Blistering Winds
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posted May 17, 2004 05:40 PM
My poor horse doesn't know which way is up!!! LOL
Since I have an English class this Fall, I've moved strictly to riding English unless we are showing, which is only once a month. *just running speed events during the open shows*
Plus been lunging over jumps. Since he's had his break from the last time we started, he amazingly improved. He's not ducking out, avoiding, or STOPPING at the jump. Mind you that we only set up a LOW LOW x and that's it. Once he figures that this is where we are going, he jumps it beautifully. Right now only lunging. I'm still getting use to riding english. *scared to death still when he jumps out of the way of stuff* but overall, I'm getting better. One lady in the barn makes fun of me cause I ride more western style than english. Course the girl who was supposed to help me went home for the summer, so right now I"M ON MY OWN. LOL. Any good books you can recommend? One girl has some time, she said she'll take him over fences again, but she's not too experienced. Just been through the Jumping class at the school (what I'll be going through next fall). Basically going to help me prepare him for that class so I can ride him in it. I feel much more comfortable on him than any other horse. Unless I"m breaking, then that is a whole other realm of "concentration" that I drop into.
I can post now, but my legs are still in "western" set from what I've been told. BUt oh well. Once I'm happy with just the Saddle and not having a tree and horn and a saddle that holds my butt in the saddle, I'll deal with details later.
Anyways, to the advice part.
How many times should I lunge him over the jumps a day? Week? Without hurting him, but enough to build him up for me to start riding him over the jumps toward the end of the summer?
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