Another week down, all workouts completed. (First yellow came up short, because I ran into a friend and walked instead of running and the 2nd yellow was a 5k PB instead of an hour long run)
medically not allowed to swim next week :( then vacation 😎 ! then my pool will be closed for its summer maintenance 🙃
Idk whether I’m going to make this a regular thing or not, but thought I’d try it. It might be a good way to keep track of our progress, and maybe they’ll be of interest to some people. I’ll put my musings below a cut so as to not clog up everyone’s dash haha
So I’d not ridden H for 3 weeks before this weekend because I’ve been stuck 5 hours away at uni (boo!), he has been being ridden but only 3x a week and not by me. This is part of why his training is so slow, because I’m very limited with how often I can personally ride him, although hopefully his new sharer is starting next week and she can really invest in him.
Saturday just went in the school, just to see how he was getting on, get a feel for how he’s going at the moment. Halt seems to be getting there, he has been really annoying and fidgety recently, but we seem to be well on the way to resolving that, I think he was just pushing the boundaries a bit now he’s so much fitter and better in himself. He’s feeling pretty nice and supple at the moment, but still better on the left rein than the right. The right rein is always his weaker rein, and I think it’s just going to take a bit longer to catch up than the left. Not too bad on the right in walk/trot though. A bit spooky at one corner but nothing dramatic and mostly worked through it. Did a bit of lateral work to get him moving off the leg better, I think he needs some sharpening up off it again, hopefully will get to work on that tomorrow as am planning a flatwork sesh. Left canter felt amazing, for Henry anyway, I got a taste of the power and elevation we’re aiming towards. Right canter was ok, but not as rhythmical and elevated, but still passable. Need to work on bending and suppleness in canter still, but I think we first need to establish better balance and self carriage. This is something I plan to work on this week. Had a little pop over some fences as well, working across the short side of the school. Started with small cross poles, just working on keeping the rhythm and getting the right lead after the jump. Had a small problem maintaining the right canter on a circle at first, but I think I need to work on supporting him with my leg much more to hold it and remember to really send him forwards, as he’s got such a big stride it’s easy to feel like he’s going forwards when he’s really not. Put the fences up a little so we had a slightly bigger cross pole, about 60-70cm in the middle I reckon, and a 80-90cm upright. Had a few mess ups and had poles but I think it was mostly my fault, he felt good though. I want to work on some spreads with him later in the week but I need to focus on me first.
Things for me to work on as a rider from this session: LEGS, he needs so much more support from my legs than I’m used to, so I need to remember to keep them on but not nag and also to use them further back to keep control of his quarters. What I really need is to work him with no stirrups, but he’s got such a big and powerful trot that I really struggle to sit to it at the moment. I just feel I haven’t quite “got” how I need to ride to stay with him at the moment, I’m not used to this much elevation and power. Hands. I need to keep them stiller and focus more onto riding him into a consistent contact rather than being tempted to use my hands too much. But the main things I need to work on are when I’m jumping. He is so different to Rosie, and it’s not in a bad way but I’m so not used to it, I feel like I’m having to re-learn how to jump. I know when he has poles and messes up it’s usually my fault because when I get it right it feels so much better. He also isn’t balanced or experienced enough to sort the striding out without my help. I’m feeling very frustrated with myself about this. I really need to remember to sit and wait for the jumps to come to me and go for the quieter stride, I am the master of seeing a long stride and Henry just doesn’t have that reach or confidence to take it at the moment (and probably will never have the same reach as Rosie bc she was insane). When I push for a long one this usually ends up with him chipping in a half and taking out the poles, 100% my fault and also hits me right in my anxiety centre about him getting killed in a fall like Rosie. I think I need to ride him more forward to a fence, but it just makes me feel out of control and I panic and make it worse (it’s irrational but I’m still working on the issues the accident gave me) I can ride forwards to a small cross pole or small fence but as soon as they’re a “proper” fence I panic and ride like a total idiot and Henry can’t work out what I want him to do. He’s so freaking honest though, bless his heart, despite me making a total hash of a couple of approaches he never once stopped, even though I would have deserved it. So for me, the main aim is going to be to sit back and wait whilst still keeping my leg on and keeping him going forwards. He cannot do the flyers at the moment and it’s unfair for me to push him for them.
Today we just went for a chill hack, I had planned to try and do a bit of canter work in the big field on the route, but people are idiots. It is a bridleway, and clearly marked, but a dad and kid decided it would be a good time to fly their huge flappy stunt kite in the field, which is fine BUT when they saw me coming they didn’t take it down, like sensible people. They kept flying it, it was flapping in the wind, I didn’t have to get that close to them but they had the kite on such a long string it was very close to me. I did call out to them but they didn’t hear me or didn’t care, they definitely saw me though. So understandably, Henry was a bit freaked out by this big, flappy rainbow plastic thing flying above his head, so canter work wasn’t happening. I was actually super proud of how he handled it, he was really nervous and alternating between not wanting to go forward and trying to rush past (we had to walk the entire perimeter of the the field to get to the gate and the kite was smack in the middle, and the kid running around wasn’t helping either) BUT he stayed in walk and didn’t bolt, he kept going and he listened to me, even though he was very tense. Given that he’s only hacked by himself a handful of times (maybe 7 or 8?) and he’s naturally quite spooky I didn’t think that was bad. After that he did decide that we had to get home as fast as possible so tried to power walk and refused to stand still, but I know he reverts back to that when he gets anxious and worked up, we’re working on it, but again stayed in walk and was vaguely listening. Until the kite incident he was great though, he gets more relaxed every time I take him out, he was super with all the cars and bikes and walkers. So it wasn’t our best hack, but I’m still happy with how it went. I’ll keep taking him out as often as I can, desensitising, getting him to relax, everything like that. And just keep plugging away.
Cannot wait to get out competing again with him, I finish exams on 2nd June, so after that its fair game!
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We can do a sit-lay-stay-touch almost 100% of the time (exception is being outside). Annnnd. She will stay up to 8 seconds to eat her food(: I'm feeling accomplished at the moment(:
I just proofed "leave it" with my baby(: she tried to grab my earring pack off my side table while in my lap and as soon as I said leave it she turned away.