hehe I can maintain my position when I'm scared....unless I'm going towards a jump. My instructor has told me soo many times not to..how did she say it...hunch like a turtle, i think it was. My hands collapse into my body, I tighten the reins, and I look down. I have a video of my on Obie, and over EVERY jump, I looked down. :]
Yup, the plunging feeling is there. He has unseated me, and I was halfway down his neck before I caught myself..of course once he felt me out of the saddle, he put his head down and pretended to be the innocent one. I've ridden many lessons out where the horse I was riding has gone into a bucking fit. I normally A squeeze then harder to make them go forward instead of up and down, or B turn them in tight circles until they calm down (that works for Joey, if I kick him he goes CRAZY) But, with Joey, Junior, and even Barney, I was not that far off the ground. With Obie, its a long way down.
*EDIT*Okay. I got the videos on the computer, they're really bad quality, but they show shots of me on Obie.
I'm in the blue shirt, Joey's the grey and Obie's the big bay:
http://s157.photobucket.com/albums/t...ictures055.flv
( I know my lower leg looks really bad in that picture, she had to yell at me a few times that lesson)
http://s157.photobucket.com/albums/t...ictures056.flv
at the end, you can see the chestnut pass the camera, thats Lily. You can see how un-coordinated she is. Imagine learning to jump on her!
http://s157.photobucket.com/albums/t...ictures057.flv
hehe a clip of us going over our warm-up jump, it was one he really wanted to go over :] you can see more of Lily, she's so wierd.
http://s157.photobucket.com/albums/t...ictures058.flv
Obie refusing a jump, you can't really see it 'till a little farther. You can also see my instructor there, a little. She's in the middle...
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