Improvement. We have it. (Picture overload)

First off, he put on weight.


Compare with how he looked when I found him:


And jumping is a TON better.

When I first started jumping with him (sorry for the quality-it's off a still.)



Two weeks ago, complete with nasty lower leg:


Today:
My release was bad here, but it's a similar jump to the previous pictures:


A little better over a vertical, but now it's the shoulders *sigh*


We took a close distance here- my fault- and my butt could be out of the tack a little more.


And just for the hell of it, todays REALLY fugly jump- we were jumping it kind of as a rollback, I totally flubbed the distance and we ended up launching over it from a really bizarre spot:





Anyways, yes. It was dry enough to jump today, and my lesson got canceled, so we practiced over some gymnastics and stuff. I wish I had pictures or video of the whole thing, but oh well. We are improving a ton, and a lot of the mistakes are form me. I have to really work on not roaching my back and my release, but I feel like my timing and confidence is improving.

We had our first attempted lead change today down the diagonal. I have that on video, but it's crammed between 20 minutes of warming up, fixing jumps, etc. He got it- I was really excited, because I have that to fall back on if I need it. I prefer a simple change right now, just because of my inexperience, but anyways.

Looking forward to my next lesson, whenever that is. Allannah had to rush her boyfriend to the hospital this morning, so it might be a while.