Saturday, February 11, 2006

two riding lessons of the week:

tues:

zul was on leave so tommy took us. i was suppose to ride colours AGAIN :( and jun got cocoa, caro got smint and liz got sam. (all the horrid all-other-horse-except-myself haters ) anyhow, we went in and warmed up by ourselves a bit. ( that;s what i like abt polo club. u can go up realy really early and warm up and they just go: oh up so early? and it's like half a self ride lol) then tommy came. nways jun couldn't canter cuz she was sick and i couldn't control colours' canter. so i was gna ask if me n jun could switched just for the canter part. anyhow, in the end me and caro ended up switching, so i got on smint and she got on colours.

so we warmed up with tommy and i had to go lead :S. smint was really nice to ride. there were occasional bucks but they were like d fun to ride to bucks like... patch's lol. so anyhow after a while of getting use to him i worked out that he doesn't like that much leg and an occasional tap with the whip make's him keep his tempo a bit better. and i did try to flex him but he just would step in cuz i was opening the inside rein and nt using enough leg. and then when i DID use enough leg he just bucked. so i stopped and he was well enough after that.

after that we cantered. smint was REALLY good except that he moves his head alot so that he pulls on the rein. other than that it was REALLY nice. and we cantered 2 rounds of the arena!! <3<3 then we did formation riding. i suppose it was ok. i kept messing up alot towards the end :S (sorry jun!!) i just can't understand y tommy is SUCH a big fan of it. EVERY lesson with him always has it.

nways, belinda ( the girl from bangkok who came after us) rides after us now. she's got a btsc membership accd to jun and can STILL ride at polo club. plus her class got all d NICE horses. how unfair is that?!

Fri:

I FELL!!! of SONGKLA!!! lol. now my back hurts tons...

so viv got oj, dawn got we r one ( FOURTH TIME!!! humph :P haha ) n caro got bobby.
nways it was drizzling during our lesson, and it rained b4 that so the ground was all eeeky and well, horrid. then sue came up and she brought these small stones which she collected on her way up. and smiling REALLLY evily, she told us that we were going to work on our legs today. and then she proceeded to place one stone btw each of our feet and the stirrup so we had to really press down on the stirrup. so then we walked, and trotted for a short while, and everytime someone dropped a stone, they had to turn in and let sue replace it. i didn't drop ANY!! YAY!! lol

then sue called us back in the middle and told us to canter :D. so basically we just did open order cantering. and i lost a few stones when i was doing my downward transitions :S. halfway, sue started complaining that she couldn't find anymore stones and that we were accidently stepping on her fingers when she replaced our stones. oops haha.

songkla was nice during all that. apart from thinking that d stones were polos and trying to bite my boot off... and i kept my reins nice!! and they didn;t get longer and longer!!:D. anyhow, there was this other horse and rider riding arould our arena on the outside. (dawn and caro said the horse was newsmaker). so everytime they passed us, songkla put his ears REAL flat and made this weird grunting sound. then during d cantering, he'd bolt off when they passed. which he did twice, and make me loose BOTH stones in my stirrups.

so after all that drama, sue called us back in and the lady went into the arena next to our's. so stupid me, though that songkla was going to behave and not bolt off again. then sue made us do sitting trot, still with the stones :S, as a ride. so we did and it was ok i suppose, but my left leg was not really pressing so i dropped a stone once.

and then, while we we trotting down the long side, newsmaker was coming down the long side of his arena on d other rein. i didn't notice and then he passed us and songkla bolted off and did a 45 degree turn towards the middle. and suddenly i feel myself flying out of the saddle and then i c d sky, and then next thing i knew i hit the wet sand, on my back. lol viv, dawn and caro said that i screamed. REALLY SHRILL :P which i weirdly don't remember haha. anyhow, i landed IN a puddle, staring up at songkla's nose and horrid teeth, and somehow still holding onto one rein and my whip lol.

so sue ran over and made me lie down in d puddle, while songkla ever so unrepentently just looked at the other horses. so i ended up with a COLD COLD SANDY back and my jodphurs were SOAKED. lol so after a while sue let me stand and she asked if i wanted to walk songkla down or ride him down. i chosed the latter so she gave me a leg up and we all rode down.

all i can say is THANK GOD FOR EXTRA SHIRTS!! haha. so that's my 1st OFFICIAL fall at btsc and now my name is in d accidents book!! YAY!! FINALLY!!! haha.

and so i end; with a picture of that unrepentant scheming rat :P haha

|`kath| 1:49 PM|

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