I AM still alive...

It has been a rather long time since my last blog post, but life has been insane recently! I thought I would just give you all a little update on me and my crazy mare.

Competition Report - Vale View Arena Eventing

Unfortunately my event at Richmond was cancelled due to the weather, so we re-routed to Vale View to do some Arena Eventing.

Lesson: Positivity goes a long way!

Last week I went for another lesson at Osberton. Emmie was a total superstar!

Lesson: Bitting nightmare..

I went for a lesson at Osberton last Wednesday in preparation for my next event. I got her off the box and she was quite tense warming up - she was a bit rushy and not really accepting the bit. When I started jumping she was rushing a lot, so Mark had us go back to trot and just work on getting her to come a bit lower and relax into my hands. After she was good in trot, we went back into canter and did the same, using a lot of yeilding. Mark is very good at getting me to ride more off my seat and use my legs and seat to move her around, so he had me doing plenty of that.

Event Report - Norton Disney BE90

So on Saturday I did my first event of the year in the BE90 at Norton Disney. I've been suffering quite badly with the flu, so I wasn't on my best form, and the weather only just started to brighten up later in the day. I was really pleased with her, she didn't really do anything particularly wrong or naughty, there are just lots of things to work on for the next one!

Schooling Video

Hopefully this blog will help me to track Emmie's progress throughout the year, so I'm starting with a little flatwork video from today. I had to balance my phone on the arena door so it took lots of editing to take out the not-in-view parts, so bear with the repetitiveness!

I think there are a few things to like and lots of things to work on , but that's all good.

You may need to change the viewing quality on the video, as it is automatically going quite low on my computer.