How do you organise / plan your schooling?

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Evening,

I was just wondering how you organise your schooling sessions? Do you work on specific exercises set as "homework" from your lessons? Do you have aims on a weekly / monthly basis? Do you just get in the school and think.."I know what I want to do today?" How do you plan, decide on what you're doing etc.

I find I'm basically doing the same schooling session every time at the moment - which isn't too bad as pony is very baby and so we are trying to organise balance in walk and trot. We did some pole work the other day (poles in a square in the centre of the school) just because I fancied it and it was fun. But I find I don't really enter the school with an aim, I also don't plan ahead with my schooling sessions. I was wondering how you all approach it and whether you find it useful to plan etc.

Cheers

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I have always been very random with my schooling and I personally lack determination when things get tough.

My NYR is to improve this. I have got all my books and saved exercises together I have put them into a rough order which kind of makes sense, so we'll see!
 
i would be very interested in this one - I need some set targets!
Does anyone have any good books - A page a day kind of thing I think would help

(undoubtedly It will take me a week per page!)
 
My warm up is always the same, but I do vary day to day depending on how he feels :) I tend to have a day working more on stretching, another more on lateral work, collection etc...
 
Oooh, glad someone posted this as I'm a bit aimless. My last horse took quite a long time to ride in so by the time he was ready to work, I was ready to get off! Not ridden the new one yet as he's only 2.5yrs but being an ex-racehorse he just needs re-schooling so I must have a plan. It may deviate according to his needs but I really must make myself one! I have an assortment of books but just tended to flick to the things I wanted to try rather than going through it as one should with the last horse as once he was going he was really quick to pick stuff up.
 
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