Poles!

So its been a lovely day and we had dinner in the garden which is why tonight's Special Bill is a bit late. :D Sophie decided it was a bit hot to do real work today so we did poles instead. :D It was lots of fun and after the farrier left from sorting out Breeze's Equato's missing shoe he was a star even with the wind. I think he was happy to be doing something like jumping.

We did poles at normal separations which he lifted his legs up for, then some a closer separation that I had to collect him up for. I didn't get it right first time but it is all about calibration and working our how much impulsion we need and how much speed we need. Got it second time. :D

Then we did some canter poles with some flying changes over the poles. This went well, as Bill is awesome at this, until he slipped on the school and weee over we went. Bless him he tried to keep me on but he was fighting for footing. After hanging onto his neck for a bit it was clear I wasn't staying in the saddle so I leapt off and was standing next to him when got back up. He looked guilty as hell but it wasn't his fault.

We got back on and tried again and as expected he flying changed as you would expect from the machine he is.

He is just so awesome. :D

Thanks Sophie Seymour, thanks Helen Sinar and for the record I was comfortable it wasn't that hot. :D

Back to it.

So after two and a half weeks off for both of us Bill and I had a lesson today with the awesome Sophie! It was hard work and I didn't always get it but we worked hard on getting Bill not to pull so hard on the left rein.

Seems the rest and the physio he had worked as he was a lot lot more consistent in his going today. Mostly walk and trot but Bill was up for it and even let me have my left shoulder back after a while.

Going to work little and often this week and hopefully he will be all back jumping again. :D

Missed you Bill, Helen Sinar he is in amazing condition. THANK YOU! :D Looking forward to this week's riding.