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Date Posted: 07:58:44 02/20/03 Thu
Author: Ryan and Jungle dancer
Subject: Learning to juump

At 3 and a half Jungle dancer was enthusiatic and quick to learn. She had grasped all of the basic start, stop, go faster and go backwards and was finding things very easy. In fact she was bored. Ryan realised this as she pranced sideways across the school, pulling him forwards. Not wanting to encourage bad habits he deiced she was ready to learn to jump. In the outdoor school were 3 trotting poles set up and a tiny X pole. They had been trotting around for a while when he turned her towards the coloured poles on the floor. Dancer ground to a halt at th first one, stood and looked at them. Ryan laughed. "What are they sweetie? They are in your way aren't they? You gotta go over them. Ryan walked her on, Dancer lifted her legs very high over these scary things, not wanting to touch them. Ryan couldn't help but laugh as she repeated the performance the second time. he asked for trot, then aimed her at the ground poles. Dancer trotted over them like a hackney, snorting after each one. After a few goes she realised they really were OK and was quite content to trot over them like they weren't there.
This time after the poles she was put at the cross pole, low enough to trot over it, that is what she did. It wasn't quite what Ryan wanted but she hadn't been scared. he'd call it a day now.

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