Jane Savoie Clinic, Day One Recap...

Today was the first day of the Jane Savoie clinic at Dancing Horse Farm. It was very interesting and I got to see a lot of great horse and rider combos work together. Jane gave all of the horses lots of walk breaks on a long rein. As soon as they did something well they got a break, she did add that in part this was due to not knowing the horses and erring on the side of caution, because "once the bell is rung it's rung". It was freezing but lunch was good, and they did have hot water and coffee available. After lunch Jane did a lecture on visualization and overcoming fear that was interesting and put a new spin on a lot of things. I'm going to make a separate entry for each horse so that it's easier to tag specific movements and I won't have to read a 20 page entry to find the one mention of leg yield!