Klein in hover mode between bounces. I love how she is in super concentration mode!
I had Wayne come out and take some video for me on Sunday. We schooled the bounces and verticals I had set up from the last time we were in the big arena.
Does anyone else go frame by frame through their video and analyze every second of it??? I sure do. But...there is so much you can learn like for me I still need to keep my damn hands down and SIT UP more. Story of my life. I've gotten better before fences though but between I need to remind myself. I need to give more with my hands too it looks like. But she is just so big that I have to really hold on to her sometimes or she's going to start getting long and flat. I know people say "Well sit up and put your weight down." I don't weight one tenth of her weight so that doesn't work that well. Remember I've did a test one time where I walk, trot, cantered her on the longe line for set amounts of time and had her HR monitor on and recorded it. Then I did the exact same thing, circles like she was still on the longe line and everything. Each gait exactly the same direction for exactly the same time and again recorded her HR. There was NO change in her HR with me riding or without me riding.
You can't blame her for being happy when she's out jumping. We all know the feeling!!
She also is still learning when to auto change as you can see from the video. Sometimes she does and sometimes she doesn't.
Here she is in the middle of a flying change. Switching from right to left.
Here she is landing on the correct lead after a fence.
Here she is landing on the correct lead after a fence.She's got the strength to counter canter all day, but the good thing is-90% of the time she WILL fix herself and change over a fence as you will also see in the video. Oh and as you'll hear, yeah I like to talk to her a lot.
First some stills:
OMG such a change in her.
Compared to this about 13 months ago:
I like my hands better and I'm sitting up but my heel in the first pic owns the hell out of this one.
3' vertical. Boring.
A team on a mission.
This is Klein anticipating. She knows she is about to take off for a round. I half halt and remind her this is like the game of Simon Says and Simon DID NOT TELL YOU TO CANTER YET. In response to my half halt she has to get all dramatic sometimes. See above.
Approaching another 3' vertical and check her ears out. One is tipped back.
*Sigh* Some pictures just remind me of how grown up she is now. She'll be 8 this year!
3' vertical. Boring.
A team on a mission.
This is Klein anticipating. She knows she is about to take off for a round. I half halt and remind her this is like the game of Simon Says and Simon DID NOT TELL YOU TO CANTER YET. In response to my half halt she has to get all dramatic sometimes. See above.
Approaching another 3' vertical and check her ears out. One is tipped back.I have SO many pictures of her doing this. Maybe it's cause I talk to her so much so one ear is always tuning in waiting for the next conversation? I'm gonna make a post one day of pics of her doing the one ear thing. See, I sit up before fences, I've fixed that. But between, I'm off to the races haha.
*Sigh* Some pictures just remind me of how grown up she is now. She'll be 8 this year!And, here is the video:
15 comments:
The difference is amazing. You guys are an inspiration!
You guys are making it look easy! Awesome!
You guys look so awesome!
A tip for making you sit up into a line of fences - make a line of bounces and drop the reins, put your hands behind your back and ride the line without reins. if you put your hands behind your back (in the small of your back pretty much) it puts your shoulders back and makes you sit up more.
Very nice! Y'all make it look so easy!
I do the SAME thing on the video analysis :D
Did she get lighter or is that me/winter coat playing tricks on me?
I love how she looks now...pretty perch pony :) I tried to get eventing or jumping in there for an alliteration win...but neither start with a P.
Very cool. Such an inspiration! That tip the Deered said up top there sounds extremely hard, but no doubt effective.
You two make a great team - job well done on her training!
And, wow...she's greyed out so much! Definitely a grown up! ;)
Klein makes it look so easy!
So effortless! You forget that she's a draft when she jumps... she's just so fluid!
I really like your flow. I realize parts of the video are spliced together, but you mostly just keep her cantering and going instead of breaking up the rhythm and stopping to overanalyze constantly. There's a time and a place for that, but going forward and letting each other figure it out is so useful.
She looks more solid, although still not thick or heavy. Just... adult. And her mind is maturing too, she enjoys all her work now and really gives good effort!
Nice video work, Wayne! Thanks for supporting our favorite team, you're a good husband!
Already 8... sniff, where does the time go? Sigh...
Mary - it's a lot easier than it sounds, and the horses tend to love it - the riders get off their faces and they get to use their neck as they wish - you do have to have good directional control of your horse though! It gets really fun when you take your stirrups away as well!! It is the most amazing tool for developing a strong seat when jumping, and brilliant for making sure that if things go wrong - ie drop a stirrup -you don't worry that much.
You can really see that your dressage work has been paying off! Look how round she is! Amazing. You have every right to be super-proud of Klein - she is a superstar.
what an athlete! Those bounces looked so easy for her. Excellent to see!
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