- Continue to review shoulder in and haunches in.
- Play with the new improved canter (thanks to western saddle)
- Creating rhythm and relaxation in the trot
from last time and homework I remembered to consider:
- visualize uphill in asking for the canter and keep the visualization so as not to "drop" Try
- My position in the canter (feels like leaning back but is actually vertically aligned shoulders over hips) My tendency to be foreward--hunt seat.
- Extra time on getting a good step with the hind quarters--sit deep and relax
(small plane crop dusting low over the field across the street our entire session)
1. Shoulder in
3. Canter: First canter I wasn't effective in letting Try know I wanted canter in the ask. Loss of energy...4 beating...my visualization and communication-- mind saying no and my seat saying yes-- causing confusion. Picture uphill. Second side Try knew it was coming and offered the canter before I was ready with my visualization. So it was messy and it took me a bit to find my seat. Kathy called it a happy accident...great that she offered and an opportunity to fix it. Third canter at end of session.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mu7rdPa0J5Y .53 seconds
4. Rhythm and relaxation in the trot
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gA7_0swXJpc 3.23 minutes
Finding a good rhythm if the trot is "runny" I can slow my body, comb reins (I can bounce on her back). I kept missing that Kathy was saying to allow Try to stretch my combing the reins and giving her more rein. If its fast/runny/emotional--circle and get a good shape.
PICTURE a big relaxed swinging stride lengthening and reaching in her FQ. Having the video I could hear Kathy give the instruction--I tried it--visualized and on the video I did see just a bit of lengthening in front. WOW THIS IS HUGE!!!!!!!!!!!!! The ability to visualize and ask for something new. Later I visualized this in liberty circling on the rail and Try reached out with her inside shoulder so much that she "straightened" her knee.
At facebook I commented that Try and I were playing out back at liberty and she offered front feet and one back foot on the pedestal as that is a game she really knows. I decided to change it up. I wanted a real puzzle for Try to solve so asked that instead of lifting her right hind foot and placing in on the puzzle I asked that she step her hind feet TOWARD me as I knew it would be too easy to ask her to move them AWAY from me. This took quite a long time--??7 minutes for her to figure out and she gave a big nicker when she got it. That gave me the opportunity to practice the long 60 second count/visualization release that Mary Miller Jordan is teaching.
1. Shoulder in
We used circling to get a good bend/shape and to provide pattern variety. Both Try, Sephira and I are circling with a nice bend from my seat using inside and outside legs to stay "straight" on the circle. After circling keep the shape in the shoulder in sometimes "ride her more in."
2. Haunches in Outside leg goes back. No need to rebend. Shoulders more to the track. Crossing more.
3. Canter: First canter I wasn't effective in letting Try know I wanted canter in the ask. Loss of energy...4 beating...my visualization and communication-- mind saying no and my seat saying yes-- causing confusion. Picture uphill. Second side Try knew it was coming and offered the canter before I was ready with my visualization. So it was messy and it took me a bit to find my seat. Kathy called it a happy accident...great that she offered and an opportunity to fix it. Third canter at end of session.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mu7rdPa0J5Y .53 seconds
4. Rhythm and relaxation in the trot
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gA7_0swXJpc 3.23 minutes
Finding a good rhythm if the trot is "runny" I can slow my body, comb reins (I can bounce on her back). I kept missing that Kathy was saying to allow Try to stretch my combing the reins and giving her more rein. If its fast/runny/emotional--circle and get a good shape.
PICTURE a big relaxed swinging stride lengthening and reaching in her FQ. Having the video I could hear Kathy give the instruction--I tried it--visualized and on the video I did see just a bit of lengthening in front. WOW THIS IS HUGE!!!!!!!!!!!!! The ability to visualize and ask for something new. Later I visualized this in liberty circling on the rail and Try reached out with her inside shoulder so much that she "straightened" her knee.
At facebook I commented that Try and I were playing out back at liberty and she offered front feet and one back foot on the pedestal as that is a game she really knows. I decided to change it up. I wanted a real puzzle for Try to solve so asked that instead of lifting her right hind foot and placing in on the puzzle I asked that she step her hind feet TOWARD me as I knew it would be too easy to ask her to move them AWAY from me. This took quite a long time--??7 minutes for her to figure out and she gave a big nicker when she got it. That gave me the opportunity to practice the long 60 second count/visualization release that Mary Miller Jordan is teaching.
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