2014 Goals wrap-up

-2014 was the year of the horse,literally. I had goals for the year, we did a lot of things, met a lot of people (SO Monica @ Chasing the Dream) I got a training horse to sell, rode ponies, worked two jobs, had a WS position with a local GP jumper, had to quit for real person job, bought my first car, realised that being an adult sucks, graduated high school, thought about college, decided to not go yet because I have zero idea on what I want to do, sucked at blogging, and in general just worked my butt off.

2014 Goals

Super Kid

1. Jump constantly novice

Mostly a success 

     2.Dressage score in mid to low 30's if possible get a 20

Another almost success, we got a 35 at IEA

    3. MORE CROSS COUNTRY SCHOOLS

Giant fail

Rhyme

1. Get out, go to some shows\lessons\ or whatever ---> somewhat a success
2. start jumping -----> success

Personal Goals

Besties!

1. lose about 20lbs--- I was really close but then school started. Lets not talk about that :p  --> Somewhat a success
2. Sit a trot better-- my least favorite thing to do---> nope, nada
3. Not freak myself out about stupid stuff ex. ditches ----> BAB status aachieved
4. Graduate high school-- May 2014 ----> success!!!!

Locker buddies, proof im not blonde

My mom and brother

One of my very best friends, my hair looks SO BLONDE

1. 
   Figure out what I want to do. To go to college or not to go to college and ride ponies 
2. Sell both Irmi and a sale horse I have, Farah
3. BLOG MORE REGULARLY 

Lunging and Line Driving Adventures

     Some of you might have those horses that are naturally tense in the back and have a hard time developing their back muscles. Super Kid is one of those, I don't know if she was taught the meaning of forward and down or long and low, but its a CONSTANT argument with us. Last year my mom being the smarty she is said to take the lunge line through the bit and clip it to the buckle on the saddle( that works if its a dressage saddle or you have long billets) You ask the horse to go out on the circle then every few strides tighten the line so their head moves just a little. Then release, and if you do it right they will start stretching out their backs. At the end of this video you can see her start to,after we focus a little bit better.

Anyway so we spent about 10 minutes doing this then about 10 minutes line driving. I love line driving, you can see what you horse looks like doing something, or getting a baby ready to ride. This is also a relatively new concept for Super Kid. Anyway we did shoulder and haunches in both sides, relatively pretty, trotted using our backs and in a frame. At this time I was half frozen and tired, so called it quits  but I took the reins and checked how soft we where in the mouth. We weren't a hard mouth pony !!! YAY!! 

    So after having probably two weeks off Super Kid was AWESOME! It's hopefully going to warm up and we can actually ride! 

     Show Update

Because Penny Oaks is like the week before I get out of school, we are still contemplating that show, but at this moment we are probably going to IEA show, aka we get to do a jog!!!! This will also be our second rated show, and hopefully we wont almost get eliminated by messing up the dressage test.