HHO virtual clinic - Week 4

OK so this is new territory for me - posting videos - not sure how I embed them from facebook?

We tried this exercise in-hand yesterday evening if anyone is interested in that. We had similar problems to ridden where he wanted to go back to the fence on exercise 2 so we will have another go at that one. In exercise 3 I changed between shoulder in and renvers twice on the long side but that meant we didn't really get the renvers going properly so will avoid that in the future!
Exercise 2
https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=256087948874843
https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=285572145770599

Exercise 3
https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=2594860690833692
https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=1152728091735856
 
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Here we are

the first part of 2 was easy enough as we’ve been doing a bit of that to prep for HP
But 2b was harder than anticipated in that he was quite confused so we got resistance, we’ve done similar driven loads but goes to show again even with a bright horse you can’t just learn party tricks you need to listen

then for 3 between a tree issue and him not being established enough to do it along a 40m side we did what someone else did and had SI to straight rather than true renver

not great contributions this week as was a very quick ride as too busy :( We’ll carry on exercise 2 to develop it I think :)
 
Oh riders, I tried tonight, I really tried.
So monday I was writing an essay, Tuesday owner hacked, Wednesday I was set to ride and ended up chatting to the yard owner for hours and after 9pm put him back out again. So tonight was the night.
It was always going to be creative the school is a 23m by 25m square basically, so no real 3/4 lines but I can throw some shapes and get round that.
However, supercob had apparently got wind that I want to improve the canter. It was all he wanted to do tonight, bit of leg - any leg at all in any way and away we go.
Then 8pm happened and fireworks...
So basically I spent 30 minutes wrestling supercob in to some semblance of shoulder in and renvers, along with a lot of bogging round like hooligans.
It did make him more secure to my outside rein, and it did help with self carriage.
However, no horse living out 24/7 has any business being quite that full of themselves ?
 
Dont apologise for laughing- I'm chuckling about it myself. I'd much rather him like this than anything else tbf, even with the little celebratory buck the first time we cantered ?
 
Oh Roxy, that so made me laugh - these ponies!

Fellboy and I had another schoolday today. The neck-flexing was easier today particularly on the left. Does anyone else find that the pony 'swops hard sides' as they learn something?.

As for an exercise for next week - a suggestion if you all don't mind: I don't have a good one myself but if anyone knows an interesting (and not too advanced) one or two exercises for improving canter strike-offs we'd be pretty grateful...........
 
catkin said:
Oh Roxy, that so made me laugh - these ponies!

Fellboy and I had another schoolday today. The neck-flexing was easier today particularly on the left. Does anyone else find that the pony 'swops hard sides' as they learn something?.

As for an exercise for next week - a suggestion if you all don't mind: I don't have a good one myself but if anyone knows an interesting (and not too advanced) one or two exercises for improving canter strike-offs we'd be pretty grateful...........
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what kind of things do you want to improve? I had found a few I was going to try with Darcy, we've been neglecting third gear but his trot work has improved so much he's ready to start again, I want to work on his responsiveness to my aid and keeping the transition organised. that kind of thing?
 
Anything to do with improving canter transitions would be very timely for us though other ideas are excellent also. I haven't made much time for schooling this week and without an arena, the field has been pretty unrideable anyway. So we are still building on earlier lessons as well :)
 
catkin said:
Oh Roxy, that so made me laugh - these ponies!

Fellboy and I had another schoolday today. The neck-flexing was easier today particularly on the left. Does anyone else find that the pony 'swops hard sides' as they learn something?.

As for an exercise for next week - a suggestion if you all don't mind: I don't have a good one myself but if anyone knows an interesting (and not too advanced) one or two exercises for improving canter strike-offs we'd be pretty grateful...........
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Definitely, my pony used to always struggle on the right rein, but we’ve worked extra hard on that so now he just swap between each rein being difficult depending on what I’m asking ?
 
Tried again tonight, and it was a bit easier. Even managed a bit of shoulder in canter (on his stronger rein). It’s good to feel that we’re both getting a better idea of how to do this. Think I’ll keep this on the try regularly list.
 
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