Until the fun begins! Wow has time gotten away from me. When I put my deposit down for the clinic November seemed so far away. Now it is just around the corner and I feel so unprepared. My new helper asked me if I was nervous about going. I was, but now not so much. I just want to go have fun and learn. I don’t much care for riding in front of people but I’ll get over that quickly I’m sure.
I have been riding Lucy, just not as much as I’d like to. I think it will be a good 15+ years before that happens and by then she’d better be dead broke! Hopefully I’ll have 60 rides on Cat by then too. What I’m noticing is that the more I focus on me – the better she does (another duh moment I know). I have sore muscles where I didn’t know I could have sore muscles but I’m also noticing that along with that, I’m started to get more centered in my riding. I still have a long way to go but this is a start.
I have a horrible habit of looking down at my horse instead of where I’m going – I’m working very hard on that. I’m hoping this weekend to get the big ball out and play a little bit of horse soccer to get us both focusing on something so we can have fun while learning.
If I had one exercise I wanted CA to help me with it would be the bending exercise. I just can not for the life of me get Lucy to do it. Anytime I pick up on the rein and put my inside leg on her she sucks back and tries to go into a spin. If I try to squeeze to get forward movement she just increases her spin speed. A lot of the other exercises hinge on this one so I’m hoping he can help me fix it while in Texas. If anyone has any suggestions before then I’d love to hear them.
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Yeah, just go, relax, and have fun (I know that's easier said than done)
Everyone has that "horrible" habit.
Ranae had that problem with Dusty (Jessie has another problem with the bending exercise). I coached her to do a bigger circle and to use a cone (or a post) as the center of the circle that way if they try to spin they run into the cone/post.
Courtney, something I've been trying since our trail clinic last year-ask for the forward and the bend independently from each other. Get the forward going, then ask for some bend without your leg being on-as soon as you lose the forward go back to the leg. It's not quite CA's exercise, but I think it's helping.
Ranae
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