Look Where You Want to Go

Considering I don't ride too often anymore, my horse gets jumped once every two weeks. I think he really likes that schedule too, its like a breath of fresh air for him. But the other day I made it my plan that I would set up a course and work on some jumping. My mom plays a bigger role with helping me with my horse and in some aspects she is my trainer. She definitely doesn't let me get away with things, such as my position or if I am slacking off in my riding : ) But I asked her if she could set up a course for me and boys she made us work. It was a really cool exercise, you had a line of two jumps that were two strides apart and the jumps were shifted so that you had to jump the side of one jump and the side of the other jump in order to go in a straight line. So the exercise was you jumped the first jump and made a circle right after it and come back to the jump and then jump the line to the second and make a circle after the second to the other direction. In addition you needed to change leads when you are making the circle after the second jump. This really made us work! But surprisingly it wasn't long till we got the exercise and mastered it. It was really a blast.

I get all my jump exercises from the book, 101 Jumping Exercises. This book is amazing it really takes you step by step through the introduction of jumping to the higher levels. Since our jumping ring isn't big enough for some of the exercises we will usually improvise, but it still fits the purpose perfectly.
With Sam repetition means boring, so if I jump less often he enjoys it more which I see in his character. But it works with me! On another note Christmas is coming and I think the only thing horsey that I will get this year is the quarter sheet, so trail riding in the winter won't be painful, hehe! But since this year Sam has a stall, I am thinking of making him a Christmas barn mash, with carrots, cinnamon, some stud muffins, and a bunch of other yummys. Knowing him he would REALLY enough that : ) So I am off to continue studying, the end is almost near, hooray! Be back to write soon!