Wednesday 28 September 2016

Too Hard On Myself

The story of my life, seriously.

My coach grabbed my tests from the show, and of course there are a few surprises hidden within.

Test 1: If you recall, I was thinking low 60's. Surprise! We scored 64.9% even with the 4 for that break in the canter and the -2 for my inadvertent error of course.  Because we got 8's on things like our centerlines/halts and the rest of the walk work. And great marks on the stretchy trot. And obviously since those were good moments I forgot about them so I could dwell on the bad.

Test 2: I thought we did the best we could given the pony tude. Predicted mid 60's. Surprise! A 69%. Lots of good moments rewarded.

Things to work on: Slow the tempo down more for more swing and bounce in her gaits. Particularly the canter...it can get heavy/hurried looking. Those of you with horses that tend to want to get stuck behind the leg will understand that struggle...I feel like on a bad day she's all lazy and wanting to stop, so I kick on and it can easily go the other way where she's like "Ahhhhh! OK fine, here is my best frantic giraffe impression (for two strides;)!"

Finally, if you recall, I was all stressy about not having enough time to clean my tack/pull her mane/generally get the pony in presentable show shape. So, in the real world I won the prize for best turned out horse at the show.

Educational, for sure. I feel like maybe I should do this for every show...record how I THINK it went vs how a professional judge thinks it went. Right now, I give myself a 4.5 for dressage judging, it seems I am unfairly hard on one rider in particular :)
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9 comments

  1. Ha! I totally get it! I think that it was good that you didn't pick up the tests because that gave you chance to think and then to see the reality. ;)congratulations

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  2. Way to go!!
    And congrats on tons of 8's!!

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  3. Yay those are definitely really great surprises to have!

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  4. I'm with you in having a hopelessly bad sense of what my scores should be.

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  5. Awesome scores. Getting a 64.9 even with an off course and a break is great.

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  6. I knew it!!! Sounds pretty respectable to me! :)

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  7. Girl those are great scores REGARDLESS of how prepared you felt! Nice work!

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  8. BOOM. Sounds like validation to me - congrats on those awesome scores!!

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  9. This is such a great post. I'm really tough on myself as well and always seem to have expectations that other people think are unreasonable.

    Amazing scores! Congratulations :-)

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