Once a year the barn owner invites to have the horses weighed and measured.
Sunday was the day. After a little bit of hesitation Crispin bravely went on the scale and got weighed:
445 Kg. More than I though.
And they measured him too. 156 cm. I'm not quite sure I want belive that, even though they mesured him twice (he didn't like the lady with the measuring stick too much).
Samstag, 15. Mai 2010
Freitag, 7. Mai 2010
Babysteps
Today I did it. The first little bit of lunging.
After six or more weeks of doing basically nothing but hand grazing I decided that it was time for the next step.
Unfortunately the outdoor ring was a muddy mess and in the indoor ring my trainer was giving an unscheduled lesson to one of the pony girls. Damn. But I was set on training so training it would be.
The problem with indroducing Crispin to lunge is that I have to use a different approach from what would be ideal. I could not start with free lunging him. We're not allowed to free lunge in the indoor, we don't have a round pen, and the outdoor ring is waaaaay to big. So I decided to try the T-Team approach by unsing diffent leading positions and go from there. I had done the "leading between both hands" and "leading from a distant" with Chrispin before, but had not done any in hand training for weeks. Plus my trainer was in the idoor watching and suddenly I was unaccountably very nervous. So Crispin decided that nervous was the way to be. he spooked when a horse passed him at canter and wasn't willing to concentrate on my. Great, now my Trainer robably thinks that we're set on disaster!
After a couple of minutes Crispin calmed down (like he ALWAYS does) and the first try to lunge him went really well. He got the concept after a minute or two. Good Boy!
We've worked on lunging two more times and he really got it now I think. He stops, walks, trots (only for 2-3 rounds each time) on both hands on the lunge and is really relaxed. Clockwise is his favourite direction.
After six or more weeks of doing basically nothing but hand grazing I decided that it was time for the next step.
Unfortunately the outdoor ring was a muddy mess and in the indoor ring my trainer was giving an unscheduled lesson to one of the pony girls. Damn. But I was set on training so training it would be.
The problem with indroducing Crispin to lunge is that I have to use a different approach from what would be ideal. I could not start with free lunging him. We're not allowed to free lunge in the indoor, we don't have a round pen, and the outdoor ring is waaaaay to big. So I decided to try the T-Team approach by unsing diffent leading positions and go from there. I had done the "leading between both hands" and "leading from a distant" with Chrispin before, but had not done any in hand training for weeks. Plus my trainer was in the idoor watching and suddenly I was unaccountably very nervous. So Crispin decided that nervous was the way to be. he spooked when a horse passed him at canter and wasn't willing to concentrate on my. Great, now my Trainer robably thinks that we're set on disaster!
After a couple of minutes Crispin calmed down (like he ALWAYS does) and the first try to lunge him went really well. He got the concept after a minute or two. Good Boy!
We've worked on lunging two more times and he really got it now I think. He stops, walks, trots (only for 2-3 rounds each time) on both hands on the lunge and is really relaxed. Clockwise is his favourite direction.
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