Well a lot has gone on since my last post, I have had a few great lessons and school has started! Since school has started last week it has been pretty crazy and i have only been able to ride like 3 times the past week :/ So Rowdy has had a nice vacation! Now on with the lessons!
I am going to go backwards and start with the most resent lesson. Last thursday I had a dressage lesson and i had a few breakthroughs with Rowdy!! My instructor wanted to work on Rowdy's suppleness so she had me do an exercize where i was cantering on a 20 meter circle and each time i crossed the center line I cantered a 10 meter circle and then went back onto the center line and repeted! This exercize was really nice because it was progressive, this first time we did it Rowdy lost impulsion, fell-in on his shoulder and kept the 20 meter bend in his body. The next few times we did it I really had to keep him jumping and bend him around my inside leg and really have him bend through his body. The next thing she had us do was trot up the quarter line and leg yield out to the wall. It was actually a lot harder for us than I had expected because Rowdy didn't really want to use his hindquarters and therefore he was leading with his soulders and I would try and half-halt his shoulders and he would just stop and be like "Oh, NO! I can't go sideways in a straight line!!" haha. So my instructor had me go back to the walk and make Rowdy realize that he COULD and WOULD leg yield straight and be sensitive to my leg. I had to get pretty agressive with my leg and stick and then Rowdy was like "OH!! You're SERIOUS!!" and after that we had no problem. =D
Before that lesson we had a jumping lesson with my jumping instructor and it is usually a group lesson but no one else showed up so I got a private lesson =D We decided to jump outside. She really wanted to work on my position because I started to do the hunterly thing and close the angle with my chest so she really made me sit up with my chest and WAIT!! The local place where we school has mostly elementary jumps with a few beginner novice and one (small) novice jump so it really is the perfect place to work on your form and technique! It was going really well until we went to jump this triple bar that we had already jumped like 4 times and we got to the base of it and Rowdy was like "OHMYGODWHATISTHAT!!" And ducked out to the left and stupid me was still doing the hunterly thing so i just slipped off his side and rolled over a couple times lol. I had grass sticking out of my helmet and looked like a scarecrow haha =D. We wern't really sure what happened, we think something spooked him because he had already jumped it 4 times fine. So I got back on and jumped a few more and Rowdy was really good and I started to actually look like a cross country rider =D After that we called it a day! =D
That took up a lot of space so i'll just tell you my plans for the rest of the year and my goals! I only have one event left and that is the Colorado Horse Park Fall Horse Trials and Area 9 Championships. I am qualified for campionships so I will be in that division. The horse trials aren't until October 9,10,11. So I have all of September to get ready! My goals are to get a dressage score in the 30's, preferably around 35! And of course clean and clear showjumping and cross country!! =D I will keep you up to date with lessons and other goings on =D
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