Year gone by - Riding Video 2009

[glenatron]

So a year ago I posted a video of Zorro and I ( which has no lost it's music in an argument between Google and Warner ) was a kind of marker for where we were at the time. I figured the way to make that kind of marker useful is to give it points of comparison so on Saturday I got sleepsy_mouse to take some more of our session.

Last year penella22 told me off for doing

Comments

[buymeaclue]

Hey, where's the canter? I seem to recall that wasn't on the table much if at all a year ago and sounds like it's now at least a semi-regular part of the program, yes? That's progress!

[glenatron]

You know what, there was some canter in there and I think I must have somehow taken it out again by mistake when exploring the whimsical nature of Windows Movie Maker.

You can see a few times when he's thinking it's time to break into canter up the arena. I never thought my "would rather stop than anything" cob would begin to offer that as an evasion xD

[dancing_crow]

Penny, very similar to your boy there, offers the same evasion. I had never run into it before. I think it is a large, slow pony evasion to a working trot.

[glenatron]

It also has an element of "if I go over to the gate maybe the session will be over" to it I think...

[buymeaclue]

My small narrow beastie goes through phases of offering canter when asked for more lift/carry/power in the trot. Makes sense to me: I say, "More," and he says, "Here you go," and then we discuss what kind of "more" exactly is being requested.