Flying Changes, Liverpools & Distances!

Dargenzio & I had a fantastic lesson today. Yesterday, he was wild & I was half halting every like two seconds. Today, he was lazy & behind the leg. He changes day by day :p Anyway, I think this was our best lesson yet! We kept it rather simple & started with a simple cross rail, which he almost fell over. & then we did some pole work, which helped me (& Dargenzio) a ton on finding the perfect distance. I've never been very good at feeling my distances but today, they were just coming to me & he was listening the whole time. We also attempted some flying changes in the beginning of our lesson, but we didn't completely succeed. He changed the front but not the back, but we'll get it eventually. Changes are also one of my weak points since Savannah didn't do them. & since he was being so awesome, we decided to pop over the liverpool. Oh I tell you, that thing is the scariest jump in the world. He went over it though, a little over exaggerated the first two times & then it was just whatever. I'm very proud of my boy & cannot wait for event rally next weekend, with these two awesome lessons behind us! We have our week planned out already; Monday - Dressage lesson, Tuesday - XC school at Poplar, Wednesday - Off, Thursday - Dressage at home, & Friday - School dressage at the show! I'm a bit bummed about our dressage test because we are running Tadpole since this is only his second show & first three phase. Our dressage test has no cantering in it, so Dargenzio doesn't get to show the judges his gorgeous canter :/ Oh well, I know he's going to be great anyway!