Updates!!!

Hey guys sorry for not getting those videos up like I said! They wouldn't upload so I kept trying and finally got them to work today. So here are those right off the bat!

Above is the one where I fell off, below is horseback point of view the whole time, the above is horseback pov for the first like 5 minutes.....

The next one below is the roping video!

 Okay so this week was homecoming week and we had dress up days, I was sick on Monday so I missed color day, then today it was Salad dressing day and we had ranch so we had to dress western and it was so funny to watch all the people dress up like cowgirls and cowboys and im just like wearing my normal every day clothes, the girls all had blinged out belts and hats and tucked their pants into their boots to show them off and im just laughing and shaking my head like "OMG you guys look crazy" LOL then Wednesday was America day and Thursday was Hippy day and then Friday was spirit day.... then we lost the game by 1 point I was kinda bummed, then I drove me and my friends back to one of their houses where we got ready for the dance, my friends date drove her and I will skip the part about my supidity of losing my keys in my bra story although it is a funny one :) We had tons of fun the only part I didn't really like was that some people felt the need to grind during the dance with is really disturbing, I don't like it at all, it really bugs me because it is just wrong expecially for people my age, you have problems if you feel the need to fulfill that "desire" at our age and nobody wants to see it especially not me or my friends its gross and rude.... other than that it was a fun dance I finally got to see my friend who moved away and get her phone number back cause I lost it when my phone crashed this summer, so it was awesome to see her again!  Also below is a pic of Pearl and her owner and her owners boyfriends homecoming picture!

Alexis Pearl and Thad :)

So then we had our show, heres some pictures of the show and videos down below!!!

Final flank turn in a younger routein

Emily leading the little kid group emily is closest on Ivan (black horse)

another pic of the little kids with the helpers walking along....

Banner before the show in the barn waiting....

Banner and I right before our routein started...

Above video is Ronis group which is our intermediate riding group and below is my group I was in one of the 2 Advanced groups, we both did the same routien group 1 was at the beginning and ours was the very last so we had to work with tired horses....

At about 3:40 in our video we go into the canter and I thought Banner was going to start doing his humping up thing again, but he did okay, he just got a little excited and went a little fast :)


Then yesterday we got Chance out and we rode him for the first time! He did awesome!!!! Chance didn't really know how to lunge very well when we got him, he kinda got it but wasn't very good at all and we have only worked with him 3 times the last time being about a month or so ago, so I was really happy when he remembered his ground work so well! If you teach it right then they remember, and he remembered me working with him, goes to show you can teach an old (very old apparently) horse new tricks! Then I hopped on and worked with him, he seems to remember but needs a few refresher sessions but he did good! Then I worked with him again today and he did good, he was being really barn sour so we made over by the fence work area and the normal riding area the resting area, he started to get it at the end so we quit on a good note we went through all his paces walk trot and canter, his walk is nice and smooth his trot is okay but his canter is very i don't know how to describe it, its more of a big up and down than a normal rocking motion, not hard to ride but pretty fun! I will upload the video from Monday, but todays video is still on my go pro camera and I don't feel like uploading everything.... more videos and fun stuff to come tomorrow!

Above is his lunging session and below is his first time with me riding him!

Updates!!!

Sorry guys its been forever! I have been very busy and I've been sick and tons of stuff going on!
So let me rewind back to last week, we rode, (can't remember what day it was this happend) anyways I decided to get the barrels back out and work on them, after our warm up the first 3-4 times through went well, we walked one and trotted one, and loped the other two, then we finally sped it up, he did good the first few times at "full speed" and then after that it started to go down hill, lol he started doing his "humping up" thing going into the second barrel, we pushed through it a few times, then we went past the first barrel, and going into the second, he decided to kick up, he kicked up twice and I got unseated and I fell, so most of you who know me, know I an good at falling, and having got better at riding, I can "fall" even better now lol I have got to the point where I know if im comming off or not and If I know im comming off I have time to prepare, so I reached and put my hand on his neck as I was in the air, and landed on my feet at a jog lol, he spun around to face me and I tried to flip the reins over his head but he decided to be a girrafe (i cant spell :P  ) and it took me about 4 times to flip the reins over, and I immediatly started lunging him.... then I got back on after a minute or two of lunging, then we worked through it again and he still humped up, but he never kicked up like that again, we eventually continued to work and he finally calmed down and realized doing that wasn't going to get him a rest, so we stopped working on that when he went through the pattern once nice :)

Then I got out the rope and started just riding Chuck around with leg cues.... swinging the rope all over.... he didn't appreciate it when I started tapping and rubbing the rope all over his face, but the only thing he did was speed up to a trot a few times then he calmed down.... then I started roping the barrels.... I missed more often than not, but I have been practicing and getting better :) now I just need a moving target and to teach Chuck to track!

