Getting better :)

Jemma:
She ran the course really nicely today, struggled on the weave entry first time and then stopped just off the seesaw instead of on it!! We did some work on our contacts and they were nice :) We also worked on our weave entries and she did a lot better than normal, the main thing we were working on was where I stood to get her in - ideally something we shouldn't have to work on as I would like her to find the entrance herself but as we are already in our busy competition season we will have to work with what I have until winter :) We also worked on the three ways to do the end part of the combined 1-2 jumping course from yesterday - two front crosses, using my lefts and rights and wraping her round the wing (the way that I did it yesterday, only today we did it more smoothly:P)!!

Elliot:
We worked on the jumping sequences with him and he did them all beautifully, didn't put a foot wrong bless him :) Then we went on to weaves and he was really stroppy to start with, having a right paddy with my hand getting in the way and stopping him being speedy but by the end of it he was doing them really nicely, we probably got 10 in a row good ones :) Then it was onto contacts and wow, why I didn't start this way with him!! In the three/four weeks it has been since we started he is almost ready to do the full equipment - we did lost today with me running him onto the contact and running on whilst he stopped on the bottom, he was brill at this (after a couple of slow ones to remind him what to do), I was really pleased with him and am enjoying seeing the improvements in him, it won't be long before he is flying round the ring doing all the equipment correctly :)