Tuesday, April 10, 2012

Oliver 4-9-2012



Video from lesson on Monday. Ollie is drastically different from riding Butters, and I like it. He does not have a smooth round jump, and would rather rush fences versus sputter to a halt or straight out refuse them. Keeping him consistent to the fence is key, and staying with that jump is very good too! I re-learned about the magical world of mane-grabbing... it saved my butt and Ollie's mouth. The first few fences (NOT shown in the video haha!) on him were probably the worst I've ever done: I got horribly left behind and popped him in the mouth, poor guy! Thankfully it was reversed by the end of the lesson. He is also much more forgiving and tries a lot harder than Butters. Don't get me wrong, I like them both... but if I had to choose favorites, well, y'know....

I love learning on different ponies!

Greta has been quite well lately, still not too happy about the lack of a real job ("MOM walking around is NOT work!" If only more people shared the same mindset!) but happy enough nonetheless.

5 comments:

  1. Oliver is quite a cutie, and you look like you're having loads of fun! We'll make an eventer out of you yet... ;)

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    1. YES PLEASE I WOULD LOVE TO BE AN EVENTER! They have all the cool battle scars ;)

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  2. You may want to look at that video again - rather than getting left behind, you're ahead. The "behind" feeling is when your body's trying to come back up before he's done jumping.

    I say this from experience because it's SO HARD to fix. :) But you aren't *bad* and certainly far better than I was with that issue!

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    1. (It's only the slow-mo which really makes it so I can see it, which means you're doing pretty darned well!)

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    2. hahaha I definitely try to jump FOR the horse, a bad habit from my "jump like superman" hunter days four years ago. The more I develop the feel, the better it will get hopefully! If I could do with dressage, I can do it here too.

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