Gia - session 195 - more jumping!

 Yesterday I did more of the same jumping stuff with Gia in our ride.

We warmed up with lateral work, including nose-to-wall at the walk.  That seemed a little easier for her!

Once she felt looser at the trot, we worked over trot poles.  She kept wanting to quicken right after the poles, so I did a small circle each time.  It took several attempts before she would go over the poles without speeding up.

Then we moved on to an X with ground poles on either side.  She took most of them quite easily, and even cantered off nicely after some.  She still struggled with the right lead canter, so we did that all by itself at the very end.

Before that, however, we did work over a few lines, in each direction.  I had a medium sized X set up, and then a small vertical about 3-4 strides after that.  Both jumps had ground poles on either side.  We ended up taking it in both directions.  Straightness and speed were the biggest issues.  It took several tries, but we did eventually get a good one in each direction - fairly straight and not getting too fast or too slow afterwards.  Although, too slow is not usually her problem.  ☺

We finished up our ride with some work on her halt transitions.  Those don't really seem to be much different, but it might just take more time.