Smug alert - Massive training achievement

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I just wanted to share how stupidly proud of BP I am. He’s an extremely forgiving ex-trekking centre cart horse and I’m a riding school nervous-novice with an overgrown first pony.
3 years ago I went to the Olympics as a Gamesmaker and fell in love with the majesty and control in the dressage that I decided we just had to try! I set myself the seemingly ridiculous task of learning to do a piece of proper lateral work... Fast –forward to March 2013 (I was pregnant at the Olympics, gave birth in December 2012 and decided to wait until the kids were a couple of months old) and we started regular lessons.
It’s been a long work in progress and we’ve been building up to it for a while but on Monday night we had a lesson and we were trotting round going down the first long side in shoulder-in then coming back up in travers! If that’s not proper dressage I don’t know what is?! BP got proper big pats and a can of Guinness on his dinner for letting an incompetent mother train him to do this.
Sideways and upwards!
 
Well done. I have taught my horse to leg yield which is the first proper lateral work I've managed in my entire life and I know exactly how you feel!
 
Thanks guys!
Well done FFion, it's a wonderful sense of achievement isn't it?
If we never get any further in our training I will still be happy with what we've achieved but it is kind of addictive and the next biggie is getting the canter under control we can do all sorts but a 15m circle in balance is still the hardest thing for him!
And yes Jiffy, I have an awesome pair of kids born early one winters morning.
 
If you can do shoulder in and travers, then you can ALREADY do half pass - or at least the horse can; you just need to find the right buttons to push. Well done you :-)
 
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