Saturday Practice and Specialty Show!

Wow what a long tiring day. Started out with four back-to-back classes and having to miss liberty again. I also had my trial JI ride and I rode Amigo. It went really well and I can't wait to be able to JI consistently.  All the practices went really well and I felt good for show. My partner and I got Rebel for vaulting practice. It was very painful hahaha but luckily we were in the white so it was short. JI training at two went well and we practiced with toy horses. Then my friend and I laid in the volunteer and rested until check for show. This was my first show having to deal with quick changes so that was interesting I had to find my quick change area and set up my costumes. I checked in with the wranglers and found out my partner and I had Rebel for the show. Oh boy! Fitting that our first vaulting ride ever should take us through our first show. So I put our pads on him cause he was only being used for us. Vaulting renters also had to lay out all the teams costumes. Finally the show started. My first act was ropes. My tricks just weren't cooperating :( isk what happened. Butterfly up the arm failed but large butterfly was awesome. Then in out and through sucked even though I'm good at that one :( handshake went really well and drag accordion was acceptable. I called the drill though and that went well. Then from I ran to the quick change area. That is a crazy experience. I was out of my ropes costume and into vaulting in less than two minutes. My partner was next to me and they already had Rebel up. We were in line ready to go before the next act finished. Talk about adrenaline rush! That was crazy. Vaulting actually went really well! My partner and I managed to stay on the whole time and the team actually did really well on pass through!!!! Overall it was a good drill :) I really enjoyed preforming in that specialty. After was another quick change to batons but I had more than one act in between so it was less stressful. For batons our performance went really well! I didn't drop my baton but our star got a little screwed up and had five arms. But double batons went well for me. It's so cool to be in the arena preforming the specialties you used to watch. I was done after that and stayed and watched the rest of the show. Well done everyone :)