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Thursday, March 18, 2010

Busy.....

The Title says it all.

I've been Super busy This week, working, Playing with Horses, studying, etc.
I have been saving for a C2 Cradle Bridle and I have $107 saved! that means I have $200 left to go, which, I "should" Have the money either this week, or next week.

Ms. Jennifer Mcinvale wants me to teach at her Parelli Summer camp this year, (in June) I will not be participating But, she wants me to be her assistant Instructor. I am Pretty exited about that, next week I will be going over her house so that we can com up with some lessons For those 5 days at camp, looks like this year will be more focused on finesse, which she wants Me to help allot with that sense I know a pretty good bit about finesse, it is my Favorite savvy. this be a Good way to test my savvy, and not only that, it'll be a Good teaching experience.


I haven't played with Blaze in few days, but I have been doing some 'UDT with him and he has been enjoying that.
However, I have been Playing with Ms. Amour, she is a Making Fine Progress! she has learned how to back by the tail, circling pattern under saddle, sideways game, and some respect. The other day I had a very fun 3 Horse liberty session in our 5 acre pasture with Angel, Joy, and Amour, it was one of the best Feelings to have 3 horses running after you and jumping around kicking and having fun, it was neat when I ran up to this Fallen tree and they all jumped it and came with me, it was just so great.

Hopefully tonight I will be able to Play with Blaze and do some liberty or Finesse.

That is all for now!

Naturally
Hannah & Blaze

Friday, March 5, 2010

Sweet Amour

The other day I played with Ms. Amour.
Her sideways game has been very sticky. She is a dominant horse, so you can imagine that her porcupine game is kinda hard at times. the sideways game makes where she has to move her FQ's and Her HQ's at the same time, she does not like that at all. I asked her to walk and start moving sideways and she was very confused and I helped her and she started having a tantrum. I asked her to go again and she turned real quick and kicked and hit my right hand, it hurt pretty bad at first but I didn't stop to check on it.

After that, she started doing a real good sideways game to the right, and even started doing it without a fence.

Something around where we were started spooking her and she almost ran other top of me a few times, and all I was hearing in my head was Pat parelli saying "If you are the leader of the herd, the horse will try to avoid running over you." It wasn't said exactly like that, but just for an example. Obviously that means that Amour does not look at me as her Leader, but just another member of the herd. I need to fix this, because it is very Dangerous for any horse to run over you and turn around and kick you.

I have some things I can play with, I know I need to get her respect with the porcupine game better she is real hard to move at times. She has learned allot of LBI Behavior in her 5 years on this earth.

Well just a quick update

Naturally
Hannah & Blaze

Sunday, February 21, 2010

Online-Finesse....Progress!!

Today was Rather Fun and quite interesting.

I first Played with Mr. Blaze on-line, I started out just getting our sideways toward me a little more refined, he tends to lag his QH's allot. after I was done with That I taught Blaze how to do Haunches-in From zone 5, with 1 rein. he was really good on one side, But the other wasn't as good. since he can do Haunches in to the left under saddle and can't do it AS WELL to the right, but we're getting their and fixing it on the GROUND first, (Thanks Fran for that Advice.) so I have decided to play with our circling more, Blaze is Pretty good, but I haven't asked him to really circle in a long time, so I will be asking for more laps at the canter with me in Neutral-no nagging. I tend to catch myself clucking allot, I know that must get SO annoying to Blaze. so any how, that is what I am Playing with.

so anyways I asked for the circling game and he tends to pull on me going to the left so I played with that til he stop ed pulling, then I went to 2 reins-zone 5 driving and played with weave with simple lead changes, Hopefully before long we'll be able to get flying lead changes, just need to get those haunches in better and we'll get there quickly. tho I am taking the time it takes, no rushing!
I was finally done with that and figured how about I play with our Draw at liberty, and he was really good I was really focusing on my energy and my belly button, I was trying make sure I wasn't driving him away, and he did awesome, and we played some stick to me and he was fantastic! and also did some zone 5 driving at liberty, he was REALLY good.

