Gia - session 812 - jump in field

 I took Gia out to the field today for some flatwork and little jumping.  We started with walking up and down hills.  She had to be very straight and collected down the hills, and then stretch down very low as she went up hill.  She did pretty good with that, although she was a bit tense at first.  She was a little less tense when I asked for trot work.  We worked on being very straight, collecting, lengthening, and a little haunches-in.  Then I started asking for canter.  She was a little tense, so I threw in down transitions to walk and halt, as needed.  I did get several nice canter transitions, and then worked on stabilizing the canter, and not allowing the stride to get too big.  That was hard for her, but she had a lot of good moments, especially to the right.  If we managed to keep it together long enough, then I put her over a jump.  We only went over a few small jumps, whenever the canter was good.  She did have a hard stop at the flat tire jump.  I made her face it, and kept encouraging her, and she eventually went over it.  We came back to it a few times.  She stopped again the second time, then only hesitated the third, then sailed over it just fine on the fourth time.  Throughout the entire ride there was NO BUCKING!!