IT'S TIME TO GET THESE HORSES JUMPING AGAIN

hello everyone and welcome back to my channel Winnie's about to come can't drink down here anyway I'm sure many of you know that both Jammy and Dede are heading to badminton in May and I feel really behind with my prep neither of them have had a proper jump this year yet so I figured I'll bring you guys along with me to have our first proper jump of the year I'm working through things with jam and things with DD come on so I'll talk you through all of that but let's head to the arena and get harrowing and building [Music] [Music] [Music] foreign [Applause] [Music] first up is jambam in her new expert bits Bridal you guys won't have seen this if you don't follow me on Instagram um yeah they came out the other day to help us out again and we're trying out their brand new bridles which are absolutely gorgeous I'm obsessed with them and you'll notice something drastically different is that we have got a grackle nose band now this would just be for jumping we'll keep her in the drop for dressage uh but yeah we're basically giving it a go now I I'm gonna get on because we're gonna lose the light but I didn't really know all of the ins and outs about bridles and I always assumed that grackles were like the most harsh I guess that's the right word or like the strongest nose band turns out they're actually the kindest nose band because of how they sit on their face they basically because it causes what so many nerve endings in their face you're better off to go into the expert a bit website and like actually read up on this yourself but yeah basically grackles are meant to avoid the most nerves and be like the kindest Bridle obviously it completely depends on the horse as to what your horse is best in but we're giving a go a jumper so we'll see how she jumps today also this number is clean but there were carrots on it so it looks very gross excellent Mountain block control there right I'll have a little warm up and talk you through what we've set out and then we're gonna have to be pretty Speedy guys because we are losing the light it is still January [Music] oh this looks quite daunting when you're at the end of it right so you might have noticed it is poles Galore in the arena today so I've seen people doing this exercise a lot on social media I think it was Bubby Upton um that I saw most recently so it's basically a long line of like counterpol so I've done mine at three and a half human strides and then you've got your wings going down so you can basically we're going to raise them up to eventually get them like not particularly high but it's kind of like bounces because you've got the placing poles but not all of the effort of having like bounce spots bounce um so I'm hoping it's going to help with rhythm and also be a bit of a gymnastics exercise for them and then if we go down here we have got this quite big oxa I don't know why I always build them so big and square to warm up around and then put them down um so this is mainly here for jam bands but basically since I fall I've jumped upright and probably no bigger than 85 I'd say so this is just me pushing me out my comfort zone and doing a big offense today I've got my tram lines because I know that I'm probably gonna Panic coming to this and Winger in so I've just put those there to keep me straight and also give me something else a little bit to focus on so that is the plan and that's why I'm hoping to work on with Jam bam and yeah I'll discuss why I've set this out for DD when we grab her [Music] tomorrow [Music] foreign [Applause] [Music] [Laughter] good oh right honey mum hasn't come out so you might have to build the jumps well he needs a camera in your face all warmed up and we have popped our jumps up onto the first cup I've done it with all of them because she's been going on counterpols really nicely and it's like obviously it's made like basically a raised Pole to start with so I'm gonna come in Canter nice and forward kids [Music] so worry about about Meg lovely Jam well done sweetheart and it all falls to Pieces there but that's okay I need to come like more forward around my corner I think because when they were poles that was coming up nicely okay that was all right good Jimmy I quite like this exercise already because it very much means that I can't interrupt which we all know is my big problem like once you've got to the first poll it's kind of up to the horse to sort their feet out it's very demanding mentally for them but not really not really for me right what we'll do now Peter is put them all onto the second hole [Music] oh that's hard [Music] good whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa Just landing on the wrong lead there guys better straighter with my body I think I'm dropping my shoulders daddy think Jam good right so we've put them up again I believe on the poly jump wings and these eight cups it's like just over 70 I think this height but with the poles and with me making it a bit short um it's going to be quite demanding sure Canter short short oh wow she felt amazing then good girl gosh that's incredible the poles really make them land really short you get like a proper basket right let's do that again I need to sit up sit up short you are really good well done Jammy really really pleased with that really like that as an exercise definitely gets them working [Music] [Music] right now I need to have a more forward counter and don't ever think don't overthink don't overthink oh you can see I've got trap lines there guys [Music] in the mirror [Music] foreign oh my God I can't actually describe how happy I am with that that just felt really effortless really really nice I like doing oh gosh don't spooked now doing those like bigger Square oxes just in the middle of the Arena kind of freaked me out a bit because you've got so much space either side and it's very easy to over complicate your life find it easy to like over complicate things and um get very handy but I'm really tough with that I felt like she jumped out really nicely we met a couple in a really nice stride a few of them I was a bit handy too but like not horrendous oh oh I'm really really buzzed with that and then absolutely love this exercise so happy with you jammy good to go right I'm gonna walk off grab Dede um thankfully because of the issues I'm having with d don't really need to be doing any jumps this size but we'll talk about that more when I'm on DD but absolutely gas me down and you're such a little Legend aren't you you're such a legend you're a very good girl all right you're gonna get a little Miss naughty knickers AKA your evil twin [Music] also in a new expert bit and Bridal combination although fun facts I haven't actually ridden in this since the day they came to fit but there's a good reason for that so you'll notice on these back legs she has got two shaven patches and that's because at the very start of