Tuesday March 25 Coaching call with Dawn Roth
I am particularly pleased with this coaching as it helps me
believe in myself. Also it is so positive and motivating. I
jotted down Dawn’s compliments for my dedication and ability to be open minded,
processing thoughts from various sources and making them my own. I came out of
this session with some specific goals/tasks/challenges that I can enjoy playing
with the next two weeks as the home renovations continue. Taking a foundation
of principles and beliefs and apply them to various instructors and
specialization trainers.
I am in mostly REFINING and reinforcing stages and want to be particularly mindful of this the next two
weeks.
Reinforcing: teaching ever softer/lighter cueing. Reinforcing with
phase 1 and 2 then quickly to a 4. Remembering that 4 is whatever it takes for
Try to care. Obviously this is not just whacking her as a phase 4 LOL AND not
being afraid to use a phase greater than a two. Experiment with what is a phase
4.
Some things to play with
1.
Play with how
much I turn my body or make a c-shape to set the angle/sharpness of the
turn. Perhaps cloverleaf at the canter.
2.
Leg aids:
Repeat the cloverleaf walk and trot—remember using leg is phase 3 or 4 tho a
soft leg aid could be a 2++ supporting phases. Good to create new habit of not
unconsciously pushing Try around with my legs. Cause her to tune me out or
perhaps even get annoyed and say—it’s time
for session to be over—lets go eat grass.
3.
Discussed my idea of opposites of backing and
forward in the saddle and sideways away and toward on the ground. A plan for
back and forth is to remember the yoyo—whoa and go need to be equalized.
Whichever is sticky gets the focus until it is good (reinforce). Taking the
time it takes for each in turn until I can go from one to the other directly
and it is good as the goal.
4.
Sideways: from intention—visualize, life up and
then send message in my body to drive or draw.
a.
Clean it up and use reinforcement phases to
follow refinement phases.
b.
Give Try time for the thought process
c.
Stay with it until we win and eventually can
equalize and alternate.
5.
Where is Try thinking? When she begins to detach
the Velcro—quickly use the cue of tapping the shoulder.
a.
Kinesiology base
b.
Which shoulder—from Dan—opposite shoulder to
where Try is thinking.
c.
Timing is important—the quicker I catch it the
better
d.
Be consistent.
6.
Liberty
a.
I brought this up as I was emailing Lisa on the
subject this am.
b.
The difference between on line and liberty for
me is distance, amount of time for Try to think and precision.
c.
Taking distance as a concept to play with
i. Go
back on line using 45’ rope and CanYous at 30’ away from Try and see what
happens—that would likely translate to increasing our distance playing at
liberty. For example, working on the 22’
would translate to 10 feet at liberty.
ii. Take
my two driving lines and tie the soft ends together to avoid the issue of the
45’ line for now.
PLAN, PICTURE, FEEL
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