Monday, June 8, 2009

110 upright

Hello again,
Now that i've gotten the saddle insanity over and done with i've been riding with the new lovely for a couple of days. the first day that i rode zani was quite green since he had had a few days rest and we rode in the indoor arena because the outdoor has been a pool with all the rain that we've gotten. i couldn't feel exactly what was happening underneath me since zani was tense and i had to concentrate on getting him to concentrate on me and my aids. but he move in a completely different way. his canter was very round and it rolled very smoothly. no choppy bounces. the next few days i just did flat work and just getting him to move relaxed and forward. then other day i thought that i would jump a few small jumps if zani was concentrating. so we put up a small cross and i popped over it. zani bearly jumped as he has gotten the hang of small jumps and is convinced that he can just trot over them. so we put up the cross to a 80 cm upright. zani jumped just fine and so we just put up the jump to 90, 100, and 105. now i haven't jumped a higher fence than 105 with zani so i thought that we could just try a 110 since there is no trouble in reaching zani's scope. so we just popped over the upright twice and it was so rewarding. it was like flying. the new saddle supports me and zani and lets him use his body through the jump.

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