Jump For It

Apache and I had a jumping lesson this weekend. It was hardly his best performance. We didn’t start recording it right away because he kept bucking and not really wanting to listen to the half halts. At one point, I half halted and he came to a dead stop and was tossing his head in the air. We eventually got him listening a bit better and Erin started recording. He still wasn’t doing his best. For much of the time, he was doing more of half canter, half stepping pace, rather than carrying a true canter step. He bucked once more after we started recording and ran off from the jump up the diagonal as well. Regardless, we still had fun and learned a lot, as always. You can watch the video here.