YAY!!
Just got back from a week long riding camp, and i have found that thanks to your advice with strengthening my upper leg in order to make my rising trot position more consistent, it worked!! i know my toes are pointing out etc, but it was the last day and everyone was really tired, and it was a really hot day, so i wasnt riding at my best. but im so happy!! and camp really really helped with my jumping confidence, i can remember less than 2 years ago when i cried over crossbars that were literally a centimeter off the ground!
check out what i can jump now, and i was practically begging my RI to go higher, but coz i was riding with others who didnt want to, i couldnt. but im soo happy! we had a gymkhana the day before we left, and the RI decided coz there was heaps of riders, we could only enter 2 events, +the rider class we all had to enter. I entered the barrel race and the showjumping, and came first in both!! then i came 4th in my rider class! i was so happy with my 4th, because i wasnt expecting to even place!!
By the way, the horse i was riding wasnt the horse i usually ride, on this camp, we are meant to change horses each time we ride, (but im good mates with my RI so i managed to ride my favourite - the one pictured in my other older thread - until she pulled up sore with girth galls and a tender mouth - the tender mouth wasnt my fault according to my RI, she just doesnt get as much regular work as some of the other horses, so a week of being ridden twice a day was alot for her, which was fair enough. apparantly i have really soft hands, i can remember when i had the HARDEST hands ever!!) and then i was put back on river (who was my favourite this time last year), who they only use for exp. riders atm coz he is a bit spooky. My favourite, the one who pulled up sore, is a lead horse (so only the staff members get to ride her), so im REALLY REALLY lucky to be allowed to! but anyhow, and CONSTRUCTIVE criticism is great, and i have more pics coming!
Just got back from a week long riding camp, and i have found that thanks to your advice with strengthening my upper leg in order to make my rising trot position more consistent, it worked!! i know my toes are pointing out etc, but it was the last day and everyone was really tired, and it was a really hot day, so i wasnt riding at my best. but im so happy!! and camp really really helped with my jumping confidence, i can remember less than 2 years ago when i cried over crossbars that were literally a centimeter off the ground!
check out what i can jump now, and i was practically begging my RI to go higher, but coz i was riding with others who didnt want to, i couldnt. but im soo happy! we had a gymkhana the day before we left, and the RI decided coz there was heaps of riders, we could only enter 2 events, +the rider class we all had to enter. I entered the barrel race and the showjumping, and came first in both!! then i came 4th in my rider class! i was so happy with my 4th, because i wasnt expecting to even place!!
By the way, the horse i was riding wasnt the horse i usually ride, on this camp, we are meant to change horses each time we ride, (but im good mates with my RI so i managed to ride my favourite - the one pictured in my other older thread - until she pulled up sore with girth galls and a tender mouth - the tender mouth wasnt my fault according to my RI, she just doesnt get as much regular work as some of the other horses, so a week of being ridden twice a day was alot for her, which was fair enough. apparantly i have really soft hands
, i can remember when i had the HARDEST hands ever!!) and then i was put back on river (who was my favourite this time last year), who they only use for exp. riders atm coz he is a bit spooky. My favourite, the one who pulled up sore, is a lead horse (so only the staff members get to ride her), so im REALLY REALLY lucky to be allowed to! but anyhow, and CONSTRUCTIVE criticism is great, and i have more pics coming!
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