Lesson with Laura on Thursday evening - have basically blocked him by concentrating too much on his front end and arguing with him so lost the throughness completely. We worked on quite a long rein for a while just concentrating on my position - shortened my stirrups and worked on keeping my lower leg stiller and underneath me without swinging my knee in and out, bum more underneath me and upper body back. Then Laura got on him and had a few arguments with him to unblock him. I got back on him and could feel his back was swinging much better and he was much free-er.
Today schooled him and just concentrated on keeping him soft in front. Started reluctant to stretch down but then got him to start stretching out and down and then more round and then picked him up a little but let him keep quite a soft, relaxed, slightly lower outline. Did some nice trot-walk-trot transitions over X on the diagonal line.
Then we did some jumping - worked on getting him in a nice forward canter and riding forwards for a stride - pleased as only got it wrong once and that was when then jump was tiny. Built up size and width of the jump and ended up with front bar top of the red wings which is 1.05m (3ft6) and the back bar was 3rd hole down from the top of the wings -about 3ft8. Spread was a good 3ft and had the ground poles set out in front and behind so good base spread. He jumped to the right a couple of times when approaching the smaller jump off the left rein, but managed to straighten him out and then he jumped well.
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