I then put the bridle on Blaze and got on bareback and did a warm up Walk-Trot-Canter each way-RELAXED! and then started with our finesse session. Blaze was really good with his canter walk transitions so I asked him to do some flying lead changed over this small log and he did FANTASTIC!!!! was so balanced, hopefully, we will be able to do it without the log in a few weeks, I also played with Haunches-In and he did REALLY great to the left I didn't even ask for it and he offered it so I was like NEAT! and we got a few steps to the Right. it was super! then I asked it without the fence to the left and he did great! then I angled my body and had a suspension rein, and supported with my right rein, and got a Fabulous side pass. he was really listening to me we can't so it to the right yet without a fence, but we're playing with it! after all that we had a very nice and relaxing ride around the pasture, did follow the rail and played in the lake some since it was perfect weather out side. and ended it after all that. It was so awesome, I am really learning allot and now saving for Karen Rolf's Book and Walter Zettle's DVDs. I am seeking more Knowledge about Finesse!



well after a Long Great day I think it is time for me to hit the hay ;)
Got rain comming in tomorrow...Not looking forward to more rain, Hopefully I will be able to Play with Blaze again Once it drys. anyways Goodbye till next time!

Naturally
Hannah & Blaze

Friday, February 19, 2010

Fun in the sun!!

so today was a rather fun and interesting day.

first off I was Going to bring Blaze, Amour, Joy, and Angel, up to the round pen, and since the round pen is on the other side of the lake now, I didn't want to make 4 drips, tho it would be some nice exercise. me being lazy I haltered all 4 and had 4 lead ropes, and on my way I went. of course, Blaze wanted to lag behind and so did Ange, and the 2 good girls- Amour and Joy stayed close to me.

skip onto what we did.
started out I Played a little with 4 horse liberty, that was fun! everyone did great. then I Taught Joy to lay down, she did fantastic! what a smart little girl, I can't wait to teach her everything Blaze can do. then teach Blaze to Jump over her (tho I will be VERY careful with that)

Then rode her a little, and then rode Amour Bridle less, and bare back and Angel to. and we played with our freestyle, and they both did pretty good. Angel bucked a little and so did Amour, silly girls. then I got off and started teaching Angel to bow, which, I have to be EXTREMELY careful with Angel, since she is a RBI, she can go catatonic very easily, so I taught her to bow. and almost taught Amour to bow.

after I was done with that I Practiced My level 4 online audition! with Mr. Blaze. he did FANTASTIC!! Tho, Our Flying lead changed were um a little rusty! tho we are working on them, his trailer load was awesome! got him to trot into the trailer from 45 feet away, then we went on long line driving and he did fantastic simple lead changes, and weave and learning haunches in! we'll get there. then I hoped on and went for Freestyle and he was FANTASTIC again! we are almost ready to Film L4 freestyle, just need a little more control at the canter!

everything is going so Great with all of them. I am Having so much fun learning new things, and tomorrow I'm Gonna play with Finesse, and flying lead changes, and possibly shoulder in-Haunches in. and side passes. and play with some patterns with the girls, maybe Online for Joy...Freestyle for Amour and Angel and some online for them both.

well Gonna go eat dinner here in a few.

Keep it Natural
Hannah & Blaze

Saturday, February 13, 2010

Snow Play!

So I have been having a BLAST with this snow! unfortranily it is almost all gone but I got some Great videos and pictures today of be Blaze and Hope playing in the snow! I hope everyone enjoy's it!

Tuesday, February 9, 2010

Wednesday, February 3, 2010

Playyyyy!!

OK yeah so I've been absolutely terrible lately at keeping This Blog updated! My my apologies to all my Savvy friends!

so As usual The rain has been preventing me from being able to play much and it drives me Crazy! I think we've gotten more rain in 2 months then we did in 2008 and 2009! which is crazy!

