Monday 19th January

Today with Blossom I played with:

1. Backwards - really getting good
2. Back up and then move the FQ
3. Yo Yo
4. Circles - much better today
5. Change of direction
6. Sideways with out a fence
7. Sideways over a pole and cones
8. Trot sideways
9. All FOUR feet on the pedestal and she stayed there for a few minutes!!


I then decided to have a break before riding her and used this time to watch some of the others playing on line and ridden. Even though none of the other horses are like Blossom I still feel I learn a lot from watching and really learn a lot about different horses.


I then saddled and played a little to get her focus on me, I then mounted and checked my lateral flexion and back up and all was good so we set of to ride the rail of the arena. But today we had major impulsion problems and Blossom only seemed to be able to walk or canter and she decided when we would canter. At the start I decided to go with her and do a passenger lesson and thought she would then calm down, but I was so wrong. I then changed strategy and every time she would go off into canter I would bend her to a stop and hold her until she relaxed, I also done lots of back up especially at the points where she would want to canter. But this really didn’t seem to help, the only good thing I suppose was the transitions were actually quite good and the canter wasn’t that un controllable and I was able to stop her quite easily or keep her cantering on small circle but for whatever reason she just wouldn’t trot or stay in walk!! So I was rather frustrated by the end of this session as lately everything has been going so well.