And considering I'm sans riding for quite some time thank to my dumbass redhead, I thought it would be fun to dig around the internets and take a trip down memory lane.
I've been riding for quite some time now, and actually started jumping a few years into the addiction, but sadly, because that was pre-camera phone there is not much photographical evidence.
Behold, the first known jumping picture, of tiny me on my tiny Arab jumping a tiny fence.
How fucking adorable. My mother probably regrets ever having let my trainer get me into eventing. I was about 10 here, and it was my "first" year eventing. This was a tiny backyard show, but I also believe my first "jumper" show. Even as a nugget I wasn't too horrible. Thank god for German trainers.
Second oldest picture in existence has to be this one...
I was 11 1/2, and had just moved up from a tiny pony to a slightly larger pony, who could actually jump. I sadly, had a nasty habit of propping. Oh to be a nugget.
And damn this horse could jump. I only have about 3 pictures of him jumping, sadly, but he had some knees and he cleaned up in jumpers. He was also an average eventer, but a rockstar jumper.
2004?? |
From there, there's a huge gap in photo coverage which is sad, but not really, because I did not really improve.
2007 |
At this point I had acquired Yankee as well.
Novice, 2007 |
Training, 2008 |
2009 |
2010, I was back at the awkward jump position. I had gained a lot of weight in college and I was very off my gravity game. I also was coming back from a horrendous injury and I was super weak, yay leg swinging!
Not sure what doing |
Ah yes, the get left behind era |
What is my deal |
I think theres a few 2012 in here, but not sure.
I even dabbled with some tricks
no hands, double thumbs up |
And auto release practice
And to cap off 2014 in MO, we jumped 4 ft.
And then 5 ft
And then I got kicked in Spring 2014, barely rode for several months, and jumped in late fall with Yankee for the first time in ages
Felt pretty great- it was like my eq never left!
Then I sent him off to KS and I started jumping B and whomp-whomp, sucked again.
No but really wat is this |
Come on |
Full circle I guess hahaha
The one thing that remains consistent? Heels. Heels DOWN always haha.
That double thumbs up photo wins the internet every time.
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Deleteoh man.... Yankee is such a rock star, what a cool horse!! also i kinda love these posts looking back on where we all came from. makes me wish i had more photos!!
ReplyDelete5ft is me. You jumped a whole me. With kick ass eq. The hell? Total awesomeness.
ReplyDeleteI think you look awesome in 99% of these!! I only recognize faults in a couple of them but I don't know a lot about jumper eq lol. Oh well I've always been a fan of yours no matter how you jump. :-D I agree with the others.. The double thumbs up is so epic!
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