the month she had her hooks injected again so I've spoken about this before on my channel and on you Instagram is the word I'm looking for um D has very mild arthritis in her Hawks so we get them medicated once a year and she also has cartrophen injections once a year although she's not whoopsie completely at the stage of being awful we very much want to keep her as comfortable as possible because we found the arthritis so early we went down the medication route to kind of keep on top of it and thankfully it's not actually getting much worse which is really good news but it does mean that she's had a little bit of chill time we've not done loads of work and that's not had the best effect on dni so I spoke about this on Instagram the other day basically do you always get quite tricky to ride over the winter and I don't really know why I don't know if it's kind of like because we're not going out competing if she doesn't really see the point in doing the school work we don't know if she's reacting bad to the weather the grass changes anything like that but she always gets just a bit tricky in the arena and kind of just like speedy and not really wanting to work you guys are going to have a blast from the past in three two one it's G do you know what G is getting so dark I don't you know I'm trying to explain why you're here but it's easier guys I know I'm walking my face my pony round um anyway I I find it really quite deflating riding D in the winter and I used to never want to admit that because it sounds ridiculous like you should want to love to ride your pony every day um but I know a lot of people do get in this boat especially during the winter months so all of that being said I've been trying to keep my school sessions really short and do a lot of schooling out hacking and she schools beautifully at hacking really really nice so that's just the way I'm going to do things this winter I'm not going to stress about Badminton too much with DD we're going there for fun so today's session we're not going to build up like we have with Jam I'm going to go down the Canter poles when they're not a tool raised and just try and work on my rhythm and try to not be really Speedy that's my aim of the game and to be quite honest I think it's going to be too dark to jump that other fence but that's fine because it's gonna we're gonna play with a bit and focus on Rhythm and not being too fast I've forgot to put my gloves on right so G's not got a microphone on which is probably good because she's uh screaming but she's very helpfully putting the poles down for me she's come to visit for the weekend because she is a big hot shot health and safety officer now there will be no funny business around here I can't believe I'm riding without gloves is that dangerous risk assessment apparently doesn't pass [Music] that's me say Jam truck down right there we go we got it we got it but we lost the diagonal along the way foreign Ty G here how long are you going to be here 4G do you want a microphone on okay she said no guys [Music] people do care what you've to say give me a lesson steady good girl [Music] okay [Music] well done Dee because she didn't get like stressy then at least well done it's the uh the length between these two poles I reckon [Music] could I get you to walk those energy all right not to move to biking not motorbiking or we could just motorbike if that's what you want to do deep okay gee any thoughts any pointers you can give me other than pull that's about all I can do at the minute I bet you did she's like look we either Gallop or we we don't do it Mom oh look Pete's taking a chance with death yes yeah she literally goes in doesn't she and that's that we just stay in that what do I need then have a like lower enough frame okay no but that's good better good girl Dee about yeah no I felt that was better I think you're right I I battle her attention with tension [Music] girl oh gosh we're trying to make her softer in her frame so I can give oh no okay so I'm back on my shoulders yeah dang it it's telling her forward yeah okay so we should just put a mic on G because now I'm trying to repeat everything so off her back because her back is where we're getting tense but trying not to lean forward don't know whether to raise them because I think raising them she's just gonna keep going at that speed and then we're just going to hit them like she's not going to stop and think because it's D ude of their body the whole way down so from like you like on the ground you would even see it yeah and then all the way down their neck that you can adjust it as much as you want and then you've got that wither and then underneath the saddle so because she just gets really like I'm a little ball then I'm going isn't she yeah yeah and you can see that like all these muscles here are like locked they're like that because she's senses she's excited like yeah whatever but you just need to be able to do that and then the muscles can work and interlocking and she can actually come up yeah rather than just pillow yeah okay I'm excited she is just do a circle and it's literally like really soft in your arms I could give a retake so that she just a little she's responsible for like actually holding herself yeah exactly okay so circle circle before and circle after should I I know I am I am still I'm excited to announce guys I'm still spots by circles in 2023. but do it afterwards if that's when she's locked like your training exercise still keeps going yeah that's still what you're doing that thing is not just jump the pot not like just go over the poles and then collapse I need to yeah follow it oh I'll tiggle your hind leg deadly okay yeah so I want that feeling over the point like there's lovely foreign I like the first two poles oh sorry yep okay my leg wasn't on oh yay that was good why'd we change leg okay but she stayed relaxed doing that didn't she wrote that oh gee why do you know good good oh okay yeah don't pull around on my inside she said guys oh okay the classic elephant event Pony right hook what yeah watch out guys yep yeah okay from that outside rain yep okay yeah okay oh yeah come on Meg okay that's soft that's soft that's soft can we keep it foreign she's just like really Keen which there's worse problems to have sorry I was on the wrong diagonal yeah good good you can go now I'm done with you oh look gee we're going slowly oh oh and then you're going to walk over the pole so you realize that they're not really exciting right guys it's pitch black I live love love you hope you enjoyed this video and I'll see you very soon thanks G for coming that was actually really really helpful love you bye [Music] foreign [Music]

Channel: Elphick.Event.Ponies

Views: 99,926

Keywords: horse jumping, show jumping, training my horse, equestrian, training my horse to jump

Id: F9GBxRcyLEc

Length: 23min 14sec (1394 seconds)

Published: Thu Feb 02 2023