Then he started not wanting to go towards the barrels, so we worked on getting him nice and close and he decided to have a bad day and pitch a fit, he did little mini rears when asked to go towards the barrel.... things have to get worse before they can get better right? well thats what he thought should happen, so after gaining some ground, we then had to lose some, he was standing nice and calm then I asked him to go forward, then he did his not so mini rear and then threw his head down and his but up, I have never been repealed that far onto a horses neck with the exception of when I was 7 and Lilly went Bronc style on me.... I was apparently skilled enough to grab his neck again, hook my foot around the saddle horn and hang sideways on my horse, I held on for about 5 seconds before I just let myself fall to the ground laughing my head off! Roni was asking if I was okay and all I could do for 5 minutes was laugh! It was my "weridest" "fall" ever, and it was actually kinda fun! I hopped back on, and he tried to pull that stunt a few more times but not near as bad, and we got it worked out with him tipping the barrel over then trying to paw-kick it with his front legs.....

some videos on these will be up tonight I tried to upload them last night but got busy and they take anywhere from 20 mins to 30 minutes to upload because they are quite long...

anyways saturday we had our lesson and all went okayish.... it rained like crazy and it had rained earlier in the week and the arena was bad, if you stepped in it a puddle was left in your foot print...

It was interesting because the girl who normaly rides Basil behind me tried riding Musta because she is tall so Basil makes her look really tall.... but she couldn't keep Musta out of mine and Banners butt, and Musta really hates following other horses, so he kept biting banner while I was riding! Banner got fed up and tried kicking at him.... then they changed back to Basil so it all went well......

So the one thing that I am SO SO SO SO SO SO proud of is that Chuck and I are finally working at Liberty!!!! Ill tell you guys more about that in another post!!!

Lesson Video

Hey guys so this weekend we had a lesson, we're preparing for the show on Sunday..... Banner worked wonderfully! This is our group minus Vironica, she will be in a follow along group instead of a mirror image/ serpentine group like ours because she isn't comfortable enough and pete is a little slow.... Anyways here you guys go!

Start at 4:40 if you want to see it from the beginning, we did it twice and the first part is the last part of the first time we went through it.....
Down here below is just me experimenting with different camera angles......

Go Pro Videos

Hey guys heres 3 of the videos off of the go pro there will be at least one more posted tonight!

Above is riding Chuck with the go Pro and Below is us bringing the horses up using the go pro

Then I wanted to see how the go pro worked in low light so I videoed Roni riding Jack

More updates!

Hey guys so I also forgot to update about the more horsie things of my weekend, my grandma came out to work with Chance but she to be quite frank isn't very good at it and he figured out that he didn't have to do anything for her because she wouldn't be firm enough, so I had just started Chucks workout when things went bad with them, I had to go over and within a few minutes had it sorted out and went into an in dept explination of how to work with him, by the time I was done showing her she wanted to be done, so she put him back and went inside. Tj hopped on Chuck and rode him around a little bit while Roni was on Jack, Roni cantered him and he did good, so I told her to take the saddle off and go bareback she did canter once and did okay and the second time he decided to slam on the breaks and spin, she came off, so I hopped on him, he did it to me once, I lost the reins and he tried to run off we caught him, I got back on, the next time he stopped started to spin, I hung on until he did a little rear and came back down and tried to spin again I came off but held onto the reins and got dragged about 8 feet on my belly, got up and got back on, and I apparntly hadn't caught my breath at all because I was having trouble breathing and the next thing I knew I was on the ground, he didn't do anything but I was frustraited/had the wind knocked out of me enough to the point where I was seeing spots Jack took off again and Roni went to catch him while I sat there and caught my breath, she lunged him, and I finally was able to stand up and walk without feeling like my head would explode, so I got back on and he decided that just stopping and turning wasn't enough he decided he would resort to flat out bolting again, I made it through one bolt and got him slowed down but I didn't survive the next one because he bolted and then did his stop spin thing, this one knocked the wind out of me again, I held onto the reins and he didn't drag me that time, but I was out of breath, Roni came and took him from me and he got lunged real hard, I sat there for close to 10 minutes with my head between my knees trying to catch my breath, after that I finally could stand up, I walked to the door and told Nick Jack would go in a stall tonight so we could work him the next day, I took water and hay out while Roni finished lunging him and cooling him out, then she took both him and Chuck out and put Chuck out and Jack in the stall by the time she came back I had put everything up, we went inside and as I ran out of my adrenaline rush, my wrist was hurting, Nick checked it out and said just take Aleave and put ice on it, and thats what I did and then I went to bed.