OK so The other day I FINALLY got to ride Blaze and for our warm up I ride him bridle less and asked him to walk trot canter in bother directions then some simple lead changes and then we did some spins and some roll backs and all that good stuff.\

so I got off put the bridle on him after making a couple of adjustments to the bridle. got on and we played with a soft feel at the walk trot and canter, Honestly I think Blaze HATES the confidence bit. because he was chewing on it and yanking on it allot! time to save for the cradle ay? any who then I played with haunches-in and he did it perfect to the left! I mean PERFECT!! we're still working on going to the right tho we got a couple of steps! I did a few other things with haunches-in which I really think if I keep at it that haunches-in will help our lead changes well actually I know it will help them! But anyways I hope to film my level 4 Finesse audition soon, once I have the lead changes and the haunches in. and Hopefully I will have a new video of all our progress in a few days here.

well it's sunny out side so I'm going to go play with my wonderful horses!

Naturally
Hannah & Blaze

Thursday, January 21, 2010

Wants to play...

so Yeah The tittle says it all...I WANT TO PLAY WITH MY HORSE!! I haven't been able to play at all for almost a week! O.o and I have barely got to play with him for a month. first it was rain...then Freezing cold...then snow...then more cold...then rain some more! I would have played Monday Tuesday and Wednesday but yeah Monday went to work. Tuesday had to go to work because we Go skating afterwards. and Wednesday I had youth group and today my dad needed me to work.


so Yeah I am Hopping that things will get back to normal. Not being able to Play drives me Crazy! not to mention that the weather is PERFECT! besides the rain.

anyways just a quick update!


Naturally
Hannah & Blaze :)

Monday, January 11, 2010

Happy new years etc!

Hey savvy Friend of Mine! been a while since I've posted anything! I've been very busy with Horses, skating with family, working out, and Hanging out with my 2 wonderful brothers Aaron and Elijah. and This year has started out Great! Parelli went ahead and officially Passed me as Level 1 and 2 since I already Passed Level 3 and Level 4 liberty. Speaking of Level 4, I should be filming my Online audition in a few days! just Gotta get my dad or brother out there to film, But the wimps say it's to cold ;) he he well It is Pretty cold But I can handle it!


My mom got me this Book Called "the circle of trust" By Walter zettl. and I have been enjoying reading it, it is helping me allot, and I'm learning allot of new things about Horses and the horse business such as Breeding and training etc. I Think everyone should get this book! very helpful indeed.

Besides that I have been playing allot online with Blaze and he is doing very well with everything! we've got simple lead changes from zone 5! hopefully to have flying lead changes before you know it, also got my confidence snaffle bit and Blaze seems to like it allot better and I've Been playing around with finesse! he is doing really good! all we need is about 3 things and I'll be able to audition! hopefully to pass But if Not that's fine with me! hehe.


The other Horses I haven't played much with lately! Trying to get some Goals for each horse and start working on them, I do Think That Hope will take me far in the Parelli program, she is such a talented Horse! and very smart.

Angel has been a little different Lately, like extreme RBI and acting crazy if you ask her to do something new, not sure what;s going on! but we will get though it together.

But Really I have a question.....WHO TURNED ON THE FREEZING COLD!!!!?!?!!?!? OK I may seem like a baby But I miss my 40s/50s in the day and 30s at night! But now 30s in the day and 15 at night!? that is not right! I feel for y'all up north, because i couldn't live any were that was below 0! I mean WOW way to cold! I would like have 5 jackets on and 7 pairs of pants LOL but anyways Just felt like saying that he he.


well anyways I have some Goals I have for 1010! and Btw HAPPY NEW YEARS!!!!!

anyways here is some

2010

1. Pass Level 4 before My 16th birthday

2. Possibly start gieving lessons

3. Buy a farm that has arena/barn pretty much everything we need

4. Go to my first clinic

5. Bring Hope and angel though Level 3 and 4

6. teach blaze piaffe and passage

7. This summer Go down to Mirka's farm with Blaze for the summer and learn as much as possible from her


That is my goals!!

Naturally Hannah and Blaze

Thursday, December 24, 2009

Merry Christmas From Hannah and Blaze!

Merry Christmas everyone! and I hope everyone has a very Happy new year!


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God bless!!

Tuesday, December 15, 2009

Christmas crazy!

