Lesson #9

Hello horsie people!  We jumped for the 1st time in a while! Because the riding director/coordinator was there to teach.

Lesson 9! WOW it's going fast.

We:

-Walk warm-up pulling ourselves into the saddle
-Rising trot
-Forward rising trot
-Sitting trot (again pulling ourselves to the the saddle to develop our seat)
-Trot poles (ehem... some horses cantered cuz of excitement) then square stop
-Trot pole, then cross rail! then square stop
- Cool down on a long rein


I was riding an arabian mare named COCOA! She is a sweetie but bloats, and is antsy until warmed up, she needs a slow, confident rider who knows what they are doing...

Lesson #8

Sorry everyone! I have not posted in forever!

For lesson #8 we:

- Walked around the arena for 45 minutes warming up, and doing different excersizes. As well as changing our speed, and collection at different sides of the arena.

- Working at a trot: Sitting trot, rising trot and at both changing your speed, and collection at different areas of the arena

-Cantering 1 at a time doing a 20 m circle at C going large 20 m circle going large 20m circle and large, then repeating in the opposite direction, and starting at A.

While doing the walk trot portion of the lesson we reviewed our level 1 aids:

The 5 Natural Aids are:
-Hand
-Eyes
-Voice
-Seat/weight
-Legs

There are also 2 false aids:

-Crop/whip
-Spurs


*I rode spud*