Post by charleykips on May 19, 2009 10:38:44 GMT
Well iv finally done it, iv grown some B***s and actually jumped kip myself i was so proud of myself as was my mate ( who iv coached for showjumping, talk about calling the kettle black)
I took him in the school the other day and the kids were playing barrel racing so obviously kip was almost pooping himself coz of all the scary barrels and cones, hes a freak. so i started playing with him...approach and retreat and eventually managed to get him to circle a very tight cone so that was one step, then came those scary sun beams again took a few attempts but he was brill. My mate started jumping and i thought well he has been a star today so im going to go for it, although at first i did get her to nanny me over and soon kip was loving it and litterally finding the jumps himself, and wasnt jumping it at 6ft! i was sooo proud of him, looks like the hours of stress are paying off ... next step is to get myself back up to 3ft at least but who knows we may even be out competeing next month
I took him in the school the other day and the kids were playing barrel racing so obviously kip was almost pooping himself coz of all the scary barrels and cones, hes a freak. so i started playing with him...approach and retreat and eventually managed to get him to circle a very tight cone so that was one step, then came those scary sun beams again took a few attempts but he was brill. My mate started jumping and i thought well he has been a star today so im going to go for it, although at first i did get her to nanny me over and soon kip was loving it and litterally finding the jumps himself, and wasnt jumping it at 6ft! i was sooo proud of him, looks like the hours of stress are paying off ... next step is to get myself back up to 3ft at least but who knows we may even be out competeing next month
