This weekend, while we were jumping, Violet and I had our first near mishap! I was feeling all nervous about her enthusiasm, energy and speed, so I was really holding her and bearing down on her as she approached the jumps. And there's this one jump she just wants to take at top speed. So, I accidently held her while we were going over and she tripped. Her head went down as she tried to recover and I fell forward hard. I couldn't quite grip her neck and I was slipping to the left and all confused. When Baker gave a shout to sit up! And so then Violet and I both popped up like we had strings attached to ourselves. And she bounded across the arena all girlish and confused. And I didn't fall off!!! It was amazing. I know I will fall off, but I was happy to learn two things from this near fall. First, I really need to get comfortable with Violet's style and strengthen my seat for her enthuasiastic big jumps. Second, my seat isn't as bad as I pretend! My upper body fell forward, but my seat was pretty strongly attached to my girl. I was able to recover from a trip and bounding leaps! Yay me, yay Violet and yay Team Tenderness!