Tuesday, 28 September 2010

Lesson 5: Rising Trot & Transitions

22nd September 2010

With the new instructor again, and Lyric slightly more naughty this week, we continued working on the Rising Trot. Either through his naughtiness or my poor commands he kept dropping back into walk or cutting corners in the arena.

The instructor said it was probably more him and suggested I try holding a whip, not to use, but just hold. As they are trained to accept riders with lunge lines and whips they respect and behave when a whip is present.

Suddenly he was a different horse. He listened to me, behaved, kept the corners as they should and stayed in trot. I managed to get my rhythm right and it worked. We worked on the transitions up to trot and down to walk, focusing on the sitting trot transitions. A little bit more work to do on these but getting there!

We looked briefly at cantering as the next transition, but that is for the next lesson!

Dis-mount this week was more of a land-on-feet-fall-over-backwards technique again, this time with added extra mud.

I must work on this bit harder!

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