Over the moon!

[little_critter]

I posted a few weeks ago looking for somehwere to get schoolmaster lessons. Due to circumstances I couldn't go to where I was planning in the end and booked a lesson with Claire Lilley instead as she's fairly close.
IT WAS GREAT!

I had so many 'lightbulb' moments in 45 mins it was like a disco going off in my head! It gave me so much hope that I'm 'trainable' because I feel I progressed a massive amount in just one lesson. If I carry on at this rate I'll be in the 2012 Olympics! (joke).
I will most definately be going back - especially as she's so close.
[toddles off to buy all the Claire Lilley books / DVD's]

 

[JoBo]

Oh that’s great news, just shows what lessons can do for you! Wouldn’t be without mine, I really enjoy them, and no way me and Bodey (my coloured below) would have done as well as we have without them.

 

[MrsMozart]

Yay

So pleased for you. It's lovely when the disco lights start

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[teddyt]

Congratulations and lucky you for such an inspirational lesson

 

[VioletStripe]

Congrats! i love moments like that!

what sort of stuff did you do? xx

 

[little_critter]

Didn't do anything spectacular because I'm just trying to sort out some of my frustrating bad habits - one of which is gripping up with my legs in sitting trot and canter.
I was on the lunge, mostly in walk and trot. Going through my position and what I should be doing with my seat. Managed to do lots of sitting trot. At this point I tend to grip up and lose my stirrups but that only happened a couple of times and nowhere near as bad as usual. It doesn't sound much but that habit has been bugging me for ages and now I seem to be very close to a solution.
I felt that habit was really preventing me from improving anything else in my riding. Now I can see a solution to that problem I feel I can start to improve other areas.