2 Point October is Back!

I just participated for fun last year and sucked.  This year I thought I would genuinely give it a go.  2 point is not something I practice.  If I join a lesson at my trainer's place with the kids I usually get tortured with it but that's almost the only time.  Oh and then there was the show 3 weeks ago where a BNT asked me to hack a second horse for her client in the U/S class.  I got in my best huntery half seat at the canter and thought I was going to die.  So yeah, this challenge will be good for me.

For obvious reasons I am choosing to do this on Poppy vs Baby L.  When I am on a course where there is a long distance between jumps I will get up in a 2 point and gallop.  And Poppy LOVES this.  Do you see where this is going?  2 point = gallop so my goal in the challenge will be to do it for as long as we can stay under control and hopefully continue to get better.  I chose do get my baseline at the canter.  She actually stayed really quiet and cantered around like a hunter princess.  Toward the end she picked up the pace a bit but I was tired anyway.

 

This number shocked me.  My baseline was 2:05 last year on Tank and last night felt like the same amount of time.  So now I'm worried I came out of the gate to fast and I will never improve on that lol!

After 2 point torture I did some little jumps with Poppy.  I don't know what was wrong with me but I couldn't find a distance to a 2'3 cross rail to save my life.  Like so ugly that one time Poppy hunched her back on landing and threatened to buck like "woman get your shit together!"  I found my hole basically. I was trying to keep her quiet for the 2 point and was obviously not getting the correct pace as I switched over to jumping. HA!!! Guess what I will be working on this week!!!  Jumping little stuff is hard in my opinion because you can easily get sucked into no pace.  When the jumps go up I have a easier time finding a good rhythm.  Soooo I think my exercise this week will be to incorporate some small jumps into my hacking.