oldie48
Well-Known Member
It was the first one of our new sessions, ie trainer does first 15 mins then i get on for the remainder of the lesson. For the time being it's a real help. It's nearly an hour for me to get Rose to my trainer and I had a sudden panic that I'd got the wrong day but couldn't find anywhere safe to stop until we were quite close. Just a senior moment but ATM everything seems to sap my energy! Rose was quite hard work for trainer initially but by the time I got on she was in front of the leg and listening and I really enjoyed the lesson. Rose is not off my right leg, strangely enough, neither was my previous horse, so we had a useful discussion about my position, basically my right leg is weaker than my left probably because that's the one with the partially ruptured achilles, so I never really get her into the left rein, this affects so much of what we do and I'm still trying to process exactly what I do to compensate but my left knee definitely comes forward and I often find myself sliding to the right in the saddle which ca push Rose out through her left shoulder. So we are going to look at how we can improve my position whilst taking into account that I am a bit old and crocked! Despite all of this, Rose went really nicely and I had a real buzz. She is such a smart cookie! I love my lessons with this trainer as I always come home feeling I've achieved something, which is really what it's all about!
