Kai was up first today. Warmed up and he felt a little stiff but goey. His w/t/c were pretty nice though. Decided to pop him over a grid I made of two x rails with one stride between then one stride to a row of barrels. He rushed and didn't feel right so only went through twice and called it quits for the day.
Jonathan played photographer again...
This one of us walking around the back looks a bit dream like
Trotting around the back and kicking himself in the chin
Pulling faces when he is in the arena
Being cute as we trot by Jon
His canter was nice today
Another cute pic
Our craptastic jumping
And that was it for Kai pretty much.
Saddled up Kai while the sun was shining. We had a bit of rain earlier today which sucked. I warmed him up w/t/c and he was pretty obedient. Then mum came out and took some pics. Today we worked on coming in calmly to the grids and jumping calmly. Gah, he just has a crazy button that goes on and I can't turn it off :( We did heaps of shrinking figure eights to get him calmed down and then went over the grid a few times, lets just got to photos...
Trotting figure eights
Relaxing his neck for a bit
Loose rein trot poles and he is pretty calm
So there were two cross rails set up before the barrels and he barrelled through the grid...
And again
Cont
So we calmed down and tried something different and he was crazy still
Spastic canter as he would take forever to calm down after every obstacle
Grid again
Then cause he was calming down we try a cross rail on its own
He didn't kill me but we were spastic over it
Cont...
So more trotting of figure eights
Through the grid one more time
Back to more trotting
Lots of flexing and changing direction
So after all that work he was mad and wouldn't pose
Such a jerk
And he is DONE!