February 24th 2013 Private lesson

Private lessons.... They are like the best thing in the entire world for us horse lovers. They have seriously improved my riding, and I finally got my horse on the bit and completely in sync with me!

I was riding bliss again, and here is what we did:

• Flexion on long rein at walk
• Flexion at trot (gradually shortening reins as horse gets round)
• Collection, and getting horse on the bit at trot
• Warm up cross-rail
• Canter
• 2 jump course (canter)
• 4 jump course (canter

We did the 2 jump course multiple times, so that I could learn to balance Bliss and get him calmer after the jump. When we finally did the 4 jump course we started with a 20m circle and then down the quarter line to the next jump. It was actually a tricky course because there were some tight turns and Bliss likes to go fairly fast, and he has some balance issues.

On the very last jump we cleared the whole course, and I even got him to do a flying lead change off of the last jump, and a nice flexed 20m circle :)

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I love the lessons and hope they can continue! I love you Bliss <3