I rode Red today, it was my first ride after my lesson and my first ride on her since I took that tumble and got a concussion that last time I rode her.
It went ok I guess. I of course am a chicken shit when it comes to haven fallen off a horse. I always get uptight and rigid and it takes awhile to get relaxed or at least movable. So we started simple.
Of course we started at the walk, after a few strides or so I realized that I was driving too much with my seat and that my hip angle were really closed. Now that I know how to open them and how to tell if they are closed or not, I fixed it. After that quieting my seat, using a little more leg, and opening up my angles the walk improved. Woot that was great. We did that slowly warming up before moving to the trot.
I have moaned and groaned to some people that "I ruined her trot!" In short in my attempt to bring her more together, slow her down and whatnot I wound up making her hitchy and stiff up front in her shoulders, not reaching forward or anything, really short and kind of choppy stride up front.
The trot started out just like that. I wound up closing my angles again and tensed up, but I made myself relax. Sit up straight, shoulders up and back, open angles, quiet my posting, encourage movement with more leg and then it was like something magical happened. She stopped being hitchy.
I almost friggin cried.
All of a sudden we were smoothly truckin along, she did ignore my leg a bit but thats something I'm working on myself. But we went left, right, over ground poles, she got a bit hitchy in the turn at first but opened right back up when I didnt shut down like I normally do. It was just wonderful. It just proves that it wasnt HER that was the problem, it was MYSELF, and now that I have someone who is helping me I'm seeing the differences in how Red is reacting undersaddle when i start applying what I'm learning. But I was thinking that I absolutely ruined her trot, working on stretches to help loosen her up, massage work, and all it required was for ME to fix a few things.
Everything else was fine, I tried my first walk to canter transition and it didnt go so well, she dropped her shoulder and kind of darker inwards in the direction and I'm going to asked lesson lady to come out and watch me hopefully sooner rather than later so we can see what I need to do to fix it.
Other than that the ride was dull, we worked on leg work at the walk, moving away from pressure, staying in the curve I want, etc
It went ok I guess. I of course am a chicken shit when it comes to haven fallen off a horse. I always get uptight and rigid and it takes awhile to get relaxed or at least movable. So we started simple.
Of course we started at the walk, after a few strides or so I realized that I was driving too much with my seat and that my hip angle were really closed. Now that I know how to open them and how to tell if they are closed or not, I fixed it. After that quieting my seat, using a little more leg, and opening up my angles the walk improved. Woot that was great. We did that slowly warming up before moving to the trot.
I have moaned and groaned to some people that "I ruined her trot!" In short in my attempt to bring her more together, slow her down and whatnot I wound up making her hitchy and stiff up front in her shoulders, not reaching forward or anything, really short and kind of choppy stride up front.
The trot started out just like that. I wound up closing my angles again and tensed up, but I made myself relax. Sit up straight, shoulders up and back, open angles, quiet my posting, encourage movement with more leg and then it was like something magical happened. She stopped being hitchy.
I almost friggin cried.
All of a sudden we were smoothly truckin along, she did ignore my leg a bit but thats something I'm working on myself. But we went left, right, over ground poles, she got a bit hitchy in the turn at first but opened right back up when I didnt shut down like I normally do. It was just wonderful. It just proves that it wasnt HER that was the problem, it was MYSELF, and now that I have someone who is helping me I'm seeing the differences in how Red is reacting undersaddle when i start applying what I'm learning. But I was thinking that I absolutely ruined her trot, working on stretches to help loosen her up, massage work, and all it required was for ME to fix a few things.
Everything else was fine, I tried my first walk to canter transition and it didnt go so well, she dropped her shoulder and kind of darker inwards in the direction and I'm going to asked lesson lady to come out and watch me hopefully sooner rather than later so we can see what I need to do to fix it.
Other than that the ride was dull, we worked on leg work at the walk, moving away from pressure, staying in the curve I want, etc










