After concluding a grueling week of CHA certification (I am proud that I received the highest level of certification for english and jumping instruction!) I decided I needed a dressage lesson to get back to business.
Tillie seemed a bit more stiff then usual. This is relatively speaking, I just had to work a lot harder then I was used to. It could very well have been the fact that I was exhausted after logging in close to 40 hours of saddle time the week of. (The good news is riding all the different horses in more basic lessons, I got to focus on my collapsing problems, equitation and lower leg.)
This lesson I felt like we had NO left bend at all. She was willing to do whatever I asked, but just seemed a little bit more effort on my part to manipulate.
I do have a short clip a friend captured...but it is not the greatest quality:
I didnt feel particularly great about it, but after seeing the clip have decided maybe I need to calibrate what feels right and wrong. I struggle with that anyway right now...but be more able to let go "what it usually feels like" because if I always try to recreate that, we wont improve.
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| Screenshot from our trot circle after the canter. |
Her trot after the canter got much more elastic...so lesson learned, warm up faster in the canter!
i went through this weird phase for a while where i had it exactly backwards when we were doing something well vs. not very well. frustrating for sure... but it gets easier (esp when i started actually looking for things to be happy with). anyway tillie seems to be going really really well right now!!
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