some lovely jumps as well. Although I had a serious wobble afterwards, I’m feeling ok about it and realise that I need to jump bigger to get any better at jumping bigger. Go figure!
Overall, although I felt very outclassed by the other riders, we had a great experience but I’ll be looking out for a summer camp next time, ideally with a nearby BnB!
Having finally dried out after last weekend’s camp, I thought I’d do a quick report. When you get training from the likes of Ros Canter and Caroline Moore, I think that warrants a separate thread!
Off we trundled to Boomerang for a weekend of 5 star training with 1 star camping haha. Slightly apprehensive as I’ve never camped in a lorry before. In short, the riding and tuition was awesome. The camping, not so much. 3 days of relentless rain and being damp and chilly. Yuk.
Loved Ros Canter. We did brilliantly in both her grid and xc sessions, jumping bigger than I’ve done before and really gaining confidence. She’s very down to earth and I loved that she was open about her nerves and how she deals with any loss of confidence. Some interesting exercises in the grid work, and then the flat lesson with Caroline, using serpentines over cavaletti and poles to change direction and bend. The hardest bit of the flatwork was getting past the VERY SCARY wallabies on the way in!
Nearly didn’t make the xc session after torrential rain the night before. But had a talk with myself and decided that, if a world class rider was out there ready to train me, I couldn’t let a bit of rain put me off. So glad we did despite getting soaked through. We splashed around the xc course and put some nice combos together, working on getting him in front of the leg (the main focus for the weekend).
Got pushed way out of my comfort zone in the sj with Caroline and was worried that my confidence was slipping away. However, she got us jumping a biggish (for us) course twice over inc a water tray, a triple and double combination. Despite a few blips (my nerves mainly), we did some lovely jumps as well. Although I had a serious wobble afterwards, I’m feeling ok about it and realise that I need to jump bigger to get any better at jumping bigger. Go figure!
Overall, although I felt very outclassed by the other riders, we had a great experience but I’ll be looking out for a summer camp next time, ideally with a nearby BnB!
