måndag 31 oktober 2011
tisdag 13 september 2011
New website!
Det var ett tag sen jag uppdaterade min blogg nu, det har varit fullt upp den senaste tiden. Tillsammans med Daniel och en vän köpte jag för ca en månad sen ett 3årigt sto som skulle gå till slakt i höst pga att ägaren inte kunde ta på henne en grimma eller borsta henne.
Vi tycker inte att en häst ska behöva avsluta sitt liv pga det så vi bestämde oss för att köra och hämta henne, vi har fått lägga mycket tid på att okänslig-göra henne för människor och våra verktyg. Nu har vi äntligen börjat komma till en punkt där vi får röra vid henne, hon kan njuta av att bli kliad och vi kan gå med henne i grimma och grimskaft.
Under tiden har vi även jobbat på en hemsidan, den är inte riktigt klar men ni kan följa vår blogg där.
Det kommer även komma till en film-funktion eftersom vi filmar Lilith som hon heter ofta för att lättare kunna följa framstegen.
Vår nya blogg finns på www.emeliefrid.se
Nalle har gjort stora framsteg och har börjat hitta en bra form att gå i, han har även äntligen börjat tycka att det är hans idé!
Im moving my blog to www.emeliefrid.se/ where you can follow me, Nalle and our new partner Lilith.
She's a 3 years old warmblood who was about to end her life due to "her" problems..
She wasnt used to people and couldnt be touched or have an halter on.
We've spent alot of time making her feel ok with humans, to be touched and be ok with an halter and now she can finally relax enough to enjoy a scratch!
I hope that you'ld like to keep following us, Lilith is a wonderful horse and has potential to be a superstar.
Vi tycker inte att en häst ska behöva avsluta sitt liv pga det så vi bestämde oss för att köra och hämta henne, vi har fått lägga mycket tid på att okänslig-göra henne för människor och våra verktyg. Nu har vi äntligen börjat komma till en punkt där vi får röra vid henne, hon kan njuta av att bli kliad och vi kan gå med henne i grimma och grimskaft.
Under tiden har vi även jobbat på en hemsidan, den är inte riktigt klar men ni kan följa vår blogg där.
Det kommer även komma till en film-funktion eftersom vi filmar Lilith som hon heter ofta för att lättare kunna följa framstegen.
Vår nya blogg finns på www.emeliefrid.se
Nalle har gjort stora framsteg och har börjat hitta en bra form att gå i, han har även äntligen börjat tycka att det är hans idé!
Im moving my blog to www.emeliefrid.se/ where you can follow me, Nalle and our new partner Lilith.
She's a 3 years old warmblood who was about to end her life due to "her" problems..
She wasnt used to people and couldnt be touched or have an halter on.
We've spent alot of time making her feel ok with humans, to be touched and be ok with an halter and now she can finally relax enough to enjoy a scratch!
I hope that you'ld like to keep following us, Lilith is a wonderful horse and has potential to be a superstar.
fredag 8 juli 2011
Making friends again
I just love my horse, he's the best.
Since I work 50 min drive from where I have my horse I dont see him every day of the week anymore, so when I finally get to play with him after working mon-thurs I often got tons of things I want to do.
We were at our trainer last weekend and got a task to do at canter: 3 simple lead changes then up to galopp, down to a canter a few laps to show that he's calm again then 3 flying lead changes with the reins resting on my wrists and then melt down to a back-up from that. We start by separating and isolating, yesterday we did the melt down to a back-up from canter and some simple lead changes. Since it was warm Nalle got very sweaty so I washed him after that and then trimmed his hoofs. When I got out later in the evening to say good night he wasnt too glad to see me, "if you want to hang with me you have to come to me, Im busy".
I thought he would still be in that emotion today when I came to the pasture but he came trotting :) The plan was to do funny things today since we're attending a clinic this weekend. We started out by playing online on a field with some logs, he's not to fond of jumping unlease it makes sense and apparently jumping those logs made sense because he jumped them very nice with a flow even at trot. He usually stop before the jump, looks at it for a while, turns to me and asks if he really should jump that, "it's much better to walk around it, dont you understand that? ok I jump if jumping gives me treats, sigh".
After that we walked by the trailer on our way to the paddock, I sent him over the ramp a few times and then in. He did that very good so I gave him a rest from that by riding in the paddock for about 15 min. I didnt want to do much just check if he could move his forequarters and hindquarters easily, I also checked how little I had to do when asking him to go sideways and how fast he would backup when I asked him at a low phase. He did everything very easy, warm up hard to ride easy is soo true! We got back to the trailer so that he could eat his "after-work-food", during the ride the rain had start to fall so I stood inside the trailer to not get wet and when he started to move backwards I send him away and asked him to get back to me as in the yoyo-game. After doing that for a little bit he came back to me and rested while I scratched his ears, we stood like that for a long time so I rewarded that feeling by sending him out and let him back into the pasture with his friends again.
It feels like we're prepared for the "dressage naturally"-clinic, I hope we will learn alot but most of all I hope we will have fun!
Since I work 50 min drive from where I have my horse I dont see him every day of the week anymore, so when I finally get to play with him after working mon-thurs I often got tons of things I want to do.