Lately Things have been quite crazy. with Christmas coming up, and I still haven't got no Christmas shopping done for anyone! "eeeep!" and It has rained everyday for the past week, so I haven't gotten to play at all (Feeling like I'm going insane Because I haven't played for that long.) but any who when it drys I will be filming my level 4 Online and Freestyle, I have went over the self assessment list and we can do everything on them, also we can do everything on Finesse list but 2 things (side pass and looking the direction he's going. and flying lead changes.) but with everything else, we are good. I have figured out how to teach blaze flying lead changes, so I will be teaching him when it gets dryed up out side

also I am so excited to get Mirka's Pitts, dvd on spinning, and I will be getting a Parelli confidence snaffle for Christmas and I can't wait to see how Blaze likes it.


I have been learning lots about finesse lately, and I figured out a few things that need to change with Blaze
here are some pictures of blaze "collected"



OK head "tucked" in not using his back

and this is how he should look




so I have to play with blaze using his body more, and I've been watching on the savvy club allot about finesse and I'm starting to understand what I need to do, so I'm Gonna play around with it and see how it goes and I'll let y'all know and see pictures when we progress more to show the difference.

anyways I've gotta go!

Naturally
Hannah & Blaze

Thursday, December 3, 2009

updates

Blaze
I have been teaching blaze all types of new stuff lately, I have taught him to lay down without me picking up his leg, and he will lay down from under saddle too, I've been playing with flying lead changes over a pole and he is doing great with that, I want to refine it more before I try without the pole. our zone 5 driving is amazing! he will do finesse with me in zone 5, at liberty in the middle of the pasture he will back 1 lap around me, each way. Our finesse in general is Great! he will do haunches in the right way! (still refining it tho) we're playing with passage right now and he is doing great!

here are a few goals I have for us.

1: Flying lead changes without a pole

2: passage

3: side pass (with blaze looking the way he is going) walk/trot/canter


Angel

Lately I have just been advancing Angel's online, because it's been so wet, (safer) and she is doing really well. I've been teaching her to lay down (almost there) :) and once she does it I'm Gonna start doing stuff that Honza does with 2 horses (like getting one t jump over the other while it's laying down)


Hope

Hope is Officially a Super Learner! in less then a month she is in Level 3 with allot of things, she will canter 2 laps trot as many as I want her too, since she us a LBE it's hard to get her to slow down! haha, she will jump anything I ask her too and will bow. and we can play stick to me a liberty, and Online she will stick to me at the canter


well just a quick update


Naturally
Hannah & Blaze

Sunday, November 22, 2009

Playday at Jennifer's.

Yesterday I went to ms Jennifer's house for a Play day. me and My brother was going, ad it was Angel's first time being any were since we bought her, (2 years ago) she did very well loading, and seemed fine, we arrived around 10 Amish? anyways....we got there and unloaded the horses and Julia (Julpony) on the parelli forum came, and we met. everyone got there, so we went and all played in the big play ground, Angel was calm and Cool, awesome for her first time being some were but she is Naturally RBI so she doesn't let her emotions out much. Blaze was doing very well also, everyone was having fun. we moved to the arena were My brother rode angel and I rode Blaze. angel was doing very well, she got frustrated a few times, s we had to be careful. then I let Julia ride Blaze around for a while and I rode misty bridle less. then we had a competition were we went though a course that we made up, everyone did Great, Elijah was the judge, because Angel isn't used to all types of obstacles, But Blaze was Great did every obstacle perfect, so I as very proud of him. at the end Iplayed around with 2 horse liberty, Angel didn't wanna stay with us so I just played with Blaze,

all n all we had a Great time. can't wait for camp next summer, hopefully I will be able to teach some again, it was Great meeting you Julia! your a great rider :D and you did a Great job with misty!

Here is a Pict or Elijah on the left. then Danielle and alison and Ellen then Julia ad then me :)

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Julia ad Misty
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Amber and Danielle
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Ellen and Sarge
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Jennifer and Merlin
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Friday, November 13, 2009

new video!

so this was our session today! Enjoy :)