Big Problems

This morning I was so excited. I was going to take Miley up to the field to practice a course. This coming weekend is our first trial in over 2 months. I was hoping to use this trial for practice but I wasn't expecting disaster. That's what our practice was, a disaster. I don't think Ive ever had a practice go this bad. She dropped more bars then ever. Most of them I could see she was taking off to early ( but not early enough to kill herself). But I was somewhat near her, she was going through a pinwheel and was at the farthest jump, dropped that bar and the next. It was weird. Things I was expecting to be a problem, were not and things I didn't think would be a problem at all, were. Ugh!!! And to top it off, she couldn't do the weave poles if her life depended on it. She has had problems getting into the first pole but never so many pop outs as she has had today. And it made me wonder if she was injured. So I set the camera up right in front of the poles to see if I could see anything. The only thing I could see was, right before she was going to pop out, her head would come up. I could predict every time she was going to pop out. ( I had also set the camera up beside the poles and that's when I could see her head come up. ) She also seems to come down a little wider, with more spring ,on her right then on her left. Not sure if that means anything. I added the final video I taped when she finally ran a short sequence and got all the weaves with out popping out. After that she got a big jackpot and we stopped.

I feel jinxed. Every time is time for a trial or a seminar, something goes wrong.