Rough day today in Brownland. Our first Schooling Pony round was good, but the second I was short to the first part of the outside, then didn't get him back enough on the turn so we got a seven instead of eight in the diagonal. When we came back for the USEF medal, we schooled okay, but in the ring things fell apart, I choked, then psyched myself out. Jump 1: perfect!! Jump 2: I took my leg off, threw my hands up on the neck, and Jeb didn't have enough pace to jump, so he stopped, and I almost fell off, but I pulled my self back on. Jump 2 Retry: Gorgeous! Jump 3: Great! Jump 4: Awesome! Jump 5: Same thing as Jump 2, but I didn't almost fall off. Then I freaked myself out even more, threw my hands up on the neck, and of course Jeb stopped again.
Once in the schooling ring, I did an oxer, and was fine, but then my trainer raised the jump and I freaked again. After that Jeb stopped a bunch of times. This pony never ever stops. It was all rider error. I got over a few verticals, but not an oxer again.
My trainer got on and rode him, and now I am confident that tomorrow will be better. I let it get to my head too much and I lost my confidence.
Even still, tomorrow is a new day, and I intend to fix all the problems we had today. Regardless of how good your pony is, or how good of a rider you are, if things get into your head, you can't let it get to you and mess you up. Shake it off, you can do anything you set your mind to.
"Supposing you have tried and failed again and again. You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing we call "failure" is not the falling down, but the staying down."~Mary Pickford
“Try and fail, but don't fail to try.” ~ Stephen Kaggwa
-Sarah
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