24 Mar 2013

Beautiful Aspects


Lady Giga of Ireland
 

 
 
 
 

Embarrassing!


Embarrassing! I haven't  written on my blog throughout this month. I can only say ... Busy.com. There is just so much going on in my life! I'm very busy with school. Soon I'm gonna be three weeks in some internship. The first place is at a P.R.E. breeder, the week after I'm going to work for a known academic riding instructor, Maria D Cheung, and in the last week I'm going to Horse Vision in Sweden with Christoffer Dahlgren. It'll be extremely exciting and educational!

It goes really well with the horses. They are doing so good. I just started training with Giga in academic art of riding. I get instructions from a great teacher :-)

There's still a lot of snow in Denmark. I think it surprised all that in the middle of March when the weather just was getting nice suddenly winter broke loose again.
The horses moving to Flower Farm in April. Unfortunately I can't afford the place they are stabled now. And my future is very unknown right now, since I'm gooing to seek this summer apprenticeship.

I have many plans this summer and hopefully I'll achieve some shows with the horses. Even Victor is ging to participate ;-)


Photos from my first instruction in academic art of riding.
Both Giga and I was really tired after all the information we had to grasp.














 
 
 




16 Feb 2013

That's why!


That's why I'm not quite sure if I'm ready for a hunt (small cross country event). 
Auch...







15 Feb 2013

Significant progress!



It goes really well with the horses. There is significant progress in both Victor and Giga's shape and behavior. As I said earlier, I have had much time to them in my holiday. I've trained some western with Victor since we might be involved in some events in the near future.

What Giga regards I've started to jump quite high with her ​​and often only in a Cordeo (rope around the neck). A friend and I are considering participating in a baby hunt on March 24. I just don't quite yet know if I'm ready.





I would like to share a few wise words



I would like to share a few wise words. Something I have thought about and something many probably could use to reflect on.

Many people have too many emotions involved when they train their horses. It's one of the biggest problems in equine training. It’s not uncommon that you can quickly become angry and frustrated if the horse doesn't do what we want them to do. We associate it with the horse is either naughty or disrespectful. And it is unfortunately not the case. A horse does not react on emotions but on instinct. They do not have the brain capacity to think "I'll fucking show my stupid owner" or something similar. We tend to humanize our animals because it’s easier to deal with, if we can blame it on our animals instead of ourselves. So think twice when you train your animal. Try to lie the emotions on the shelf. I'm not saying we should be insensible machines but we must leave our anger, frustration, sadness, irritation, etc behind us.

Think to you self, it’s animals, they just react based on their instincts. Horses are flight animals and if you send the wrong signal, they can be scared. All they want is just to escape, not to be evil or stupid.

This picture was taken about 5 years ago. When I rode Giga with a curb bit and a saddle that didn't fit her. At that time I was sure she was really naughty and rude but I've learned from my past and now I ride her bitless without any problems.


(Repost)

Bullfighting horse?


In my winter break I've had a lot of time to my lovely horses. So I've spent much time to challenge them in new and creative ways. This monday Victor stood  face to face with a dangerous aggressive bull. (Made of wood).

To my big surprise, he wasn't afraid at all of the bull, however, his friend Merlin was very frightened.
One of Victor's best sides is that he's very curious. He rarely gets frightened because he so often just wants to explore things.


It almost looked like Victor protected me and Merlin from the nasty bull :-D








Don't worry mom, I got this!

Are we done yet, this is soo boring!