I decided to start riding lessons. Laura, my instructor, is great. She has watched me ride and is starting with transitional work. Both Dancer and I need this.
We are working from a halt to a walk, then trot and back down to a walk. To encourage him we have been asking him to walk the moment he is sluggish. It seems to be working. Suddenly when I ask for the trot, he is eager.
Now to move to a walk, I am to take a deep breath, bringing my enerby up then as I expell the breath I am using my pelvis and legs to ask for the walk. Also, I am imagining that we are going forward. I use the same exercise to move to the trot.
To move back to the halt, I take the same breath and drop my pelvis. Also, I am turning my outside hand upwards.
To back up, I am relaxing my legs, tilting my pelvis then I squeese the top fingers, thinking backwards, then the second fingers, through to the third fingers,holding the squeeze. Then as soon as he is moving backwards, Irelease the pressure.
Flexion exercises and emergency stop. I am to grab the rein with one hand half way down and at the same time, I take a large breath then push down on the pommel releasing the breath and also pulling the rein to bring Dancer's nose to my foot. Boy does this work well, we were able to ride up and around the garbage cans the other day. Each time he got the notion to be scared, I did this exercise. It certianly distracted him and calmed him down.
We are also using a side pull bridle, or bitless bridle. I had a friend sew it for me. Dancer is responding to it very well. I saw this at Kate Hewlitt's farm in New Zealand and loved
how it worked.
We are working from a halt to a walk, then trot and back down to a walk. To encourage him we have been asking him to walk the moment he is sluggish. It seems to be working. Suddenly when I ask for the trot, he is eager.
Now to move to a walk, I am to take a deep breath, bringing my enerby up then as I expell the breath I am using my pelvis and legs to ask for the walk. Also, I am imagining that we are going forward. I use the same exercise to move to the trot.
To move back to the halt, I take the same breath and drop my pelvis. Also, I am turning my outside hand upwards.
To back up, I am relaxing my legs, tilting my pelvis then I squeese the top fingers, thinking backwards, then the second fingers, through to the third fingers,holding the squeeze. Then as soon as he is moving backwards, Irelease the pressure.
Flexion exercises and emergency stop. I am to grab the rein with one hand half way down and at the same time, I take a large breath then push down on the pommel releasing the breath and also pulling the rein to bring Dancer's nose to my foot. Boy does this work well, we were able to ride up and around the garbage cans the other day. Each time he got the notion to be scared, I did this exercise. It certianly distracted him and calmed him down.
We are also using a side pull bridle, or bitless bridle. I had a friend sew it for me. Dancer is responding to it very well. I saw this at Kate Hewlitt's farm in New Zealand and loved
how it worked.
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