Riding
Tuesday I went home to get in some extra riding time. I went to Deb's and rode Georgie. He is so handsome. It was nice, because we had the whole ring to ourselves. He actually wanted to trot and canter. Unfortunately I was getting really tired by a half hour in, so we didn't get to work for very long. He has a gorgerous canter to the right, sooo nice! He did a little kick out the back when we started cantering the very first time I asked him to, but he wasn't being bad, he was just excited because things have been really icy at Deb's so the horses are able to run around in the fields, and they're spending a bit more time inside. He desperately wanted to go over this little crossrail Deb had set up, so I let him just walk over it once, and he was pretty happy. We did a lot of serpentines, which he had fun with. He seems like he is the kind of horse that enjoys a challenge, enjoys thinking, and enjoys working. He really is a good boy. Once everything clears up a bit I'll be able to ride Bonfire, right now everything at Gary's is all icy too, and the ground is rock hard, so no riding there. Deb has an indoor, and Gary doesn't, Indoors make everything so much easier. Thankfully the women who said she would exercise Bonfire for me, is going up and doing some walking and light trot work with Bonfire, and working on lots of lateral movements with him to get him into shape.
Thursday I had a DUET lesson, I rode a bay QH named Moon. The trainer said he is a lot like Skippy, who I rode last week, but Moon was a lot easier to get going... or maybe I was just better prepared. Anyway I had a way nicer ride, we actualy sustained a canter and trot and everything, for as long as I could hold out. The people in my lesson are SO EXTREMELY nice, and I had a lot of fun with them, but unfortunately me and one other girl are better riders then some of the others in our lesson. (although, we have a lot more experiance, I don't want to sound like they are bad riders because they are not at all, as a matter of fact the one rider just moved up into walk trot canter, and he just started over fences, and they gave him green horse! The horse was dropping his shoulder and cutting the through the turns, and was like just taking off down the long side, and poping over the jumping, and the rider stayed right with him! Even when his saddle was too small, and they had to change it. ) Anyway, don't want to sound pompous, but the lesson was kind of boring, and really I don't remember the instructor saying anything to me, about correcting things, except the I gave him a kick when we where too close to the jump and she just reminded me to just squeeze and ride it out when your that close to the fence, because you ideally don't want to take your leg off, but it was no big deal. I'm just worried I'm going to get bored because I like to be challenged a little bit, and I didn't feel challenged at all. As a matter of fact we were troting and the trainer was like okay lets stand in our stirrups for a minute, I think she ment that she just wanted us to rise out of the saddle and then go into the two point. But I just ignored her, standing in your stirrups is a bad habbit to get into, and I'm not going to do it. And then I was really tired and she way like, alright lets practice our two point, and I was like screw that, I know what a two point is and how to do one, I'm tired. I know it's a bad attitude to have, but I was kind of POed, because I got placed into Walk, Trot, Canter, and told that I wasn't going to get to show Saturday, after I had been told that I was a) going to show saturday, and b) going to be in a jumping division. I put up a little bit of a protest about being put into Walk Trot Canter, but it didn't do any good, except the Couch said that I can always move up a level volunterally.
Anyway that's whats up, going to go ride at Deb's again today, and go visit B-fire.
Thursday I had a DUET lesson, I rode a bay QH named Moon. The trainer said he is a lot like Skippy, who I rode last week, but Moon was a lot easier to get going... or maybe I was just better prepared. Anyway I had a way nicer ride, we actualy sustained a canter and trot and everything, for as long as I could hold out. The people in my lesson are SO EXTREMELY nice, and I had a lot of fun with them, but unfortunately me and one other girl are better riders then some of the others in our lesson. (although, we have a lot more experiance, I don't want to sound like they are bad riders because they are not at all, as a matter of fact the one rider just moved up into walk trot canter, and he just started over fences, and they gave him green horse! The horse was dropping his shoulder and cutting the through the turns, and was like just taking off down the long side, and poping over the jumping, and the rider stayed right with him! Even when his saddle was too small, and they had to change it. ) Anyway, don't want to sound pompous, but the lesson was kind of boring, and really I don't remember the instructor saying anything to me, about correcting things, except the I gave him a kick when we where too close to the jump and she just reminded me to just squeeze and ride it out when your that close to the fence, because you ideally don't want to take your leg off, but it was no big deal. I'm just worried I'm going to get bored because I like to be challenged a little bit, and I didn't feel challenged at all. As a matter of fact we were troting and the trainer was like okay lets stand in our stirrups for a minute, I think she ment that she just wanted us to rise out of the saddle and then go into the two point. But I just ignored her, standing in your stirrups is a bad habbit to get into, and I'm not going to do it. And then I was really tired and she way like, alright lets practice our two point, and I was like screw that, I know what a two point is and how to do one, I'm tired. I know it's a bad attitude to have, but I was kind of POed, because I got placed into Walk, Trot, Canter, and told that I wasn't going to get to show Saturday, after I had been told that I was a) going to show saturday, and b) going to be in a jumping division. I put up a little bit of a protest about being put into Walk Trot Canter, but it didn't do any good, except the Couch said that I can always move up a level volunterally.
Anyway that's whats up, going to go ride at Deb's again today, and go visit B-fire.