We also had our lesson this weekend. We figured out who we are riding for the show, I am not riding Mavrick, but I am Riding Banner, so we rode the horses we would ride in the show for that lesson, Vironica is not riding in my group and she is riding on Pete, I had only ridden Banner one other time before then and it was only like my 3rd lesson, and we didn't do much as for trotting and cantering. Banner is one of the younger horses who has a bit more spirit, younger kids ride him, but usually only at the walk because he can sometimes be a little quick and sensitive or he realizes he can get away with not listining and won't respond to your ques at all or doens't respond in a reasonable amount of time when you que him. We were riding with 3 other girls, one of them it was only her second time riding, the other had ridden at High Bridge when she was a kid and the other has been taking lessons for awhile but isn't very advanced. So the one who wasn't very advanced didn't do trot work or canter work with the rest of us and neither did the girl who was only her second time riding, they did work on the lunge line with Anne, while I got to lead our group through tons of walk trot transitions. The girl before me had had trouble getting Banner to respond to ques when asked he would wait and wait and wait then finally decided he would do it, and that was our goal, and we did really good at it, then the 2 girls who couldn't canter went one in the middle and one on the edge so we wouldn't be squished to the wall when we cantered, I was in front so I didn't have to worry about keeping Banner out of anyones tail until the Anne switched us so I was in the middle, I had to keep him slow as he could go without breaking gait which is kinda hard on him. Then the girl said she thought Snickers would do better behind Banner agian so we switched again, I was trying to work on getting a good working canter out of him, we switched directions two times, then on our second to last time cantering Banner humped up, which some people may call it a buck or a crow hop, (I don't) but its when a horse is in a canter and they put their heads down and start bringing their butt up really high at the end of the stride almost like a buck but its not a full out buck, the look on Libbys face was quite funny, she look terified! I continued to push him through until he gave me a nice canter and when he finally did we went back to a trot, Libby was very happy with how I handled it, she said I handled it perfectly then told me if it happend again to just do the same thing, because if I had let the pressure off he normally throws a stop in there and you go flying forward with a little crow hop, I think the only reason I didn't really think anything off it is because Chuck does it sometimes too, he just wants to let off a little steam or doesn't feel like doing anything so he does that, and I do the same thing with him, the rest of it went good and we cantered more and it all went well, we helped untack groom and put out horses and talked about the next lesson times and if we would ride with our groups or not and got all that sorted out, went and wrote our names down on the big lesson board, then went home, it was a good day and I had lots of fun riding Banner, Anne said I work really well with him, I think its because hes so much like Chuck, he doesn't need a lot of rein cues and thrives off of leg cues. I hope I can ride him more again in the future!

Updates!!!

Hey guys lots of updates from this week!
Okay so lets start off with Monday, we had an FFA meeting, I am an officer (reporter) and we had a good meeting we have tons of people this year 40+ people which is easily more than last year! Anyways I had to talk about us grilling for our Fall Kick off, and we talked about lots of stuff like summer trip and things and all our new buisness for this year, we are having a blood drive like we do every year, and this year I am finally old enough to donate! Can't wait! Roni and I had to wait for my mom to come so we got bored and played catch with an apple and we kept dropping it and it was broken into lots of little pieces....

 

Then Tuesday night I got Jet out and worked with him, he is doing good for the most part, except he wanted to go with his friends and that didn't work out well and he smashed my leg between him and the trailer, I grunted and kept working but I know I would have a good bruise.... we continued with out workout and we ended on a good note and all was good except for my leg was sore....

Then Wednesday was the Farm Progress show, I had fun with Emilee Tahana and Roni and Ray we walked around, we got free cupcakes and free snow cones and some other little things, I got a cup holder thingy for my truck (which is almost done being fixed!) and a little bee to sit on the dash, we also got honey sticks which are like pixy sticks of honey and I tried some but I still think it tastes better with chocolate milk, so Im saving them for that.... we walked all over and Emilee and Tahana were playing what are the odds and Emilee had to go in a Kybo (portapoty) and make funny noises and she started clucking like a chicken! We watched a demonstration on 4 different cattle chutes and ya it was a fun day!

Then the rest of the week went normally, then on Saturday Roni Nick and I along with my uncle bob who came up for the weekend went to Sportsman wearhouse and Fleet farm... Roni and I went on a mini shopping spree.... lol....

Black hoof polish

A waterbottle for my mix for Chucks tail....

Part of the mix for Chucks tail...

A cool waterbottle...

It was in the horse groom section as a mane and tail brush but I think I am using it for myself!

Sunday we decided we would go to the rodeo with my grandma, we didn't go this year because we couldn't financally afford it, and our mugger is deployed right now..... we got all the way through to the wild horse race and then it got nasty out, we left when it started raining, we were forcast for hail and 60+ mile per hour winds, and under a tornado watch, and when we started driving they issued a tornado warning, we got home, and we hung out for awhile while the power surged in and out.... we may have missed some of the rodeo but I am almost glad we did, the winds ripped a roof off a house that is only a few miles from Dayton.... a hog confinement also got part of its roof ripped off.... a friends house had lots of fallen trees in their yard and some of the local corn is laid flat..... over all it was a good weekend, just glad everyone stayed safe!

Vironica on the swings....

A belt I got with my name in it...

This is what is further up the belt, my name part is in the back

I got a little light up necklass....

Roni and I got matching shirts, the only difference is the barrel on hers is red....

Our friends house...

The guy who lives back at the end of this road couldn't get out without having to drive around....

that little pen is where they keep their goats, I don't know if they are okay or not though :(

all the trees snapped all over.....

Above is the opening to the rodeo.....
Below is bareback riding....

Above is saddle bronc...
Below is bull dogging

Above is our ride on the Dizzy dragons, thought I would make Roni sick LOL
Below is the loopo planes my favorite ride (because its the "scariest" one) the most times I have ever ridden it in a row is 6  it was fun to ride them a few times again, havn't done that for awhile....