Showing posts with label jumping. Show all posts
Showing posts with label jumping. Show all posts
March 25, 2013
The Becky Diaries: Day 10: Stadium Jumping
It was time to put it all together. Adjustability, focus, position, balance, and accuracy. All without running over Scrappy. Yeah, I thin...
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March 20, 2013
The Becky Diaries: Day 9: Adjustability
It is the end times. *insert ominous music here* Tomorrow will be just washing linens and throwing things back in the truck and hauling ou...
March 17, 2013
The Becky Diaries: Day 6: Cross Country
What could possibly be wrong with that? A warm beautiful Saturday meant it was time to revisit our XC skills and work on some drops. A...
March 15, 2013
The Becky Diaries: Day 4: Cross Country
You FB peeps already guessed who this snoozer is! It was Pi Day! But I forgot to get pie to celebrate, sigh. The days seem too short,...
March 14, 2013
The Becky Diaries: Day 3: Gymnastics
The porch view of the Windhaven dressage and gynmastic work area. I did not get to do much creeping watching today; since I had to fetc...
January 20, 2013
Through The Chute
Inspired by the ongoing Retired Racehorse Training Project's 100-day challenge, I decided to coerce ask Amber to help me build a jump ...
October 31, 2012
A Gear In The Complex Machine, Pt. II
The anticipation was palpable as dawn crept over Waredaca's rolling course. A light mist and a breeze made it perfect galloping weath...
October 7, 2012
The Horseman's Decision
Dr. Bob warned me on Tuesday that Encore would be sore for a while following a rather large chiropractic adjustment and recommended that I k...
September 26, 2012
Encore Goes Training!
Only without extended trot. I can see your face now: o.o That's what mine looked like on Saturday too. To be fair, one never does ...
September 11, 2012
Horse Trials = Ridiculously Expensive Lessons In Horsemanship
Edited to add: there appear to be some photo sizing issues in Firefox. When viewed in IE or Chrome, they appear normal to me. All photos ...
August 29, 2012
Three Feet Closer To Heaven
My physiology betrayed me as my heart beat faster, watching the ring crew raise the poles to 3'. Logically, Encore and I have lessoned ...
August 22, 2012
Don't Yell At Problems -- Solve Them
That was definitely the theme for our lesson on Saturday, so I will let you take my lesson as well! Encore did very well and feels in fine ...
August 10, 2012
Stormy Surprises
Lightning snapped as the stormfront wind brushed, refreshingly cool, across both our bodies. Encore & I, both tired of sweating, welcom...
June 24, 2012
Look Whose HelmetCam I Found??!
Remember how I said back here that I had tried and failed to turn the helmet cam on in mid-course at full TB gallop? Well, guess what? ...
June 22, 2012
Away Again IS Away Again!
That's right, baby Flying Solo is back in business and got the seal of approval from David last Saturday at our lesson. I had hauled En...
May 13, 2012
Full Stop
It was madness on Friday. Dashing 100 miles from our last field site of the day home, changing bags, changing trucks, only to dash again to...