Quote Originally Posted by Suki Wingy View Post
After the first refusal I wouldn't have given him a chance. Hard right leg (or even stick on the croup as well) with opening left rein. I guess he didn't feel balanced enough with that short approach around the first fence.

I just have a question, do you ride jumpers or hunters or both? I'm guessing jumpers from the courses and the colourful jumps.
Yeah we had issues. I wasn't riding with my normal trainer, either, which contributed cause this trainer didn't drill me on the things I needed haha. [crop + scooter = death, by the way haha]

I was looking forward to riding him yesterday and redeeming myself, but I got put on a devil horse instead. I swear, she was trying to mess with my mind. One direction she's super speedy, but the other direction she's ridiculously slow. -_- And she bunny hops over the jumps, absolutely THROWING you out of the saddle if you're not expecting it [which I wasn't]. Of course my trainer's trying to sell me on her so I'll ride her in my lessons "Oh, but she's so honest to the jumps!" or "She can do three foot!"

uhh well the barn is a hunter/jumper barn. A lot of the people show hunters, which is why there IS a hunter course set up in the jumps [we just usually don't jump it], but my lessons generally focus on jumper courses/riding more. The colorful jumps are in part to help desensitize the horses, as well. They freak out at the jumps for a month or two, then get over it and are much better at shows cause they've already seen it haha. SO...in short, kind of both but more jumpers than hunters.

lol chocolatepuppy...it's pretty much how you'd expect. You're on the horse, then all of the sudden you're in the air looking at the the horse. Then you hit the ground, hopefully with a little dignity left.