A big thank you today to Trudi for coming over and reassuring me that what I'm doing with Remy is not bollox!!
A few welcome pointers and suggestions which has boosted my confidence and given me enthusiasm and renewed excitement for the task.
I rode Anky this afternoon in the school. We worked at walk, concentrating on relaxation,softness and bend. She was sitting on my inside leg on the left rein so I worked on getting a nice flexion inside down the long side of the school, a half circle from the corner back to the track and then leg yield, face to the fence back down the long side. She became a bit 'stuck' the first couple of times, so I repeated, but asked for a halt just before I hit the track, asked for a nice flexion and then as soon as I got the softness to the inside, asked her to leg yield. She 'got' this and we had some nice strides. If she got 'stuck' , I straightened her and walked her forward to the corner and repeated the exercise on the other rein. As expected, the leg yield was better on the right rein, but when I straightened her after leg yield and walked her forward, the contact was better on both reins. I felt that we'd done some really constructive work and I'm well pleased with her.
4 comments:
I love the detail on how people are training. Sounds like a good session. Thanks for sharing it. I'm just starting leg yield with my horse and he doesn't 'get' it consistently yet...
It is nice to have "eyes" on what you're doing - I could use that myself.
It was a lovely morning with you guys and Rem is really progressing, you should be confident in your ability, you're doing a great job!
How totally excellent!
I envy you being able to have other riders help you..on property like this.
I am mustering up the energies to start lessons trailering out again. The mare and I need some school times...and maybe jumping.
KK
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