Weekend Jumping

On the long weekend, Monday, I went to my mums friend Marcella's house. She has 3 daughters. Abby, Danny, and Shawn. Shawn is my younger sister Emma's best friend. Me, my mum and my sister Emma were going to go to Beachbrook stables to ride but the owner was having problems so we got stuck. My pony Scooby and Emma's pony Coco were stomping about in the float behind us so we called Marcella. she said we could come over for a lesson.

When we got there we brushed our ponies. Coco made a mess because she had her winter coat on. After that me, Shawn (because she was riding her pony Lulu) and Emma tacked up our ponies. Scooby went into the arena first for a quick lunge before we got on. When he was done my mum put Coco on the lunge.

I got on Scooby without a leg up and Marcella let me warm up at a walk. Then when I was warmed up I went into a trot.We continued that same trot for a while until she pulled me into he middle. She taught me about spaghetti reins which are when you let your reins go loose and loopy. She said it's like a phone, when your let your reins go loose you lose contact and can't communicate with your horse. When you have a good contact, you can talk with your horse. She set marks for me to trot over in a circle and she taught me to half-halt.

She said I could pop over small blue jump but I thought she meant the big one so I jumped over that one. Marcella said that one was harder and she set up a jumping course for me. The first jump was the big blue jump I did before and I made it clear. The second jump was the small blue one, I made that as well. The third was a red and black jump. I made the rest of the jumps clear and then got off Scooby.

Jumping is fantastic and I want to do it again.