Then onto a grid - started with trotting into a single x pole and built up to 2 whoppingly wide oxers. Felt Monts question if I was serious wanting him to jump them from the nothingy canter that results from trotting over a x-pole but it really made him sit back and power over them - he didn't knock them down! Video doesn't show the extent of the width of them - definitely wider than anything I've done before.
slow mo version:
We then did the grid back at x poles with no hands on the reins - reins tied in a knot on the neck - eeeeek! First time I wasn't quite brave enough to drop the reins but I did it the 2nd time when they went to uprights and then 3rd time they went to little oxers and we had to do hands on head over first jump, hands on shoulders over 2nd one and on hips over 3rd one - certainly a balance challenge for me and Monts - interesting how much he naturally sped up through the grid without me telling him to wait for each fence. Never done anything like this before but it was fab fun (if a little scary!)
Finished with jumping round a course - saw a few slightly, wildly forwards strides but he also shortened up nicely when he needed to. Just need to really work on keeping the connection - something Chris is always going on at me about.
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