So today Erin was focused on jumping courses and practicing straightness before and after the jumps. The warm up included a warm up with 10 meter circles in the corners to get our horses bending and moving off our legs. The on to jumping. We started with one cross rail with and cones placed about 4-5 feet apart about 2 to 3 stride before and after the fence. It gave us a visual of where center is located and a way to line up and get there. So we worked on a straight line then did a fence on a diagonal and then off the rail and diagonal but not on the center diagonal (which was pretty tough, because the natural tendency is to find the center straight across diagonal and ride the line, but if you did that, you would come off the rail too soon and not be straight to the jump. After getting that down we put a course together and jumped a series of 6 jumps about 2'3" all with cones to keep us thinking straight on the corved or off center approaches. Deuce and I had not done a course in a quite awhile, and wowsas, we had a good time! While he did get a little wuick, he was very responsive too and I was able to get my half halts throguh the jumps and make the corners and straight lines too. Yay!! Jump for Joy show is coming up towards the end of March so we need to start getting more of our jump on!
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