Post by FirenLady on Sept 7, 2009 19:13:51 GMT
Fire really hates fillers and as I was cross with him for spooking at grass I thought I'd give him something to occupy his mind and got some fillers out, got out the gate and the planks.
I was acutally really pleasently surprised with how he behaved, I thought it'd be a tremendous effort even getting him close to them but he was very good. I wanted to try Maxi's sitting up excercise so set the planks one stride apart, and practiced sitting up between them. got to practice riding him forward too! cos he was backing off a little.
He did the gate nicely a coupla time then decided he was going to paddy about it, and I thought about giving up but decided that as he'd done it a coupla times already he wasn't scared but pulling my leg. ;D
didn't think I'd ever do another filler ever again, (even the prospect of doing them on a riding school pony fills me with dread
) and Fire has seen any for about 2yrs so it went really well. It was strange sensation approaching in a controlled manner cos normally we do them at lightning speed! and pray 
got it on vid, will post when I get a sec.
I was acutally really pleasently surprised with how he behaved, I thought it'd be a tremendous effort even getting him close to them but he was very good. I wanted to try Maxi's sitting up excercise so set the planks one stride apart, and practiced sitting up between them. got to practice riding him forward too! cos he was backing off a little.
He did the gate nicely a coupla time then decided he was going to paddy about it, and I thought about giving up but decided that as he'd done it a coupla times already he wasn't scared but pulling my leg. ;D
didn't think I'd ever do another filler ever again, (even the prospect of doing them on a riding school pony fills me with dread
) and Fire has seen any for about 2yrs so it went really well. It was strange sensation approaching in a controlled manner cos normally we do them at lightning speed! and pray got it on vid, will post when I get a sec.