We were at our trainer last weekend and got a task to do at canter: 3 simple lead changes then up to galopp, down to a canter a few laps to show that he's calm again then 3 flying lead changes with the reins resting on my wrists and then melt down to a back-up from that. We start by separating and isolating, yesterday we did the melt down to a back-up from canter and some simple lead changes. Since it was warm Nalle got very sweaty so I washed him after that and then trimmed his hoofs. When I got out later in the evening to say good night he wasnt too glad to see me, "if you want to hang with me you have to come to me, Im busy".
I thought he would still be in that emotion today when I came to the pasture but he came trotting :) The plan was to do funny things today since we're attending a clinic this weekend. We started out by playing online on a field with some logs, he's not to fond of jumping unlease it makes sense and apparently jumping those logs made sense because he jumped them very nice with a flow even at trot. He usually stop before the jump, looks at it for a while, turns to me and asks if he really should jump that, "it's much better to walk around it, dont you understand that? ok I jump if jumping gives me treats, sigh".
After that we walked by the trailer on our way to the paddock, I sent him over the ramp a few times and then in. He did that very good so I gave him a rest from that by riding in the paddock for about 15 min. I didnt want to do much just check if he could move his forequarters and hindquarters easily, I also checked how little I had to do when asking him to go sideways and how fast he would backup when I asked him at a low phase. He did everything very easy, warm up hard to ride easy is soo true! We got back to the trailer so that he could eat his "after-work-food", during the ride the rain had start to fall so I stood inside the trailer to not get wet and when he started to move backwards I send him away and asked him to get back to me as in the yoyo-game. After doing that for a little bit he came back to me and rested while I scratched his ears, we stood like that for a long time so I rewarded that feeling by sending him out and let him back into the pasture with his friends again.
It feels like we're prepared for the "dressage naturally"-clinic, I hope we will learn alot but most of all I hope we will have fun!
torsdag 7 juli 2011
Jörgen Schwartz: Lastning
Jörgen Schwartz: Lastning: "Lastning är ett av de vanligaste problemen som uppstår i hanteringen av våra Hästar. Momentet kan skapar frustation både hos Hästen och männ..."
lördag 25 juni 2011
Progress
We're really starting to make progress at cantering. Lately I've been able to ask Nalle to take the canter from walk and today he started to get how to do it from halt and back-up. When doing things like that Im glad that I've got a small, light and fast horse. He might not be the ultimate horse for high-level dressage but the goal is to prove everyone wrong ;) I was smiling and laughing the whole time and when he took his third nice canter from back-up there was nothing to do but to jump off and eat grass.
söndag 19 juni 2011
I fell off and Im glad I did
Nalle has not been well for the last couple of days, he caught a cold so we have just spent some undemanding time and a little bit of trailer loading. Today he seamed better so I took him to the paddock to just hang around for abit. We played at liberty, it felt really nice and Nalle was full of energy.
I walked over to the stool and asked if he would let me on, at first he hesitated (perhaps he remembered the last time we rode and I didnt understood that he wasnt feeling alright) but then he came to me.
Im abit unsure riding totally freestyle without a halter since Nalle got a history of bucking, I've been afraid that if he would get scared and run off he would buck me off. But you have to enlarge your comfort zone! It felt nice and he was listening well, but suddently he saw something in the grass next to the paddock and got scared.
When he got scared I got scared and took a "monkey-grip" at the string around his neck and he got ever more scared and started to run off. I did an emergancy dismount/fell off and landed on my feet, Nalle stoped and came back to me.
We walked to the stool and Nalle was soon to help me back up, we did some more freestyle riding so that I could get over my shaking legs. When it felt at its best I got off and gave him a carrot.
Im now glad that I fell off so that I dont have to worry about that part anymore, he didnt buck, not even with me riding bareback with NO balance at all in canter. We've come a long way, I just have to realise how far and learn from Nalle how to live in the moment.
I walked over to the stool and asked if he would let me on, at first he hesitated (perhaps he remembered the last time we rode and I didnt understood that he wasnt feeling alright) but then he came to me.
Im abit unsure riding totally freestyle without a halter since Nalle got a history of bucking, I've been afraid that if he would get scared and run off he would buck me off. But you have to enlarge your comfort zone! It felt nice and he was listening well, but suddently he saw something in the grass next to the paddock and got scared.
When he got scared I got scared and took a "monkey-grip" at the string around his neck and he got ever more scared and started to run off. I did an emergancy dismount/fell off and landed on my feet, Nalle stoped and came back to me.
We walked to the stool and Nalle was soon to help me back up, we did some more freestyle riding so that I could get over my shaking legs. When it felt at its best I got off and gave him a carrot.
Im now glad that I fell off so that I dont have to worry about that part anymore, he didnt buck, not even with me riding bareback with NO balance at all in canter. We've come a long way, I just have to realise how far and learn from Nalle how to live in the moment.
lördag 18 juni 2011
Sleepy
I found Nalle sleeping in the pasture today, he use to take a nap before lunch after eating grass the whole day ;) Did some friendly game and he was ok with me sitting on him, after a while he relaxed soo much that he layed down on the side and feel asleep. "Ah excellent, I've got someone to watch my back so that I can sleep".
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