Maia
Well-Known Member
An exercise I've been told to do in lessons and recommended on countless occasions to help supple and engage any horse is leg yielding on a circle - yielding in to make the circle smaller, then back out again.
This is an exercise, even under instruction, I have always found very difficult/experienced resistance with/just not got!
Current homework is lots of LY, including the above exercise.
Now here's the problem:
With current horse we can LY on the straight, through the turns and out of a circle (I.e. going from 10m to 20m) but LY in is just not happening and poor lad is just saying "no, can't, don't get it". This is on either rein.
Soo I've say down, thought a lot about what's going on and why isn't not happening and then realised...
Surely we are not LY in but infact asking for half pass on an ever decreasing circle? No wonder we are coming up against a wall as neither has he been taught this nor is he ready for it!
Question is, am I right or am I missing something?
Penny for your thoughts
This is an exercise, even under instruction, I have always found very difficult/experienced resistance with/just not got!
Current homework is lots of LY, including the above exercise.
Now here's the problem:
With current horse we can LY on the straight, through the turns and out of a circle (I.e. going from 10m to 20m) but LY in is just not happening and poor lad is just saying "no, can't, don't get it". This is on either rein.
Soo I've say down, thought a lot about what's going on and why isn't not happening and then realised...
Surely we are not LY in but infact asking for half pass on an ever decreasing circle? No wonder we are coming up against a wall as neither has he been taught this nor is he ready for it!
Question is, am I right or am I missing something?
Penny for your thoughts