Post by scattymare on Jun 21, 2010 9:10:11 GMT
Well yesterday I woke up really not in the mood for a lesson - very unusual, but I was tired, achy, I'd had a bad dream and was just generally feeling peed off with the world! Got on Ed and I was stiff, sore and really not up for it. Ed picked up on this and with the wind we had spooked all the way to Jo's yard. By this point I was ready to call it a day already!
So glad I didn't as we had such a good lesson. Things really started to click together. Jo said my seat was a million times better (must have been all that hanging on last week!) We did the usual circling in and leg yielding out, inside leg outside hand. And we got it. Really got it. I was able to drop my inside rein totally and keep her on the circle. Eddie was really using her back end - after some resistance she settled lovely and worked so hard. Then BAM, all of a sudden she was in a perfect natural outline and trotting like a dressage pony. I really felt like we had turned a corner. It didn't last long but it was fantastic to feel. We did some leg yielding down the long side and at one point her hind legs totally crossed over each other (again that must have been the practice she got last week going sideways!!)
We then did some pole work trotting the poles, cantering straight after on a 20m circle and coming back to trot just before the poles again. Ed thought poles meant jumping and jumping means FUN!! So we fell apart slightly at this point and the poles went flying a few times! But we finished with another fantastic canter, really bouncy and contained and felt like we could have gone on forever.
We were both knackered at the end of it but I was grinning from ear to ear - certainly snapped me out of my bad mood.
So glad I didn't as we had such a good lesson. Things really started to click together. Jo said my seat was a million times better (must have been all that hanging on last week!) We did the usual circling in and leg yielding out, inside leg outside hand. And we got it. Really got it. I was able to drop my inside rein totally and keep her on the circle. Eddie was really using her back end - after some resistance she settled lovely and worked so hard. Then BAM, all of a sudden she was in a perfect natural outline and trotting like a dressage pony. I really felt like we had turned a corner. It didn't last long but it was fantastic to feel. We did some leg yielding down the long side and at one point her hind legs totally crossed over each other (again that must have been the practice she got last week going sideways!!)
We then did some pole work trotting the poles, cantering straight after on a 20m circle and coming back to trot just before the poles again. Ed thought poles meant jumping and jumping means FUN!! So we fell apart slightly at this point and the poles went flying a few times! But we finished with another fantastic canter, really bouncy and contained and felt like we could have gone on forever.
We were both knackered at the end of it but I was grinning from ear to ear - certainly snapped me out of my bad mood.
