Hallo2012
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Fresh AS (again.... anyone seeing a theme here!) but worked his socks off.
Discussed the good,bad and ugly from my show and agreed that realistically I need a longer warm up. 40 mins isn’t enough by the time I’ve settled the walk and he just is a very goey type, so an hour from now on. Calum also made the very valid point that if he does anything that I wouldn’t laugh at if he was a 17hh 4yo stallion... I need to stamp on it just as hard.... rather than giggle at him!
Worked the LY in the walk to get him to accept my leg and then mainly on the canter transition and the canter gears... which was perfect as it’s just the areas we need to focus on atm.
I need to make sure I have the feeling he’s 100% in front of my inside leg in the trot,before I ask for canter with my outside leg.... to stop him either sucking back or falling flat.
Equally I need to make sure I’m containing the contact and not allowing the run.
Once in the canter again he MUST always respond to the inside leg by stepping under and forward to the hand and we had some entertaining acrobatics reminding him of this (but must keep hand and leg ON and imagine him 17hh... not too much giggling allowed !!)
Used the canter/trot/canter across the diagonal to test that he is in front of me and allowing me to set up and ride the transition... if he isn’t then he squiggles and wiggles off line and isn’t 1 stride sharp off the canter aid- will be adding this to my warm up repertoire as it’s a good indicator of my canter being ring ready.
Finished up with one long side of fancy trot and everyone was super happy with his effort... he really is an absolute dude I couldn’t ask for him to try any harder bless him.
Discussed the good,bad and ugly from my show and agreed that realistically I need a longer warm up. 40 mins isn’t enough by the time I’ve settled the walk and he just is a very goey type, so an hour from now on. Calum also made the very valid point that if he does anything that I wouldn’t laugh at if he was a 17hh 4yo stallion... I need to stamp on it just as hard.... rather than giggle at him!
Worked the LY in the walk to get him to accept my leg and then mainly on the canter transition and the canter gears... which was perfect as it’s just the areas we need to focus on atm.
I need to make sure I have the feeling he’s 100% in front of my inside leg in the trot,before I ask for canter with my outside leg.... to stop him either sucking back or falling flat.
Equally I need to make sure I’m containing the contact and not allowing the run.
Once in the canter again he MUST always respond to the inside leg by stepping under and forward to the hand and we had some entertaining acrobatics reminding him of this (but must keep hand and leg ON and imagine him 17hh... not too much giggling allowed !!)
Used the canter/trot/canter across the diagonal to test that he is in front of me and allowing me to set up and ride the transition... if he isn’t then he squiggles and wiggles off line and isn’t 1 stride sharp off the canter aid- will be adding this to my warm up repertoire as it’s a good indicator of my canter being ring ready.
Finished up with one long side of fancy trot and everyone was super happy with his effort... he really is an absolute dude I couldn’t ask for him to try any harder bless him.
