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
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Poor old Zorro sometimes has to suffer the worst of my education, but bless him if he thinks I'm at all unstable he will treat me like crystal glass. Once he thinks I'm solid on his back it's rollercoaster time.
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With the saddle I suspect that if you could do it kind of vaulting style using even pressure and placing yourself lightly in the saddle on a big saddle like mine it wouldn't be too bad - it's never going to be the best thing for the horse but done right it's probably not too bad.
Buck Brannaman always mounts (and does a lot of other work ) off the fence, which is another neat way to do it.
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Did she happen to mention (or demonstrate) the technique they were using to mount? I picked up the habit somewhere along the way of setting my right hand on the right-side flap of the saddle while I mount rather than on the cantle in what seems to be the usual method--not sure where I got it, but it feels like it steadies everything and counterbalances the weight in the left stirrup as I step on, and I wonder what it would do (if anything) to those pressure spike.
(Bareback, I just do the belly-over-the-horse-and-shimmy-into-place thing. Which might work less well if I had a taller horse, but I don't, so everyone's happy.)
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I think getting on bareback is probably good practice for it as well, each time I have got on bareback from the ground ( there aren't many of them ) I've been better at getting into a saddle afterwards...
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