Today we once again did the same things in the afternoon session as we did in the morning one.
Paul taught the members a bit about ‘Public Speaking’. This is one of the Pony Club Achievement Merit Badges for the over 8 year olds. He tried to teach them how to project their voices, so that we could hear them at the bottom of the field. He did an exercise with them that gave each of them in turn the chance to be the speaker, while the ‘Audience’ were coached how they were to behave. They went from being loud & unruly to most attentive, bored, heckling, and even at one point getting off their seats and walking out! All of the different attitudes were chosen by the members without the speaker of the moment being involved in the decision. Every member had a go so no one was left out, everyone had a hand in making the decisions on how to react to the speaker and there was a lot of noise from the members. All in good fun I might add!
While this was going on Jenna was teaching & concentrating on position & control. The members did exercises as well as questions & answers on their riding. Each member is being taught to verbalise their aids on the horse to help them understand better how they work. Eryn is Jenna’s most improved rider this week.
June worked on Balance & accuracy as well as position. We did a lot of riding without stirrups to help get their seats well down in the saddle, and to improve their leg positions. Hannah B is her most improved rider for this week.
While Jenna was teaching, June & Jenny were with the members & Jack! Jack is proving to be quite the little star, suffering once again to have a lot of fluorescent stars stuck all over him labelling up the different parts of the pony. All the members really enjoy this exercise and seem to learn a lot faster this way as it is much more fun than just sitting with a diagram and having points of the pony shown to them!
They also labelled up June afterwards just for a bit of fun but had trouble finding her Chestnuts, so she decided that the belly button was a good place!!!!
We also did parts of the bridle in much the same way. The only difference being that Jack wasn’t wearing it at the time!
Hannah & Jenna did Horse Clothing while June was in the school, and covered Tendon Boots, Double Bridles, stable Rugs & Turnout Rugs as well as some Bits & other items of tack!
All in all, we had a very good day and to top it all, the weather was absolutely fantastic!!!!
Well done everybody – you all worked so very hard!
See you all again next week.
+ + + + + THIS WEEKS BIRTHDAYS + + + + +
Abigail H will be 10 on the 2nd October
Millie T will be on the 6th October
and finally
Satine will be 9 on the 7th October
May all of us here at Pine Ridge Pony Club Centre, take this opportunity to wish all of you a very happy birthday!
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