Long Reining with pole work.....

[Armas]

Some thing different to day. Long reining whilst using poles. Armas nearly freaked out to start, I am not sure why as he is used to pole work but not on long reins but soon got the hang of it. We varied the distance with the poles to start to try and help extend his trot ! I think he is much more relaxed and starting to really stretch.

[video=youtube_share;body4-D9dPo]http://youtu.be/body4-D9dPo[/video]

 

[DabDab]

Yes, some nice work - boy he found those last distances hard. Are you pleased with him?

 

[Armas]

Yes, some nice work - boy he found those last distances hard. Are you pleased with him?

He did find the distances hard but this is just the start to get him to extend. I was also very pleased that he is stretching much more.What did you like in the work ? It will be interesting to see how he performs tomorrow

 

[DabDab]

That he was relaxed, attentive and moving a lot better just generally. I also liked how, when he was asked to go from walk to trot just before the poles he started to spring up into the trot really nicely and to anticipate giving that movement in the transition, so that later on the walk to trot was more lively and uphill and less rushed than it has been previously. And when you went to the longest distance he initially responded to that by rushing in the trot after the poles, but after a few tries he was starting to offer slightly longer strides rather than rushed strides.

 

[milliepops]

Bless him, what a little worrier! Monsters!! :eek3:

& I think this shows where she does have sympathy with the horse, some trainers might have made an issue of that but she didn't (not that I expected her to because personally I haven't thought her hard on him in the past )

But you're right, he looked soft and relaxed when he got it sussed. Even when he made a few mistakes. Very sweet He did find it harder with the first change of distance didn't he? But that meant when she did the trot transition in front of the pole he had to actually trot forward instead of take a small stuffy step. There were a few up transitions when he really got it.

Will be interesting to see if he carries that feel into the next ridden session. Under saddle you can see sometimes she asks for an upwards transition and he makes the change of pace without actually going anywhere

He looked a little tired towards the end, with the widest distance - think that was hard work for him Much easier to pop into canter! But then when he got it at the end, a couple of times she sent him on in the trot away from the poles and he really stepped underneath without trying to hollow or rush.

He's less worried about changing direction on the long reins now too isn't he?

 

[_GG_]

Oh.....will comment on this and yesterdays session tomorrow, but just to quickly say, both sessions are a joy to watch compared to where it started.

I don't think either is learning more than the other....they seem to both have loads of knowledge, yet both be teaching each other, "you don't know everything sunshine" and being open to learning and progressing

 

[Armas]

Bless him, what a little worrier! Monsters!! :eek3:

Will be interesting to see if he carries that feel into the next ridden session. Under saddle you can see sometimes she asks for an upwards transition and he makes the change of pace without actually going anywhere

We shall see tomorrow !

Oh.....will comment on this and yesterdays session tomorrow, but just to quickly say, both sessions are a joy to watch compared to where it started.

I don't think either is learning more than the other....they seem to both have loads of knowledge, yet both be teaching each other, "you don't know everything sunshine" and being open to learning and progressing

We shall all be waiting with bated breath

Queen B any comments ?

 

[Armas]

Another productive session today. We were forced to use the indoor arena this morning due to heavy rain last night so modified the training session.
The riders comments are at the end of the video.

[video=youtube_share;fBTMJvlGCxY]http://youtu.be/fBTMJvlGCxY[/video]

 

[Queenbee]

Will have a good watch this evening and get back to you

 

[ester]

I liked watching the long reining , he keeps himself in a really nice frame and when he drops/curls back she is quick to correct him. - hopefully he can find that with the ridden work too .

ps tell him to stop being such a girl about a few poles :rolleyes3:

 

[milliepops]

What a contrast to yesterday! It's not a criticism just an observation - he finds it hard in that small arena doesn't he! Mine is similar, (though it's partly me, I can't think indoors!) but she closes up on me. I think it really showed after the lateral work when she sent him on and straight - he didn't quite find his balance and scuttled a bit whereas outside (and on the long reins) he would have looked in balance and taken longer steps without breaking rhythm.

But then, it's only showing up what are really not-yet-established things - nothing unexpected there. Despite it all, when he is in balance he's looking forward to the contact instead of curling up behind it and considering he's shown that indoors I think that's pretty great . What a shame you couldn't have used the big arena, but by no means a wasted session IMHO :wink3:.

"giving him rules" :biggrin3: well, yes, I did have a giggle at that. He does remind me so much of my mare. To begin with I was so delighted when she would reach out and down that I never set any boundaries (more fool me) and she did the same rude snatching and then took offense when I tried to control the stretching and 'up' work. Difficult to get that balance. But he's learning that quickly, isn't he? And when she pushes the rein up and out, he comes up and out to meet her more often now

 

[Armas]

Oh some one has there big boy pants on Much better session today we worked on his collection and the beginning of Passage it was a promising start ;-)