I forgot about this place.
Sorry!
It happens with me!
So I'm just going to start with yesterday
We had a jumping lesson with DL. She has been pretty depressively not so nice lately so I was not hoping much. But it was better than I expected when we started to warm up. She was more aware of the bit that past couple of weeks. And she staied on the bloody bit longer than usual. I didn't need to have this constant nag nag nag nag reaction with my inner leg. It was more like small reminder to stay the hell down every 10-15 steps we made. What was wonderfull to see was the fact that I managed to keep the outer rein line. Congratiulations on the big improvement. After Athena I had gotten really laizy with that so I sometimes overbent DL inside a lot and then was wondering why the hell is the horse leaning away in all the wrong directions. There it was...the small littel reason named please-keep-the-solid-contatct-with-outer-rein. And it worked wonders as usual.
Jumping itself was even better. After the catastropgy we made last week when I was trying to learn high class flying exercises I practiced a lot of different canter ...''stuff''... at home with her. Like two-point, light seat, something between the light seat and two-point, sitting in deeper and so on. So we developed an agreement wiht DL that the best way to keep her canter quality and rythm ok is when I do the almost two-pointy like thingy. Just to make sure to all of you it looks pretty nice and ''proffessional'' when I saw the wideo and pictures. Nothing weird I promise.
So the jumps were well prepared and nice. Morte made us do some technikal turns and DL plaied them out pretty well. I tried some sharp turns on my own with her as well. Morten explaned pretty well, I have to think more to keep myself more upwards when I plan to trun sharply or when the next jumppreparation has to be quick. So I should not go with the horse until the very end of landing but sti back a bit before and get her to me quicker. DL was really honest and jumped everything. We finisehd with a nice 100-110 course.
Today I did an easier dressage training with our jumping saddle. She was again improved after the jumping. So keeping her more collected (but still relaxed and low) was easier. All goes into the outside rein as before. The moment I start working with the rein everything clicks and starts working out. So I asked a lot of circels and kept the inside leg on more to make her tolerant of the ''post'' effect again. She has tu turn around that leg not stepb away as she tried to do alst week. In canter we did flying lead changes. She's good with those. I take her shorter for 2-3 strides. Push with the leg (I use inside leg for raises and changes) and then give at for a second at the same time and voila there it is. Finished off with contra. Left leadcontra is still arder for her. Right lead we can allready keep the head straight and that is nice =) Even the turns come without any auto changes.
Oh and I taught her a trick. She ''laughs'' when she wants a candy and we are working on making her do it directly with the command too =) I should get the video from my phone =)
