Another fun ride yesterday. All the usual prepare to ride was carried out. A little trouble with standstill for saddling. She moved at least two steps, but it starts like that and then you get three, then four, then "where did my standstill go?".
So I was particular and insisted on a good standstill for the saddling.
Once on board it was obvious that my recent work on forwards at walk on the ground was paying off. She was much more forward and hence much better at inside leg isolations.
Up into trot and the old tossing the head problem came up. Worse than before if anything, but by being persistent in getting her to move her feet around alot (small circles, weave, figure of 8 etc) she soon settled enough that I could reward her with a long rest.
Now I had good leg isolations I wanted to put them to a purpose. As the cones were out for doing figure 8 pattern I decided that sideways over them was a good purpose. It came pretty easy for right to left over the cone, but we had trouble left to right. This seemed to be unconfidence rather than uncooperative and there is no need to fix things like that in the saddle. So todays prepare to rise will include sideways over a cone in both directions using driving game first to get the confidence up, then porcupine game to get the obedience.
Another good example of using the Plan constructively and going back a step when needed to fix a problem rather than just always ploughing on forwards.
So I was particular and insisted on a good standstill for the saddling.
Once on board it was obvious that my recent work on forwards at walk on the ground was paying off. She was much more forward and hence much better at inside leg isolations.
Up into trot and the old tossing the head problem came up. Worse than before if anything, but by being persistent in getting her to move her feet around alot (small circles, weave, figure of 8 etc) she soon settled enough that I could reward her with a long rest.
Now I had good leg isolations I wanted to put them to a purpose. As the cones were out for doing figure 8 pattern I decided that sideways over them was a good purpose. It came pretty easy for right to left over the cone, but we had trouble left to right. This seemed to be unconfidence rather than uncooperative and there is no need to fix things like that in the saddle. So todays prepare to rise will include sideways over a cone in both directions using driving game first to get the confidence up, then porcupine game to get the obedience.
Another good example of using the Plan constructively and going back a step when needed to fix a problem rather than just always ploughing on forwards.
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