Gia - sessions 1100-1104 - More of the same, and camp

 I'm a bit behind in writing my blogs because we had a week of summer camp and it was a little crazy, so I'm just now catching up on everything.  

On Saturday 6/28/25 I worked with Gia briefly on walk and halt transitions.  I also worked with her on suppling her jaw and poll.

Monday 6/30/25 was the first day of summer camp, and some of the campers wanted to watch Gia and I work on our flatwork.  I showed them what she and I have been working on with our transition work between all gaits.  She gave them a lovely treat of a couple nice canter transitions!

On Tuesday 7/1/25, the campers were able to observe my lesson with Suzin.  We were working on fine
tuning the aids for the transitions, as well as straightness.  I was having a little trouble with getting Gia to go forward.  At one point, she popped into a canter that I didn't ask for, but she was amazingly engaged behind and really sitting down.  I felt like we could almost pirouette!  Another treat for the campers I guess!  Afterwards they had lots of great questions for Suzin, and even autograph time! 😉

On Wednesday 7/2/25, I took Gia out to the field to jump the stadium jumps, along with my jump crew full of campers!  I explained to them how I warm up for jumping rides, and then worked with Gia on transitions, as well as straightness, and a little collection, as she jumped several jumps up to 2'4".  She also took a few jumps with filler that she doesn't usually see, and had no
problems with any of it!  The jumps were quite easy for her, so it might be time to bump her up.

Finally, we ended the week on Saturday 7/5/25, with a very easy ride of transitions at the walk and halt.  I just worked on refining the cues that I have sharpened over these past couple of weeks. 

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