Tah-dah! My new half chaps are in my possession! woo! They felt awesome during my lesson today as well. My old cheap chaps would always pinch in my knee-pit area and I had an on-going sore from it. Since the new chaps are custom to my legs, they don't touch that area or rub. It's awesome!
My face is really strange here. Not quite sure what was up with that. It's a funny face though. I think it's because Patti had just told me to put my "cups up." :)
Of course the ladies had to try them on and strut around the office. Tina flashed her leg out in the hallway. One girl(Payal) saw her and turned around. Tina's like, "haha! Payal just saw me and turned the other direction!" Then Payal came back and was like, "yeah I didn't know what to say." Tis a strange bunch I work with. And they both wore clothing to match my chaps in honor of this special day!
Here are my new chaps in action! And it was also my first refusal!! I still need to work on keeping my back straight but I was really concentrating on keeping my right leg on. Grace(and you can see it briefly after the second set of poles on the second video) was landing disjointed. He had one lead in front and then his back legs were on the other lead. So we figured out that he needs a ton of support on the right side to ensure he canters off correctly.
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Yay Dory! Way to go. Now you're totally hooked. Jumping is sooo addictive. I love Patti's "UGH! Gracie!" comment on the refusal...ha ha.
I can see now (when I was filming I missed it) how you shot your self ahead of the first fence & Grace is like ahhhh-NO & stops. It's so hard but when you sit up & wait ..it's GREAT!
You also really needed "more horse"
Yeah it's fun to hear Patti while filming. :) I totally had "more horse" pretty much after Patti left. We were warmed up and he was like "let's go!"
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