LindaAd
15th Oct 2006, 07:22 PM
Had a brilliant lesson on Friday .... I reckon I definitely scored a point for the oldies.
Four of us in the lesson, me, the other two regulars, ladies in their thirties / early forties, one with her own horse, and a new one, also on her own horse, also young, complaining very loudly that she was nervous, and wondering if there'd be jumping. So we told her there probably would. So she asked me "Do you jump?" obviously expecting a "No". So I said yes .... Which is true. No need to go into details about how much persuasion I need. Anyway, I've decided not to be nervous any more.
So the lesson, as usual lots of rising trot, sitting trot, going round with the horse bent to the outside, the inside, the outside ... hard work and for once I wasn't the first to get tired, the newcomer was. Getting fitter ...:)
Then the jumping, trotting poles first (rising trot, standing trot, jumping position ...), then we were asked to do the little cross poles, still at trot. I was riding the skinny little horse that's probably my favourite - he much prefers to canter over jumps, so we argued a bit, and came un-coordinated, I got left behind, shouted at for jabbing him in the mouth, dropped the reins altogether over the next jump and had to collect them up in a hurry. OK - I've done worse ...
Then the barrels (I've done them enough times so they don't make my knees shake any more) followed by a turn to a narrow stile at two o'clock. I wasn't going to trot over the barrels - to me that's a x-country jump - so I took them quite fast, forgot to turn for the next jump, RI shouted, so I thought ooops! used my legs to turn, and little horse turned 90 degrees and whizzed over the next jump without losing a stride.
Whee! RI said "Well done!" and the other three cheered .... He told the yard manager all about it when we got back too - how Linda had done a bit of real jump-off style jumping ...
Such a great feeling when you and the horse have the same agenda and you fly ... And so good to have my confidence back. Although I must admit when I read about some of the awful accidents people have - and I heard about a young girl at another RS who fell off jumping and cracked her pelvis - I wonder if I'm mad and just tempting fate ...
:confused: :rolleyes: :eek: :confused: :rolleyes: :eek:
Four of us in the lesson, me, the other two regulars, ladies in their thirties / early forties, one with her own horse, and a new one, also on her own horse, also young, complaining very loudly that she was nervous, and wondering if there'd be jumping. So we told her there probably would. So she asked me "Do you jump?" obviously expecting a "No". So I said yes .... Which is true. No need to go into details about how much persuasion I need. Anyway, I've decided not to be nervous any more.
So the lesson, as usual lots of rising trot, sitting trot, going round with the horse bent to the outside, the inside, the outside ... hard work and for once I wasn't the first to get tired, the newcomer was. Getting fitter ...:)
Then the jumping, trotting poles first (rising trot, standing trot, jumping position ...), then we were asked to do the little cross poles, still at trot. I was riding the skinny little horse that's probably my favourite - he much prefers to canter over jumps, so we argued a bit, and came un-coordinated, I got left behind, shouted at for jabbing him in the mouth, dropped the reins altogether over the next jump and had to collect them up in a hurry. OK - I've done worse ...
Then the barrels (I've done them enough times so they don't make my knees shake any more) followed by a turn to a narrow stile at two o'clock. I wasn't going to trot over the barrels - to me that's a x-country jump - so I took them quite fast, forgot to turn for the next jump, RI shouted, so I thought ooops! used my legs to turn, and little horse turned 90 degrees and whizzed over the next jump without losing a stride.
Whee! RI said "Well done!" and the other three cheered .... He told the yard manager all about it when we got back too - how Linda had done a bit of real jump-off style jumping ...
Such a great feeling when you and the horse have the same agenda and you fly ... And so good to have my confidence back. Although I must admit when I read about some of the awful accidents people have - and I heard about a young girl at another RS who fell off jumping and cracked her pelvis - I wonder if I'm mad and just tempting fate ...
:confused: :rolleyes: :eek: :confused: :rolleyes: :eek: