Time for some pole work!

Join us through some pole work and cavaletti work! After pushing towards Chica's 90cm showjumping debut, we are going back to basics for a couple of weeks, working on our balance and rythm first and foremost. Also doing a check in with keeping Chica in front of my aids, making sure she gets some positive experiences before we try again in the showjumping arena in just a couple of weeks. In this lesson, we start with warming up. I start with letting Chica trot on a more loose rein, getting warm in her body, before I start giving her some simple tasks with improving her balance in the turns as well as making her shorten and lengthen the trot. Warming up into canter, we start with a light seat and a forward thinking canter, before I sit down in the saddle and start asking her to collect herself with the outer rein. Exercise 1: working over some poles in a figure of 8 Exercise 2 and 3: working over a cavaletti in a big circle, on both reins Exercise 4: Combining both the trot poles and cavaletties, mixing up the tasks chica is being given. Super pleased with the positive developement through this lesson!