Friday 13th February

Today online with Blossom I worked on pretty much the same as yesterday and today most things actually went better or improved, so this was really good. So I won’t bore you all writing it all down again.

So after playing online I then played a little at liberty and the mounted bareback and had a little play around. I have found I seem to get a better ride if I play at liberty and then ride bareback before I saddle, not sure why but if it works I am going to continue to do it.

I then saddled and we started with playing with transitions in walk, trot and canter and this went really well. I then played with sideways with two CS and this went really well, to start with there was still a little forward movement. So Eddy suggested to back her up after going sideways as this will encourage her to keep her weight on her HQ, so after doing this a few times my sideways really improved and felt really good.
We the played with Direct and Indirect reins with just the two CS, this went well but I need to try and improve my FQ yields as she wasn’t yielding as well as she should. But considering that this was the first time we have done this with CS, I think we actually done quite well.

I then got Eddy to show me what a single spin was as I was looking through the level 3 self assessments and saw this and just wasn’t quite sure what it was or how I would teach it to Blossom. So after Eddy showing me it a couple of times with his horse I then gave it a try with Blossom, and we were able to do it quite well. It is nowhere like the standard Eddy done his at, but the basics were correct and we were also trying this for the first time at liberty so I was really impressed that we were able to do anything similar to what Eddy had shown us.