Finals week kicked my butt and I have just recovered. I had two lessons on Sophie, one Friday and one Monday. We made great progress and I got over my fear of deep and got Sophie moving into the bridle and carrying herself with her neck straight. Don't get me wrong, I'm not riding her deep, but without Kim pushing from the ground and the mirror to verify for myself I would have thought she was BTV or very close to it. But she's not, instead she's tracking up, pushing from behind, her neck is straight (she has a bad habit of bending her neck and not through the ribcage, she can also kind of make her neck look like an S, she's very talented!).
I discovered that I need to tighten up a *lot* with the outside rein to keep her neck from getting wormy. But we made a lot of progress in our last lesson and that hollow between her crest and the underside of her neck will start to fill in with more consistent work. Kim was very impressed by the end of our lesson and Sophie was going like a superstar! We're just doing 30 minutes lessons at a discounted price so we can do 2 per week. Our next lesson is Thursday and this one Kim is going to ride her for that lesson so that I can *see* what she's talking about.
I discovered that I need to tighten up a *lot* with the outside rein to keep her neck from getting wormy. But we made a lot of progress in our last lesson and that hollow between her crest and the underside of her neck will start to fill in with more consistent work. Kim was very impressed by the end of our lesson and Sophie was going like a superstar! We're just doing 30 minutes lessons at a discounted price so we can do 2 per week. Our next lesson is Thursday and this one Kim is going to ride her for that lesson so that I can *see* what she's talking about.
4 comments:
Sophie does sound like a talented horse. I like the 2 thirty minute sessions too, I think you get more done before the horse and rider get tired.
I'm sure you did fine on the finals, but it is tiring.
Hey, glad to hear everything is going well! I haven't been on much because my computer was on the fritz. Something was wrong with the internet server. I'm glad to be back in business!!
i'm sure you don't suck! :-) glad you had such a productive lesson. can i ask, what do you mean by:
"that hollow between her crest and the underside of her neck"? the trapezius? or something else?
Work has kicked my butt this week switching to a new billing system- YUCK! I've had to work alot of overtime and no time for blog reading...
Sounds like you guys are still progressing nicely!
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